SINGULAR INSCRIPTION.
Written over the Ten Commandments in a church in Wales.
PRSVRYPRFCTMN
VRKPTHSPRCPTSTN
The meaning can only be developed by adding the vowel E, which makes the sense thus—
Persevere ye perfect men
Ever keep these precepts ten.
In a new farce, supposed to have been written by Maddocks, was the following curious pun:—A large party of soldiers surprising two resurrection men in a church-yard, the officer seized one of them, and asked him what he had to say for himself. "Say, sir! why, that we came here to raise a corpse, and not a regiment!"
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Monsieur Monge has drawn much from our countryman, Hamilton's work on Stereography but he has not mentioned his work.
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Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxx.
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By Bacchus! what a worthy man is the Vice Chancellor, the Chevalier Leach! gods! what a taste for music; i' faith he has gained the hearts of all the Neapolitan ladies.
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Our blessed Saviour chose the garden sometime for his oratory, and, dying, for the place of his sepulture; and we also do avouch, for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our gardens and groves where our beds may he decked with verdant and fragrant flowers. Trees and perennial plants, the most natural and instructive hieroglyphics of our expected resurrection and immortality, besides what they might conduce to the meditation of the living, and the taking off our cogitations from dwelling too intently upon more vain and sensual objects: that custom of burying in churches, and near about them, especially in great and populous cities, being both a novel presumption, indecent, and very prejudicial to health.—Evelyn's Discourse on Forest Trees.
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