but a
point compared to the heavens. To change one's country then is little more
than to remove from one street to another. Man is not a plant, rooted to a
certain spot of earth: all soils and all climates are suited to him
alike.--_Plutarch_.

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_Early Rising_.--The celebrated John Wesley, who became by habit an early
riser, says, "That the difference between rising at five and seven in the
morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed every
night at the same hour, is equivalent to an addition of ten years to his
life."

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_Coronation Expenses of their present Majesties, William and Adelaide_.

L. s. d.
In the several departments of
their Majesties household .......22,234 10 3

By the Officers of Arms, for
the King's Heralds and
Pursuviants ......................1,478 3 9

In the Office of Works, for
fitting up the Abbey, &c. .......12,085 14 5

In the Mint, for Coronation
Medals ...........................4,326 4 6

The amount expended for
Fireworks, and for keeping
open the Public Theatres
on the night of the
Coronation .......................3,034 8 7

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Total .........L43,159 11 6
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The Coronation of his late Majesty, George the Fourth, amounted to more
than L268,000.

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_Narrow Escape_.--Andrea Boscoli, the Italian painter, studied after
nature; and in his travels he drew sketches of any particular objects that
struck him. While pursuing this practice at Loretto, with regard to the
fortifications of the city, he was seized by the officers of justice, and
condemned to be hanged; but he happily escaped, within a few hours of
execution, by the interposition of Signor Bandini, who explained to the
chief magistrate his innocent intention. P.T.W.

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_Women alias Angels_.--Acidalius, the eminent grammarian and critic, whom
Baillet reckons among his _Enfans celebres_, printed a small tract in 1595,
intitled _Mulieres non esse homines_, or that "Women were not of the human
species," which was falsely ascribed to him. He only accidently found the
manuscript and printed it. It is said, that in order