Bentley, indeed, stood almost deemed unanswerable. They single in the controversy. While were shown to Bentley. He imBoyle, who was a young man of mediately confuted them, and great expectations and brilliant“ unveiled the latent errors.” parts, was assisted by the wits, and As soon, indeed, as he had perused by the Literati, while the Learned the answer, he openly declared, and the Ingenious enlisted under that the whole was equally liable his banner, Bentley, by choice, re- to objections. mained independent. Several of The voice of the people, for his friends at Cambridge offered some years, supported the assertheir assistance. The Doctor, tions of Boyle, and his adherents. however, resolutely rejected their But the obstinacy of prejudice at overtures. He was well acquaint- length gave way, and the Learned ed with the justice of his cause, became unanimous in their opinand knew that he might rely on ion. It is scarcely necessary to rethe vigour of his own abilities. mark, that the decision was against Several passages in Mr. Boyle's the Epistles of Phalaris. book, even his own friends had

To be continued.

REMARKER.

No. 9. Illud gvw It geautòn noli putare ad errogantiam minuendam, solum dictum, verùm, ut bona

nostra norimus. CICERO. THE Remarker does not mean by Vanity, and he was sent into the to confine himself to literary top- world, as soon as he arrived at the icks, but will occasionally lash age of manhood, to create a new those foibles, which though they order of beings. He has not been are neither punished as crimes by idle in executing his commission, the severe hand of justice, or as for few of the present race but can vices are censured from the pul- trace some affinity to this ancestor. pit, yet tend to undermine the Several of my acquaintance quarprops of social intercourse. He ter his arms, and their features too has chosen egotism for the subject strongly resemble their great proof the present paper.

genitor to need the herald's office Egotism claims his descent to prove them genuine heirs. from Vanity and Pride.

These gentlemen are ever eager inordinate desire of applause and a to impress strangers with an idea too great esteem for himself, which of their own importance, and I he inherits from his parents, he seldom recollect meeting them in adds the desire of being the sole a tavern or a stage coach, where object of thought and considera- all enter as equals, that they did tion wherever he is. With the not attempt superiority, by informsensibility of Vanity, but withouting us of their great connexions, the firmness of Pride, he shrinks their own consequence, and their from every wholesome truth ; and large concerns; and, by retailing prefers the fattering applause of the hacknied observations of others, the worthless, to the silent esteem endeavour to make us suppose of the good. Great pains were them as familiar with the most taken in his education, particularly noted parts of either continent, as

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with the vicinity of their own their talents, than to gain instructown. Raised upon this scaffolding tion ; but as no society will suffer they may sometimes succeed in an equal to engross all its honours: exciting a momentary gaze, but and pleasures, an egotist is obliged: it is seldom sufficient to support to resort to' persons of inferiour, the weight of the giant, who press- talents; and he delights to astonish es upon it ; and when it sinks his Lilliputian companions by a under him, he falls beneath the display of his own wonderful powcontempt of those, who would ers. But a man will always aphave respected him as an equal. proach towards the level of his Occasional applause, far from sa-' associates; and low company gentiating an egotist, only makes him erally bespeaks a degraded mind. more eager to show his imagined The pleasure we receive from the superiority. He resembles him- perusal of the works of Richardself to the sun, before whose ef- son cannot prevent our turning afulgence the smaller luminaries way with disgust, when we see hide their diminished heads, and him avoid the society of men of those, who are not dazzled by his learning, and delight in being sursplendour, he regards as prying rounded like an Asiatick prince by philosophers, unable to gaze on a crowd of dependent women, who his brightness by their own powers, would continually offer incense to but eager to find by artificial his vanity. If egotists would conmeans every dark spot, and mali- fine themselves to their inferiours, ciously proclaim it to the world, their folly would be harmless ; but with a suggestion, that ere long his they frequently endeavour to asfire shall be consumed,and universal sume the same manners among darkness cover his whole disc. their equals and superiours. With these ideas he expects arrFrom the long intimacy that has implicit assent to every thing he subsisted between my family and utters; and flatters himself, that, Mr. Puff's, I frequently meet him in sounding forth his own merits, in society; and although there he is pouring instruction into are many good points in his char. minds eager to receive it. For acter, yet by always endeavouring Egotism, though at first but a to make himself the only object of small seed, yet, cultivated by dont importance, he is universally shuning parents and submissive de- ned, as the destroyer of sociar pendents, soon becomes so large a pleasure. Dining in company tree, that every fleeting folly may with him lately, the conversation rest thereon. I have known a lady turned upon the relative political deprived of pleasure for a whole situation of our country to Europe. evening, when her new headdress Puff appeared uneasy for a mohad passed unnoticed ; a wit re- ment's pause to put in a word ; tire chagrined, when he was the but at length, being unable longer only person who laughed at a pun, to bear restraint, he interrupted he had been the whole day studying; one of our first political characters and Rosa, with tears in her eyes, by directly contradicting him. vows we have no taste, because she Having silenced opposition, he una has heard a whisper; while she was dertook to lay open to our view exhibiting her powers of execution the inmost recesses of the labyrinth in musick. People go more into of politicks, although his hearers society to display themselves and did not perceive the connexion

