parts of my life, as a looker-on, which is the character I
intend to preserve in this paper."--_Spectator_, No. 1.

93 "So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had
recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the
open violation of decency has always been considered, amongst us,
the sure mark of a fool."--MACAULAY.

94 "The Court was sat before Sir Roger came; but, notwithstanding all
the justices had taken their places upon the bench, they made room
for the old knight at the head of them; who for his reputation in
the country took occasion to whisper in the judge's ear that _he was
glad his lordship had met with so much good weather in his circuit_.
I was listening to the proceedings of the Court with much attention,
and infinitely pleased with that great appearance and solemnity
which so properly accompanies such a public administration of our
laws; when, after about an hour's sitting, I observed to my great
surprise, in the midst of a trial, that my friend Sir Roger was
getting up to speak. I was in some pain for him, till I found he had
acquitted himself of two or three sentences, with a look of much
business and great intrepidity.

"Upon his first rising; the Court was hushed, and a general whisper
ran among the country people that Sir Roger _was up_. The speech he
made was so little to the purpose, that I shall not trouble my
readers with an account of it, and I believe was not so much
designed by the knight himself to inform the Court, as to give him a
figure in my eyes, and to keep up his credit in the
country."--_Spectator_, No. 122.

95 "Garth sent to Addison (of whom he had a very high opinion) on his
death-bed, to ask him whether the Christian religion was true."--DR.
YOUNG (_Spence's Anecdotes_).

"I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I
consider as an act, the former as an habit of the mind. Mirth is
short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent. Those are
often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject
to the greatest depression of melancholy: on the contrary,
cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind such an exquisite
gladness, prevents it from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth
is like a flash of ligh