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PAUL CLIFFORD.
CHAPTER VII.
Begirt with many a gallant slave,
Apparelled as becomes the brave,
Old Giaffer sat in his Divan!
**********Much I misdoubt this wayward boy
Will one day work me more annoy.
Bride of Abydos.
The learned and ingenious John Schweighæuser—(a name facile to spell and mellifluous to pronounce)—hath been pleased, in that Appendix continens particulam doctrinæ de mente humanâ, which closeth the volume of his Opuscula Academica, to observe—(we translate from memory,)—that, "in the infinite variety of things which, in the theatre of the world, occur to a man's survey, or in some manner or another affect his body or his mind, by far the greater part are so contrived as to bring
