CONTENTS. 65. THE Sweeping effects of time-Melan- choly contemplations arising thereupon -Significancy of this fluctuating cha- racter, and the great and consoling ar- guments it supplies to thinking men- Letter from Eugenio to Amelia...................... 66. Scandal viewed in more lights than one- Short history of Scandal-A passage from Lucian-Story of the green ass- Anatomy of an old maid's ear............................. 67. The practice of lying considered-Extra- ordinary letter on the subject, to Simon Olive-Branch, read at the Club, contain- ing a strange account of a classical lie- Its various impressions on the Club- Mr. Allworth's speech on the subject of the letter-Sentiment from Cicero-A fable-Viceroy of Naples and the galley slave-Mr. Blunt's story of the inquisi- 68. God's government one great scheme-The ignorance and audacity which man carries to the contemplation of it-Passage from THE BRITISH ESSAYISTS; WITH PREFACES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, BY A. CHALMERS, F.S.A. VOL. XXXVII. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. AND J. RIVINGTON; G. AND W. NICOL; T. EGERTON; A. STRAHAN; J. SCATCHERD; J. CUTHELL; J. NUNN; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND CO.; T. CADELL; J. AND W. T. CLARKE; J. CARPENTER AND SON; OTRIDGE AND RACKHAM; S. BAGSTER; J. AND A. ARCH; J. RICHARDSON; J. M. RICHARDSON; J. BOOKER; R. SCHOLEY; HATCHARD AND SON; J. MAWMAN; BALDWIN, CRADOCK AND JOY; C. CHAPPLE; R. H. EVANS; R. S. KIRBY; KINGSBURY, PARBURY AND ALLEN; G. AND W. B. WHITTAKER; SHERWOOD, JONES AND CO.; R. PHENEY; J. EBERS; HARDING, MAVOR AND LEPARD; A. K. NEWMAN AND CO.; SUTTABY, EVANCE AND FOX; T. TEGG; OGLE, DUNCAN AND CO.; J. F. SETCHELL; R. SAUNDERS; J. BOHN; RODWELL AND MARTIN; W. MASON; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; BLACK AND YOUNGS; G. COWIE AND CO.; HURST, ROBINSON AND Co.; S. HIGHLEY; J. LOWE; G. MACKIE; J. BUMPUS; C. ARNOULD; SMITH AND ELDER; AND C. TAYLOR: WILSON AND SONS, YORK A. CONSTABLE AND CO.; A. BLACK; J. FAIRBAIRN; OLIVER AND BOYD; AND STIRLING AND SLADE, EDINBURGH : AND BRODIE AND DOWDING, SALISBURY. 270. g. 549. |