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the paltry temptations of this world were so
willing to risque and to lose them and
thus BEAUMONT and FLETCHER say,
with their essence." - Queen of Corinth,
act i. sc. 1.

ing the Druidical notion of progressive life. This notion applied, as a mode of explain"Parting propensities. Lord B. supposed to have been a discontented devil in the condition of Klopstocks-who, because he was always promising how well he would behave if

"NON mihi si latices Siloe, si porrigat He- opportunity were allowed him, was granted

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Pocula, si cunctis destillent collibus undæ, Et vatem Dan ipse riget, tua dicere dicta (facta)

Sustineam, casusque tuos."

BARLEUS, 1. 16.

a second trial, and placed in the most favourable circumstances,-the effect being to prove himself fit for nothing but dam

nation.

THE famous Père tranquille of the Capuchins (who was he ?) teaches "que le diable

HERODOTUS mentions the Gandarii, Fay- dûëment exorcisé est contraint de dire la dápio. Lib. iii. 91. vii. 66.

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vérité."-VIE DU P. Josef, p. 309.

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TIMOTHY PRIESTLEY in his brother's pulpit. Introduces with this the question, advice, &c. to great personages.

PLINY says, 1. xxviii. c. 3, "A scorpione aliquando percussi, nunquam postea à crabronibus, vespis, apibusque feriuntur." If he had said that they hardly felt the sting, there might have been some show of probability in this assertion.

It is said of S. Jerome, that he filed away his teeth to the very gums, that he might pronounce Hebrew with greater facility.

This I find in the Evangelical Magazine, on what authority the absurd story is given does not appear, but the absurd repeater gives it as an example of " diligence in study."

A gentleman is said to have had a front tooth drawn, that he might spit, like a coachman, with the greater effect.

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tempt them. But surely as to animals, he is wrong.

THE leagues Docteur Boucher, preaching in the church of Notre Dame at Paris, 1593, affirmed that the words of the Psalm Ixviii. or lxix. "Eripe me, Domine, de luto, ut non infigar," were a direct and positive prophetic command to the French de se debourbouner, and not to receive a king of that family, however Catholic he might appear to be.

Sermons.

"I NEVER yet knew a good tongue that I wanted ears to hear it."-O. FELTHAM.

""Tis a wonder to me how men can preach so little and so long;—so long a time, and so little matter. As if they thought to please by the inculcation of their vain tautologies."-Ibid.

"If we out of copper, lead, or pewter preaching can extract pure gold, 'tis no impeachment to our wise philosophy."-Ibid. |

OPIATE sermons; drastic, laxative, alterative, sedative, carminative, corroborent.

แ “FOR you must know strange things in pulpits

Are told to please the listening dull pates." Hudibras, Redivivus, i. 12.

WHEN the elder Sheridan advertized his Attic Morning Entertainment, "that it might answer some purposes of all as well as amusement, he proposed to read part of the Liturgy, and to deliver a sermon, with strictures upon the manner in which those

WHEN a Venetian ambassador, endeavouring to dissuade Louis XII. from making war upon Venice, spoke of the wisdom of that republic, Louis replied, “J'opposerai un si grand nombre de fous à vos sages, que toute leur sagesse sera incapable de leur résister. Note to M. DU BELLAY, from FERRON.

THE proprietor of the Imperial Magazine assures the public "that its type and paper will not shrink from the most rigorous inspection."

"As the strokes in music answer the notes that are prickt in the rules, so the words of the mouth answer to the motions and affections of the heart. The anatomists teach that the heart and tongue hang upon one string. And hence it is, that as in a clock or watch, when the first wheel is moved, the hammer striketh, so when the heart is moved with any passion or perturbation, the hammer beats upon the bell, and the mouth sounds."-FEATLEY. Clavis Mystica. p. 867.

