robe of linen was no lefs deficient; and The discovered feveral chafms in our furniture, especially in the articles of plate and china. She alfo determined to fee a little pleasure, as he calls it, and has actually made a party to go to the next opera. Now, in order to fupply thefe immediate wants and neceffities, he has prevailed on me (though at a great lofs) to turn the prize into ready money; which I dared not refufe her because the number was her own choofing: and he has further perfuaded me (as we have had fuch good luck) to lay out a great part of the produce in purchafing more tickets, all of her own choofing. To me it is indifferent which way the money goes; for, upon my making out the balance, I already find I fhall be a loofer by my gains: and all my fear is, that one of the tickets may come up a five thousand or ten thousand.

I am

Your very humble fervant,

JEOFFREY CHANCE.

P. S. I am just going to club--I hope they wont defire me to treat them again. B. Thornton.

§ 141. Characters of CAMILLA and FLORA.

Camilla is really what writers have fo often imagined; or rather, the poffeffes a combination of delicacies, which they have feldom had minutenefs of virtue and taste enough to conceive; to fay fhe is beautiful, the is accomplished, fhe is generous, the is tender, is talking in general, and it is the particular I would defcribe. In her perfon The is almoft tall, and almoft thin; graceful, commanding, and infpiring a kind of tender refpect; the tone of her voice is melodious, and the can neither look nor move without expreffing fomething to her advantage. Poffeffed of almost every excellence, he is unconfcicus of any, and this heightens them all: fhe is modeft and diffident of her own opinion, yet always perfectly comprehends the fubject on which The gives it, and fees the question in its true light: he has neither pride, prejudice, nor precipitancy to mifguide her; fhe is true, and therefore judges truly. If there are fubjects too intricate, too complicated for the feminine fimplicity of her foul, her ignorance of them ferves only to difplay a new beauty in her character, which refults from her acknowledging, nay, perhaps from her poffefling that very ignorance.

The great characteristic of Camilla's underftanding is tafte; but when she says most upon a fubject, the ftill fhews that the has much more to fay, and by this unwillingnefs to triumph, the perfuades the more. With the moit refined fentiments, the poffeffes the fofteft fenfibility, and it lives and fpeaks in every feature of her face. Is Camilla melancholy? does the figh? Every body is affected: they enquire whether any misfortune has happened to Camilla; they find that the fighed for the misfortune of another, and they are affected fill more. Young, lovely, and high born, Camilla graces every company, and heightens the brilliancy of courts; wherever the appears, all others feem by a natural impulse to feel her fuperiority; and yet when the converfes, fhe has the art of infpiring others with an eafe which they never knew before: fhe joins to the moft fcrupulous politenets a certaine feminine gaiety, free both from reftraint and boldness; always gentle, yet never inferior; always unaffuming, yet never afhamed or awkward; for fhame and awkwardness are the effects of pride, which is too often mifcalled modefty: nay, to the mott critical difcernment, the adds fomething of a blushing timidity, which ferves but to give a meaning and piquancy even to her looks, an admirable effect of true fuperiority! by this filent unafuming merit the over-awes the turbulent and the proud, and ftops the torrent of that indecent, that overbearing noife, with which inferior natures in fuperior ftations overwhelm the flavish and the mean. Yes all admire, and love, and reverence Camilla.

You fee a character that you admire, and you think it perfect; do you therefore conclude that every different character is imperfect? what, will you allow a va riety of beauty almoft equally ftriking in the art of a Corregio, a Guido, and a Raphael, and refufe it to the infinity of nature! How different from lovely Camilla is the beloved Flora! In Camilla, nature has difplayed the beauty of exact regularity, and the clegant foftnefs of female propriety: in Flora, fhe charms with a certain artless poignancy, a graceful negligence, and an uncontrouled, yet blamelefs freedom. Flora has fomething original and peculiar about her, a charm which is not eafily defined; to know her and to love her is the fame thing; but you cannot know her by defcription. Her perfon is rather touching than majeflic, her features more expreffive than regular, and her manner

