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BOSWELLIANA. 235
common established ceremonies of society was like a Quaker
saying Thee and Thou, and not pulling off his hat."
I was present.
"The Syndics or Magistrates of Geneva wear prodigious
periwigs. M. de Voltaire said to them, 'Messieurs, vous
repandez votre poudre dans toutes les territoires voisines.' "
Grand Baillif d'Yuerdun.
" Erskine * and Boswell were one day sauntering in Leicester
rields and talking of the famous scheme of squaring the circle.
' Come, come,' said Boswell, ' let us circle the square, and that
will be as good ; ' so these two poets took a walk round the
square, laughing very heartily at the conceit."
" Mr. Eichardson, chaplain to Sir Joseph Yorke,t and another
clergyman were walking near a village by Cambridge, where
were a number of Methodists. They saw a child of four year old
lying accross {sic) the road, and immediately ran up to lift it up,
when they heard a number of people cry, ' Let it alone, let it
alone, it's convicted, it's convicted.' They asked, ' Pray, how ? so
young a child has not been at church.' ' 'No, but its father and
mother have, and the Lord has been dealing with their child.' "
From himself.
" Boswell said that Mademoiselle de Maasdain, at the Hague,
was as black as a chimney. ' Then,' said the Eev. Dr. Maclaine,
' her husband would be a chimney-sweeper.' "
" Boswell said that Mademoiselle de Zuyl was too vivacious,
and crowded her ion mots in conversation, so that one had not
time to examine them one by one, and see their beauties. He
said, she used to make people run through the Vatican, where
* The Hon. Captain Andrew Erskine.
f Sir Joseph Yorke was third son of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke.
After serving in the army till he attained the rank of general, he was
appointed ambassador at the Hague, where he remained thirty years.
In 1788 he was created Baron Dover. He died on the 2nd December,
1792.