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The Collector.
seemingly to the satisfaftion of all parties , the lady ' s original stipulation of fifty copies for herself being previously accededto . Such is the story of the once admired daughter of Coiley Cibber , poet laureat and patentee of Drury-Lane , who was born in affluence , and educated with care and tenderness , her servants in livery , and a splendid equipage at her command , with swarms of time-serving train unmindful of her
sycophants officiously buzzing in her ; yet advantages , and improvident in her pursuits , she finished the career of her miserable existence on a dunghill . The account given of this unfortunate woman is literally correct in every particular , of which , except the circumstance of hev death , the writer himself was an eye-witness .
ANECDOTES . OF MR . ROTJAT , A FORMER MtNSITER OF RAR 1 CK , SCOTLAND . THE church officer comp laining one day to the servant , that Mr . Rouat was too much with the Gentles , was replied to , that her master had scripture for that ; for , says the Apostle , ' Lo we turn to the Gentles . ' He was convinced and relieved , and perfectly pleased
with the Gentles . When the sacrament was to be g iven for the first time by the gentleman who was then" minister , Miss Dunlop , afterwards Lady Wallace , came to church rather early , and expressed to an old servant her satisfaction at seeing it so decently filled . ' Madam , said the old man , ' this is nothing to what I have seen in Mr . Rouat s clock ' the
time . I have heard the boogers cracking at 6 o ' o morning' / ' The boogers cracking ! What do you mean , James ? ' said Miss Dunlop , ' Yes , Madam , ' continued James , ' I have seen the folk in his time sitting on the balks of the kirk like bykes o' bees . Mr . Rouat was afterwards translated to Jedburgh , where he lived but short timeThese storiestrifling and ridiculous enough in
a . , themselves , show the spirit of the times , and that it was possible in those days , at least , for the same person to be a gentleman , a scholar , and a popular preacher . His son was some time Professor of Church History in the College of Glasgow , and died within these few years , in the possession of all that esteem which was due to the worthy son of a worthy father .
OF DR . LORT . CARDINAL Richelieu asked Dr . Lort , his favourite physician , why the hair of his head was grey whilst that of his jaws was black ? < It is , my Lord , ' replied he , ' because your Eminence makes more use of your head than of your jaws / OF A COACHMAN .
' A COACHMAN of Frederic the Second of Prussia having one day overturned him , Frederick was in a violent passion . ' Sire , ' said the kni g ht of the whip , ' and pray has your Majesty never lost a battle ? '
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The Collector.
seemingly to the satisfaftion of all parties , the lady ' s original stipulation of fifty copies for herself being previously accededto . Such is the story of the once admired daughter of Coiley Cibber , poet laureat and patentee of Drury-Lane , who was born in affluence , and educated with care and tenderness , her servants in livery , and a splendid equipage at her command , with swarms of time-serving train unmindful of her
sycophants officiously buzzing in her ; yet advantages , and improvident in her pursuits , she finished the career of her miserable existence on a dunghill . The account given of this unfortunate woman is literally correct in every particular , of which , except the circumstance of hev death , the writer himself was an eye-witness .
ANECDOTES . OF MR . ROTJAT , A FORMER MtNSITER OF RAR 1 CK , SCOTLAND . THE church officer comp laining one day to the servant , that Mr . Rouat was too much with the Gentles , was replied to , that her master had scripture for that ; for , says the Apostle , ' Lo we turn to the Gentles . ' He was convinced and relieved , and perfectly pleased
with the Gentles . When the sacrament was to be g iven for the first time by the gentleman who was then" minister , Miss Dunlop , afterwards Lady Wallace , came to church rather early , and expressed to an old servant her satisfaction at seeing it so decently filled . ' Madam , said the old man , ' this is nothing to what I have seen in Mr . Rouat s clock ' the
time . I have heard the boogers cracking at 6 o ' o morning' / ' The boogers cracking ! What do you mean , James ? ' said Miss Dunlop , ' Yes , Madam , ' continued James , ' I have seen the folk in his time sitting on the balks of the kirk like bykes o' bees . Mr . Rouat was afterwards translated to Jedburgh , where he lived but short timeThese storiestrifling and ridiculous enough in
a . , themselves , show the spirit of the times , and that it was possible in those days , at least , for the same person to be a gentleman , a scholar , and a popular preacher . His son was some time Professor of Church History in the College of Glasgow , and died within these few years , in the possession of all that esteem which was due to the worthy son of a worthy father .
OF DR . LORT . CARDINAL Richelieu asked Dr . Lort , his favourite physician , why the hair of his head was grey whilst that of his jaws was black ? < It is , my Lord , ' replied he , ' because your Eminence makes more use of your head than of your jaws / OF A COACHMAN .
' A COACHMAN of Frederic the Second of Prussia having one day overturned him , Frederick was in a violent passion . ' Sire , ' said the kni g ht of the whip , ' and pray has your Majesty never lost a battle ? '