by whole liberal donations the inftitution is chief- take all the opportunities that offer of polishing ly fupported. the afperities of the road. When therefore the intellect of the pupil begins to exert its penetration, it will be proper to fhow him how the nature, the forms, and arrangements, of words, flow from our ideas and their relations. Every fubftance muft naturally be in fome ftate; it muft either act, or be acted upon. The actions which it performs or fuffers must be performed or fuf. fered in fome definite manner or degree. It muft likewise have fome qualities, whether temporary and accidental, or natural and permanent. Thefe qualities muft likewife be fufceptible of degrees. When different fubftances are confidered in the fame ftate, its common participation forms a connection: when regarded in different states, that difference forms an oppofition. The conftant repetition of the names of fubftances and qualities produces a difagreeable monotony in language.-They must therefore be implied in other words, which likewife in fome cafes ferve to connect the parts of a fentence. There is a difference between fuch words as imply the connection of states and circumstances. Actions to be performed or suffered may be either positively affirmed of any subftance, or merely attributed to them. Living and percipient fubftances have immediate fenfations of pain or pleafure, which likewife are productive of defire and averfion. To these fentiments particular founds are adapted, whether immediately infpired by nature, or refulting from affociation. Thus we have a foundation for all the different parts of speech; and from their natures and offices, their forms and arrangements may be de duced, according to the analogy of every language. The art of reatoning, the knowledge of history, and a taste for the hilles lettres, are easily attain. able by the blind, and as they are copious funds of entertainment, they fhould be inculcated, though at the expence of care and labour. Moral and theological knowledge he may obtain, either from books, or inftructions delivered viva voce. The laft, if communicated by one who underftands and feels the fubject, with a proper degree of perfpicuity and fenfibility, are by far the moft eligible. By morals we would not merely be understood to mean a regular and inculpable feries of action, but the proper exertion and habitual arrangement of the whole internal œconomy, of which external actions are no more than mere expreffions, and from which the highest and moft permanent happiness alone can proceed.By theology, we mean thofe fublime and liberal ideas of the nature and government of a Supreme Being, whether difcoverable by nature or revealed in Scripture, which enforce every moral. obligation, which teach us what is the ultimate good of our nature, and determine our efforts and animate our hopes in pursuing this most important of all objects. What Cicero fays of the arts and fciences may with great propriety be applied to religion: Nam cætera neque temporum funt, &c. "For other ftudies are not fuited to every time, to every age, and to every place: but thefe give ftrength in youth, and jo in old age; adorn profperity, and are the fupport and confolation of adverfity; at home they are delightful, and abroad they are eaty; at night they are company to us; F 2 (18.) BLIND, OTHER STUDIES PROPER FOR THE. In the higher parts of mathematics, fuch as conic fections, the same solid figures which are medians of perception to those who fee, may perform the fame ufeful office to the blind. But, for the ftructure of fuperficial figures, bees wax, or fome fach matter might be used, foft enough to be tally susceptible of impreffions, yet hard enough to retain them till effaced by an equal preffure.Suppofe, for instance, a table were formed, 4 feet broad, and 8 long; for the figures, that they may be the more fenfible to the touch, ought to be larger than ordinary. Suppose this table had brims, or a moulding round it, rifing an inch above the furfaces: let the whole expanfe, then, be filled with bees wax, and the furface above preffed extremely even with a polished board, formed exactly to fit the fpace within the mouldings. This board will always be neceffary to efface the figures employed in former propofitions, and prepare the furtace for new ones. This method of delinea ting geometrical truths, upon such a table, appears the best and leaft trouble fome apparatus which a blind man can use; and general ideas of geograFir or topography might be conveyed to him in the fime manner, by ipheres compofed of, or covered with the fame impreffible matter. The knowledge of aftronomy might also be of infinite tie, both by enlarging the blind perfon's ideas of the universe, and by giving him higher and more confirmed