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Article A DOG's WONDERFUL SAGACITY AND AFFECTION. ← Page 2 of 2 Article VANITY OF A PECULIAR KIND. Page 1 of 1
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A Dog's Wonderful Sagacity And Affection.
a sign for seeking in that place . They digged up the body of the unhappy Aubri . Some time after the dog sees by chance the assassin , whom all historians call chevalier Macaire ; ha jumps at his throat , and is made to Set go hi : » hold ., Every time he meets him , he attacks him with the same fury . 'ihe inveterate hatred of the dog against this man onlyseems extraordinaryf-everai call to mind the affection he had
, , shown fbr his masrer , and at the same time the many occafions in which he ha-J given proofs of his envy and hatred against de Montdidier . Some other circumstances corroborate these suspicions . The king informed or " ail there things , ordered the dog to be brought to him , who seemed quite easy and placable till seeing Macaire in the midst of twenty courtiers , he turned , barked , and endeavoured to dart upon him . "
In those times-a combat was ordered between the accuser and the accused , wltcn the proof of the crime was not sufficiently convincing . These sort of combats were called judgments of God , because it was believed , heaven wcuh ! sooner work a miracle ,, than let innocence be oppressed , ' lhe king judged from f . h » - appearance of Macaire ' s guilt , that he was under tin obligation to fight ti-J dog . The field was marked
out in the file of Notre Dame , which was" then an empty uninhabited piece of ground . Macaire was armed with a long stick ; the dog had an hogshead with one end knocked out , for his retreat , and to gain some respite during the iiii . cr ; nissions of fighting . Being let loose he runs , and tarns immediately upon his adversary , avoids his blows , threatens him sometimes on one side and sometimes on another ; tires him , and at last darting , seizes him by the throat , throws him down , and obliges him to confces his crime . A monument still remains oyer the chimney-piece in the castle of Montargis .
Vanity Of A Peculiar Kind.
VANITY OF A PECULIAR KIND .
[ FOR THE FREE MASONS' MAGAZINE . ]
T J AN . ITY is , in some degree , the portion of every man ; but every f man has not an equal shave of it . Vanity , however , is never so ridiculously displayed , as when a man exhibits his performances to excite the admiration of there whom he knows to be incompetent judo-es , or perhaps totally ignorant of the perfections or defects of the " performances so exhibited . Mr . Contour , a celebrated painter , is never so
completely-happy as when he can procure , to view his pictures , a set of pretended connoisseurs , whose judgment he despises , though he greedily swallows their encomiums . 1 latel y visited Mr .. Contour , ancf saw him in the hei ght ^ of his ambition , amongst a group of would-be antiquarians , exhibiting an antique vase . Never did I behold so intolerable a group ! the whole debate amongst them was , whether the lower end of an antique vase , which he produced , was not the upper end , and the upper end the lower ? C .
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A Dog's Wonderful Sagacity And Affection.
a sign for seeking in that place . They digged up the body of the unhappy Aubri . Some time after the dog sees by chance the assassin , whom all historians call chevalier Macaire ; ha jumps at his throat , and is made to Set go hi : » hold ., Every time he meets him , he attacks him with the same fury . 'ihe inveterate hatred of the dog against this man onlyseems extraordinaryf-everai call to mind the affection he had
, , shown fbr his masrer , and at the same time the many occafions in which he ha-J given proofs of his envy and hatred against de Montdidier . Some other circumstances corroborate these suspicions . The king informed or " ail there things , ordered the dog to be brought to him , who seemed quite easy and placable till seeing Macaire in the midst of twenty courtiers , he turned , barked , and endeavoured to dart upon him . "
In those times-a combat was ordered between the accuser and the accused , wltcn the proof of the crime was not sufficiently convincing . These sort of combats were called judgments of God , because it was believed , heaven wcuh ! sooner work a miracle ,, than let innocence be oppressed , ' lhe king judged from f . h » - appearance of Macaire ' s guilt , that he was under tin obligation to fight ti-J dog . The field was marked
out in the file of Notre Dame , which was" then an empty uninhabited piece of ground . Macaire was armed with a long stick ; the dog had an hogshead with one end knocked out , for his retreat , and to gain some respite during the iiii . cr ; nissions of fighting . Being let loose he runs , and tarns immediately upon his adversary , avoids his blows , threatens him sometimes on one side and sometimes on another ; tires him , and at last darting , seizes him by the throat , throws him down , and obliges him to confces his crime . A monument still remains oyer the chimney-piece in the castle of Montargis .
Vanity Of A Peculiar Kind.
VANITY OF A PECULIAR KIND .
[ FOR THE FREE MASONS' MAGAZINE . ]
T J AN . ITY is , in some degree , the portion of every man ; but every f man has not an equal shave of it . Vanity , however , is never so ridiculously displayed , as when a man exhibits his performances to excite the admiration of there whom he knows to be incompetent judo-es , or perhaps totally ignorant of the perfections or defects of the " performances so exhibited . Mr . Contour , a celebrated painter , is never so
completely-happy as when he can procure , to view his pictures , a set of pretended connoisseurs , whose judgment he despises , though he greedily swallows their encomiums . 1 latel y visited Mr .. Contour , ancf saw him in the hei ght ^ of his ambition , amongst a group of would-be antiquarians , exhibiting an antique vase . Never did I behold so intolerable a group ! the whole debate amongst them was , whether the lower end of an antique vase , which he produced , was not the upper end , and the upper end the lower ? C .