Dr. Sourby's Adventure in the Recluse's Cave, and Observations on His Return Home.

‘You are rather too hard, gentlemen, on our friend Sourby,’ said Dr. Homily, smiling; ‘he has only met with the fate of great projectors, and wasted most of his gold in discovering the philosopher’s stone; but the experiment will not have cost him too much, if it makes him sensible of the advantages of good government; which, like the ordinary blessings of nature, escape our attention from being common and familiar.’