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 578 SWIFT. in Magna Charta;-it is an everlasting act of parliament, my dear brother—all must die.” Burton.— “”Tis an inevitable chance—the first statute in Magna Charta—an everlasting act of parliament—all must die.” Sterne.—“Returning out of Asia, when I sailed from AEgina towards Megara, I began to view the country round about. Ægina was behind me, Megara was before, Pyraeus on the right hand, Corinth on the left. What flourishing towns, now prostrate on the earth.” Burton.—(word for word too.) —Towns heretofore, now prostrate and overwhelmed before mine eyes.” LUKE SULIVAN. This artist was a native of Ireland, but came to London when he was young, and became a pupil of Thomas Major. He practised miniature painting, as well as engraving, and had considerable employment. As an engraver he was chiefly engaged on plates from the pic tures of Hogarth, and sometimes worked conjointly with that artist. JONATHAN SWIFT, A celebrated wit, and distinguished political writer, was born in Dublin on the 30th November, 1667, seven months after the death of his father; by which unfortunate event his mother had been so reduced in circumstances, that she was compelled to take refuge in the house of Mr. Godwin Swift, her husband's eldest brother, in Dublin, where Jonathan first saw the light. The care of young Swift being entrusted by his mother to a nurse, this woman became so much attached to him, that, having occasion to visit a sick relative at Whitehaven, when he was about a year old, she took him with her unknown to his mother and uncle, who, when they after wards discovered the place of his retreat, suffered him to