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CHAP. I.] WRITING THE BEE.

necessities and desires, was the most likely person to find 1759.
redress, and that the true use of speech was not to express Mt.si.
wants, hut conceal them.* AH of us have known the Jack
Spindle of this exquisite sketch, some perhaps relieved
him.; and many have undergone the truth of his life's philo-
sophy, that to have much, or to seem to have it, is the only
way to have more, since it is the man who has no occasion
to borrow, that alone finds numbers willing to lend. " You
" then, O ye beggars of my acquaintance," exclaimed Gold-
smith, " whether in rags or lace, whether in Kent-street or
" the Mall, whether at Smyrna or St. Giles's, might I advise
" you as a friend, never seem in want of the favour you
" solicit. Apply to every passion but pity for redress. You
" may find relief from vanity, from serf-interest, or from
" avarice, but seldom from compassion." Following this
were three well-written characters;—of Father Feyjoo,-
whose popular essays against degrading superstitions have
since procured him the title of the Spanish Addison; of
Alexandrian Hypatia, afterwards immortalised by Gibbon;
and of Lysippus, an imaginary representative of some pecu-
liarities in the essayist himself, and timely assertor of the
ordinary virtues as opposed to what are commonly mistaken
for the great ones.

Still the churlish public would not buy the Bee; and the
fourth number's opening article was a good-humoured com-
ment on that fact. .Not a newspaper or magazine, he said,
that had not left him. far behind; they had got to Islington

* I learn from the valuable and well-conducted Notes and Queries (i. 83) the
curious fact, that four years after this remark had thus been made by Q-oldsmith,
it was repeated by Voltaire (from whom, no doubt, Talleyrand afterwards stole it)
in his satiric little dialogue of Le Chapon et la Poulards ((Ewvres Completes, xxix.
83, 84. Ed. 1822), where the capon, complaining of the treachery of men, says,
" Us n'emploient les paroles que pour deguiser leurs pens6es." But see
post, Book iv. Chap. xiii.



	CHAP. I.] WRITING THE BEE. necessities and desires, was the most likely person to find 1759. redress, and that the true use of speech was not to express Mt.si. wants, hut conceal them.* AH of us have known the Jack Spindle of this exquisite sketch, some perhaps relieved him.; and many have undergone the truth of his life's philo- sophy, that to have much, or to seem to have it, is the only way to have more, since it is the man who has no occasion to borrow, that alone finds numbers willing to lend. " You " then, O ye beggars of my acquaintance," exclaimed Gold- smith, " whether in rags or lace, whether in Kent-street or " the Mall, whether at Smyrna or St. Giles's, might I advise " you as a friend, never seem in want of the favour you " solicit. Apply to every passion but pity for redress. You " may find relief from vanity, from serf-interest, or from " avarice, but seldom from compassion." Following this were three well-written characters;—of Father Feyjoo,- whose popular essays against degrading superstitions have since procured him the title of the Spanish Addison; of Alexandrian Hypatia, afterwards immortalised by Gibbon; and of Lysippus, an imaginary representative of some pecu- liarities in the essayist himself, and timely assertor of the ordinary virtues as opposed to what are commonly mistaken for the great ones. Still the churlish public would not buy the Bee; and the fourth number's opening article was a good-humoured com- ment on that fact. .Not a newspaper or magazine, he said, that had not left him. far behind; they had got to Islington * I learn from the valuable and well-conducted Notes and Queries (i. 83) the curious fact, that four years after this remark had thus been made by Q-oldsmith, it was repeated by Voltaire (from whom, no doubt, Talleyrand afterwards stole it) in his satiric little dialogue of Le Chapon et la Poulards ((Ewvres Completes, xxix. 83, 84. Ed. 1822), where the capon, complaining of the treachery of men, says, " Us n'emploient les paroles que pour deguiser leurs pens6es." But see post, Book iv. Chap. xiii.