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In coming back, however, let me say,
He met his brother rogue about half-way,

Hobbling with outstretch'd hands and bending knees,
Cursing the souls and bodies of the peas,

His eyes in tears, his cheeks and brows in sweat,
Deep sympathizing with his groaning feet.

"How now!" the light-toed, whitewash'd pilgrim breke,
"You lazy lubber!"

"You see it!" cried the other; "'tis no joke;
My feet, once hard as any rock,
Are now as soft as blubber.

But, brother sinner, do explain
How 'tis that you are not in pain.

What power hath work'd a wonder for your toes,
Whilst I just like a snail am crawling,

Now groaning, now on saints devoutly bawling,
Whilst not a rascal comes to ease my woes?

"How is't that you can like a greyhound go,

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Merry as if nought had happen'd, burn ye?"
"Why," cried the other, grinning, "you must know,
That just before I ventured on my journey,

To walk a little more at ease,

I took the liberty to BOIL MY PEAS!"

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF AUTHORS

Who Died in the Second Decade of the Nineteenth Century;

OR FROM 1810 TO 1819 INCLUSIVE.

Austen, Jane (1775-1817), daughter of a parish clergyman, was deservedly distinguished in her day as a novelist, for her beauty of style and description, and the high moral tone of all her writings. The chief of them are-Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and Sense and Sensibility. Archbishop Whately says of her novels, "They may be safely recommended as combining in an eminent degree instruction with amusement." 1

1"Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, is the perfect type of a novel of common life: the story so concisely and dramatically told, the language so simple, the shades and half shades of human character so clearly presented, and the operations of various motives so delicately traced, attest this gifted woman to have been the perfect mistress of her art."-ARNOLD'S English Literature.

1826, March 14. Read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's finely-written

novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady had a talent for describing the involve ments and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me."-SIR WALTER SCOTT.

Brunton, Mary (Miss Balfour of Orkney; born in Orkney, 1778), was the wife of Rev. Mr. Brunton, of Edinburgh. She wrote Self-Control, and Discipline,-two novels of superior merit.

Ferguson, Adam (1724-1816), was Professor of Natural Philosophy and of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. His chief works e-The History of Civil Society, 1766; Institutes of Moral Philosophy, 1769; The History of the Roman Republic, 1783. Of these the last has been the most popular.

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Forsyth, Joseph (1763-1815), published Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy in 1802 and 1803,—an admirable work, giving in a short compass much information.

Hamilton, Mrs. Elizabeth (1758–1816), miscellaneous writer, was born in Belfast. She wrote The Cottagers of Glenburnie,—an admirable novel or moral tale of cottage life,―The Modern Philosopher, Letters on Education, Letters of a Hindoo Rajah,1 &c. Laing, Malcolm (1762-1818), was a Scottish lawyer. He wrote A History of Scotland from 1603 to 1707, in which he triumphantly refutes the authenticity of Ossian's Poems; and Dissertations on the Gowrie Plot and the Murder of Darnley. In all his historical writings he shows most faithful and diligent research, and the strictest regard to truth.

Lewis, John Chetwode, a traveller, who died in 1815, is favorably known for a much-admired work, A Classical Tour in Italy.

Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1773-1818), was distinguished in his day as a novelist of the terrific school. He wrote The Monk (hence he is called by Byron "Monk Lewis"), a tale of wickedness and terror, Tales of Wonder, and Tales of Horror, &c. But his works have now fallen into merited oblivion.

Leyden, John, poet and Oriental scholar, was born in Roxburghshire, on the southern boundary of Scotland, in 1775. He entered "the Church,” but left it on being appointed by government, surgeon's assistant at Madras. He qualified himself for his office in six months, and sailed for the East in 1802. After going from place to place in search of knowledge, he died in Java in 1811.2 His acquisitions as a linguist were second only to those of Sir William Jones. His longest poem is entitled Scenes of Infancy; his ballad, The Mermaid, and Ode to an Indian Gold Coin, are his best short pieces. His Poetical Remains, with a Memoir, were published in 1819.

McNeil, Hector (1746-1818), a Scotch poet. He published in 1789 The Harp, a legendary poem, and in 1795 his moral tale, Scotland's Skaith, or the History o' Will and Jean, depicting the evil effects (skaith) of intemperance. Byron says his works are deservedly popular.

