SOME Romanists have started the ques- | wool into his vegetable ranks, one as made tion how Enoch could cut his hair and his nails.-GARMANN. p. 270. of mulberry leaves, the other of grass. By the same logic he might make mutton a vegetable. "HE that hath love and judgment too, Sees more than any other do." Heliconia, vol. 2, Phenix Nest. p. 7. "LEND me but your attentions, and I'll cut Long grief into short words." Revenger's Tragedy, Old Plays, vol. 4, p. 303. "Quòd si quis quæ dico non intelligit, secum agat studiis et votis ut proficiat; non mecum querelis et convitiis, ut desistam." -S. AUGUSTIN. GARASSE, p. 551. A THIEF said there was only one plant in the world which he could not bear, and that was hemp; for it had been the death of his father, and might likely enough be his own too.-GARASSE, p. 599. COULD we, in the American sense of the word, realize those points of our faith in which all Christians are agreed, we should have in these the true panacea,—the philosopher's stone,-the elixir of life. AKENSIDE'S I. The third personal pronoun is the most comprehensive word in the world; for except you and me, reader, it comprises everything else in existence. A SOPHIST in the Controversies of Seneca, wishes he were a Spanish horse.-GARASSE, p. 705. AUGUSTINE used commonly to end his sermons with, "Parcite mihi, fratres mei; nolo dicere quod sequitur."-Ibid. p. 731. "LA laideur du diable est nonpareille; et il n'y a créature au monde si difforme que le plus beau Diable de l'Enfer."-Ibid. p. 839. "Il est vray que les Diables ne sont pas laids en leur essence, mais seulement en leurs accidens."-Ibid. p. 481. In the Miracle Plays he was made as ugly as possible, hairy like a bear, with a bottle nose, and a tail.-COLLIER'S Stage, vol. 2, p. 263. What beauty there is in hell, and why the Devil is to be respected.-Vide GARASSE, pp. 841-2. COLLIER'S Stage, vol. 3, p. 96. "YOUR ale is as a Philistine fox,-there's fire in the tail on't."-Merry Devil of Edmonton, Old Plays, vol. 5, p. 238. "I ADVISE you," says Johnson, "and I advise you with great earnestness, to do nothing that may hurt you, and to reject nothing that may do you good. To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtue: we can be useful no longer than while we are well."-CROKER'S Boswell, vol. 2, p. 119. SOME Mr. Steele published Prosodia Rationalis, or an Essay towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech, to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar Symbols. 1779. He pretended to show how Garrick's recitation might be transmitted to posterity by notation. Boswell thought he had succeeded.—Ibid. vol. 3, p. 201. J.'s intention of writing a cookery book. -Ibid. vol. 4, pp. 143-4. See Turner's Sacred History, p. 124. Pulei MM. T. 3, p. 328. Take away the beard, and how you mar the picture. Enobarbus. Suetonius. Nero. § 1. SHEIKH JAMAL ODDIN EL SAWI, head of the Karenders," who shave their chins and eyebrows." A woman of Sawah acted the part of Potiphar's wife towards him. Having no other escape, for she had entrapt him into an inner apartment, he asked permission to retire, and having a razor about him, he shaved off his beard and eyebrows. Upon which, horrified at his deformity, she had him driven out of the house. Hence his sect followed the fashion.-IBN BATISTA's Travels, p. 11. MODERN machinery is frightful,-as if properly to deter one from its use, whereas it is beautiful in all the old-necessary, beneficial inventions. CICERO, vol. 1, p. 339. See Turner's Sacred History, p. 139. EVEN most of the fish" which are most abundant, and come most frequently in our sight, have pleasing forms," and are beautiful.-TURNER, pp. 16, 259. OIL from seeds, and walnuts. WHALES. Connubial affection in them. Ibid. p. 285. LOGAN, quoted by TURNER, (ibid. p. 376), says of animals, that "in all their actions they HORNED Woman.-RUSSELL'S Tour in discover no sense of Deity, and no traces of Germany, vol. 1, p. 250. BEARDS. S. Paula Barbata. Acta SS. Feb. 3, 174.. Goat's beard fixed upon a sinner.-Ibid. March 2, 570. J. Southcote's followers. "Ducit opes animumque ferro."-HOR. De Guigues, vol. 2, p. 189. religion.”