HORE SUBSECIVE. 'If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then I here dis allow thee to be a competent judge.'-ISAAK WALTON. 'A lady, resident in Devonshire, going into one of her parlours, discovered a young ass, who had found its way into the room, and carefully closed the door upon himself. He had evidently not been long in this situation before he had nibbled a part of Cicero's Orations, and eaten nearly all the index of a folio edition of Seneca in Latin, a large part of a volume of La Bruyère's Maxims in French, and several pages of Cecilia. He had done no other mischief whatever, and not a vestige remained of the leaves that he had devoured.'-PIERCE EGAN. BY JOHN BROWN, M.D. LL.D., ETC. 'Ce fagotage de tant si diverses pièces, se faict en cette condition: |