pleates

pleases rather because is is reftrained by no rule, than because it is conformable to any that cuftom has eftablished. Camilla puts you in mind of the most perfect mufic that can be compofed; Flora, of the wild fweetnefs which is fometimes produced by the irregular play of the breeze upon the Eolian harp. Camilla reminds you of a lovely young queen; Flora, of her more lovely maid of honour. In Camilla you admire the decency of the Graces; in Flora, the attractive fweetness of the Loves. Artlefs fenfibility, wild, native feminine gaiety, and the moft touching tenderness of foul, are the ftrange characteristics of Flora. Her countenance glows with youthful beauty, which all art feems rather to diminish than increafe, rather to hide than adorn; and while Camilla charms you with the choice of her drefs, Flora enchants you with the neglect of hers. Thus different are the beauties which nature has manifested in Camilla and Flora! yet while he has, in this contrarity, fhewn the extent of her power to pleafe, fhe has alfo proved, that truth and virtue are always the fame. Generofity and tenderness are the first principles in the minds of both favourites, and were never poffeffed in an higher degree than they are poffeffed by Flora: he is juft as attentive to the intereit of others, as fhe is negligent of her own; and tho' fhe could fubmit to any misfortune that could befal herself, yet the hardly knows how to bear the misfortunes of another. Thus does Flora unite the ftrongest fenfibility with the most lively. gaiety; and both are expreffed with the mot bewitching mixture in her countenance. While Camilla infpires a reverence that keeps you at a refpectful, yet admiring distance, Flora excites the most ardent, yet most elegant defire. Camilla reminds you of the dignity of Diana, Flora of the attractive fenfibility of Califto: Camilla almoft elevates you to the fenfibility of angels, Flora delights you with the lovelieft

idea of woman.

Greville.

§ 142. A Fable by the celebrated Linnæus,

tranflated from the Latin.

Once upon a time the feven wife men of Greece were met together at Athens, and it was propofed that every one of them fhould mention what he thought the greateft wender in the creation. One of them, of higher conceptions than the reft, propofed the opinion of fome of the aftronoers about the fixed flars, which they believed to be to many funt, that had each

their planets rolling about them, and were ftored with plants and animals like this earth. Fired with this thought, they agreed to fupplicate Jupiter, that he would at leaft permit them to take a journey to the moon and ftay there three days in order to fee the wonders of that place, and give an account of them at their return. Jupiter confented, and ordered them to affemble on a high mountain, where there fhould be a cloud ready to convey them to the place they defired to fee. They picked out fome chofen companions, who might affift them in defcribing and painting the objects they fhould meet with. At length they arrived at the moon, and found a palace there well fitted up for their reception. The next day being very much fatigued with their journey, they kept quiet at home till noon; and being fill faint, they refreshed themfelves with a molt delicious entertainment, which they relifhed fo well, that it overcame their curiofity. This day they only faw through the window that delightful fpot, adorned with the moft beautiful flowers, to which the beams of the fun gave an uncommon luftre, and heard the finging of mott melodious birds till evening came on. The next day they rofe very early in order to begin their obfervations; but fome very beautiful young ladies of that country coming to make them a vifit, advised them first to recruit their ftrength before they expofed themfelves to the laborious task they were about to undertake.

The delicate meats, the rich wines, the beauty of thefe damfels, prevailed over the refolution of thefe ftrangers. A fine concert of mufic is introduced, the young ones begin to dance, and all is turned to jollity; fo that this whole day was fpent in gallantry, till fome of the neighbouring inhabitants growing envious at their mirth, rufhed in with words. The elder part of the company tried to appeafe the younger, promifing the very next day they would bring the rioters to juftice. This they performed, and the third day the caufe was heard; and what with accufations, pleadings, exceptions, and the judgment itself, the whole day was taken up, on which the term fet by Jupiter expired. On their return to Greece, all the country flocked in upon them to hear the wonders of the moon defcribed, but all they could tell was, for that was all they knew, that the ground was covered with green intermixed with flowers, and that the birds fung among the branches of the trees; but what kind of

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flowers they faw, or what kind of birds they heard, they were totally ignorant. Upon which they were treated every where with

contempt.

If we apply this fable to men of the prefent age, we fhall perceive a very just fimilitude. By thefe three days the fable denotes the three ages of man. First, youth, in which we are too feeble in every refpect to look into the works of the Creator: all that feafon is given to idleness luxury, and paflime. Secondly, manhood. in which men are employed in fettling, marrying, educating children, providing fortunes for them, and raifing a family. Thirdly, old age, in which after having made their fortunes, they are overwhelmed with law-fuits and proceedings relating to their eftates. Thus it frequently happens that men never confider to what end they were deftined, and why they were brought into the world. B. Thornton.

