The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 3
The British Essayists With Prefaces Historical And Biographical volume 3
Alexander Chalmers
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It is an admirable re- flection in Terence, where it is said of a parasite. Hie homines ex stultis facit insanos. " This fel- low, " says he, " has an art of converting fools into madmen. " When I was in France, the region of pomplaisance and vanity, I have often observed, that a great man who has entered a levee of flatterers humble and temperate, has grown so insensibly heated by the court which was paid him on all sides, tliat he has been quite distracted before he could get into his coach. ...If we consult the coUegiates of Moorfields, w shall find most of them are beholden to their Pride for their introduction into that magnificent palace. I hadj some years ago^ the curiosity to intjiiir? into N 127. TATLER. 237 the particular circumstances of these whimsical freeholders j and learned from their own mouths the condition and character of each of tliem. In- deed I found, that all I spoke to were persons of quality. There were at that time five duchesses, three earls, two heathen gods, an emperor, and a prophet.
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