. Thackerayana;. more common with him than to set them and their servants deaddrunk on their horses, and should any of them be found halfsmothered in a ditch the next morning, it affords him excellentdiversion for a twelvemonth after. No one is readier to club alaugh with you, but he has no ear to the voice of distress or com-plaint. Thus Hilarius, on the false credit of generosity and goodhumour, swims triumphantly with the stream of applause withoutone single virtue in his composition. No. 142. The World.—Sept. 18, 1755. Extract from the letter of , a lover of peace and quiet-ness, on
. Thackerayana;. more common with him than to set them and their servants deaddrunk on their horses, and should any of them be found halfsmothered in a ditch the next morning, it affords him excellentdiversion for a twelvemonth after. No one is readier to club alaugh with you, but he has no ear to the voice of distress or com-plaint. Thus Hilarius, on the false credit of generosity and goodhumour, swims triumphantly with the stream of applause withoutone single virtue in his composition. No. 142. The World.—Sept. 18, 1755. Extract from the letter of , a lover of peace and quiet-ness, on the sufferings produced by her connection with peoplewho are fond of noise. After describing the violence practised inher own home, the writer continues :— At last I was sent to board with a distant relation,who had been captain of a man-of-war, who had given uphis commission and retired into the country. Unfortunately forpoor me, the captain still retained a passion for firing a great gun,and had mounted, on
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