§ 143. Mercy recommended. My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries;-not from want of courage, where juft occafions prefented, or called it forth, I know no man under whofe arm I fhould fooner have taken fhelter;-nor did this arife from any infenfibility or obtufenefs of his intellectual parts:- he was of a peaceful, placid nature,-no jarring element in it, all was mixed up fo kindly within him my uncle Toby had fcarce a heart to retaliate upon a By:--Go,fays he, one day at dinner, to an overgrown one who had buzzed about his nofe, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time, and which, after infinite attempts, he had caught at last, as it flew by him;-I'll not hurt thee, fays my uncle Toby, rifing from his chair, and going across the room, with the fly in his hand.-I'll not hurt a hair of thy head:-Go, fays he, lifting up the fath, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it efcape;-go poor devil,-get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?-This world, furely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

This is to ferve for parents and governors instead of a whole volume upon the fubje&t. Sterne.

$144. The Starling. -Befhrew the fombre pencil! faid I vauntingly for I envy not its powers, which paints the evils of life with fo hard and deadly a colouring. The mind fits terrified at the objects she has magnified

herfelf and blackened: reduce them to their proper fize and hue, the overlooks them.'Tis true, faid I, correcting the propofition-the Baftile is not an evil to be defpifed-but trip it of its towersfill up the fofle-unbarricade the doorscall it fimply a confinement, and suppose 'tis fome tyrant of a diftemper, and not of a man-which holds you in it-the evil vanishes, and you bear the other half without complaint.

I was interrupted in the hey-day of this foliloquy, with a voice which I took to be of a child, which complained "it could "not get out."--I looked up and down the paffage, and feeing neither man, woman, nor child, I went out without further attention.

In my return back through the paffage, I heard the fame words repeated twice over; and looking up I faw it was a S'arling hung in a little cage--"I can't get out-I can't get out," faid the Starling.

I ftood looking at the bird; and to every perfon who came through the paffage, it ran fluttering to the fide towards which they approached it with the fame lamentations of its captivity" I can't get out," faid the Starling-God help thee! faid I, but I will let thee out, coft what it will; fo I turned about the cage to get at the door; it was twitted and double twisted fo faft with wire, there was no getting it open without pulling the cage to pieces-I took both hands to it.

The bird flew to the place where I was attempting his deliverance, and thrusting his head through the trellis, preffed his breaft against it, as if impatient.-I fear, poor creature! faid I, I cannot fet thee at liberty-"No," faid the Starling." I "can't get out, I can't get out," faid the Starling.

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I vow I never had my affections me tenderly awakened; nor do I remember an incident in my life, where the dilipated fpirits to which my reason had been a bubble, were fo fuddenly called home. Mechanical as the notes were, yet fo true in tune to nature were they chanted, that in one moment they overthrew all my fyftematic reafonings upon the Baftile; and I heavily walked up ftairs, unfaying every word I had faid in going down them.

Difguife thyfelf as thou wilt, ftill, flavery! faid Iftill thou art a bitter draught! and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no le's bit

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ter on that account.Tis thou, thrice fweet and gracious goddefs, addreffing my felf to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whofe tafte is grateful, and ever will be fo, till Nature herfelf fhall change-no tint of words can spot thy fnowy mantle, or chymic power turn thy fceptre into iron-with thee to fmile upon him as he eats his cruft, the fwain is happier than his monarch, from whofe court thou art exiled !-Gracious Heaven! cried I, kneeling down upon the last step but one in my afcent Grant me but health, thou great Bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion -and fhower down thy mitres, if it seems good unto thy divine providence, upon thofe heads which are aching for them! Sterne.

§ 145. The Captive.

The bird in his cage pursued me into my room; I fat down clofe by my table, and leaning my head upon my hand, I began to figure to myfelf the miferies of confinement: I was in a right frame for it, and fo I gave full fcope to my imagina

tion.

I was going to begin with the millions of my fellow-creatures born to no inheritance but flavery; but finding, however affecting the picture was, that I could not bring it near me, and that the multitude of fad groupes in it did but distract me

I took a fingle captive, and having firft fhut him up in his dungeon, I then looked through the twilight of his grated door to take his picture.

I beheld his body half wafted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arifes from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I faw him pale and feverith; in thirty years the weitern breeze had not once fanned his blood-he had feen no fun, no moon, in all that time-nor had the voice of friend or kinfman breathed through his lattice-his children

-But here my heart began to bleed-and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.

