xecuted?" "No,"
replied he. "That's just like you," said she, "for you never wanted the
children to have any enjoyment."

PARLIAMENTARY BULL.

IN the Irish Bank-bill, passed in June 1808, there is a clause,
providing, that the profits shall be _equally_ divided; and the _residue
go to the Governor_.

ANOTHER.

IN a bill for pulling down the old Newgate in Dublin, and rebuilding it
on the same spot, it was enacted, that the prisoners should remain in
the _old jail_ till the new one was completed.

CLASSICAL BULL. MILTON.

THE deeds themselves, though _mute_, _spoke loud_ the doer.

ANOTHER. SHAKSPEARE.

I WILL strive with things impossible,
Yea, _get the better of them_.

ANOTHER. DR. JOHNSON.

TURN from the glittering bribe your scornful eye,
Nor sell for gold _what gold can never buy_.

CLASSICAL BULL. DR. JOHNSON.

EVERY monumental inscription should be in Latin; for that being a _dead_
language, it will always _live_.

ANOTHER. _Ibid._

NOR yet perceived the vital spirit fled,
But still fought on, _nor knew that he was dead_.

ANOTHER. _Ibid._

SHAKSPEARE has not only _shown_ human nature as it is, but as it would
be found _in situations to which it cannot be exposed_.

ANOTHER. _Ibid._

THESE observations were made _by favor of a contrary wind_.

ANOTHER. DRYDEN.

A HORRID _silence_ first _invades the ear_.

ANOTHER. POPE.

WHEN first young Maro, in his noble mind,
A work _t'outlast immortal Rome designed_.

DEPRAVITY OF THE AGE.

AN itinerant clergyman preaching on this subject, said that little
children, _who could neither speak nor walk_, were to be seen _running
about the street, cursing and swearing_.

THE SIGNAL.

A MONK having intruded into the chamber of a nobleman, who was at the
point of death, and had lost his speech, continued crying out, "My lord,
will you make the grant of such and such a thing to our monastery? It
will be for the good of your soul." The peer, at each question, nodded
his head. The monk, on this, turned round to the son and heir, who was
in the room: "You see, sir, my lord, your father, gives his assent to my
request." To this, the son made no reply; but turning to his father,
asked him, "Is it your will, sir, that I kick this monk down stairs?"
The nod of assent was given, and the permission put in force with h