I shall be like that tree; I shall die from the top. - Jonathan Swift

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace (which often happens,) five or six of those candidates petition the emperor to entertain his majesty and the court with a dance on the rope; and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the office.

They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for