arm, tucked up his sleeves to the elbow, trussed himself like a clown gathering apples, and giving to one of his old acquaintance his wallet, books, and opistographs, away went he out of town towards a little hill or promontory of Corinth, called Craneum ; and there on the strand, a pretty level place, did he roul his jolly tub, which served him for an house to shelter him from the injuries of the weather; there, I say, in a great vehemency of spirit, did he turn it, veer it, wheel it, whirl it, frisk it, jumble it, shuffle it, huddle it, tumble it, hurry it, joust it, justle it, overthrow it, evert it, invert it, subvert it, overturn it, beat it, thwack it, bump it, batter it, knock it, thrust it, push it, jerk it, shock it, shake it, toss it, throw it, overthrow it up-side down, topsy-turvy, arsi versey, tread it, trample it, stamp it, tap it, ting it, ring it, tingle it, towl it, sound it, resound it, stop it, shut it, unbung it, close it, unstopple it. And then again, in a mighty bustle, he bandied it, slubbered it, hacked it, whitled it, weighed it, darted it, hurled it, staggered it, reeled it, swinged it, brangled it, tottered it, lifted it, heaved it, transformed it, transfigured it, transposed it, transplaced it, reared it, raised it, hoised it, washed it, dighted it, cleansed it, rinced it, nailed it, settled it, fastened it, shackled it, fettered it, levelled it, blocked it, tugged it, tewed it, carried it, bedashed it, bewrayed it, parched it, mounted it, broached it, nicked it, notched it, bespattered it, decked it, adorned it, trimmed it, garnished it, gaged it, furnished-it, bored it, pierced it, traped it, rumbled it, slid it down the hill, and precipitated it from the very height of the Craneum; then from the foot to the top, like another Sisyphus with his stone, bore it up again, and every way so barged it and belaboured it, that it was ten thousand to one he had not struck the bottom of it out. "Which when one of his friends had seen, and asked him why he did so toil his body, perplex his spirit, and torment his tub, the philosopher's answer was. That not being employed in any other office by the republic, he thought it expedient to thunder and storm it so tempestuously upon his tub, that amongst a people so fervently busy, and earnest at work, he alone might not seem a loitering slug and lazy fellow." We have to apologize for omitting our Poetical department. It was our intention to have given an extra four pages in this number, but time would not permit. We are for the same reason obliged to defer an exposition of the inquitous extortion. carried on by the universities in the printing of bibles. THE MAN OF THE WORLD'S Dictionary, FOR THE USE OF THE COURT AND THE CITY, BY A YOUNG HERMIT, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH FOR THE "RAMBLER'S MAGAZINE," BY THE TRANSLATOR OF THE "CHEVALIER DE FAUBLAS.". ABO ABBE. No word has been more distorted from its original signification than this. It is well known that Abbe means Father, and yet those who bear the name are condemned to celibacy. It is true, that in those ages when morals were pure and religion respected, these gentlemen would sometimes recollect the origin of their names. We shall never see those happy days again, when they loved so much, those lucky felbows, those gallant abbes, and even waggish abbes, as they were called in good company. Alas! how every thing has degenerated amongst us! ABDICATION. A virtue of circumstance. An act which a sovereign signs with as good a grace as a traveller yields his purse when a pistol is presented to him. ABORTION. The epic poems of certain persons; the theatrical pieces of many others; the projects of conquerors, who dream of universal monarchy; the designs ABS of those who would reduce mankind to such a state of slavery as to be managed like a herd of cattle; indeed, there is no end to miscarriages in this world! Bacon, when speaking of discoveries from which nothing has resulted, for want of favourable circumstances to develope them, says, "that we are very far from knowing all the children of time, and we are still more ignorant of his miscarriages." ABRIDGEMEMT. An excellent plan to disfigure the productions of an author. We might say to a great many abreviators: Vos abreges sont bons au dernier point Faisons-les court en ne les lisant point. Your abridgements are good, in the highest degree, but we will make them still shorter, by not reading them. ABSENCE diminishes weak passions, bnt augments strong ones, as the wind extinguishes a candle, but gives strength to a fire.. ABSOLUTE. A character which men hate in a sovereign, and which women seem to admire in a lover, because it serves as an excuse for their weakness. ABSOLUTION. A remission of sins committed against God or man; a speedy and convenient method of becoming white as snow, when we were black as a coal. ABUNDANCE. The germ of disgust. The thermometer of the people's love for their princes. ABUSE. A word very often abused. To do away with abuses; to remedy abuses; in the mouths of certain persons, means no more than: "Your place would suit me;', or, "Give me a place." Abuse is a leprosy in the government which is continually increasing under the hands of the empirics who pretend to cure it. ABUSE OF WORDS. A traveller, being arrested in his progress by a torrent, inquires of a villager on the other side where he shall find the ford: "Take the road to the right," cries the countryman. He does so, and is overwhelmed with the waters. The other runs after him, crying, "Oh, unhappy man! I did not tell you to turn to your right, but to mine. ACADEMY. A little dormitory. An academy, in its highest signification, may be compared to a beauty who is courted by every one, and against whom they make epigrams, when they cannot obtain her favours. ACADEMIC STYLE. A pompous, assuming, pedantic style, which an academi cian should avoid. ACCENT. The soul of discourse, which gives it feeling and precision. ACCESS. The approach of a fever is not so much to be feared as a fit of self-love, of anger, of abuse, and above all, of devotion. ACCESSIBLE. A rare quality in a minister of state. 2 ACCLAMATION is often a very equivocal sign of approbation; and it frequently demonstrates the weakness of a party. By applauding a placeman, we claim the right of hissing him. ACCOMMODATION. A bad accommodation is more desirable than a better lawsuit. "Il est avec le ceil des accommodmens." There are accommodations with heaven. Devised by false devotees, and all who have a wide conscience and a narrow heart. "They compound for the sins they're inclined to, By damning all those they've no mind to." ACTOR. A man who is continually studying to assume a character different from his own; to be in a passion while cool; to say what he does not believe, as naturally as if he was sincere; in short, to forget his own place by taking that of another. Be upon your guard against great actors in great offices. ADEPT. A madman, who pursues a chimera, which will conduct him to bedlam. Vide Alchymist. Lottery. ADHESION. An act of convenience, by which we sanction what displeases us; a transaction between conscience and interest. ADMIRABLE. Every thing spoken by a man in power. ADMIRER. Synonymous with fool. Une juste critique instruit, forme le gout, Et l'on n'admire rien, quand on admire tout.' A learned and impartial critic forms the taste; and those cannot duly appreciate any thing who admire every thing. ADOPTION. An act which repairs the errors of nature, of fortune, and of love. ADORATION. The homage which men |