impreffions of that energy by which the tars are moved, and of that defign by which their motions are regulated. But thefe objects are too vaft; their distances, their magnitudes, their periods of revolution, are too complex to be comprehended in the mind, or impreffed on the memory, without fenfible mediums. For this purpole, an orrery, or fome machine of a fimilar contration, will be indifpenfably requifite. The tice of caufes and effects might likewife yield the moft fublime and rational entertainment of which an intelligent being, in his prefent ftate, ufceptible. By this he might enter into the , the viciffitudes, the economy of nature. Nor is it abfolutely neceffary that he should be an actual witness of the experiments by which thefe laws are explained. He may fafely take them for granted; and if, at any time, a particular experiment fhould prove faithlefs, he may from geneprinciples, be able to difcover its fallacy, wheter in the nature of the subject, the inaptitude of the inftruments, or the procefs of the execution. aws of motion, the various ratios or proptions of forces, whether fimple or compound, he may calculate and afcertain, by the fame method fo happily fed by Sanderson, (See § 15.) Paological learning is alfo attainable by the blind a high degree. The acquifition of different languages adds to the treasure of our ideas, and ders those which we poffefs more clear and defate. The technical terms of almost every science are exotic; and without clearly understanding thefe, we cannot properly poffefs the ideas of which they are the vehicles. The paths of grammar, however, are dry and rugged; and it will Recetary for the teacher, whoever he is, to when when we travel they attend us; and in our rural retirements, they do not forfake us." To this may be added, that the joys of religion are for ever adequate to the largest capacity of a finite and progreffive intelligence; and as they are bound lefs in extent, fo they are endless in duration.— We have already observed (§ 10,` that a blind man is extremely obnoxious to melancholy and dejection. Where, therefore, can he find a more copious, intimate, permanent, and efficacious fource of comfort than in religion? Let this then be inculcated with the utmost care and affiduity. Let the whole force of the foul be exerted in showing him that it is reafonable. Let all the nobleft affections of the heart be employed in recommending it as amiable; for we will venture to affert, that the votary of religion alone is the man,— "Whom, though with nature's wreck opprefs'd, Uninanly fears could ne'er infeft." (19.) BLIND PERSONS, HINTS TO THE RELATIONS OF, AND APOSTROPHE TO THE PUBLIC RESPECTING. The relations of perfons fubjected to this misfortune, if in easy circumstances, will find it highly conducive to the improvement of their charge, to felect fome one among his coevals, of a found understanding, a sweet and patient temper, a docile mind, a warm heart, and a communicative difpofition. These two should be taught to find their intereft and happiness in their connection one with another. Their bed, their board, their walks, their entertainments, their Jeflons, thould be common. These are the best eyes with which art can endow a blind man : and if properly felected, they will on fome occafions yield very little, in utility and perfection, to those of nature; nay, at fome junctures they may be preferable. When the fituation of the blind, and its natural effects upon their characters, are confidered; when we reflect how exquifite their dif trelles, how pungent their disappointments, how fenfible their regrets, how tedious and gloomy their periods of folitude; we must be wretches indeed, if we can grudge either labour or expence in procuring them every fource of inftruction and entertainment, which, when procured, remains in their own power, and yields what may be in fome measure termed self derived enjoyment. These are prolific of numberlets advantages: they afford us at once entertainment and exertion; they teach us to explore a thousand refources for prefervation and improvement; and they render us awake and feruble to a thousand notices both of exters nal and intellectual objects, which would otherwife have completely efcaped our attention. You who are parents of such unfortunate perfons, do not, by a brutal negligence and infenfibility, render the existence which you have given a curie to its pofleflors. Do not give them reafon to upbraid your memory; and to answer thofe, who afk what patrimony you have left them, that their fole inheritance was ignorance, incapacity, and indigence. But it is not the parents and relations alone of the blind, who are culpable if they are neglected. The blind have a right to demand fociety, Whether it is more humane and e, that fuch