You are still further reproached, After the example of the most said I, with your taste for riches, rigid philosophers, I present myself for ostentation, good cheer, women, to Fortune like a ball, that she may perfumes, and every species of sen- roll about at her pleasure, but which suality. That I brought with me giving her no hold is incapable of into the world, replied he; and I being injured. Does she place herthought that by exercising it with self by my side, I stretch out my moderation, I should at once satisfy hands to her: does she spread her both nature and reason. I enjoy wings to take her flight, I render the comforts of life, and dispense back her gifts, and suffer her to dewith them without difficulty. I part. She is a capricious female, have been seen at the court of Dio- whose caprices frequently amuse, nysius clad in a purple robe; but but can never afflict me. in other places I have worn sometimes a garment of the wool of Miletus, and sometimes a home-spun cloak. The liberality of Dionysius enabled me to keep a good table, to wear elegant clothes, and be served by a great number of slaves. MaDionysius treated us according ny philosophers, who professed a to our wants. To Plato he gave more rigid morality, loudly conbooks; to me he gave money, which demned me; to which I answered did not remain long enough in my only by pleasantries. Polyxenus, hands to soil them. I paid fifty who imagined his mind to be the drachmas* for a partridge, and said repository of every virtue, found me to some one who expressed his sur-one day with some handsome woprise: Would not you have given men, and making preparations for an obolust for it?-Certainly-a great supper. He inveighed aWell, then, I think no more of these fifty drachmas than you would of an obolus. I had laid up a certain sum of money for my journey into Libia: my slave who carried it was unable to keep up with me; I therefore ordered him to throw part of this heavy and incommodious metal into the road. An accident deprived me of a country-house that I was very fond of. One of my friends endeavour ed to console me. Be not uneasy, said I to him; I possess three others, and am more satisfied with what I have left than grieved at what I have lost : it is for children only to weep and throw away all their play-things when one is taken away from them. Forty-five livres (11. 17s. 6d.) †Three sols (three halfpence.) gainst me with all the bitterness of philosophic zeal; I suffered him to go on, and when he had done talking, proposed that he should stay with us: he accepted the invitation, and soon convinced us, that if an enemy to expence, he was as fond of good living as his corruptor. In fine, for it is impossible for me to justify my doctrine better than by my actions, Dionysius sent for three courtezans, and gave me my choice of one. I carried them all off, alleging, that the preference which Paris gave to one of three goddesses had cost him too dear. I afterward reflected, that the pleasure of possessing their charms would not be equal to that of subduing my passions, and sending them home, returned quietly to my own house. (To be continued.) THE EMERALD. For the Emerald. DESULTORY SELECTIONS, AND ORIGINAL REMARKS. next day. To day (says he) I have ALCIBIADES had a very hand- ALCIBIADES, after flying from his country, was informed the Athenians had condemned him to death, I shall make them know, said he, that I am still alive. THE ATHENIANS were alike conspicuous for genius and elegance: the following anec-. dote illustrates their disposition for humor. The circumstance would be considered an impertinence in these times, which would hardly be passed over in contempt, and the man who like Cleon should go into our Congress or General Court, would be considered as a lunatic and expelled the assembly, or if he shew any thing like reason, be committed for contempt! This anecdote reminds us of another of the present monarch of England, who discovered in it morewit than he usually has credit for. A play had been commanded by his Majesty, and the curtain was of course kept down till he arrived. The audience waited nearly an hour with great impatience, and saluted the royal visitor with an universal hiss on his appearance, for having detained them so long. The King pausing a second, rose from his seat and took out his watch, when having cast his eyes on it, he bowed respectfully to the audience, who immediately changed their hiss into a burst of applause, for the respect and deference which his Majesty had shown them. It was from a natural fund of humanity and benevolence that the Athenians were so attentive to the rules of politeness, and so delicate in point of just behaviour, qualities one would not expect among the common people. In the war against Philip of Macedon, having intercepted one of his couriers, they read all the letters he carried except that of Olympias to his wife, which they returned sealed up and unopened out of regard to conjugal love, the rights of which are sacred and ought to be respected even among enemies. The same Athenians having direct One day when the Assembly was fully formed, and the people had set down and taken their seats, Cleon, after having made them waited that a strict search should be his coming a great while, appeared at last with a wreath of flowers upon his head, and desired the people to adjourn their deliberations to the made after the presents distributed by Harpalus among the Orators, would not suffer the house of Cablicles who was lately married to be visited out of respect to his bride On seeing HAUCHAM ABBEY a fine old lately brought home. If it be true according to the rcmark of many writers that attention to the sex is the criterion of refinement, we shall be found many centuries behind this polite people. Delicacy or politeness are terms unknown to the politician who is developing a plot, or the defenders of freedom when searching after a bribe. The following composition is cited by M. de Maillard, in an epistle to M. Voltaire, to show how nearly the same thoughts may be conceived and expressed by two persons; for tho" it resembles. the subsequent lines in Tibullus. he supposes the lady knew not Latin enough to read. TUNG tibi mitis erit, rapias tunc cara licebit Oscula, pugnatia, sed tamen apta dabit. "Rapta dabit primo, post offeret ipsa volenti, Post etiam collo se implicuisse volet. [Tibull. L. i. El. 14. A SONNET, written by the celebrated Ma dam DESEOULLIERHS. Si des baisers gages par Alcidon, ENGLISHED. WITH Phillis young Colin three kisses would lay, Ruin in England, white-washed. Now spruceness thy undoing. Art now ridiculous in age, And look'st a battered beau. THE VALITUDINARIAN. Ir is an unreasonable thing some men expect of their acquaintance. They are ever complaining