It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on, as when they have lost their edge.—Swift.
Exile is no evil: mathematicians tell us that the whole earth is but a point compared to the heavens. To change one's country then is little more than to remove from one street to another. Man is not a plant, rooted to a certain spot of earth: all soils and all climates are suited to him alike.—Plutarch.
Early Rising.—The celebrated John Wesley, who became by habit an early riser, says, "That the difference between rising at five and seven in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed every night at the same hour, is equivalent to an addition of ten years to his life."
Coronation Expenses of their present Majesties, William and Adelaide.
£. s. d.
In the several departments of
their Majesties household .......22,234 10 3
By the Officers of Arms, for
the King's Heralds and
Pursuviants ......................1,478 3 9
In the Office of Works, for
fitting up the Abbey, &c. .......12,085 14 5
In the Mint, for Coronation
Medals ...........................4,326 4 6
The amount expended for
Fireworks, and for keeping
open the Public Theatres
on the night of the
Coronation .......................3,034 8 7
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Total .........£43,159 11 6
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The Coronation of his late Majesty, George the Fourth, amounted to more than £268,000.