unhappy persons should be fuflanguish out their lives in torpid obfcuri ty, wretched in themselves and burdenfome to others; or to cultivate and improve their powers in fuch a manner, that they may be qualified for internal enjoyment and public utility? Surely there is not a human being, who does not difgrace the works of God, if he can be at any lofs to anfwer this question. Have not the blind then a right to call the world to account? Have they not a right to demand, what rational being fufceptible of felicity in themselves, and capable of transfufing happiness through the focieties with whom they are connected, fhould be abandoned to a state of infignificance and mifery? Is it poffible, that men who are every moment fubjected to the fame contingencies, with which they beltold theirfellow-creatures afflicted, thould not with all their fouls endeavour to alleviate the misfortunes of their fuffering human woe fo light and fupportable in itself, that brethren? Is the native and hereditary portion of we should neglect and despite thofe to whom it is embittered by accidental circumftances of horror and diftrefs? You men of wealth and eminence,` you whom Providence has rendered confpicuous on the theatre of nature, to whom it has given the nobleft opportunities of participating the divine beatitude, by the excrcife of universal benevolence and genuine patriótifm; yours is the glorious province of bringing neglected merit from obfcurity, of healing the wounds inflicted by adverse for tune, and of cultivating thofe talents, which may be exerted for your own advantage, and the ho. nour of your fpecies. Thus you shall rise in the heraldry of heaven, and your names diffuse a luf tre through the extent of space, and the archives of eternity. Otherwife the temporary glare and parade of your fituation can produce nothing but a defpicable mimicry of real and intrinfic greatnets, and are no more than a fplendid mask to coyer what in itfelf is infamous or detestable. (20.) BLIND, PROBABLE EFFECTS OF LIGHT ON PERSONS BORN. Much labour has been beftowed to investigate, both from reafon à priori and from experiment, what might be the primary effects of light and luminous objects upon fuch as have been born blind, or carly deprived of fight, if at a maturer period they thould inftantaneously recover their vifual powers. But upon this topic there is much reaton to fear, that nothing fatisfactory has yet been faid. The fallacy of hypothesis and conjecture, when formed à priori with refpect to any organ of corporeal fenfation and its proper object, is too obvious to demand illuftration. But from the nature of the eye, and the mediums of its perception, to attempt an investigation of the various and multiform phenomena of vition, or even of the varieties, of which every particular phenomenon is fufceptible, according as the circumftances of its appearance are diverfified, would be a project worthy of philofophy in a delirium. Nay, even the difcoyeries which are Laid to accrue from experiment, may ftill be held as extremely doubtful and fufpicious; because in these experiments it does not appear to have been alcertamed, that the organs to which visible objects were prefented immediately after chirurgical operations, could be in a proper ftate to perceive them. (See ANATOMY, § 584-588.) There are, however, many defiderata, which the per ceptions or 5 feet afunder, ufed particularly at the heads of trenches, when they are extended in front towards the glacis; ferving to fhelter the workmen, and prevent their being overlooked by the enemy. * BLINDFOLD. adj. [from the verb.] Having the eyes covered. reptions of a man born blind might confiderably Bluftrate, if his inftruments of vifion were in a right ftate, and affifted by a proper medium. Such a perfon might perhaps give a clearer account, why objects, whofe pictures are inverted upon the retina of the eye, fhould appear to the mind in their real positions; or why, though each particular object is painted upon the retina of both our eyes, it should only be perceived as gle. Perhaps, too, this new fpectator of vifiLe nature might equally amufe our curiofity and improve our theory, by attempting to defcribe his earlieft fenfations of colour, and its original efects upon his organ and his fancy. But it is far from being certain, that trials of this kind have ever been fairly made. Thofe, who wish to fee a more minute detail of these questions, may conlult M. Diderot's Lettre fur les aveugles, a Pujage de ceux qui vovent: "A letter concerning the bind, for the use of those who see." To thefe may be added, Mr Chefelden's Anatomy, and Locke's Ellay on the human understanding. 