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between the compliments that Mr. a constant inattention to any, but Puff had received at St. Cloud or his own feelings. According to Madrid, and the political state of the custom of our town, he called France and Spain. As when the to pay a visit of condolence to a laleader of a nocturnal riot, exulting dy who had just lost her husband ; at having beaten down the watch, but unhappily with a face so full of perceives himself deserted ; and mirth and jollity, that the lady has that those he deemed his friends, never recovered the shock it gave ashamed of his outrage, had rang- her ; and soon after he appeared ed themselves on the side of his at a wedding with woe and misery adversary, stands motionless with depicted in his countenance ; but rage and terror ; so stood our he- in neither instance from a design so, when he saw every ear atten- to insult the feelings of his friends. tive to his vanquished rival, and He afterwards paid his addresses no one listening to his harangue. to a young lady of fortune ; but, Soon after the conversation turn- when the preliminaries were nearly ed upon agriculture, when my arranged, an unfortunate incident friend Puff determined to be re- broke off the match. Having been venged, and immediately inform- made lieutenant of an independed us, that there were no cattle ent company, the first day he wore worth raising in the country, but his regimentals, he called to sec from his breed ; and said so much his Dulcinea ; who was at that inof his improvements in agricul- stant bewajling a beautiful and ture, that a stranger would have cherished lock, she had lost in the supposed every thing valuable in morning, from the awkwardness that art had been introduced here of her perruquier. His feelings by him. This speech was only re- were tuned too high to accord with ceived with a contemptuous smile, her spirits ; and as he could not which so disconcerted Puff, that lower them, discord was the contaking out his watch, he remem- sequence. He treated her mis-. bered an engagement at that hour, fortune with contempt, and observe and instantly retired.

ed that a few shillings would more But Puff's felicity is at moments than replace the loss. The lady unbounded. When surrounded had already borne too much, she by a crowd of inferiours, who flock therefore informed him, that she to his table for his dinners or the had always thought he could credit of visiting him, no peacock love no one but himself, that she spreading his gaudy tail, and strut- was now convinced of it, and beg. ting among barn-door fowl, swells ged never to see him more ; and with more delight ; and the smile though this affair was made up of ecstacy remains on his cheek, by the intercession of friends, simwhile he relates his own adven- ilar ones soon occurred, which tures, and the homage that has made the breach 'irreparable. been paid to his superiour merit. Egotism has been supposed inAt that moment, bunevolence digenous to our soil ; if so, it is would forbid, that the smooth cur- the lofty hemlock of our forests, rent should be ruftied by a single whose slender roots cannot suppebble.

port its towering head against the Not long since, I met with an- rude blasts of winter, but overother striking instance of egotism thrown it lies forgotten, and gives in young Chalmers, who has lost

place to more useful trees. the good will of his best friends by

To the Editors of the Monthly Anthology.

