right to perform great deeds, or think high thoughts;
and when they do so, it is a kind of humbug. They had better keep within
their own propriety.

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In England, in 1761, a man and his wife, formerly in good circumstances,
died very poor, and were buried at the expense of the parish. This
coming to the ears of the friends of their better days, they had the
corpses taken out of the ground and buried in a more genteel manner!

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In the "Annual Register," Vol. IV., for 1761, there is a letter from
Cromwell to Fleetwood, dated August 22, 1653, which Carlyle appears not
to have given. Also one, without date, to the Speaker of the House of
Commons, narrating the taking of Basing House.

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Recently, in an old house which has been taken down at the corner of
Bulfinch Street and Bowdoin Square, a perfect and full-grown skeleton
was discovered, concealed between the ceiling and the floor of a room in
the upper story. Another skeleton was not long since found in similar
circumstances.

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In a garden, a pool of perfectly transparent water, the bed of which
should be paved with marble, or perhaps with mosaic work in images and
various figures, which through the clear water would look wondrously
beautiful.

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_October 20, 1847._--A walk in a warm and pleasant afternoon to Browne's
Hill, not uncommonly called Browne's Folly, from the mansion which one
of that family, before the Revolution, erected on its summit. (On
October 14, 1837, I recorded a walk thither.) In a line with the length
of the ridge, the ascent is gradual and easy, but straight up the sides
it is steep. There is a large and well-kept orchard at the foot, through
which I passed, gradually ascending; then, surmounting a stone wall,
beneath chestnut-trees which had thrown their dry leaves down, I climbed
the remainder of the hill. There were still the frequent
barberry-bushes; and the wood-wax has begun to tuft itself over the
sides and summit, which seem to be devoted to pasture. On the very
highest part are still the traces of the foundation of the old mansion.
The hall had a gallery running round it beneath the ceiling, and was a
famous place for dancing. The house stood, I believe, till some years
subsequent to the Revolution, and was then removed in three