"If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them unless He would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind."--SWIFT. [92] "For eating and drinking _we_ know the best rules, Our fathers and mothers were blockheads and fools; 'Tis dress, cards, and dancing, alone should engage This highly enlighten'd and delicate age." [93] Since the publication of the first edition of this volume, a print of a larger size has been copied from the picture by Mr. T. Philips. [94] These raptures were expensive. The lavish profusion which our people of rank then displayed in their presents to this band of quavering exotics is scarcely credible. The _Daily Advertiser_ gives a list of some of the contributors, and states Farinelli's share at more than £2000 a year; to which if we add his salary £1500 and casual presents, his annual income must have been more than four thousand pounds! [95] See Shakspeare's _Julius Cæsar_ and _Antony and Cleopatra_. [96] Of this gentleman there is a tolerably good mezzotinto print, engraved by Kirkall from a picture by Goupy, with the following curious inscription from the Italian:-- "Renown'd Sienna gave him birth and name, Kind Heaven his voice, and harmony his fame. While here the great and fair their tribute bring, The deaf may wonder whence his merits spring, But all think Fortune just that hear him sing." There is a portrait of Carlo Broschi Detto Farinelli, Amiconi pinxit. C. Grignion sculp. small circle. [97] _Art of Spelling, The Complete Justice, etc._ This austere magistrate has been said to be intended for Sir Thomas De Veil, who raised himself from the rank of a common soldier to a station in which he made a considerable figure; but De Veil wrote French and English, and was both intelligent and active. [98] _Religious Ceremonies of all Nations_, published at Amsterdam in 1735. He entitles this print, "_Le Serment de la Fille qui se trouve enceinte_." On the same page he has introduced a copy from Sympson's print of orator Henley christening a child, and calls it "_Le Baptême Domestique_." [99] The gates of this charity were for several years open to the orphans of those who fell in the battles of their country. A great number of the children who became orphans by the battle of Minden were admitted into this Hospital. [100] When Schalcken once painted a portrait of King William, he requested his Majesty to hold the candle; this the monarch did till the tallow ran down upon his fingers. To justify this piece of ill-breeding, the painter drew his own portrait in the same situation. [101] The conductors of this office have printed proposals, stating their terms, etc.; but the business is sometimes transacted by individuals, through the medium of the public prints. The following advertisements are copied from the daily papers:-- MATRIMONY.