The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; / containing a collection of over one thousand of the most / laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and / humorists.

by Various

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.