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no, no, wine cannot cure the pains I endure," an inevitable association makes me think much less of "my Chloe" than of the last frost.

These curious facts and inferences had been rolling in my head for some days, when, falling into a doze for five minutes after dinner in my easy chair, I dreamt a dream. Methought I was still sitting in my easy chair awake, and pondering the theme which in reality had led me from reverie to rest, when, suddenly, a thin scarcely visible vapour emanated from my person, and gradually concentrating itself over the vacant seat which my wife had just left that I might enjoy my nap undisturbed, took the form of myself as exactly as if reflected from a looking-glass.

You must be convinced, said my spectred self, that your notions on personal identity are perfectly true; and though to your own conception man is an unit, a whole, a person, to the intellect of an atom, (for atoms think and feel intuitively and without organs,) he is a compound of the most incongruous diversity. In this sense, and in this alone, man is a microcosm, a thing "of shreds and patches," an assemblage "undique collatis membris," " non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum," picked up from every region of sublunary nature. His humours depend on his digestion, his thoughts and his propensities change with his diet; a glass of brandy makes him a madman, a dose of physic reduces him to a sage. Cuvier has said, that he is an attracting and repelling focus. To me he is a mere machine, fabricating virtues of vegetables; converting beer and wine into oaths and curses; working beef, as Lord Byron conjectured justly, into ferocity; and converting luxurious diet " as sure as rain engendereth hail" into wanton wishes. You yourself are no more the same gay, light-hearted, presumptuous coxcomb you were at twenty-three

In sul tuo primo giovenile errore

Quand' eri in parte altr' huom da quel che tu sei,

(I beg Petrarch's pardon for the liberty taken with his quotation)—than you are Napoleon Bonaparte, John Wesley, or the Bishop of Peterborough. Nay, you are no more the same man you were before dinner, when you were so cross and cantankerous, than you are the sickly urchin, muling and puling in the nurse's arms, of forty years ago. Having arrived at this part of his discourse, the figure commenced along tirade of obscure and unintelligible metaphysics, which he learned, I know very well where. He talked at great length on essences and entities, on the vital principle, and Malthus on Population: but I observed, that in proportion as the ideas became more confused, the image became more indistinct; its visible form partaking evidently of the confusion of its own notions: when suddenly the door opened; Sancho, according to the established etiquette in these cases, jumped on my knee; and I awoke, with the full determination of writing down all I had heard, and leaving it to the reader to decide, whether this dream passed through the ivory gate, or through its colleague

Cornea, quæ veris facilis datur exitus umbris.

M.

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