Malone, Edward (1741-1812), a dramatic critic and commentator, published an Historical Account of the English Stage, Memoirs of Dryden, Life of Wyndham, &c., and edited an edition of Shakspeare, which has now very little value.5

This is a work of fiction describing the prevalent manners and customs of England, under the name of a supposed Hindoo; the idea being taken, perhaps, from the Athenian Letters of the Earl of Hardwicke, Rev. Dr. Hooke, and others.

2 "A distant and a deadly shore
Has Leyden's cold remains."
SCOTT: Lord of the Isles.

3" He poured forth several border ballads, which won the hearts of Lewis and Scott."MOIR.

4" Skaith," injury, damage, calamity.

5 Dr. Symmons, a recent biographer of Shakspeare, says, "No one has inflicted such cruel wounds on the text of Shakspeare as the assuming dulness of Malone.'

Percy, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore (1728-1811), will ever be gratefully remembered for his charming selection, The Reliques of English Poetry, made up of some of the best ballads and lyrical pieces of ancient and modern poetry. He was also a poet himself, as his ballad, O Nanny, wilt thou go with me? and The Hermit of Warkworth, fully testify.

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Playfair, John (1748-1819), Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Elements of Geometry, 1794; Philosophical Works, with Memoir by Francis Jeffrey, 4 vols., 1822. "His works," says Dugald Stewart, "exhibit a combination of the soundest philosophy and of the profoundest science, with powers of eloquence and skill in composition, which place the author in the first rank of our classic authors." Sayers, Frank (1763-1817), was a physician of Norwich. He wrote Dramatic Sketches of the Ancient Northern Mythology, 1790; Disquisitions Metaphysical and Literary, 1793; Poetical Works, Disquisitions on Poetry, with Life by W. Taylor, 1830.

Sharp, Granville (1735–1813), the great philanthropist, was the son of Rev. Thomas Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumberland. He early obtained a situation in the Ordnance office, devoting all his leisure time to the study of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin languages. In 1765, a circumstance occurred that gave a new direction to his life. A man by the name of Lisle had brought to England from Barbadoes, an African named Jonathan Strong, whom he claimed as his slave. The cruel treatment the man received at the hands of his brutal master (for slavery, all the world over, makes men brutal, and women worse?) having come to the knowledge of Mr. Sharp, he exerted all his efforts to get him released, and finally succeeded. But he saw that the case of poor Strong was but one of many similar instances that then existed, and he resolved to devote his whole powers to the abolition of that system of oppression that was productive of so much wrong and misery. Of course, at that time he had to encounter bitter opposition, and often was his life in danger; but he never shrank from his duty. Case after case he had brought before the judges, until finally, in the great case of Somerset, 1772, it was declared, by a full bench, that the moment a slave set his foot upon the soil of England he was free. Hence the lines of Cowper,

"Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall."

After this, Mr. Sharp devoted his energies to the abolition of slavery and of the slave-trade all over the world, and some horrible instances of cruelty that had occurred3 drew towards him the sympathies of the wise and the good. He was the means, about 1787, of founding the colony of free blacks at Sierra Leone. In 1804 he was elected the first President of the "British and Foreign Bible Society," which post he held till his death, July 6, 1813.

As a scholar, Mr. Sharp took a high rank. His chief works are-A

1 "The influence of Percy's collection was general and extensive, as is evident in the writings of many cotemporary authors. It gave the first impulse to the genius of Sir Walter Scott, and it may be seen in the writings of Coleridge and Wordsworth."-CHAMBERS'S English Literature.

2 It is worthy of note that in our great slaveholders' rebellion (1861-1865) the women often showed a more bitter spirit and were guilty of more revolting practices than the men.

3 For instance, the master of the slave-ship "Zong," having a large number of his slaves sick, told his officers that "if they died on board, the loss would fall on the owners of the ship: but if they were thrown alive into the sea, the loss would fall upon the underwriters." Accordingly, they proceeded to their horrid work, and threw overboard ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO HUMAN BEINGS ALIVE!

Representation of the Injustice and Danger of tolerating Slavery in England, 1769; Inquiry into the Principles of Villanage, 1770; A Declaration of the People's Natural Right to a Share in the Legislature, 1774; On the Pronunciation of the English Tongue; On the Use of the Definite Article in the New Testament; Remarks on several Important Prophecies; Remarks on Duelling; The Law of Retribution, or a Serious Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies, founded on God's Temporal Vengeance against Tyrants, Slaveholders, &c.; and he published numerous other learned and curious tracts. But it is as a philanthropist that he will ever be held in grateful remembrance.'

