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    a king ' s ransom : surely a thousand bushels are blowing about for that worthy king ' s yonder , It seems as if he was to be paid for by weight : here is enough of it to smother all the cocks and bulls in

    Christendom . If rain should fall upon my new hat , there would be mud over and above to build a row of cottages . "

    " Never mind , I ensure it , " said he , "to its full value . Hear ; listen ; put your head towards the glass : I will eat the whole down . Cocks

    represent the French , bulls the English . Histories relating to the wars and treaties of large nations are properly called cock-and-bull stories , and by degrees all stories that turn out to as little account as these

    wars and treaties , are called by the same name . " I am , &c . &c . &c . [ Let us hope that Mr Stivers added from his own fancy all the words from " and by degrees "

    to the conclusion . Certainly Mr Raikes was incapabe of treating either his heroic ancestors , or his equally brave coutemporaries with such disrespect . By these wars and treaties we

    have reached the pinnacle of human glory ; and by the inscrutable designs of Providence , the treaties led us infallibly to wars and the wars to

    treaties , —an advantage which no other country ever experienced in the same degree . To attribute it to chance , if not impious , is malicious . The prudent nqien \ yho were ap-

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    pointed to watch over our wett fare , saw before them , " A mighty maze , but not without 11 plan , " at every turn of which was am embryo general , and at the ends a national illumination , witm prayer and thanksgiving . ]

    MR STIVERS TO LADY C . I have made it up , since yout say it would be better for me . , Indeed , I began to think as :

    much , and never had any quarrel atall with him . The very day after he had talked of my being on the look out , he gave me three crowns for

    encouragement . I could do no less than sit down and write what I heard in a livery-stable . Here is a copy of it : — " I heard to-day , sir , that his Majesty the King of

    Sardinia , who has no more right they tell me to be King of Genoa , than I have to be King of Jerusalem ( which is one of his kingdoms , by the bye , and none of mine ) has resolved to

    cut his heir off with a shilling ; and to give all the mountains and chesnuts , all the monks and nuns , all the hogs and goats ( the next things in number and quality ) , all the folks and soldiers , all the mules ,

    asses , oxen , and horses , to the Emperor of Austria , —to say nothing of a vast quantity of stone walls . " My master put it down directly in his big book . He also put down at the same time , in his accountbook , one crown and a half for half-a-dab of butter .

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    High and Lota Life in Italy * 901

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 995, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/23/