pretty little garden and a tolerable house ; but, if any one less acquainted with their way should take it literally, and assert in plain honest English that I was master of a magnificent palace, and that my garden was equal to the garden of Eden, nothing could well be more ridiculous. Now, the disproportion between our ways of speaking and that of the Orientalists is much wider at present, and was still more so formerly, than between our plainness and the Italian hyperbole.-The same.

In all my travels I never met with any one Scotchman but what was a man of sense. I believe every body of that country that has any, leaves it as fast as he can.-The same.

The English abroad can never get to look as if they were at home. The Irish and Scotch, after being some time in a place, get the air of natives ; but an Englishman, in any foreign court, looks about him as if he was going to steal a tankard.-The same.

No one will ever do for conversation

who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say things indifferent, and many very bad. The same.

Large common-placing teaches one to forget, and spoils one for conversation, or even for writing.-The same.

When we write in a foreign language we should not think in English: if we do, our writings will be but translations at best. If one is to write in French, one must use one's self to think in French; and even then, for a great while, our Anglicisms will get uppermost, and betray us in writing, as our native accent does in speaking, when we are among them.-The

same.

Though the dean (Lockier) is the best of company, and one of the liveliest men in England of his age, he said, when in no ill humour, "The best of life is but just tolerable: 'tis the most we can make of it.”

Let your great endeavour be to get an independency.-Lockier.

If a person would travel for three months,

to get the French language and qualify himself for a larger tour, the whole expense need not be above fifty pounds. Orleans would be the best place, or Caen. If you take a friend with you, it will make you miss a thousand opportunities of following your end. You go to get French; and it would be best if you could avoid making an acquaintance with any one Englishman there. To converse with their learned men will be beside your purpose too, if you go only for so short a time: they talk the worst for conversation; and you should rather be with the ladies, who are the best for it.-The same.

It is strange that Harrington, so little while ago, should be the first man to find out so evident and demonstrable a truth, as that of property being the true basis and measure of power. His Oceana, allowing for the different situations of things (as the less number of lords then, those lords having no share in the parliament and the like), is certainly one of the best founded political picces that ever was writ.-The same.

Our Gothic ancestors were very great men, and of great capacities. They were the first that established, in fact, what Aristotle had touched only in theory; I mean their excellent constitution of limited monarchies. The Asiatic monarchs were absolute, and the greatest republics of antiquity very defective. Greece was split into many distinct powers, as Holland is at present; and were always jarring with one another, unless when held together by the pressure of some powerful common enemy. Rome, whilst a republic, was scarce ever free from distractions, between Patricians and Plebeians, for ten years together.Whatever is good, either in monarchies or in republics, may be enjoyed in limited monarchies; the whole force of the nation is as ready to be turned one way, as in monarchies; and the liberties of the people may be as well secured as in republics.The same.

The Jews offered my Lord Godolphin to pay five hundred thousand pounds (and they would have made it a million) if the

government would allow them to purchase the town of Brentford, with leave of settling there entirely, with full privileges of trade, &c. The agent from the Jews said, that the affair was already concerted with the chief of their brethren abroad; that it would bring the richest of their merchants hither, and of course an addition of above twenty millions of money to circulate in the nation. Lord Molesworth was in the room with Lord Godolphin, when this proposal was made; and as soon as the agent was gone, pressed him to close with it. Lord Godolphin was not of his opinion. He foresaw that it would provoke two of the most powerful bodies in the nation, the clergy and the merchants; he gave other reasons too against it; and, in fine, it was dropped.-The same.

The Jews had better success with Oliver Cromwell, when they desired leave to have a synagogue in London. They offered him, when Protector, 60,000l. for that privilege. Cromwell appointed them a day for his giving them an answer. He then