rect injuries, without the

bravery of war, Falkland Islands.

or the security of peace.

Wit.

Wit, like every other power, has its boundaries. Its success depends on the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are minds upon which the rays of fancy may be pointed without effect, and which no fire of sentiment can agitate or exalt. Rambler, vol. 4.

Wit being an unexpected copulation of ideas, the discovery of some occult relation between images in appearance remote from each other; an effusion of wit, therefore, pre-supposes an accumulation of knowledge; a memory stored with notions, which the imagination may cull out to compose new assemblages. Whatever may be the native vigour of the mind, she can never form many combinations from few ideas; as many changes can never be rung upon a few bells.

Wealth.

Ibid.

Some light might be given to those who shall endeavour to calculate the increase

of English wealth, by observing that Latimer, in the time of Edward VI., mentions it, as a proof of his father's prosperity, that, though but a yeoman, he gave his daughters five pounds each for her portion. At the latter end of Elizabeth, seven hundred pounds were such a temptation to courtship, as made all other motives suspected. Congreve makes twelve thousand pounds more than a counterbalance to the affectation of Belinda.-No poet would now fly his favourite character at less than fifty thousand.

Notes upon Shakspeare, vol. 1.

THE END.