point compared to the heavens. To change one's country then is little more
than to remove from one street to another. Man is not a plant, rooted to a
certain spot of earth: all soils and all climates are suited to him
alike.--_Plutarch_.

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_Early Rising_.--The celebrated John Wesley, who became by habit an early
riser, says, "That the difference between rising at five and seven in the
morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed every
night at the same hour, is equivalent to an addition of ten years to his
life."

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_Coronation Expenses of their present Majesties, William and Adelaide_.

£. s. d.
In the several departments of
their Majesties household .......22,234 10 3

By the Officers of Arms, for
the King's Heralds and
Pursuviants ......................1,478 3 9

In the Office of Works, for
fitting up the Abbey, &c. .......12,085 14 5

In the Mint, for Coronation
Medals ...........................4,326 4 6