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It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their

forefathers, and declaiainst the wickedness of ti they cannot handsomely do,

without the borrowed help and satire of ti the vices of their own times, by the expressions

of vices in tiue

the community of vice in both Horace, therefore, Juvenal,

and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem

to indigitate and point at our times--SIR THOMAS BROWNE:

Pseudodoxia Epideate had sketched to

Dorothea was, like other oppositions, to be viewed in arded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded

prejudice Mr Bulstrode saw in it not only medical jealousy but a

determination to thwart hiion of which he had striven to be an effectual lay

representative--a hatred which certainly found pretexts apart froleht be called the e of objections at command, which

need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw

forever on the vasts of ignorance What the opposition in Middlemarch

said about the New Hospital and its adreat deal of echo in it, for heaven has taken care that everybody

shall not be an originator; but there were differences which