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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . VI . AFFECTING ANECDOTE . AT the capture of SJt . Eustatia . aii edict was issued , informing every person , under tiie severe penalty of corporal punishment and . banishment ,- to render in by a certain day an ' exaft inventory of his
' . effedts . It happened , that a little before that period , a Frenchman , once very eminent in the commercial world , had been by the calamities often attendant on the uncertainties of that situation reduced to the deepest distress ; he had heard the edict , and on the day appointed he was called upon for his inventory . They found him sitting in the . attitude of Melancholy—his elbow leaning upon a fable , while his
Iiand . supported his cheek , which was furrowed with the keenest affliction . The noise of persons entering the room , awakened fiim from his reverie ; when gently turning his head , arid recollecting the errand , he . took up a pen from the fable , and wrote the following . short , but emphatic account of his condition— 'Point de argent , point de commerce , point de credit , point de reputation , et seithhent un pauvre coeur rompu !' , — ' No money , no goods , no credit , no reputation ; and only a poor broken-heart !'
FATAL TERROR . . PETER PENTM-MAN was a good painter of still life ; but the most remarkable circumstance relating to this artist was the incident which occasioned his death . He was employed to paint an ernblematical picture of Morality , expressive of the vanity of the pleasures of this world , and ' of the shortness and misery of human life ;' and that he might treat his subject with greater exactnesshe had determined to
, paint in an anatomical room , where several skeletons were suspended from the ceiling , and skulls and bones lay scattered about-the floor . — Here he . prepared to sketch his design ; biit either from some previous fatigue , or the intenseness of his -study , he insensibly fell asleep . This was . on September 13 , 1692 , when an earthquake that happened , while he was dozing , roused him ; and the instant he awoke he
perceived all the skeletons in motion , and' the skulls rolling- about the room . Being totally ignorant of the cause , he was struck with such honor , that he threw himself headlong down stairs , and tumbled out into the street half dead . ' SB ' s friends took all imaginable pains to efface the impression madeSp . on his mind ; but his spirits were affected in so violent a mannerthat he , never recovered his healthbut
, , died soon after , in the forty-second year of his age . \ HOWARD . THE following is an instance of the late benevolent Mr . Howard ' s determined spirit : Travelling once in the King of Prussia ' s dominions , he came to a very narrow piece of road , admitting only one carriage ,
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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . VI . AFFECTING ANECDOTE . AT the capture of SJt . Eustatia . aii edict was issued , informing every person , under tiie severe penalty of corporal punishment and . banishment ,- to render in by a certain day an ' exaft inventory of his
' . effedts . It happened , that a little before that period , a Frenchman , once very eminent in the commercial world , had been by the calamities often attendant on the uncertainties of that situation reduced to the deepest distress ; he had heard the edict , and on the day appointed he was called upon for his inventory . They found him sitting in the . attitude of Melancholy—his elbow leaning upon a fable , while his
Iiand . supported his cheek , which was furrowed with the keenest affliction . The noise of persons entering the room , awakened fiim from his reverie ; when gently turning his head , arid recollecting the errand , he . took up a pen from the fable , and wrote the following . short , but emphatic account of his condition— 'Point de argent , point de commerce , point de credit , point de reputation , et seithhent un pauvre coeur rompu !' , — ' No money , no goods , no credit , no reputation ; and only a poor broken-heart !'
FATAL TERROR . . PETER PENTM-MAN was a good painter of still life ; but the most remarkable circumstance relating to this artist was the incident which occasioned his death . He was employed to paint an ernblematical picture of Morality , expressive of the vanity of the pleasures of this world , and ' of the shortness and misery of human life ;' and that he might treat his subject with greater exactnesshe had determined to
, paint in an anatomical room , where several skeletons were suspended from the ceiling , and skulls and bones lay scattered about-the floor . — Here he . prepared to sketch his design ; biit either from some previous fatigue , or the intenseness of his -study , he insensibly fell asleep . This was . on September 13 , 1692 , when an earthquake that happened , while he was dozing , roused him ; and the instant he awoke he
perceived all the skeletons in motion , and' the skulls rolling- about the room . Being totally ignorant of the cause , he was struck with such honor , that he threw himself headlong down stairs , and tumbled out into the street half dead . ' SB ' s friends took all imaginable pains to efface the impression madeSp . on his mind ; but his spirits were affected in so violent a mannerthat he , never recovered his healthbut
, , died soon after , in the forty-second year of his age . \ HOWARD . THE following is an instance of the late benevolent Mr . Howard ' s determined spirit : Travelling once in the King of Prussia ' s dominions , he came to a very narrow piece of road , admitting only one carriage ,