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proper, as the following out of many other instances may prove :

When Gerard Hamilton (commonly known by the name of Single-speech Hamilton), who first patronized Mr. Burke by procuring him a pension on the Irish establishment, had quarrelled with him, Hamilton in a moment of ill temper said, "he was an ungrateful man; as 'twas he that first took him from a garret, and introduced him into life."-" Oh! then it appears by his own confession," said Burke, "that I first descended to know him."

On Wilkes being carried on the shoulders of the mob, he exclaimed, in the character which Horace has given of Pindar as a poet:

"Numerisque fertur

Lege solutus."

Horace too, he said, had in one line given the best description of a good desirable manor:

"Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines."

When Boswell told him that he had a mind to visit the Isle of Man, in order to write an account of it, Burke approved of his resolution, and said he would give him a motto for his work:

"The proper study of mankind, is Man.”

Dining at an eminent personage's table where the bottle circulated very fast, he was asked next morning how he liked his host. "Oh!" said he, "so well, that all whig as I am, I will allow him to be a prince jure de-vino."

CLI. The Danger of Female Beauty.

A white horse and a beautiful woman, Foote said, were two troublesome things to manage as the first was difficult to be kept clean; and the second, honest.

CLII. Mrs. Cibber.

Mrs. Cibber having some little fracas with Garrick about increase of salary, in which, after some struggles, she succeeded, was soon afterwards singing with great ap

plause the following line in a favourite song

of that day:

"The roses will bloom when there's peace in the breast."

"Very true," said Foote; singing out to the same tune, by the side scene :

"So the turtles will coo, when they've peas in their craws.”

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An artist of the name of Forfeit having some job to do for Foote, and keeping it long after the time when he promised to bring it home, was making his apology by saying "he had got into a foolish scrape about the antiquity of family with another artist, who gave him such a drubbing as confined him to his bed for a considerable time. "Forfeit! Forfeit!" said the wit, catching the idea; " why, surely you should have the best of that argument; as I can prove your family to be not only several thousand years old, but at the same time

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the most numerous of any on the face of the globe."-" Aye!" said the man, quite transported with joy; "pray on what authority?"" On the authority of Shakspeare:

"All the souls that are, were forfeit once."

CLIV. Addison (the Butcher).

Old Usher, one of the veterans of the Haymarket Theatre, praising very much a loin of veal that was on Foote's table, asked him who was his butcher. "I think his name's Addison," said Foote.-" Addison!" cried Usher; "I wonder, is he any relation to the great Addison ?"-" Why, that I don't exactly know; and yet I think he must, as he is seldom without his steel” (Steele)" by his side."

CLV, The Danger of an old Man's marrying.

Talking of the folly of an old man marrying a young woman, a lady observed, "that perhaps he was in love; and then he

was rather to be pitied than reproved.""Very true, Madam," said Foote: "for love is like the small pox; the later in life we catch it, the worse the disorder generally turns out."

CLVI. Serjeant S-re.

This gentleman was said to have been originally bred an apothecary and accoucheur. In the course of human events, however, and by the aid of studious and persevering talents, he became a learned serjeant at law; though in this situation he was always considered more of a prosing than an eloquent speaker. When the late Mr. Murphy was a young barrister on the home circuit, he had the curiosity to take down a speech of the serjeant's, which consisted of little else than constant repetitions of "Gemmen of the Jury," &c. This speech he afterwards showed to the Lord Chief Baron Skinner; who, instead of laughing at it with the rest of the company, very gravely remarked, "that he thought the serjeant very ill treated; for though it

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