for the young using the beak for picking up its food.--_Ibid_.

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MAN.--A FRAGMENT.


Man is a monster,
The fool of passion and the slave of sin.
No laws can curb him when the will consents
To an unlawful deed.

CYMBELINE.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

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THE CHOSEN ONE.


"Here's a long line of beauties--see!
Ay, and as varied as they're many--