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The Collector.
-vvas ? and being told that it was a young curate in the neig hbourhood , his Grace replied— ' He shall have the first good living that falls : had he stopped to take care of me ,. I would never have given him any thing as long as he had lived . ' JUDGE BURNET .
1 MY Lord , said a prig of a Sheriff once to Judge Burnet , on the circuit , ' there is a white bear in our town ; your Lordship , be sure , will go and see him ; shall I have the honour to attend your Lordship ? ' ' Why , ' replied the judge , ' I am afraid it cannot be : because you know , Mr . Sheriff , the bear and I both travel with trumpets ; and k has never yet been settled , which should pay the first visit . '
The same personage , when he was only plain Tom Burnet , took into his head to write a pamphlet , which did some execution against the ministry . The great man complained to the bishop ; who sending for Tom— ' What , ' says he , ' could induce you to do such a thing ? I make you a very handsome allowance : you could not write it for bread !' - — ' No , Sir , ' said Tom . ' What did you write it for , then , Sirrah . ? ' ' For drink , Sir . '
HAIR-POWDER TAX . IN the course of the debate upon the Hair . Powder Licence-bill Lord Mulgrave stated that it had been said , there was no necessity for half-pay officers to wear powder . This called to his recolleftion an expression used in the worst times of the worst tyranny of France . ' An Abbe' said the noble Lord' having brought a book to the
, , Cardinal Dubois , begged his protection for it : the Cardinal refused ; and asked the Abbe why he employed his time in that manner ? ' The answer was— ' Helas 1 Monseigneur , il faut que je vive ! ' [ Alas ! my Lord , it is necessary that I should live . ' ] To which the Cardinal replied—• je n ' en vols pas lanecessite ! ' [ ' I don ' t see the necesssity ! ' ] This was a sentiment which he was sure their Lordships would not
adopt . When the Lord Chancellor ( Loughborough ) came to speak , in reply , he remarked , that the noble Lord had been mistaken , in attributing that expression to the Cardinal Dubois . It was used b y Monsieur D'Argenson , one of the officers of the police at Paris , to a man who was brought before him for writing an indecent pamphlet . Being
asked , why he wrote such a book ? he said— ' Monsieur , il faut que je vive ! ' Sir , it is necessary that I should live ! ' When Mons . D'Argenson instantly replied , with great wit and propriety to such a man—* Jen ' en vois pas la necessite ! ' [ I don ' t see the necesssity !] APPROPRIATE TITLES .
THERE were at one time , in one college in Oxford , six physicians : of two the feet and breath were offensive ; one was remarkably lean ; two were quarrelsome and -. turbulent j and one very ignorant of'his
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The Collector.
-vvas ? and being told that it was a young curate in the neig hbourhood , his Grace replied— ' He shall have the first good living that falls : had he stopped to take care of me ,. I would never have given him any thing as long as he had lived . ' JUDGE BURNET .
1 MY Lord , said a prig of a Sheriff once to Judge Burnet , on the circuit , ' there is a white bear in our town ; your Lordship , be sure , will go and see him ; shall I have the honour to attend your Lordship ? ' ' Why , ' replied the judge , ' I am afraid it cannot be : because you know , Mr . Sheriff , the bear and I both travel with trumpets ; and k has never yet been settled , which should pay the first visit . '
The same personage , when he was only plain Tom Burnet , took into his head to write a pamphlet , which did some execution against the ministry . The great man complained to the bishop ; who sending for Tom— ' What , ' says he , ' could induce you to do such a thing ? I make you a very handsome allowance : you could not write it for bread !' - — ' No , Sir , ' said Tom . ' What did you write it for , then , Sirrah . ? ' ' For drink , Sir . '
HAIR-POWDER TAX . IN the course of the debate upon the Hair . Powder Licence-bill Lord Mulgrave stated that it had been said , there was no necessity for half-pay officers to wear powder . This called to his recolleftion an expression used in the worst times of the worst tyranny of France . ' An Abbe' said the noble Lord' having brought a book to the
, , Cardinal Dubois , begged his protection for it : the Cardinal refused ; and asked the Abbe why he employed his time in that manner ? ' The answer was— ' Helas 1 Monseigneur , il faut que je vive ! ' [ Alas ! my Lord , it is necessary that I should live . ' ] To which the Cardinal replied—• je n ' en vols pas lanecessite ! ' [ ' I don ' t see the necesssity ! ' ] This was a sentiment which he was sure their Lordships would not
adopt . When the Lord Chancellor ( Loughborough ) came to speak , in reply , he remarked , that the noble Lord had been mistaken , in attributing that expression to the Cardinal Dubois . It was used b y Monsieur D'Argenson , one of the officers of the police at Paris , to a man who was brought before him for writing an indecent pamphlet . Being
asked , why he wrote such a book ? he said— ' Monsieur , il faut que je vive ! ' Sir , it is necessary that I should live ! ' When Mons . D'Argenson instantly replied , with great wit and propriety to such a man—* Jen ' en vois pas la necessite ! ' [ I don ' t see the necesssity !] APPROPRIATE TITLES .
THERE were at one time , in one college in Oxford , six physicians : of two the feet and breath were offensive ; one was remarkably lean ; two were quarrelsome and -. turbulent j and one very ignorant of'his