A WOMAN named Nanny Wilkey, seventy years of age, living in St. James's-street, having at different times been afflicted with inflammation, was told that if she carried

about her person a coffin ring1 which had been dug up from a grave, it would prevent a recurrence of her complaint. The old dame, placing the fullest reliance on the charm, has carried a ring of that description for the last five years, during which time she has been free from her old complaint.

acts of public worship are usually per-wings) is both pleasant and wholesome nou"A corrected pigeon (let blood under both rishment."-FULLER'S Worthies, vol. ii. p.

formed.”—CHURCHILL, vol. i. p. 43. N.

Libertin, says the Jesuit Garasse, signifies a Huguenot and a half.

"Le cueur leur devint foye, et se rendirent."-MARTIN DU BELLAY.

158.

The rings and screws of coffins have been supposed to possess virtue from PLINY's time to our own, who tells that " prodest præfixisse in limine è sepulchro avulsos clavos adversus noc. turnas lymphationes," lib. xxxiv. c. 15.

J. W. W.

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“ABOUT sixteen years ago, I met, on the banks of the Danube, with a work in four volumes, entitled, "L'Art de la Guerre," by a Colonel Faesch, a Saxon officer. The author like every other German collector, had culled his treatise from all the books that had been written upon the subject; and he had the honesty to name them. was forcibly struck with one passage, in which he sums up the qualities of a good officer, and which the present subject has recalled to my recollection. He says that an able officer ought to be a sound mathematician, a good lawyer, an acute surgeon, an excellent historian, a good judge of beef, pork, and mutton, and a sound divine! Although his ingredients of an officer combine much taste with science, I will not go so far as to assert that all these qualifications are necessary to a British, however proper they may be to a German officer. But I will venture to affirm, that an uninstructed lad of sixteen years of age, whose mind is incapable of commanding himself, is not fit to command others."

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Nash, of Bath, to the ringers of the abbey there, is contained in a codicil to his will, proved in Doctors' Commons:-'I do hereby give and bequeath to the mayor, the senior alderman, and town clerk of Bath for the time being, the sum of £50 per annum, in trust, payable out of the Bank Long AnInuities, standing in my name at the Bank of England, for the use, benefit, and enjoyment of the set of ringers belonging to the Abbey Church, Bath, on condition of their ringing, on the whole peal of bells, with clappers muffled, various solemn and doleful changes (allowing proper intervals for rest and refreshment), from eight o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock in the evening, on the 14th day of May in every year, being the anniversary of my wedding day; and also the anniversary of my decease, to ring a grand bob major and merry mirthful peals unmuffled, during the same space of time, and allowing the same intervals as above mentioned, in joyful commemoration of my happy release from domestic tyranny and wretchedness, and for the full, strict, and due performance of such conditions, they, the said ringers, are to receive the sum of £50 per annum, in two payments of £25 each, on those respective days of my marriage and my decease. And now that dear divine man (to use Mrs. Nash's own words) the Rev. of -, may resume his

"M. ANTONIUS, Triumvir, corporis excrementa non nisi vasis aureis excipiebat." -TEXTOR. Pref. ad Cornucopiam.

He loved Erasmus, because Erasmus, writing to Daniel Benedictus of Milan, says to him, "Dictus est Daniel vir desideriorum, quid itaque mirum si desiderius Desiderium desideras?"—Ep. p. 908.

TAMERLANE used to boast that he was descended from the tribe of Dan."-R. B. Mem. Remarks concerning the Jews, p. 29. "BA-BA, black sheep, have you any wool ?" Applied to a wicked book, from which some good may be extracted.

THE report of an Irish society tells us that Lord Chesterfield's Letters are often met with among the books used in the low Irish schools. Munster is the part spoken of.

amatory labours, without enveloping him

self in a sedan chair for fear of detection. I further will and direct that the aforesaid ringers do enter upon office (for the first time only) the very next day following after my interment, and to receive £25, one halfyear's dividend, for so doing. Written with my hand, this 14th May, 1813.-THOMAS NASH.'"

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"OF TWO EVILS CHOOSE THE LEAST.-The I would to Heaven he were!"

following singular bequest, made by Thomas

Othello, act iv. sc. 1.

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