POETRY.

ical work which was favourably received by Corpore semifero natus, sed mente an

arte

lysses.

recessu

nerva

annos

rores

artes.

Mollis apem huc illuc volitantem copia Excoluere senem : et belli Diomede la lasset.

bores Queis etenim studiis, qua non, inclaruit Qui serio prudens preferre solebat U, Phillyrides? Nemgrum sapiens tranquilla

Castora quid dicam, quid fratrem Caso Tempora fallebat ; rudia inter secla Mi. toris uhdas

Sistere bellorum mirando et amore cel. Usque vacans, ausus quali per inane me- ebres ? atu

Quid dicam Alcidem ? Cujus super zSidera volvuntur scrutari atq.; orbibus thera latè orbes

Fama volat ; cujus seros memoranda per Mente sequi implicitos ; citharæ modo pollice chordas

Facta deam adjunxere choris, cæloq. loDivino pulsante, melos per amæna vireta carunt. Fundere suaviloquum, cujus dulcedine Teque, Coronides centauri hos inter as captæ,

lumnos His latebris Helicona novem potuere so- Pbebig-na; haud magni Soboles indigna

parentis : Posthabuisse suum. Ipse etiam cælestia Cui dedit ardentem morborum aut vul. Apollo

neris æstum Dona illi, et varios facilis superaddidit Arte salutari mollire; animaque fugacem.

Pallootes Erebi quum jam prope contigit Scire potestates herbarum et pocula docta

oras, Nempe dedit miscere mana ; stillantia Cunctatum stabilire et vix non solvere tabo

fato. Vulnera lenire, et requiem cruciata dolori Queis membra inveniunt succos insper. Ipse etiam docilem Chironi præbuit gere molles

aurem Neve pharetratâ sileam concessa Diana Impiger Æacides.

Ea gloria prima Spicula Chironi ; quo non solertior alter Pelasgis, Correptum validis arcum incurvare la- Hectoris exitium, Troja populator, certis,

Homero Hortarive canes, aut prædam agitare fu- Cui celebratus honor contemnit fata, gacem.

magistrum

Chirona extimuit : Chironis jussa fa. Ergo etiam studiis juveniles fingere 2

cessens, lumnos

Qui manu eversas populorum diruit Cordi erat, et multos quoniam cultura per annos

Nomen Achilleum, et modo visa espalluit Pectora ditârat, fructum impertire laboris. Magnos inde animos et quot virtutibus Ilion, at sacræ monitis tamen ille senectæ

Paruit haud signis ; generoso hinc pecFertilis heroum genuit ; stimulante ci

tus honesto tati

Imbutum, hinc famæ, vitam qui projecit Non nisi Chironis summa ad fastigia ho- ardor, norum

Eja age, si quis honor Pelidem impellere Pervenere manu et mortali inmunia fato.

ad arma, Impiger his tribuit prolongæ tempora Atq. opera illius sua ritè vocavit Ulysvitæ.

ses; Sic etiam Antilochus, nequaquam igno- Quæ me promeruit, quo dignus nomini

bilis, illum Præceptorem habuit, patrem qui Nestora Pelidem ; heroüm tantum qui protulit plena

agmen ; Imbuerat sophia; quo præceptore disertus Ora silent, animus decus ingens contem-' Consilia eloquium atque omnes quascun

plando qne trahebat

Perculsus cælo cumulatis laudibus æquat Mentis opes; ...simul et decus et munimen Achivis.

Attamen hunc tandem, qui clarum * Sic Anchisiades et cui sua fortiter arma

extollere lumen, Apposuit, clarus Diomedes marte, peritum E tenebris primus potuit, tela illita viro

arces.

arma

ætas,

tantum