F. R. S.

_Quotations wanted._--Will you or some of your correspondents tell _where_

this sentence occurs: "It requireth great cunning for a man to seem to know

that which he knoweth not?" Miss Edgeworth gives it as from Lord Bacon. _I_

cannot find it. Also, _where_ this very superior line: "Life is like a game

of tables, the chances are not in our power, but the playing is?" _This_ I

have seen quoted as from Jeremy Taylor, but _where_? I have looked his

works carefully through: it is so clever that it _must_ be from a superior

mind. And _where_, in Campbell, is "A world without a sun?" This, I

_believe_, is in _Gertrude of Wyoming_.

Excuse this trouble, Mr. Editor; but you are now become the general referee

in puzzles of _this_ kind.

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