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   , and call you

    Bear

   !"

    When

   the Prince of Orange, afterwards William the Third, came over to this country, five of the seven bishops who were sent to the Tower declared for his highness; but the other two would not come into the measures. Upon which Dryden said, that "the seven golden candlesticks them proved

    prince's metal

   ."

    Through

   an avenue of trees, at the back of Trinity College, a church may be seen at a considerable distance, the approach to which affords no very pleasing scenery.

   Porson, walking that way with a friend, and observing the church, remarked, "That it put him in mind of a

    fellowship

   , which was a long dreary walk, with a church

    at the end of it

   ."

    A man

   meeting his friend, said, "I spoke to you last night in a dream."—"Pardon me," replied the other, "I did not

    hear you

   ."

   "

    Pray


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