Some account of John Duke of Argyll and his family

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bearish after one of Lady Mary's lectures, resuming
tolerable good manners as the taste of it wore off. To
wind up all with something like a moral, be it remem-
bered that we do the worst office possible to whatever
is serious or praiseworthy., by carrying it to an extreme
which must inevitably excite laughter ; but at the same
time be it confessed, that we cannot habituate ourselves
to look constantly and exclusively at the ridiculous side
of almost any object without in some degree injuring, if
not debasing, our own minds.
Finished at Ditton Park in March, 1827.
LONDON : I'RIXTKD BY WILLIAM CLOVES AND SONS, STAMFORD STRKKT,
AND CHARING CROSS.