famous delusions. The Sorbonne thought (justly for once) that he admitted too much, and condemned the work as heretical.

SUBTERRANEAN GEOGRAPHY.

The author of the "Unheard-of Curiosities," once issued proposals for an "Universal History of the Subterranean World, containing a description of the most beautiful caverns and most singular grottos, caves, vaults, and dens of the earth," and by way of specimen, he gave an exact topographical description of the sulphureous caverns of hell and purgatory! The work itself, to the great regret of the curious, never appeared.

JURAMENTO DE CHILE.

From the Correo del Orinoco.

Juntos los corazones y las manos,
Al Dios Eterno hacemos juramento,
Por el mar, por la tierra, y firmamento,
Como aquellos heroes Espartanos,
Qui en Colombia jamas habra tiranos;
Ni admitiremos nunca sus cadenas,
Mientras el Oceano produzca arenas;
Mientras las plantas alimente el suelo ;
Mientras los astros giren por el Cielo,
Mientras circule sangre en nuestras venas.

[Translated by a North American. ]

THE OATH OF CHILI.

Before the Almighty Power on high,
Whose thunders shake the vaulted sky;
By heaven and earth, by sea and air,
With hearts and hands conjoin'd we swear,
That while from Ocean's bed the sand
Is heav'd, or flow'rs bedeck the land,
Or circling thro' the vault of heav'n
With light'ning force the planet's driven;
Or from the heart the vital tide
Continues thro' the veins to glide;
Like free Colombia's sons, we swear,
No tyrant's galling chains to wear.

MAXIMS OF EMINENT ENGLISHMEN.

Sir Thomas Wiat.

"Let my friend bring me in, but let my merit and service keep me there.

"Happy is the prince that hath a favourite to look him out serviceable men; and happy those useful persons that have a familiar and honest favourite, by whom they may have access to the prince."

Sir Thomas confined his jesting to these rules.

1. He never played upon any man's unhappiness or deformity; that being inhuman.

2. Not on superiors; for that is saucy and undutiful.

3. Not on serious or holy matters; for that is irreligious. 4. He had much salt but no gall; often jesting, but never jeering.

5. He observed times, persons and circumstances; knowing when to speak, and when to hold his peace.

6. His apt and handsome repartees were rather natural than affected; subtile and acute, prompt and easy, yet not careless; never rendering himself contemptible to please

others.

7. Not an insipid changing of words was his gift, but a smart retort of matters, which every body was better pleased with than himself.

8. He always told a story well; and was as good at a neat continued discourse, as at a quick sentence; contriving it in a handsome method, cloathing it with suitable expressions, without any parenthesis or impertinencies, and representing persons and actions to the life, that you would think you saw what you did but hear. Never contradicting, but with an under favour, always subjoining "Sir, it may be so," to his adversary's discourse.

Sir John Fineux.

"The prince's prerogative, and the subject's privilege, are solid felicities together, and but empty notions asunder.

"That people is beyond precedent free, and beyond comparison happy, who restrain not their sovereign's power to do them harm, so far as that he hath none left him to do them good."

Sir John Fineux's device upon his sergeant's ring was quisque sua fortuna faber:" and his maxim was, that no man thrived, but he that lived as though he were the first man in the world, and his father were not before him.

Ten things marked him:

1. An indefatigable industry.

2. A freedom of converse; as about his business, none more close; so in company, none more open. A gay and cheerful humour, a sprightful conversation, and cleanly manners, are an exceeding useful accomplishment for every one that intends not to wind himself into a solitary retirement.

3. A rich and well-contrived marriage, that at once brought him a large estate, and a large interest.

4. A great acquaintance with noble families; with whose dependents he got in first, devoting an hour a-day for their company; and at last with themselves, laying aside his vacation leisure for their service.

5. His hospitality and entertainment: none more close than he abroad; none more noble at home.

6. His care and integrity in managing, his repute in promoting, his reason and eloquence in pleading, and his success in carrying causes.

