The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 47 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 47 pages of information about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

A Likeness.—­One of our old travellers on the continent, tells the following anecdote of a capuchin preacher:  The friar observed, that whenever he held forth to his congregation, a certain man never failed to burst into tears, and continue weeping during the sermon.  Supposing he had touched the man’s soul by the eloquence of his oratory, the friar, with much self-satisfaction, one day ventured to inquire why he wept.  “Ah, father!” said the peasant, “I never see you but I think of a venerable goat, which I lost at Easter!  We were bred up together in the same family; he was the very picture of your reverence; one would swear you were brothers.  Poor Baudoim!  He died of a fall—­God rest his soul!  I would willingly pay for a couple of masses to pray him out of purgatory.”  W.G.C.

The Peerage.—­The following is the number in each grade of the English peerage:—­Dukes, 25; Marquesses, 34; Earls, 142; Viscounts, 22; Barons, 125; Countess, 1; Viscountess, 1; and Baronesses, 4.

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*** In the article “Premiers,” page 320, of the present volume, for Mr. Fox 7, read 9.  W.G.C.

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