the Dutch weather-toy, which comes out or goes in with the change in the atmosphere. Again,
This Squire Western might have said, who was always afraid of the whigs sending the sinking-fund over to Hanover. But the following is the best it is good advice to a young man, very well expressed under the circumstances:—
Which in more sober English would be, Marry; be cheerful; watch your business. There is more edification, more religion in this than in the 666-interpretations put together.
Such things would make excellent writing copies, for they secure attention to every letter; v and j might be placed at the end.
The Celtic Druids. By Godfrey Higgins, Esq. of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster. London, 1827, 4to.
Anacalypsis, or an attempt to draw aside the veil of the Saitic Isis: or an inquiry into the origin of languages, nations, and religions. By Godfrey Higgins, &c……, London, 1836, 2 vols. 4to.
The first work had an additional preface and a new index in 1829. Possibly, in future time, will be found bound up with copies of the second work two sheets which Mr. Higgins circulated among his friends in 1831: the first a 'Recapitulation,' second 'Book vi. ch. 1.'
The system of these works is that—
The Buddhists of Upper India (of whom the Phenician Canaanite, Melchizedek, was a priest), who built the Pyramids, Stonehenge Carnac, &c. will be shown to have founded all the ancient mythologies of the world, which, however varied and corrupted in recent times, were originally one, and that one founded on principles sublime, beautiful, and true.
These works contain an immense quantity of learning, very honestly put together. I presume the enormous number of facts, and the goodness of the index, to be the reasons why the Anacalypsis found a permanent place in the old reading-room of the British Museum, even before the change which greatly increased the number of books left free to the reader in that room.
Mr. Higgins, whom I knew well in the last six years of his life, and respected as a good, learned, and (in his own way) pious man,