—Sermons, vol. 1, p. 3. We cannot be sure of this. HARTLEY on the possible immortality of brutes. Ibid. p. 376. "AGAINST the multiplicity of watches, Whereby much neighbourly familiarity, By asking 'What d'ye guess it is o'clock ?' Is lost, when every puny clerk can carry we have divers that drive that trade now, poets, poetaccios, poetasters, poetitos, and all haberdashers of small wit-I presume."-Induction to the Magnetic Lady. COOKERY. 66 we ever make the latter day The scholar of the former; and we find A trade from Adam.-B. J. Staple of As if there were no sabbath of the mind." News. DANIEL. Ep. prefixed to Philotas. LANDER, the African traveller, speaks of a wood-pigeon which had seen its mate caught and killed, lingering about the spot and wasting away in mourning the loss of her companion.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 248. THOSE wretched horses worked to death in this service. The affection, he says, of these poor brutes towards each other is quite extraordinary.-Ibid. p. 269. "EVERY one is a virtuoso of a higher or lower degree. Every one pursues a Grace, and courts a Venus of one kind or another."-SHAFTESBURY, vol. 1, p. 138. "SICKNESS, be thou my soul's physician, Bring the apothecary Death with thee." NASH. Summer's Last Will. Old Plays, ix. 55. "CARE that is entered once into the breast, Will have the whole possession ere it rest." BEN JONSON. Tale of a Tub, vol. 6, p. 152. "BUT as I am now here, just in the mid way, I'll set my sword on the pummel, and that line The point falls to, we'll take.-Ibid. p. 206. "SUCH things ever are like bread, which the staler it is, the more wholesome."-BEN JONSON. Case is altered, p. 326. Ir is well said by SHAFTESBURY, that "profound thinking is many times the cause of shallow thought."-Vol. 3, p. 226. “NEIGHBOUR, sharpen the edge-tool of your wit upon the whetstone of indiscretion."-LODGE. Wounds of Civil War, Old Plays, vol. 8, p. 83. TRENCHARD the Whig. "He was always excellent company; but the time of the day when he shined most, was for three hours or more after dinner. Towards the evening, he was generally subject to indigestions. The time he chose to think in was the morning."- Preface to CATO's Letters, xxx. "THE opinion of a physician or a medicine does often effect the cure of a patient, by giving to his mind such ease and acquiescence as can alone produce health."CATO's Letters, vol. 1, p. 126. "WITHOUT any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plain highway of talk."-Merchant of Venice, act. iii. sc. i. PASQUIER, Vol. 2, p. 395. Regilian made emperor in the days of Gallienus, for his name's sake. M. DE PISANY, who had been governor of the Prince of Condé, and whom PASQUIER, "MARRIAGE Goddesses."-Ibid. p. 63. "EVERY sickness is not unto death, and therefore the Lord hath appointed drugs for the maladies of the body. Altissimus creavit medicinam, says the Son of Sirach; the Most High hath created medicines, and a wise man will not despise them; therefore they chose an ill matter to commend who praised S. Agatha, that she would never take any remedy for the infirmities of her body. Habeo Dominum Jesum qui solo sermone restaurat universa: this was rash adventuring.'"-B. HACKET's Sermons, p. | 325. "FOR Beauty hath a living name, And will to Heaven from whence it came." BEN JONSON, vol. 7, p. 210. flies and insects, BEN JONSON, (ibid. p. 255), calls the "trespasses and scapes of nature." "AND the nature of the onion is to draw tears, As well as the mustard :-peace, pitchers have ears." Ibid. p. 304. "THERE's twice as much music in beating | triumphal cars, or thought more lucky in the tabor, races. ERASM. Adag. p. 167. PROVERBS, that the children of great men degenerate, but that good sons never proceed from ill parents.-Ibid. p. 241-2. SCALE of longevity.-Ibid. p. 255. ERASMUS (Adagia, p. 361) says he had seen the Ice-worm in the Alps. PLINY'S winged Salamander.- ERASMUS Adag. p. 361. ANNOS, an Egyptian invented ovens.Ibid. p. 397. Δυσδαίμων εὐδαιμονία-infelix felicitas. Ibid. p. 406. Acco was a remarkably silly woman, who used to converse with herself at the glass. Adag. p. 490. "LONGIUS hæc ratio, puteoque petatur ab imo; |