ble,
the rich on the point of death, and women on the departure of their
beauty." He said, on another occasion, "that he who defined a compliment
to be an agreeable falsehood, which serves as a net to catch dupes, was
not far short of the truth, since the greater part of compliments are
expressions directly at variance with internal conviction."

* * * * *

Dice are said to have been invented by Palamedes, at the siege of Troy,
for the amusement of the soldiers.

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ANNUALS FOR 1833.

The time requisite for the completion of a large and picturesque
Engraving compels us to defer the Supplement, containing the SPIRIT
of the ANNUALS, till our next Number.

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_Printed and published by J. LIMBIRD, 143. Strand, (near Somerset
House,) London; sold by G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin,
Paris; CHARLES JUGEL, Francfort; and by all Newsmen and Booksellers_.

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