THE

LIBRARY OF ANECDOTE

AND

TABLE-TALK.

• I love Anecdotes. I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connexion, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. If a man. is to wait till he weaves anecdotes into a system, we may be long in getting them, and get but few, in comparison of what we might get.'

DR. JOHNSON. (Boswell's Tour.)

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,

Stamford Street.

OF

HUMAN CHARACTER.

BY

CHARLES BUCKE, Esq.

• It was a very remarkable circumstance about Johnson, whom shallow ob-
servers have supposed to have been ignorant of the world, that very few men
had seen greater variety of characters; and none could observe them better,
as was evident from the strong, yet nice portraits, which he often drew. I
have frequently thought that if he had made out what the French call une ca-
talogue raisonnée of all the people who had passed under his observation, it
would have afforded a very rich fund of instruction and entertainment.'-
Boswell.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
CHARLES KNIGHT & Co., LUDGATE STREET.

MDCCCXXXVII.

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1. Who act upon the Principle--Divide et impera

1

2. Who never attack'equal Enemies

6

3. Who look on while their Enemies are destroying each

other

7

4. Whose Interests are protected by the Passions of their

Adversaries

5. Who never lead; but follow

8

6. Who never want an Excuse

7. Who are weakly moderate

14

8. Who can do little Things greatly

15

9. The Count de Soissons

17

10. Who do the reverse to what they intend

17

11. Who speak Truth for ignoble Ends

18

12. Who preserve Friendship with both Parties

18

13. Lovers of Power

21

14. Conformers to the Taste of Others

25

15. Who never interfere with other Men's Concerns

25

16. Where Politeness is altered by the mention of Money 26

17. Who ask Advice, without telling all the Circumstances 27

18. Rienzi

28

19. Who waste by Littles

28

20. Seals

29

21. Who prefer one Bird in the Hand to two in the Bush 29

22. Who never reward those they approve

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23. Who are careless of Futurity

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