121.) BLIND, SOCIETIES FOR THE RELIEF OF THE. It is with pleasure we can add to the above fractures, (19.) that the care and education of the blind are now become objects of public attention, and that refpectable focieties have been infitted within thefe few years in this country, as Was in France, to promote these laudable objets. That they may profper, must be the wish of every philanthropic mind. For a particular account of that initituted at Edinburgh, See So. CIETY. Te BLIND. v. a. [from the noun.] I. To make blind; to deprive of fight. You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames Into her fcornful eyes! Shake -Of whofe hand have I received any bribe to d mine eyes therewith? and I. will reftore it, 1 camd.-A blind guide is certainly a great mifbut a guide that blinds those whom he fhould kd, is undoubtedly a much greater. South. To carken; to obfcure the eye. 2. Swhirl the feas, fuch darkness blinds the sky, That the black night receives a deeper dye. Dryden. 2. To darken the understanding. This my long-fuffering, and my day of grace, They who negleft and fcorn fhall never tafte, But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more. Milton, 4. To obfcure to the understanding.-The ftate of the controverfy between us he endeavoured, with his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfl. BLINDE, among mineralifts, a fpecies of lead marcafte, by miners called mock ore, mock lead, wild lead. The German mineralifts call it de, whence our denomination blinde. It anto what in Agricola is called Galena inanis. itually lies immediately over the veins of lead in the mines which produce it, for it is not in all. When the miners fee this, they For the vein of ore is very near. BLINDES, or BLINDS, in the art of war, a of defence commonly made of oziers, or branches interwoven, and laid across between two ows of stakes, about the height of a man, and ་ And oft himself he chanc'd to hurt unwares, Whilft reafon, blent through paffion, nought defcried, But, as a blindfold bull, at random fares, And where he hits, nought knows, and where he hurts, nought cares. Fairy Queen Who blindfold walks upon a rivers brim, When he should fee, has he deferv'd to swim? Dryden. -When lots are fhuffled together, or a man blindfold cafts a dye, what reafon can he have to prefume, that he fhall draw a white stone rather than a black? South.-The women will look into the ftate of the nation with their own eyes, and be no longer led blindfold by a male legislature. Addison. *To BLINDFOLD. v. a. [from blind and fold.] To hinder from feeing, by blinding the eyes.When they had blindfold him, they ftruck him on the face. Luke. BLIND HARRY, See HENRY, THE MINSTREL. (1.) BLINDING was a fpecies of punishment anciently inflicted on thieves, adulterers, perjurers, and others; and from which the ancient Chriftians were not exempt. Sometimes lime and vinegar, or barely fcalding vinegar, was poured into the eyes, till their balls were confumed; fometimes a rope was twisted round the head till the eyes started out. In the middle age, they changed total blindness for a great darknefs, or diminution of fight, which they produced by holding a red hot iron dish or bafon before the eyes, till their humours were dried, and their coats fhrivelled up. The inhabitants of the city of Apollonia executed it on their watch when found afleep. Nothing reflects more honour on the present age, than the almoft total abolition of barbarous punishments, which have taken place in Britain and France; and which, it is hoped, will foon be univerfally adopted throughout Europe and America. No crime whatever merits torture. Whipping, however, is still inflicted in the army and navy, to a degree often worse than death. Might not fome modes of difgrace be fubftituted instead of fuch horrid barbarity? (2.) BLINDING, VOLUNTARY. Democritus, according to Plutarch, Cicero, and A. Gellius, put out his own eyes, that he might be lefs difturbed in his mental contemplations, when thus freed from the diftraction of the objects of fight. * BLINDLY. adv. [from blind.] 1. Without fight. 2. Implicitly; without examination. The old king, after a long debate, By his imperious mistress blindly led, Has given Cydaria to Orbellan's bed. Dryden. How ready zeal for intereft and party, is to charge atheifm on thofe, who will not, without examining, fubmit, and blindly fwallow their nonfenfe. Locke. 3. Without judgment or direction.