text: ) I have known men by the dozen who in their youth were either empty-headed coxcombs or noisy sots; does my reader think that any given number of additional years has made them able statesmen sound lawyers or erudite divines? that because they have become honourable by a seat in Parliament learned by courtesy reverend by office they are therefore really more useful members of society than when they lounged the High Street or woke the midnight echoes of the quadrangle? Nay life is too short for the leopard to change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin; one can but pare the claws of the first and put a suit of the last European fashion upon the other