In the Province of Quangſi is a Spring, the one half whereof is clear, and the other muddy ; and although any perſon take of the waters and mingle them, yet nevertheleſs they immediately part and divide, each receiving preſently their former colours.

He has to return, with whole skin, but without success; and be thrown into arrest, as a traitor.

The holy of holies, a cubical space of ten cubits on the side, was separated from the larger antechamber by four columns, which were also covered with gold and stood upon silver sockets; they bore a second curtain of four colors.

Mere descriptions of virtue or vice do not strike us, so strongly, as the visible representations of them. Richard the Third’s dream, Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in her sleep, the Dagger Scene in the same Play, Cardinal Beaufort’s last moments, with many other passages in our Author, of the same admonitory kind, avail us more than whole volumes of Tully’s Offices, or Seneca’s Morals.