Thus lightly does a man enter upon Enterprises which prove unexpectedly momentous, and shape the whole remainder of his days for him; crossing the Rubicon as it were in his sleep.

In Life, as on Railways at certain points,--whether you know it or not, there is but an inch, this way or that, into what tram you are shunted; but try to get out of it again! "The man is mad, CET HOMME-LA EST FOL!" said Louis XV.

when he heard it.

[Raumer, _Beitrage_ (English Translation, called _Frederick II.

and his Times; from British Museum and State-Paper Office:_--a very indistinct poor Book, in comparison with whet it might have been), p.