An able judge or abler second still.
Amusement is the happiness of those that don’t think Gaming is the amusement of fools and the art of knaves.
Otes walked Whitehall, and never blush’d at Court.
Who’s next a knave? who with a knave will dine.
Who next a harlot? she that drinks her wine.
Know in their heart that he that she adore,
The wit of knaves, the courage of a whore:
And trust my word, that woman or that man
Will be the thing they worship if they can.
Knows not, good man, a satire from a praise;
Yet he can make a mount, or turn a maze.
Gay in the box, resistless in the ball, &c.
When the Quaker who purchased the property of Mr. Thrale’s brewery, &c., asked Dr. Johnson, who was one of the executors, what it was that he was going to purchase—how many were the brewing tubs, drays, &c. &c. “Sir,” says Johnson, “I cannot enumerate them; but it is of more consequence to you to know that you have the potentiality of growing rich beyond even the dreams of avarice.”
Mr. Burke told me he was well acquainted with David Hume, and that he was a very easy, pleasant, unaffected man, till he went to Paris as secretary to Lord Hertford. There the attention paid him by the French belles savants had the effect of making him somewhat of a literary coxcomb.
Mr. Burke said that Hume in compiling his his-
