The National Magazine New Series. September 1905

But to the fly whose prospect was confined to a little part of one of the stones of a single pillar the joint beauty of the whole or the distinct use of its parts were inconspicuous and nothing could appear but small inequalities in the surface of the hewn stone o We have here it is probable the origin of Thompson's critic-fly in his charming poem on Summer. [...] The thoughts of a free-thinker are employed on certain minute particularities of religion the difficulty of a single text or the unaccountableness of some step of Providence or point of dotrine to his narrow faculties without comprehending the scope and de-ign of Christianity the prefection to which it ►aiseth human nature the light it hath shed abroad in the world and the close connection [...] The perfections of the.fleity the nature and excAence of virtue the dignity of the human soul are displayed in the largest characters. [...] But the grand object in giving a dinner is said to be less the assembling a cheerful party than the exhibition of the abundance variety and magnificence of the China and lackered ware—called by us Japan—possessed by the founder of the feast ; and no compliment is so agreeable or flatteing to the master or mistress of the house as Admiration of the table-service and enquiries concerning the p [...] One stations himself at the house-door in his dress of ceremony to receive the formal visits of condolence paid by all the friends and acquaintance of the deceased but paid outside the door to avoid the impurity incurred by entering the house of death.