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Dogs.

And all the days by them so governed, The dog days light."

Nash Summer's Last Will,

Old Plays, vol. 9, p. 37.

his nephew, to be enjoyed by them for thirty years, at the expiration of which time he expected to return to life, when the estate was to return to him. He provided for his re-appearance by ordering his coffin to be

out.

The late Duke of Norfolk and his Spaniels.

"OUR Marlborough and King James's spaniels are unrivalled in beauty. The latter breed that are black and tan, with hair almost approaching to silk in fineness (such as Vandyke loved to introduce into his portraits,) were solely in the possession of the late duke of Norfolk. He never travelled without two of his favourites in the carriage. When at Worksop he used to feed his eagles with the pups; and a stranger to his exclusive pride in the race, seeing him one day employed in thus destroying a whole litter, told his Grace how much he should be delighted to possess one of them. The Duke's reply was a characteristic one: 'Pray, sir, which of my estates should like to have?""

Chronicon Erici Regis.

you

In the days of king David, Dan, son of Humbla, reigned over the kingdom of Withesleth, which comprised the islands of Zealand, Monen, Falster, and Laland. The Jutes invited him to their assistance against a certain formidable king, and offered him the dominion over them. He accepted the invitation, defeated the enemy, and calls the whole of his dominions after his own name Dania. Thus Dan "fuit pugil fortissimus et giganteus cunctis in circuitu terribilis, et prælia clarissima gessit hinc inde." -LANGEBEK, Script. Rer. Danic. vol. 1, p.

150.

A FEW days ago the remains of a farmer were interred at Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, who died many years ago, and bequeathed his estate, worth 400l. a-year, to his two brothers, and if they should die, to

JOSEPHUS held, like his countrymen, that the souls of wicked men deceased, got into the bodies of the living and possessed them. caused. And the Gnostics agreed with them All diseases, the Jews thought, were thus in this, and supposed, therefore, that they were to be cured by words or charms.CUDWORTH, Vol. 3, p. 345, 6.

the human soul a great secret, concerning AUGUSTINE thought the pre-existence of which men might allowably entertain each what opinion seemed to himself best founded.-Ibid. p. 430.

HADES, TO dedes, the invisible, one etymology.-Ibid. p. 508.

Eidwλor or vehicle of the soul.- Ibid. vol. 3, pp. 509, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20.

USE of physicking-for the soul's sake.Ibid. p. 514-5.

To ospedes, the crustaceous, or ostraceous body.-PLATO, p. 521.

A CHAPTER for the Utilitarians, against unnecessary locks and keys, (you had to go into the kitchen for the key at Inverness). Directing posts recommended. Evil. of a damp and unsunned temple, as at Sharon.

"BENEATH this stone lies all that's good and great,

The virtues of a man compleat."

In Topeliff Church-yard, upon a
Coachmaker.

Tibia cantu. And Theophrastus said patients might be cured of that disease, “si more Phrygio harmoniam aliquis indigena illis accinerit.”—Ibid.

SUPPOSING the existence of inferior creatures in a world where there was neither sin nor death, the mode of progression might be by making every stage the aurelian one to the next above it.

Ir such a one does so or so, "The devil must be wiser than I take him, And the flesh foolisher."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Wit without Money, act ii. sc. iii.

"THOU hast a handsome wit: stir with the world,

Stir, stir, for shame: thou art a pretty

scholar.

Ask how to live? write, write, write any thing,

The world's a fine believing world; write
News."
Act ii. sc. iv.

"places not persons concern our present subject, and I hope I shall not betray such indiscretion as to leave the plain and ready road of my work in hand, to enter into the wood (not to say the bog) of an impertinent question."-FULLER'S Pisgah View, p. 140.

"WE do acknowledge ye are a careful curate,

And one that seldom troubles us with sermons;

A short slice of a reading serves us, Sir, Before you'll vex your audience, you'll sleep We do acknowledge ye a quiet teacher;

with 'em.

All that's a loving thing. We grant ye, Sir, The only benefactor to our bowling,

To all our merry sports the first provoker. And at our feasts, we know there is no rea

son

But you, that edify us most, should eat most.” BEAUMONT and Fletcher, Spanish Curate, act iii. sc. ii.

SUN standing still.—Ibid. p. 255.

