Excerpt from Omniana, or Horae Otiosiores, Vol. 2

Every body knows where the seat of honour is, and I have seen the pineal gland handed round upon a saucer at an anatomical lecture as the seat of the soul: - "Seat of the soul, gentlemen; that is supposed to be the seat of the soul." But this is the first time I ever found it affirmed that the seat of courage is in the belly.

171. Sensibility,

In an obscure and short-lived periodical publication, which has long since been used off as "winding sheets for herrings and pilchards," I met with one paragraph, which deserves preservation, as connected with public evils in general, as well as more particularly with a subject noticed in the former volume.

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