- How feas and earth, and air, and active flame, Fell through the mighty void; and, in their fall, Were blindly gather'd in this goodly ball. Dryd. * BLIND BLINDMAN'S BUFF. n. f. A play in which Come one is to have his eyes covered, and hunt out the reft of the company. Difguis'd in all the mafk of night, All the rest as born of favage brood, Folly and blindness only could refuse. Denham. -Whenfoever we would proceed beyond thefe fimple ideas, we fall presently into darkness and difficulties, and can discover nothing farther but our own blindness and ignorance. Locke. (2.) BLINDNESS. See BLIND, § 1-21. (3.) BLINDNESS, in farriery, a disease incident to horfes, especially thofe of an iron-grey, or dapple-grey colour, when ridden too hard, or backed too young. It may be discovered by the walk, which in a blind horfe is always unequal, because he dares not fet down his feet boldly when led in one's hand; though if the fame horfe be mounted by an expert horseman, and the horse of himself be mettled, the fear of the fpur wil make him go more freely; fo that his blindness can hardly be perceived. Another mark, whereby a horfe may be known to have loft his fight, is, that upon hearing any body enter the ftable, he will prick up his ears, and move them back wards and forwards, being in continual alarm by the least noife. Dr Lower firft fhowed the ordinary cause of blindness in horses, which is a fpongy excrefcence, growing in one, fometimes in two, or three places of the uvea, which being at length overgrown, covers the pupil when the horfe is brought into the light, though in a dark ftable it dilates again. Horfes, that lofe their fight at certain periods of the moon, are faid to be MoonBLIND. (4.) BLINDNESS, CAUSES OF, are either ordimary, or extraordinary. The former may arife from a decay of the optic nerve (an instance where of we have in the Academy of Sciences, where upon opening the eye of a perfon long blind, the optic nerve was found extremely fhrunk and decayed, and having no medulla in it); or from fome. external violence, vicious confirmation, growth of a cataract, gutta ferena, _small-pox, or the like. See MEDICINE, INDEX. Extraordinary caufes of blindness, are malignant ftenches, poisonous juices dropped into the eye, baneful vermin, long confinement in the dark, or the like. The author of the Embafly of D. Garcias de Sylva Figueroa into Perfia tells us, that in feveral parts of that kingdom there are vast numbers of blind people of all ages, fexes, and conditions; owing to a spe of little flies which prick the eyes and lips, and enter the noftrils; but carrying certain blind nefs with them when they light on the eyes. (5.) BLINDNESS, DIURNAL, OF HEMERALOPIA a difeafe of the eyes which affects the patient chief ly, or only in day light. (6.) BLINDNESS, NOCTURNAL, or NYCTALO PIA, that which enfues on the setting of the fur in perfons who see perfectly in the day, but be come quite blind as foon as night comes on. Se Philofoph. Tranfa&t. N° 159. p. 560, where an in ftance of it is given; alfo a fingular cafe of thi kind related by Dr Samuel Pye, in the Medic. Ob ferv. and Inquir. Vol. I. p. III. (7.) BLINDNESS, PARTIAL, is that wherein fome faint glimmering is left, as is always the cafe in people who have ripe cataracts, who are never fo blind but they can difcern day from night. (8.) BLINDNESS, PERIODICAL, is that which comes and goes by turns, according to the feafor of the moon, time of day, and the like. (9.) BLINDNESS, PERPETUAL, is that which re mains alike under all the diverfity of seasons, times ages, &c. (10.) BLINDNESS, TOTAL, is that wherein al fight or perception, even of light, is wanting, a is the cafe of thofe who are faid to be flone blind A blind man, by the civil law, cannot make a tel tament except under certain modifications; bu in every cafe he is disabled from being a witnes to a teftament, on account of his blindness. (II.) BLINDNESS, TRANSIENT, is that which gives way of itself in due time, as that of whelps which continues for feveral days, fometimes 9 rarely 12, after they are littered. The Nogai Tartars, according to father Du Ban the Jefuit who lived among them, are born blind, and oper not their eyes for feveral days. The ducks which breed under ground, and break out into the Zirch nitzer fea in Carniola after great storms, are bling at their firft eruption; but in fome time come to their fight. * BLINDNETTLE. n. f. [ferofularia.] A plant BLIND RAMPART, (cæcum vallum,] among the ancients, was that befet with fharp stakes, com cealed by grafs or leaves growing over them. BLINDS. See BLINDES. * BLINDSIDE. n. f. [from blind and fide. Weaknefs; foible; weak part.-He is too great lover of himself; this is one of his blindfides; the beft of men, I fear, are not without them. Savi (1.)* BLINDWORM. n. f. [cæcilia, from blin and worm.] A small viper, called likewife a flow worm; believed not to be venomous. Shakespear You spotted fnakes, with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not feen; Newts and blindworms, do no wrong; Come not near our fairy queen. -The greater flow worm, called alfo the blind worm, is commonly thought to be blind, becaul of the littleness of his eyes. Grea. (2.) BLIND WORM. See ANGUIS, N° I. § 15 and Plate XIV. *To BLINK. v. n. [blincken, Danish.] 