"NE m'estant proposé maintenant de contenter seulement les sages, mais aussi les fols. Ceux-là le gaigneront au poids, ceuxcy au nombre.

"Et peradventure adviendra-il que voulant contenter les uns et les autres, je desplairay à tous deux." - PASQUIER, tom. 2, p. 4.

PASQUIER pleaded four days for the Paracelsite, “encontre la Faculté de Medicine."-Tom. 2, p. 197.

He says, "J'abhorre naturellement les medicamens, voire que la seule apprehension opere quelquesfois en moy, autant qu'aux autres la prise."-Ibid. p. 246.

IMITATIVE words.-PASQUIER, tom. 2, p. 259. Pisgah Sight, p. 338.

IMMORTALITY of animals.-BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 1, p. 21.

"ALAS! this kernel long since hath been eaten up by all-devouring Time, leaving nothing thereof but the husk of the empty name to posterity."-Pisgah Sight. Directions for the Index.

A TRADITION that Solomon wrote on the walls of the temple sovereign receipts against all diseases; and that Hezekiah erased them because people placed too much confidence therein, to the prejudice of divine providence.-Ibid. p. 383.

"ONE musical instrument was called Jo

nath Elem Rechokim, by some rendered appellatively the dumb dove in far places.

"Mahalath another, which Ainsworth interpreteth sickness or infirmity, and conceiveth it a kind of wind instrument."-Ibid. p. 396.

(ARISTOTLE.) "The philosopher telleth us that a tower-fashioned nose (round and blunt at the top) is a sign of magnanimity, which explains how the generousness and animosity of the church is intimated, when that feature of the spouse's face is likened, in the Canticles, to the tower of Lebanon

Νόσοι δ ̓ ἀνθρώποισιν εφ' ἡμέρῃ ἠδ ̓ ἐπι νυκτὶ Αὐτόματοι φοιτῶσι, κακὰ θνητοῖσι φέρεσαι Σιγῇ ἐπεὶ φωνὴν ἐξείλετο μητιέτα Ζεύς.

HESIOD, "Epy. Kaì “Hμ. v. 102.

WHEN Nelson was in the Amazon, Oct. 1801, Mrs. Lutwidge pressed him to dine with her at three o'clock, "but," says he, "I told her, I would not dine with the angel Gabriel, to be dragged through a night surf."

PRINCE LEOPOLD of Naples invested with the Order of St. Stephens.-NELSON's Letters, vol. 2, p. 141.

DR. WILLIAMS—“ did show me how a dog that he hath do kill all the cats that come thither to kill his pigeons, and do afterwards bury them; and do it with so much care that they shall be quite covered; that if the tip of the tail hangs out, he will take up the cat again, and dig the hole deeper, which is very strange; and he tells me that he do believe that he hath killed above 100 cats." ~PEPYS, vol. 1, p. 219.

Herbs.

"TORMENTIL, whose virtue is to part
All deadly killing poison from the heart;
And here Narcissus' root, for swellings best,
Yellow Lysimache, to give sweet rest
To the faint shepherd, killing where it comes
All busy gnats, and every fly that hums."
Faithful Shepherdess, act ii. sc. ii.

"WHERE I Take the height of her table with my stomach."-R. & have a Wife, act iii. sc. v.

THIS text was urged in favour of the Salic law," Considerate lilia agri, quomodo crescunt, non laborant non nent. Ergo, Liliorum Gallicorum jus, non nisi nobilibus, qui non laborant; non nisi maribus quia non nent, cedere debet." - ZUINGER, vol. 2, p.

1532.

HECTOR BOECE says that the old Scotch used to shut up women who were affected with madness or any hereditary disease, and castrate men. Ibid. vol. 2, 1715.

LIP-PHYSIC, (FLETCHER. Lover's Progress.) in many cases the best that friend or physician can administer.-Act i. sc. i.

"THE very striking superiority of intellect possessed by the children born in the colony, when compared with those landed from the slave ships, is as unaccountable as it is manifest to the most common observer, on entering a school. The parents are for the most part from the same country; and it can only be explained by the advantages. enjoyed by the former, in having received something of that early instruction, both moral and religious, which is so necessary to predispose the mind to profit by a more extended education: trifling indeed as that instruction has been, the happy results are clearly to be observed." - LT. COL. DENHAM's Sierra Leone Papers, p. 24.

"CINGITE me hederâ," is what a corn should say.