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( 12 ) A certain modern philoſopher been at great pains to define the meaning of the term beautiful, at length  it as his opinion, that every thing  beautiful which anfwered the end. time after, the philoſopher having taken a doſe of very bitter phyſic, Frank who had heard his definition, him, whether the medicine had  as it was deſigned? "Yes," replied philoſopher. "It was beautiful phyſic," cried Frank, "By no means," returned the moraliſt, it had an ill look ſmell and taſte, and made me for preſent very ſick." A few days afterwards, this philoſopher having offended a ſtout man, who gave him the diſcipline of the horſewhip. Frank, who  preſent, interpoſed to ſave him,  could not help obſerving that it was a beautiful whip "I could not ſee the beauty of it." ſaid the philoſopher— "Oh," replied Frank, it muſt bobe [sic] beautiful, according to your own deſcription, for it certainly anſwered the end for which it was intended."

Two Scotchmen meeting on the northern road, he who was travelling