that they are out of order, or displeased, or they know not how, and they are so far from letting that be a reason for retiring to their own homes, that they make it their argument for coming into company. What has any body to do with a man's being indisposed but his physician? If a man laments in company, where the rest are in humor enough to enjoy themselves, he should not take it ill if a servant be ordered to present him with a cup of caudale or posset drink by way of admonition that he go home to bed. That part of life, which we ordinarily understand by the word conversation, is an indulgence to the sociable part of our make, and should incline us to bring our proportion of good will or bu mor among the friends we meet with, and not trouble them with relations, which must of necessity oblige them to real or feigned afflic tions. HUMOR. Yesterday an ancient Briton nam That his dog found his pipe which layed Griffith, was brought before the hid in some hay. The shepherdess lost; but she strove might and main, That the shepherd the kisses she lost might not gain ; But her heart grew more soft, as more closely he prest, The first when he'd stolen, she him the rest. gave chief magistrate, charged with an assault and battery upon the person of a German philosopher, who is álso a dealer in cheese, sour crout, smoaked sausages, and other savory viands, of which assault and battery the complainant exhibited the sad marks, in a pair of black eyes, and last, to the ultima ratio regum. The a countenance covered by the mas-sawyer told the German, that if he terly strokes of an adept in pugilism. would promise not to take the law The German stated, that he was The German, sensible of his kindof him, he would knock him down. in a public house on Wednesday night, in company with a number ness, acceded to the proposal, which of persons, of whom Griffith was was immediately ratified under the one, and that having had some warm sign manual of the sawyer upon the disputes with a sawyer, who was not best eye of the German, who counat present forthcoming, the contest tersigned in his turn, upon the nose was some time ended when the of his antagonist. War being thus sawyer, after cool & mature delibercommenced, according to the law ation, stood up, and struck him with his fist on the eye; and that immediately afterwards, the rest of the company, amongst whom was Griffith, entered into a very liberal subscription of the same kind of compliments, attacked him en masse, and beat him unmercifully. The sawyer ran away, and the rest of the company followed his example in this also; and the only one of whom he had yet been able to obtain custody was Griffith. W. Griffith, in his defence, gave quite a different version of the story; and from his statement it appeared that the sawyer, who it seemed was also a philosopher, though of a different school, was very warmly engaged in an astronomical discussion with the German, touching the order of the system in which our earth is planted. The German obstinately maintaining the doctrine of Tycho Brahe, that our earth is stationary, and that the sun and planets move round it, as a centre; while the sawyer, who is a disciple and champion of the Copernican school, maintained the doctrine of Newton, and the moderns. Much gin and beer were exhausted in the dispute, and much of learning and eloquence lavished on both sides. The contest became too hot, to be sustained by words, and the parties, unable to bring each other to reason by the dint of argument, resorted at of The magistrate dismissed the charge, as against Griffith, and told the complainant to find out the sawproper object of his pros[London f. yer, as the ecution. In the Limerick paper, an Irish gentleman, whose lady had absconded from him, thus cautions the public against trusting her :-My wife has eloped from me without rhyme or reason, and I desire no one will trust her on my account, for I am not married to her. On the effects of Music. THE following is an observation of Tartini: "Music is but the art of combining sounds; nothing now remains of it but its material part, divested of all that spirit with which it formerly was animated. By neglecting the rules which directed its operation to a single point, its ob THE CONVENTION OF JEWS which Bonaparte has assembled at Paris, is an interesting object both to religion and literature. What will be the effect of his enquires into the order and gov ernment of this disconnected and untractable people. it is impossible to determine; but it would not surprise us to find some remarkable effect produced from this novel assembly. There has certainly been nothing heretofore which seemed to lead the way for the fulfilment of the prophecies respecting them, so easily as this convention. If it should lead to a closer intercourse with christians than heretofore, and dissipate the prejudices which prevent enquiry, it may possibly be the first step to a new order of things among them. It appears by the following account, that they are treated with great respect and seem in some measure already to have laid aside their natural parsimonious character. "The ninety-six Jew-Deputies as sembled at Paris, are very constant in their sittings. They dress in black and deliberate with their heads uncovered. A guard of honor of fifty men attends at the door, and turns out with presented arms on the arrival and departure of the Deputies. Such as have no equip ages of their own are conveyed thither and back in the Emperor's carriages. A deputation of the entire number has been presented to the Emperor by the home minister, Champagny, one of whom, Rabi Sagar, of Turin, had a private audience with him, which lasted two hours. -What would you have us do When out of twenty we can please not two; One likes the pheasant's wing and one the The vulgar boil, the learned roast an eggy leg, Hard task to please the palate of such guests. We have been diverted with a letter from a love-sick correspondent, who forgot to whom he was writing by thinking of his mistress. Whether he meant a communication for the Emerald or to regret that he was out of favor, wheth er he complains that we have taken his name from our list of subscribers or that his mistress has discarded him from the number of her lovers, whether he is sober or sad, in good humor, or sor. rowful it is impossible to determine. Quiquid agit Rufus, nihil'est, nisi Næria Rufo Si gaudit, si fiet, si tacet, hanc loquitur Cantat, propinat, poscit, negat, anuit, usa est Nævia; si non sit Nævia, mutuus erit Scriberit hesterna patri cum luce salutem Nevia lux, inquit, Nævia numen ave. Let Rufus weep, rejoice, stand, sit or walk Let him eat, drink, ask questions or Still he must talk of Navia or be mute; lime • I am, my lovely Navia, ever thine. |