All the Blocks!

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1807 edition. Excerpt: ...an idea of the ponderosity of his judgment. Jus sumum stepe summa est malitia. TEREKCE. His studied rant, #c--When Lord E-d-n favours the C--t of Ch-nc-ry with a speech it may with truth be stiled / MALAGMA. Who in a judge can caution reprehend? FLAGELLUM. Such caution can't be deem'd the claimant's friend. Decision long withheld, Sir, if you please, Is not a cure; but worse than the disease; Tis like obtaining for asthmatic breath The patient's cure, by putting him to death: If two men wrangle about one estate, Twere better quickly to decide their fate: Since thereby right the sooner gets its own: While wrong, with equal justice, is o'erthrown; And both the sooner mental peace resume-He knows the worst, who once has heard his doom. hypermeter, and has a somniferous charm attached to it, which never fails to become apparent with the counsel, who uniformly address themselves to sleep, except indeed his lordship thinks fit to treat upon the pathetic, and when such proves the case, Nay, and thou weepst, Then must I snivel too. MALAGMA. I'm silent; and must needs confess, that I Cannot in reaso n combat your reply. r FLAGELLUM. Here break we off, then; that my muse may borrow A respite from her labours till to-morrow When I my flagellations will renew: Till which, Sir, I am your's.--MALAGMA. The same to you. END OF DIALOGUE THE SEGpND. DIALOGUE THE THIRD. And now the saints began to reign, For which th' bad yearn'd so long in vain; And felt such bowel hankerings, To see an Empire, all of kings, Deliver'd from the Egyptian awe Of justice, government, and law. Yet when they came to shape the model, Not one could fit another's noddle; For ev'ry individual brother Strove hand to fist against another: And still the maddest and most crack't Were...