, as all the learned know,
against the grand tour, and that restless spirit for making it, which David
prophetically foresaw would haunt the children of men in the latter days; and
therefore, as thinketh the great bishop Hall, 'tis one of the severest
imprecations which David ever utter'd against the enemies of the Lord - and, as
if he had said, »I wish them no worse luck than always to be rolling about« - So
much motion, continues he, (for he was very corpulent) - is so much unquietness;
and so much of rest, by the same analogy, is so much of heaven.
    Now, I (being very thin) think differently; and that so much of motion, is
so much of life, and so much of joy -- and that to stand still, or get on but
slowly, is death and the devil --
    Hollo! Ho! -- the whole world's asleep! -- bring out the horses -- grease
the wheels -- tie on the mail -- and drive a nail into that moulding -- I'll not
lose a moment --
    Now the wheel we are talking of, and whereinto (but not whereonto, for that
would make an Ixion's wheel of it) he curseth his enemies, according to the
bishop's habit of body, should certainly be a post- wheel, whether they were set
up in Palestine at that time or not -- and my wheel, for the contrary reasons,
must as certainly be a cart-wheel groaning round its revolution once in an age;
and of which sort, were I to turn commentator, I should make no scruple to
affirm, they had great store in that hilly country.
    I love the Pythagoreans (much more than ever I dare tell my dear Jenny) for
their »xorismoy apo toy Somatos, eis to Kalos pilosopein« -- [their] »getting
out of the body, in order to think well.« No man thinks right whilst he is in
it; blinded, as he must be, with his congenial humours, and drawn differently
aside, as the bishop and myself have been, with too lax or too tense a fibre --
REASON is, half of it, SENSE; and the measure of heaven itself is but the
measure of our present appetites and concoctions --
    -- But which of the two, in the present case, do you think to be mostly in
the wrong?
    You, certainly: quoth she, to disturb a whole family so early.
 

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