1. T wink, or twinkle with the eyes. So politick, as if one eye Huds 2. To fee obfcurely. BLINKING OF BEER fignifies letting the wort fland for fome time in the vat, till it hath acquired fome degree of acidity, to difpofe it to fine, and be the fooner ready for drinking. (1.) BLINKS, among ancient fportfmen, denoted boughs broken down from trees, and thrown in the way where deer were likely to pafs, to hinder their running, or rather to mark which way the deer ran, in order to guide the hunter. (1) BLINKS, in botany. See MONTIA. T BLINNE, v. n. [blinxan, Sax.] To defift; to crafe; to give over. Chauc. BLISLAND, a village in Cornwall, S. of Temple Moor. * BLISS. n. f. [bliffe, Sax. from blithafian, to reicice.] 1. The highest degree of happinefs; btedness; felicity: generally used of the happitels of bleffed fouls.-A mighty Saviour hath witneted of himfelf, I am the way; the way that icadeth us from mifery into blifs. Hooker.Dim sadness did not spare That time celeftial vifages; yet, mix'd 2. Felicity in general.— With me Milton. All my redeem'd may dwell, in joy and bliss. Milton. Condition, circumstance is not the thing; BG is the fame in subject or in king. Pope. BLISSFUL. adj. [from blifs and full.] Full of joy; happy in the highest degree. Yet fwimming in that fea of blissful joy, He sought forgot. Fairy Queen. -The two faddeft ingredients in hell, are deprivation of the blissful vilion, and confufion of face. Kimani.— Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Titerrupted joy, unrival'd love, lawful folitude. Milton. Spaceful thou shalt end thy blissful days, A Real thyfelf from life by flow decays. Pope. First in the fields I try the filvan strains, Nor blush to fport in Windfor's blissful plains. Pope. BLISSFULLY. adv. [from blissful.] Happily. BLISSFULNESS. n.. [from blissful.] Hap. Finef; fuineis of joy. To BLISSOM. v. n. To caterwaul; to be LA DIS. BLISSOMING, among husbandmen, corruptly called bloffoming, the intercourse between a ram and a ewe. (1.) * BLISTER. n. f. [bluyfter, Dutch.] 1. A puftule formed by raifing the cuticle from the catis, and filled with ferous blood. In this ftate fhe gallops, night by night, O'er ladies lips, who ftrait on kiffes dream, Which oft the angry Mab with blifters plagues, Because their breaths with fweatmeats tainted Shakespeare. are. I found a great blister drawn by the garlick, but had it cut, which run a good deal of water, but filled again by next night. Temple. 2. Any fwelling made by the feparation of a film or skin from the other parts.-Upon the leaves there riseth a tumour like a blifter. Bacon. (2.) BLISTER, in medicine, a thin bladder containing a watery humour, whether occafioned by burns, or by veficatories applied for that purpose. Spanish flies, in the form of a plaster, are chiefly ufed with this intention. See CANTHARIDES, and MEDICINE, INDEX. (1.) To BLISTER. v. a. 1. To raise blifters by fome hurt, as by a burn, or rubbing. Look, here comes one, a gentlewoman of mine, Who falling in the flaws of her own youth, Hath blister'd her report. † Shakespeare. 2. To raife blifters with a medical intention.-I blifter'd the legs and thighs; but was too late ; he died howling. Wiseman. * (2.) To BLISTER. v. n. [from the noun.] To rife in blifters.- If I prove honeymouth, let my tongue blister, And never to my red look'd anger be The trumpet any more. Shakespeare. Embrace thy knees with loathing hands, Which blister when they touch thee. Dryden. BLISTERING, in farriery, is ufed in cafes of ftrains and fhrunk finews in horfes, as fome maintain, with good effect; but others fay, with none. BLITE, in botany. See BLITUM. (1.) BLITH, an extensive parish of England, in Nottinghamshire. (2.) BLITH, a town in the above parish, (N. 1.) near Bawtry, on the Redford road, 23 miles N. N. W. from Newark, and 146 N. by W. of London. It has a large church, a market on Thurfday, and fairs on Afcenfion day (noted for fheep) and Oct. 6. Lon. 1. 10. W. Lat. 53. 22. N. (3-5.) BLITH, or BLYTHE, the name of 3 rivers in England, viz. 1. in Northumberland: 2. in Suffolk: and, 3. in Warwickthire. BLITHBOROUGH, a town in Suffolk, feated on the Blith, between Dunwich and Halefworth, on the Yarmouth road, 97 miles from London. It has a fair April 5. * BLITHE. adj. [blithe, Sax.] Gay; airy; merry; joyous; sprightly; mirthful.-We have always one eye fixed upon the countenance of our enemies; and, according to the blithe or heavy afpect thereof, our other eye fheweth fome other fuitable token either of diflike or approbation. Hooker. Then + Dr JOHNSON feems to have been rather off his guard here, when he quoted this metaphor of Shakefeare's, to illuftrate his literal explanation of bliftering by a burn or rubbing! Interdum dormitat bonus Humerus. |