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 and imprecated perdition on the king who firt invented and introduced the delicate and cotly apparatus of life. Nay, o much was he pleaed with this change of food, potion and repoe, that he caued that imprecation to be incribed in acred characters in the temple of Jove at Thebes, which was principally the caue that the glory and honours of Mepas did not endure to poterity."

What St. Augutin ays of his childish tudies, may properly be applied to a civil life.—Inde in Scholam datus um ut dicerem litteras, in quibus quid utilitatis eet, ignorabam mier, et tamen i egnis in dicendo eem, vapulabam. Laudabatur enim hoc a majoribus, et multi ante nos