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, distinguished as a statesman, wit, and dramatist, was born in Dublin in 1751. At twenty-four he published The Rivals, in which Captain Absolute and Mrs. Malaprop are wellknown characters. But his greatest work was The School for Scandal, published in 1777, which is regarded as one of the finest comedies in the English language. He also wrote The Duenna, an opera; The Critic, a witty after-piece, &c. The political scene in which he so distinguished himself, by a speech of unsurpassed eloquence, was the impeachment of Warren Hastings. He died in 1816. For a full account of this gifted but wayward genius, read his Life, by Thomas Moore. His Speeches have been published, in 5 vols. 8vo.

Tannahill, Robert, Scotch poet, born at Paisley, 1774, was in early life a weaver. His Scottish songs, among which may be named Gloomy Winter's now awa', and Jessie, the Flower o' Dumblane, are remarkable for sweetness and power, and are scarcely inferior to some of Burns's. He died in 1810.

Tooke, John Horne, a lawyer and philologist (1736-1812), was distinguished in his day as a political writer and scholar. In 1794 he was tried for high treason, accused of conspiring with the French Convention to overthrow the English Constitution. He was defended by Lord Erskine, and acquitted. His great etymological work-and an admirable one it is-is entitled Epea Pteroenta,3 or the Diversions of Purley. Watson, Richard (1737-1816), Bishop of Llandaff, did much for the cause of religion in his replies to Gibbon and Paine, publishing in answer to the attacks of the former, An Apology for Christianity, and in answer to the latter, An Apology for the Bible. These works are still, and ever will be, highly valued.

In this, as in many other things, he was like our own Christian statesman, Charles Sumner, a half-century before his time.

2 A part of the inscription upon his monument at Westminster Abbey reads thus, and never was a monumental inscription more truthful:-"HIS WHOLE SOUL WAS IN HARMONY WITH THE SACRED STRAIN,-GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, ON EARTH PEACE, AND GOOD WILL TO

WARDS MEN." See his Memoirs, by Prince Hoare,
London, 1820.

3" Winged Words."

4 This name is from a wealthy client, Mr. Tooke, of Purley, from whom our author inherited a large fortune, and whose name he afterwards assumed. Purley was a small parish in Berkshire.

Third Decade.

THOMAS BROWN, 1778-1820.

THOMAS BROWN, the eminent metaphysician, was born at Kirkmabreck,1 in Scotland, and was the youngest son of the Rev. Samuel Brown, minister of the parish. Having lost his father when quite young, he was placed by his maternal uncle, from his seventh to his fourteenth year, at different schools near London, in all of which he made great progress in classical literature. Upon the death of his uncle in 1792, he returned to his mother's house in Edinburgh, and entered as a student in the University. His attention was at once directed to metaphysical studies by Dugald Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind being put into his hands, and the next winter he attended Mr. Stewart's class. Here he immediately distinguished himself by his acute and profound observations upon this subject, and a friendship commenced between the illustrious teacher and his no less illustrious pupil, which continued through life.

His

In 1798 he published Observations on the Zoonomia of Dr. Darwin, which was considered a remarkable production for one so young. In 1803, having attended the usual medical course, he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In the same year he brought out the first edition of his poems, in two volumes, which exhibit marks of an original mind and a refined taste. next publication was an examination of the principles of Mr. Hume respecting causation, which Sir James Mackintosh pronounced the finest model in mental philosophy since Berkeley and Hume. A second edition was published in 1806, and a third in 1818 so enlarged as to be almost a new work, under the title of An Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect.

Up to the year 1808, Dr. Brown continued the practice of medicine in Edinburgh, though it was not a calling suited to his taste and studies. This year a circumstance occurred that placed him in a situation that entirely harmonized with his inclinations. The health of Professor Stewart had been declining for some time, and he applied to Dr. Brown to supply his place for a short period, with lectures of his own composition. He did so, and gave universal satisfaction; and in 1810 he was, agreeably to Mr. Stewart's wishes, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy, in conjunction with him. He entered upon his duties with great ardor and untiring industry, and prepared for his students that series of lectures on which his fame rests. In the summer of 1814 he published anonymously his poem entitled The Paradise of Coquettes, which met with a very favorable reception; and in the next year two others, The Wanderer of Norway and The Bower of Spring. In the autumn of 1818 he commenced his text-book for the benefit of his students. He was then in good health; but in December he became indisposed, and during the summer recess of the next year his health seemed evidently to be failing. When he again met his class in the autumn, his lecture unfortunately happened to be one which he was never able to deliver without being much moved; and,

1 About eighty miles southwest of Edinburgh, near Solway Frith.

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