I know no road to fortune more tempting to a young man, or one that with more certainty leads to ruin.

Thackeray, who in a way more or less correct, often refers in his writings, if not to the incidents, at any rate to the remembrances of his own life, tells us much of the story of this newspaper in _Lovel the Widower_.

"They are welcome," says the bachelor, "to make merry at my charges in respect of a certain bargain which I made on coming to London, and in which, had I been Moses Primrose purchasing green spectacles, I could scarcely have been more taken in.

My Jenkinson was an old college acquaintance, whom I was idiot enough to imagine a respectable man.

The fellow had a very smooth tongue and sleek sanctified exterior.