7. His eminence and activity in the two profitable parliaments of Henry VII.

8. His opposition to Empson and Dudley's too severe prosecution of penal laws. He is high a while that serves a prince's private interest: he is always so that is careful of his public good.

9. His entire devotion to that sacred thing called friendship; that bliss, on this side of heaven, made of peace and love. Many acquaintance, but few friends.

10. His care of time. "To-day I have not reigned," said the emperor, when he had done no good; "to-day I have not lived," said he, when he had done nothing. We should not complain that we have little time, but that we spend much, either in doing nothing, or in doing evil, or in doing nothing to the purpose.

Sir Ralph Sadler.

Two things sir Ralph repented of:

1. That he had communicated a secret to two persons. 2. That he had lost any hour in the morning, between four o'clock and ten.

Three things he bequeathed to such as had the honour to succeed him :

1. All letters that concerned him, since of
years, filed.
2. All occurrences, since he was capable of observation,

registered.

3. All expences, since he lived of himself, booked.

Sir Anthony St. Leger.

Four things he was eminent for.

1. That there was none more grave in counsel than he, in the morning; none more free at table, at noon; none more active in the afternoon; none more merry at night.

2. That his orders were made but slowly, so wary he was; but executed quickly, so resolute he was too.

3. That he contrived all his designs so well beforehand, that, in the course of affairs, they were done to his hand. 4. That he came to court a swaggerer, and went off a

statesman.

Sir Richard Morison.

Sir Richard said three things made a complete man in his days.

1. A public school, where their school-fellows' genius instructs much more than the schoolmaster's pains.

2. A comprehensive insight into tongues and sciences; by the first whereof they unlocked men-and by the second, things.

3. Travel; where they saw what they read, and made that a solid apprehension and observation, which was before but a fluid notion.

Two things, he said, he was troubled with-envy and malice; but he had two remedies against them-patience and resolution,

He was the first that said, policy is not the learning of some rules, but the observation of circumstances, with a present mind in all junctures of affairs; which was their happiness only that had good memories.

He would say-think an hour before you speak, and a day before you promise.

Ben Jonson.

1. I have known many excellent men that would speak suddenly to the admiration of their hearers, who, upon study and premeditation, have been forsaken by their own wits, and no way answered their fame. Their eloquence was greater than their reading, and the things they uttered better than those they knew: and I have heard some of them compelled to speak out of necessity, that have so infinitely exceeded themselves, that it was better, both for them and their auditory, that they were so surprised-not prepared; nor were it safe to cross them, for their adversary (their anger) made them more eloquent.

2. Yet those men I could not but love and admire, that they returned to their studies. They left not diligence, as many do, when their rashness prospered; for diligence is a great aid, even to an indifferent wit, when we are not contented with the examples of our own age, but would know the face of the former. Indeed, the more (persons) we confer with, the more we profit by, if they be well chosen.

3. One though he be excellent, and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for no imitator ever grew up to his author: likeness is always on this side of truth. Yet there happened in my time, one noble speaker (Lord Chancellor Bacon) who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man more neatly, more priestly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers

He com

could not cough or look aside from him without loss. manded where he spoke, and made his judges angry and pleased, at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who heard him, was lest he should make an end.

4. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern, that catch that which stands next them, the candlestick or pots; turn every thing into a weapon; oft-times they fight blind-fold, and both beat in the air. Then arguments are as flexible as liquor spilt upon a table, which, with your fingers, you may draw as you will. Such controversies or disputations (carried on with more labour than profit) are odious, where, most times, the truth is lost in the midst, or left untouched. These fencers in religion I like not.

Howard, the Philanthropist.

Our superfluities should be given up for the convenience of others.

Our conveniences should give place to the necessities of others.

And even our necessities give way to the extremities of the poor.

MEMORABLE BEQUEST.

A CITIZEN of Berne, in Switzerland, who had grown rich by habits of persevering industry, being advanced in years, made a will of the following tenor, viz.