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Article SKETCHES OF CELEBRATED CHARACTERS. ← Page 7 of 7 Article ANECDOTE FROM THE FRENCH. Page 1 of 1
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Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
The ordinary place of his residence is at Rosetta , where his wife Jives , who is the daughter of an inn-keeper at Leghorn , and whom he has forced to embrace the Mahometan religion . Plis income amounts to about 6000 piastres , which are remitted to him-from Loudon , by his sister , Lady Bute , and 4000 from the Sublime Porte . During the most intense cold , he performs his relig ious ablutions in cold water , rubbingat the same timehis body with sand from the thighs to the
, , feet : Ins Negro also pours fresh water on his head , and combs his beard , and he also pours cold water on the head of his Negro . To finish this religious ceremony , he resumes his pipe , turns towards the east , mutters some prayers , walks afterwards for half an hour , and drinks his coffee . '—0 misens hominum mentes ?
DESCARTES and SIR KENELM DIGBY .
SIR Kenelm Dig-by having read the works of Descartes , resolved to go to Holland for the purpose of seeing him . He found Descartes in his solitude at Egrnoiid , where he conversed with him , without making himself known . Descartes , who had read-some of his works , said , " I have not the least doubt , but you are Digby , the celebrated English philosopher ; " to which Sir'kenelm replied"Was you not
, , Sir , the illustrious Descartes , I should not have come from England for the sole purpose of seeing you . " These compliments over , they conversed on various subjects , and Dig by told Descartes that he would do much better to study for the discovery of some means to prolong life , than attach himself to the simple speculations of philosophy . Descartes assured him , that he
had long reflected on the subject ; and to render man immortal , was more than he dared promise , but he was certain that he had the power of rendering life as iong as those of the patriarchs . It was well known in Holland , that Descartes flattered himself that he had made this discovery ; and the Abbe Picot , his disci ple , confident of his being in possession of such powers , would not believe the news of his death ; and when he could no longer doubt it , he exclaimed : C en est fuit , la fin du genre humain va venir .
Anecdote From The French.
ANECDOTE FROM THE FRENCH .
r jPHE late Mr . de la Chambre , curate of St . Bartholomew , at Paris , •" - one day invited a Cordelier to dinner , who being a bon vivant , " as most of that class are when they can gormandize at free-cost , asked the valet , what company there was to be . and what they were to have for dinner ; 'There will be but three dishes in all , " replied the man ; ' what the whole of the dinner will consist of I do not know ; but one dish I am certain of : you will have a fine fat sucking i' ' A fat
pg . pig ? " said the Cordelier , ' I am afraid it will be quite the reverse . In my opinion the best of a pig is the skin and the ears ; every thing tells me I have a ri ght to expect neither the one or the other , in a parish where the Saint * has no shin , and the Curate no ears . ] -
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Sketches Of Celebrated Characters.
The ordinary place of his residence is at Rosetta , where his wife Jives , who is the daughter of an inn-keeper at Leghorn , and whom he has forced to embrace the Mahometan religion . Plis income amounts to about 6000 piastres , which are remitted to him-from Loudon , by his sister , Lady Bute , and 4000 from the Sublime Porte . During the most intense cold , he performs his relig ious ablutions in cold water , rubbingat the same timehis body with sand from the thighs to the
, , feet : Ins Negro also pours fresh water on his head , and combs his beard , and he also pours cold water on the head of his Negro . To finish this religious ceremony , he resumes his pipe , turns towards the east , mutters some prayers , walks afterwards for half an hour , and drinks his coffee . '—0 misens hominum mentes ?
DESCARTES and SIR KENELM DIGBY .
SIR Kenelm Dig-by having read the works of Descartes , resolved to go to Holland for the purpose of seeing him . He found Descartes in his solitude at Egrnoiid , where he conversed with him , without making himself known . Descartes , who had read-some of his works , said , " I have not the least doubt , but you are Digby , the celebrated English philosopher ; " to which Sir'kenelm replied"Was you not
, , Sir , the illustrious Descartes , I should not have come from England for the sole purpose of seeing you . " These compliments over , they conversed on various subjects , and Dig by told Descartes that he would do much better to study for the discovery of some means to prolong life , than attach himself to the simple speculations of philosophy . Descartes assured him , that he
had long reflected on the subject ; and to render man immortal , was more than he dared promise , but he was certain that he had the power of rendering life as iong as those of the patriarchs . It was well known in Holland , that Descartes flattered himself that he had made this discovery ; and the Abbe Picot , his disci ple , confident of his being in possession of such powers , would not believe the news of his death ; and when he could no longer doubt it , he exclaimed : C en est fuit , la fin du genre humain va venir .
Anecdote From The French.
ANECDOTE FROM THE FRENCH .
r jPHE late Mr . de la Chambre , curate of St . Bartholomew , at Paris , •" - one day invited a Cordelier to dinner , who being a bon vivant , " as most of that class are when they can gormandize at free-cost , asked the valet , what company there was to be . and what they were to have for dinner ; 'There will be but three dishes in all , " replied the man ; ' what the whole of the dinner will consist of I do not know ; but one dish I am certain of : you will have a fine fat sucking i' ' A fat
pg . pig ? " said the Cordelier , ' I am afraid it will be quite the reverse . In my opinion the best of a pig is the skin and the ears ; every thing tells me I have a ri ght to expect neither the one or the other , in a parish where the Saint * has no shin , and the Curate no ears . ] -