time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.

"Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; but if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

"Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but it will never be worn nor shine if it is not polished.

"Good manners are to particular societies what good morals are to society in general-their cement and security.

"To do as you would be done by is the plain, sure, and undisputed rule of morality and justice.

"Gentleness of manners, with firmness of mind, is a short but full delineation of human perfection on this side of religious and moral duties."]

GEORGE,

LORD LYTTELTON,

[THE eldest son of sir Thomas Lyttelton, bart. was born in 1709, received the rudiments of his education at Eton, where he was much distinguished for his poetic compositions, and applauded for his exercises. From Eton he went to Christ Church, where he acquired superior reputation, and published his poem on Blenheim in 1727; but quitted Oxford in 1728 to visit France and Italy. From thence he addressed a series of letters to his father, which are marked by manly sentiment and filial regard. On his return he became member for Oakhampton, and enlisted among the parliamentary opponents of sir Robert Walpole, though his father voted with the court. In 1737 he was appointed secretary to the prince of Wales, and Mallet was made under-secretary 2. Walpole, after a

• For Thomson he procured a pension from the prince; and Moore courted a similar favour by an apologetical poem called the Trial of Selim; for which he was paid with kind words, which raised great hopes that at last were disappointed. Such was the fallacious patronage that Mickle also experienced. Pope, who was invited to direct his satire against the ministry, commended Lyttelton, which drew upon him the reproaches of Fox, for being intimate with such a lampooner. Lyttelton, however, zealously supported his friend, and replied that he thought it an honour to be received into the familiarity of so great a poet.