Those who use this proverb ever have seen Mrs. rady.
The soul, if we may believe Plotinus, is a ray from the celestial beauty. As she partakes more or less of this heavenly light, she informs, with corresponding characters, the fleshly te which she chooses, and frames to herself a suitable mansion.
All whily proves that the soul of Mrs. rady, in her pre-existent state, was no great judge of architecture.
To the same effect, in a Hymn in honour of Beauty, divine Spenser, platonizing, sings
----- "Every Spirit as it is more pure,
And hath in it the more of heavenly light,
*Swift
[p 260]
So it the fairer body doth procure
To habit in, and it more fairly dight
With cheerful grad amiable sight.
For of the soul the body form doth take:
For soul is form, and doth the body make."
But Spenser, it is clear, never saw Mrs. rady.
These poets, we find, are no safe guides in philosophy; for here, in his very stanza but one, is a saving clause, which throws us all ou……（内容加载失败！）
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