[Footnote 2: We naturally suppose that the merchant-offerer was a Chinese, as indeed the Chinese texts say, and the fan such as Fâ-hien had seen and used in his native land.

There are favours, short of the pecuniarya thing not fit to be hinted at among gentlemenwhich confer as much grace upon the acceptor as the offerer: the kind, we confess, which is most to our palate, is of those little conciliatory missives, which for their vehicle generally choose a hamperlittle odd presents of game, fruit, perhaps winethough it is essential to the delicacy of the latter that it be home-made.

sets on next) yet the true knowledge of GOD is now so plainly delivered in Scripture, that there wants nothing but sober and prudent Offerers of the same, to make it saving to those of the meanest understandings.

When the pious offerers stole away, I saw the honoured dead half risen from their tombs, looking to the offerings, and whispering gloomily, "still a cypress, and still no flower of joy!

We are told Of the lone mite, the cup of water cold, That in their way approved the offerer's zeal.