the Peruke backward, an Insertion of one Hand in the Fobb, and a negligent Swing of the other, with a Pinch of right and fine Barcelona between Finger and Thumb, a due Quantity of the same upon the upper Lip, and a Noddle-Case loaden with Pulvil.  Again, a grave solemn stalking Pace is Heroick Poetry, and Politicks; an Unequal one, a Genius for the Ode, and the modern Ballad:  and an open Breast, with an audacious Display of the Holland Shirt, is construed a fatal Tendency to the Art Military.

’I might be much larger upon these Hints, but I know whom I write to.  If you can graft any Speculation upon them, or turn them to the Advantage of the Persons concerned in them, you will do a Work very becoming the British Spectator, and oblige’

  Your very Humble Servant,

  Tom.  Tweer.

[Footnote 1:  Of the two letters which form this number the second is by John Henley, known afterwards as ‘Orator Henley,’ of whom see a note to No. 396.]

[Footnote 2:  The European Magazine for July, 1787, says that the exact copy of this Epitaph, which is on a Thomas Crouch, who died in 1679, runs thus: 

  Aperiet Deus tumulos et educet nos de sepulchris
  Qualis eram, dies isti haec cum venerit, scies..]

[Footnote 3:  By John Henley.]

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No. 519.  Saturday, October 25, 1712.  Addison.

  ’Inde Hominum pecudumque genus, vitaeque volantum,
  Et quae marmoreo fert Monstra sub aequore pontus.’

  Virg.

Though there is a great deal of Pleasure in contemplating the material World, by which I mean that System of Bodies into which Nature has so curiously wrought the Mass of dead Matter, with the several Relations which those Bodies bear to one another; there is still, methinks, something more wonderful and surprizing in Contemplations on the World of Life, by which I mean all those Animals with which every Part of the Universe is furnished.  The Material World is only the Shell of the Universe:  The World of Life are its Inhabitants.

If we consider those parts of the Material World which lie the nearest to us, and are therefore subject to our Observations and Enquiries, it is amazing to consider the Infinity of Animals with which it is stocked.  Every part of Matter is peopled:  Every green Leaf swarms with Inhabitants.  There is scarce a single Humour in the Body of a Man, or of any other Animal, in which our Glasses do not discover Myriads of living Creatures.  The Surface of Animals is also covered with other Animals, which are in the same manner the Basis of other Animals, that live upon it; nay, we find in the most solid Bodies, as in Marble it self, innumerable Cells and Cavities that are crouded with such imperceptible Inhabitants, as are too little for the naked Eye to discover.  On the other hand, if we look into the more bulky parts of Nature, we see the Seas, Lakes and Rivers teeming with numberless kinds of living Creatures:  We find every Mountain and Marsh, Wilderness and Wood, plentifully stocked with Birds and Beasts, and every part of Matter affording proper Necessaries and Conveniencies for the Livelihood of Multitudes which inhabit it.