ire
family, and his mother from an old Leicestershire one!

36 "The style of his conversation was very much of a piece with that of
his writings, concise and clear and strong. Being one day at a
sheriff's feast, who amongst other toasts called out to him, 'Mr.
Dean. The trade of Ireland!' he answered quick: 'Sir, I drink no
memories!'

"Happening to be in company with a petulant young man who prided
himself on saying pert things ... and who cried out, 'You must know,
Mr. Dean, that I set up for a wit?' 'Do you so?' says the Dean.
'Take my advice, and sit down again!'

"At another time, being in company, where a lady whisking her long
train [long trains were then in fashion] swept down a fine fiddle
and broke it; Swift cried out--

Mantua vae miserae nimium vicina Cremonae!"

--DR. DELANY, _Observations upon Lord Orrery's __"__Remarks, &c. of
Swift__"_. London, 1754.

37 "Don't you remember how I used to be in pain when Sir William Temple
would look cold and out of humour for three or four days, and I used
to suspect a hundred reasons? I have plucked up my spirits since
then, faith; he spoiled a fine gentleman."--_Journal to Stella._

38 "The Epicureans were more intelligible in their notion, and
fortunate in their expression, when they placed a man's happiness in
the tranquillity of his mind and indolence of body; for while we are
composed of both, I doubt both must have a share in the good or ill
we feel. As men of several languages say the same things in very
different words, so in several ages, countries, constitutions of
laws and religion, the same thing seems to be meant by very
different expressions; what is called by the Stoics apathy, or
dispassion; by the sceptics, indisturbance; by the Molinists,
quietism; by common men, peace of conscience,--seems all to mean but
great tranquillity of mind.... For this reason Epicurus passed his
life wholly in his garden: there he studied, there he exercised,
there he taught his philosophy; and, indeed, no other sort of abode
seems to contribute so much to both the tranquillity of mind and
indolence of body, which he made his chief ends. The sweetness of
the air, the pleasantness of smell, the verdure of plants, the
cleanness and lightness of food, the exercis