James And Horace Smith a Family Narrative Based Upon Hitherto Unpublished Pr
James And Horace Smith a Family Narrative Based Upon Hitherto Unpublished Pr
Arthur H Arthur Henry Beavan
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With Ions vivants he had little sympathy : — An epicure [he says] has no sinecure ; he is unmade, and eventually dished by made dishes. Champagne falsifies its name when once it begins to affect his system ; his stomach is so deranged in its punctuation, that his colon makes a point of coming to a full stop; keeping it up late ends in his being laid down early; and the hon-vivant who has always been hunting pleasure, finds at last that he has only been whipping and spurring, that he might be th...e sooner in at his own death ! Writing of epitaphs, he says : — Sir Christopher Wren's inscription in St. Paul's Cathedral, " Si monumentum oxqidris circicmsjnce, " would be equally applicable to a physician buried in a churchyard, both being interred in the midst of their own works. Alluding to the depreciation of house property, Horace observes : — What is the value of houses ? It is notorious that they are everywhere falling, especially the very old ones ; rents threaten to be all pepper-corns ; house- owners will not get salt to their porridge, even if 198 JAMES AND J K J RACE SMITH they distrain upon their tenants, and make quarter- day a day without quarter.
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