Show eboth THINKER AND DRINKER Erni eminent nent englishman one of the most r bibulous of men ti I 1 the great person librarian and greek scholar would sit up drinking all night without seeming to feel any bad effects from it horne home tooke told samuel rogers that he once asked person to dine with him in richmond buildings and as he knew that por son had bad not been in bed for the preceding nights he expected to get rid of him at a tolerably early hour hoier however kept tooke up the whole night and in tn tila morning the latter in perfect olf deai air said mr air I 1 am eng engaged to meet a friend at breakfast at a coffee house tn in leicester square oh replied 1 I will go with you and hs ha accordingly did so soon after they had reached the coffee house bouse tooka contrived to slip out and home ordered his servant not to let lei a mr in even it he should at tempt to batter down the door A man ob observed servel tooke who could sit up tour four nights successively might have sat up 40 tooke used to say that would drink ink rather than not drink at all indeed lie would drink anything lie he was sitting with a gentle man after dinner in the chambers 0 a mutual friend a templar who was then ill and confined to bed A servant came into the room sent thither by his master tor for a bottle of embro cation which was on the chimney piece 1 I drank it an hour ago sale londona Lon dons T P a weekly |