made to carry an actual reference, either mediate or immediate, to the regular history of the Doctor. And every visto is employed only for the useful purpose of breaking the stiff straight lines, of lighting up the dark, of heightening the little, and of colouring over the lifeless, in the regular history of the Doctor. Preface to WHITAKER'S History of Manchester, _mutatis mutandis_. _Chi tristezza da se cacciar desia, Legga quest' opra saporita e bella._ BERTOLDO. I exhort all People, gentle and simple, men, women and children, to buy, to read, to extol, these labours of mine. Let them not fear to defend every article; for I will bear them harmless. I have arguments good store, and can easily confute, either logically, theologically, or metaphysically, all those who oppose me. ARBUTHNOT. _Scripta legis passim quamplurima, lector, in orbe, Quæ damni plus quam commoditatis habent. Hæc fugienda procul cum sint, sic illa petenda, Jucunda utilibus quæ bene juncta docent._ P. RUBIGALLUS PANNONIUS. Out of the old fieldes, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn fro' year to year; And out of old bookes, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men lere. CHAUCER. CONTENTS. INTERCHAPTER VII.—p. 1. OBSOLETE ANTICIPATIONS; BEING A LEAF OUT OF AN OLD ALMANACK, WHICH LIKE OTHER OLD ALMANACKS THOUGH OUT OF DATE IS NOT OUT OF USE. If You play before me, I shall often look on you, I give you that warning before hand. Take it not ill, my masters, I shall laugh at you, And truly when I am least offended with you; It is my humour. MIDDLETON. INTERCHAPTER VIII.—p. 13. A LEAF OUT OF THE NEW ALMANACK. THE AUTHOR THINKS CONSIDERATELY OF HIS COMMENTATORS; RUMINATES; RELATES AN ANECDOTE OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE; QUOTES SOME PYRAMIDAL STANZAS, WHICH ARE NOT THE WORSE FOR THEIR ARCHITECTURE, AND DELIVERS AN OPINION CONCERNING BURNS. To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the Soul. “_Earth thou art, to earth thou shalt return._” FULLER. INTERCHAPTER IX.—p. 21. AN ILLUSTRATION FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF THE COMMENTATORS DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE KORAN. REMARKS WHICH ARE NOT INTENDED FOR MUSSELMEN, AND WHICH THE MISSIONARIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN ARE ADVISED NOT TO TRANSLATE. You will excuse me if I do not strictly confine myself to narration, but now and then intersperse such reflections as may offer while I am writing. JOHN NEWTON. INTERCHAPTER X.—p. 30. MORE ON THE FOREGOING SUBJECT. ELUCIDATIONS FROM HENRY MORE AND DR. WATTS. AN INCIDENTAL OPINION UPON HORACE WALPOLE. THE STREAM OF THOUGHT “FLOWETH AT ITS OWN SWEET WILL.” PICTURES AND BOOKS. A SAYING OF MR PITT'S CONCERNING WILBERFORCE. THE AUTHOR EXPLAINS IN WHAT SENSE IT MIGHT BE SAID THAT HE SOMETIMES SHOOTS WITH A LONG BOW.