No. 182. The history of Leviculus, the fortune-hunter.
—Dives qui fieri vult, Et cilo vult fieri.— JUV. Sat. xiv. 176 The lust of wealth can never bear delay. It …
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No. 181. The history of an adventurer in lotteries.
—Neu fluitem dubue spe pendulus horae. HOR. Lib. i. Ep. xviii. 110. Nor let me float in fortune’s pow’r, Dependent …
No. 180. The study of life not to be neglected for the sake of books.
[Greek: Taut eidos sophos isthi, mataen d’ Epikouron eason Poy to kenon zaetein, kai tines ai monades.] AUTOMEDON. On life, …
No. 179. The awkward merriment of a student.
Perpetuo risu pulmonem agitare solebat. JUV. Sat. x. 33. Democritus would feed his spleen, and shake His sides and shoulders …
No. 178. Many advantages not to be enjoyed together.
Purs sanitatis velle sanuria fuit. SENECA. To yield to remedies is half the cure. Pythagoras is reported to have required …
No. 177. An account of a club of antiquaries.
Turpe est difficiles habere nugas. MART. Lib. ii. Ep. lxxxvi. 9. Those things which now seem frivolous and slight, Will …
No. 176. Directions to authors attacked by criticks.
—Naso suspendis adunco. HOR. Lib. i. Sat. vi. 5. On me you turn the nose.— There are many vexatious accidents …
No. 175. The majority are wicked.
Rari quippe boni: numerus vix est totidem quot Thebarum portae, vel divitis ostia Nili. Juv. Sat. xiii. 26. Good men …
No. 174. The mischiefs of unbounded raillery. History of Dicaculus.
Faenum habet in cornu, longe fuge; dummodo risum Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcet amico. HOR. Lib. i. Sat. iv. …
No. 173. Unreasonable fears of pedantry.
Quo virtus, quo ferat error. HOR. De Ar. Poet. 308. Now say, where virtue stops, and vice begins? As any …