mpar_.

[100] The history of this medal is useful in more than one respect;
and may be found in Prosper Marchand.

[101] Another represents the young prince holding the symbol of the
Romish faith in his right hand, and crowning himself with the left;
Truth opens a door below and discovers Father Petre, as the guiding
influence of all.

[102] It represents Cromwell as an armed monster, carrying the three
kingdoms captive at his feet in a triumphal car driven by the devil
over the body of liberty, and the decapitated Charles I. The state
of the people is emblematized by a bird flying from its cage to be
devoured by a hawk; and sheep breaking from the fold to be set on by
ravening wolves.

[103] A passage may be found in Aristotle's Politics, vol. i. c.
3-7; where Aristotle advises Alexander to govern the Greeks like his
_subjects_, and the barbarians like _slaves_; for that the one he
was to consider as companions, and the other as creatures of an
inferior race.

[104] The following may be mentioned as the most important of these
collections:--

"Rome rhymed to Death." 1683.

"A Collection of the newest and most ingenious Poems, Songs,
Catches, &c, against Popery." 1689.

"Poems on Affairs of State." 1703-7.

"Whig and Tory; or, Wit on both sides." 1712.

"Political Merriment; or, Truths told to some Tune." 1714.

AUTOGRAPHS.[105]

The art of judging of the characters of persons by their handwriting can
only have any reality when the pen, acting without restraint, becomes an
instrument guided by, and indicative of, the natural dispositions. But
regulated as the pen is now too often by a mechanical process, which the
present race of writing-masters seem to have contrived for their own
convenience, a whole school exhibits a similar handwriting; the pupils
are forced in their automatic motions, as if acted on by the pressure of
a steam-engine; a bevy of beauties will now write such fac-similes of
each other, that in a heap of letters presented to the most
sharp-sighted lover to select that of his mistress--though, like
Bassanio among the caskets, his happiness should be risked on the
choice--he would despair of fixing on the right one, all appearing to
have come from the same rolling-press. Even brothers of different
tempers have been taught by the same master to give the same form to
their letters, the same regu