La Mettrie, in a twinge of agony, cried out, 'JESUS MARIE!' 'AH, VOUS VOILA ENFIN RETOURNE A CES NOMS CONSOLATEURS!' exclaimed the Irishman.

To which La Mettrie answered (in polite language, to the effect), 'Bother you!' and expired a few minutes after." [Nicolai,--Anekdoten,--i.

20 n.] Enough of this poor madcap.

Friedrich's ELOGE of him, read to the Academy some time after, it was generally thought (and with great justice), might as well have been spared.

The Piece has nothing noisy, nothing untrue; but what has it of importance?
And surely the subject was questionable, or more.