He was fitting upon the ground upon a little ftraw, in the furtheft corner of his dungeon, which was alternately his chair and bed a little calendar of fall flicks were laid at the head, notched all over with the difmal days and nights he had paffed there he had one of thefe little fticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etch

ing another day of mifery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then caft it down-hook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little tick upon the bundle-He gave a deep figh-I faw the iron enter his foul-I burst into tears-I could not fuftain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn.

Ibid.

§ 146. Trim's Explanation of the Fifth Commandment.

-Pr'ythee, Trim, quoth my father, What dost thou mean, by "honouring thy father and mother?”

Allowing them, an't please your honcur, three halfpence a day out of my pay, when they grow old. And didft thou do that, Trim? faid Yorick.-He did indeed, replied my uncle Toby.-Then, Trim, faid Yorick, fpringing out of his chair, and taking the Corporal by the hand, thou art the best commentator upon that part of the Decalogue; and I honour thee more for it, Corporal Trim, than if thou hadst had a hand in the Talmud itself.

§ 147. Health.

Ibid.

O bleffed health! thou art above all gold and treafure; 'tis thou who enlargest the foul-and openeft all its powers to receive inftruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee, has little more to wish

for! and he that is fo wretched as to want thee, wants every thing with thee. Ibid.

$148. A Voyage to Lilliput.

CHA P. I.

The author gives fome account of himself and family: his first inducements to travel He is fipwrecked, and fwims for his life: gets fafe on here in the country of Lilliput; is made a prifoner, and carried up the country.

My father had a small eftate in Nottinghamfhire; I was the third of five fons. He fent me to Emanuel college in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I refided three years, and applied myself clofe to my fludies; but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very feanty allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an

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eminent furgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my father now and then fending me fmall fums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be fome time or other my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the affiftance of him and my uncle John, and fome other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ftudied phyfic two years and feven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.

Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master Mr. Bates to be furgeon to the Swallow, captain Abraham Pannell, commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage or two into the Levant, and fome other parts. When I came back, I refolved to fettle in London, to which Mr. Bates, my mafter, encouraged me, and by him I was recommended to feveral patients. I took part of a small houfe in the Old-Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. Mary Burton, fecond daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hofier, in Newgate-ftreet, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.

But, my good mafler Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends, my bufinefs began to fail; for my confcience would not fuffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore confulted with my wife, and fome of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to fea. I was furgeon fuccefsfively in two fhips, and made feveral voyages for fix years to the East and WeitIndies, by which I got fome addition to my fortune. My hours of leifure I spent in reading the best authors, antient and modern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when I was afhore, in obferving the manners and difpofitions of the people, as well as learning their language, wherein I had a great facility by the strength of my memory.

The laft of thefe voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of the fea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed from the OldJewry to Fetter-lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the failors: but it would not turn to account. After three years expectation that

things would mend, I accepted an advantageous offer from Captain William Pritchard, mafter of the Antelope, who was making a voyage to the South-Sea. We fet fail from Bristol, May 4th, 1699, and our voyage at firft was very profperous.

It would not be proper, for fome reafons, to trouble the reader with the particulars of our adventures in thofe feas: let it fuffice to inform him, that, in our paffage from thence to the Eaft-Indies, we were driven by a violent form to the north-west of Van Diemen's land. By an obfervation we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes fouth. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labour, and ill food; the reft were in a very weak condition. On the fifth of November, which was the beginning of fummer in thofe parts, the weather being very hazy, the feamen fpied a rock within half a cable's length of the fhip; but the wind was fo ftrong, that we were driven directly upon it, and immediately fplit. Six of the crew, of whom I was one, having let down the boat into the fea, made a shift to get clear of the fhip and the rock. We rowed by my computation about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already fpent with labour while we were in the fhip. We therefore trusted ourfelves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overfet by a fudden flurry from the north. What became of my companions in the boat, as well as of thofe who efcaped on the rock, or were left in the veffel, I cannot tell; but conclude they were all loft. For my own part, I fwam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom: but when I was almost gone, and able to strug gle no longer, I found myself within my depth; and by this time the ftorm was much abated. The declivity was fo fmall, that I walked near a mile before I got to the fhore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening. I then advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover any figns of houtes or inhabitants; at least I was in fo weak a condition, that I did not obferve them. I was extremely tired, and with that, and the heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I left the ship, I found myfelf much inclined to fleep. I lay down on the grafs, which was very short and foft, where I flept founder than ever I remembered to have done in my