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The Collector.
when it is empty—by fasting a man can be better united to God ; for it is a principle with mathematicians that a round body can never touch a plane surface , except in one point ; but God is this surface , according to these words , Justus el rectus Dominus . A belly too \ vell fed becomes round ; it cannot , therefore , touch God , except in one point ; but fasting-flattens the belly , and it is then that it is united with the surface of'God in all points . '
A CURIOUS SPECIES OF FRAUD . A CERTAIN Dignita ' ry purchased a sermon of a brother clergyman , which he delivered with great applause the Sunday morning following at his cathedral church . On the same evening he went to hear a sermon in another church by the Rector , and judge of his surprise
and mortification , when he found that itwas verbatim , text and ail , the same with that which he had delivered in the morning-. Ashamed and confounded , he went , and thus abused the gentleman who sold it to him : ' Villain , did you not engage that the manuscript sermon you sold me was ori ginal ? ' 'You may depend upon it , ' said the other , " ' you had the ori ginal manuscript ; that was onl y a copy , which 1 afterwards sold to the Rector . '
GENERAL LAWRENCE . SIR "Robert Palk , who was the close and intimate friend of this brave officer , has paid an elegant tribute to his memory , in a neat monument erected in the parish church of Dunchideock , in Devonshire , of which this is the description :
. ' It stands in the north aisle , and is of black and white marble , having a medallion ofthe General ; under which , on a black tablet , is the following inscription : ' Fqr discipline established , fortresses protected , settlements extended , French and Indian armies defeated , and peace concluded in the Carnatic . Mon . b y E . J . C . Westminster-Abbey . ' Belowon a white marble tableis inscribed : ' Major
Ge-, , neral StringerLawretice , who commanded in India from 1747 to 1767 , died ioth January , 1775 , S ' 7 - The desperate state of affairs in India becoming prosperous by a series of victories , endeared him to his country . History has recorded his fame , tlie regrets of the worthy bear testimony to his virtues . '
' Cm pudoret justitia ; soror Incorrupt ! fides untlaque Veritas Quando ullum invenient parem I ' Under all , on a black marble table , is the following : ' Born to command , to conquer , and to spare , . As mercy mild , yet terrible as war , Here Lawrence rests : the trump of honest Fame From Thames to Ganges has proclaim'd his name .
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The Collector.
when it is empty—by fasting a man can be better united to God ; for it is a principle with mathematicians that a round body can never touch a plane surface , except in one point ; but God is this surface , according to these words , Justus el rectus Dominus . A belly too \ vell fed becomes round ; it cannot , therefore , touch God , except in one point ; but fasting-flattens the belly , and it is then that it is united with the surface of'God in all points . '
A CURIOUS SPECIES OF FRAUD . A CERTAIN Dignita ' ry purchased a sermon of a brother clergyman , which he delivered with great applause the Sunday morning following at his cathedral church . On the same evening he went to hear a sermon in another church by the Rector , and judge of his surprise
and mortification , when he found that itwas verbatim , text and ail , the same with that which he had delivered in the morning-. Ashamed and confounded , he went , and thus abused the gentleman who sold it to him : ' Villain , did you not engage that the manuscript sermon you sold me was ori ginal ? ' 'You may depend upon it , ' said the other , " ' you had the ori ginal manuscript ; that was onl y a copy , which 1 afterwards sold to the Rector . '
GENERAL LAWRENCE . SIR "Robert Palk , who was the close and intimate friend of this brave officer , has paid an elegant tribute to his memory , in a neat monument erected in the parish church of Dunchideock , in Devonshire , of which this is the description :
. ' It stands in the north aisle , and is of black and white marble , having a medallion ofthe General ; under which , on a black tablet , is the following inscription : ' Fqr discipline established , fortresses protected , settlements extended , French and Indian armies defeated , and peace concluded in the Carnatic . Mon . b y E . J . C . Westminster-Abbey . ' Belowon a white marble tableis inscribed : ' Major
Ge-, , neral StringerLawretice , who commanded in India from 1747 to 1767 , died ioth January , 1775 , S ' 7 - The desperate state of affairs in India becoming prosperous by a series of victories , endeared him to his country . History has recorded his fame , tlie regrets of the worthy bear testimony to his virtues . '
' Cm pudoret justitia ; soror Incorrupt ! fides untlaque Veritas Quando ullum invenient parem I ' Under all , on a black marble table , is the following : ' Born to command , to conquer , and to spare , . As mercy mild , yet terrible as war , Here Lawrence rests : the trump of honest Fame From Thames to Ganges has proclaim'd his name .