font une agréable musique, les mousquets un bruit horrible: les cloches ouvrent le ciel, les mousquets l'enfer : les cloches dissipent le tonnerre et les nuages, les mousquets élèvent les nuages et imitent le tonnerre."-Ibid. p. 170, N. His book was published A. D. 1557. WHAT the bells of Varennes said concerning Panurge's marriage. - Ibid. vol. 4, pp. 262-273. IN Queen Elizabeth's journies from Hatfield to London, as soon as she drew nigh the town, Shoreditch bells, which were much esteemed for their melody, used to strike up in honour of her approach. She seldom failed to stop at a small distance from the church, and amid the prayers and acclamations of the people, would listen attentively to, and commend the bells.-HAWKINS'S H. Music, vol. 3, p. 458. Ir is a common tradition, that the bells of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, were taken by Henry V. from some church in France, after the battle of Agincourt. They were taken down some years ago, and sold to Phelps the bell-founder in Whitechapel, who melted them down.-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 154. IN A.D. 1684, Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester brought the art of bell-founding to great perfection. His descendants in succession have continued the business of casting bells; and by a list published by them it appears that at Lady Day 1774, the family, in peals and odd bells, had cast to the amount of 3594. The peals of St. Dunstans, St. Brides, and St. Martins, were among them.-Ibid. Cators, Cinques, Bobs-royal, and Bobsmaximuses were invented by the worshipful company of Barbers, to distinguish the various orders of perukes; as the sounds seem rather consonant to them than to the musical art of bell-ringing. This, however, is certain, that they contribute nothing towards harmonizing the harsh blank verse of this laboured poem."-Ibid. FOEDOR I. the last Russian prince of the race of Rourik, passed the eleven years of his inglorious reign in bell-ringing.—Ibid. vol. 71, p. 551. LE CLERC. Family Pride. DIFFERENT degrees of relationship to Adam. THAT phrase concerning Melchisedec, which has given occasion to such fancies, simply means that his pedigree is not known. ȧyevεaλóуnтоg. "Nullis majoribus ortos." ἀγενεαλόγητος. -HORACE. FRANKLIN'S progressive diminution of consanguinity. "LES anciens Romains étoient aussi fous, qu'on l'est aujourd'hui sur le chapitre des genealogies. De combien de familles ne disoient-ils pas qu'elles descendoient, ou d'un compagnon d'Hercule, ou de quelque autre personnage des tems fabuleux."BAYLE, vol. 2, p. 274. "GREAT families," says Sir Egerton B. though they have many obscure periods in a course of generations, yet always break out at intervals, and show their brilliant “CAMPANALOGIA, a poem in praise of lights."—Autobiography, vol. 1, p. 275. ringing. By the author of The Shrubs of Parnassus. Folio, 1s. 1d."-Monthly Review, 1761, vol. 25, p. 478. "ONE would imagine such strange terms as Grandsire triples, Bobs, Bob-majors, Hereditary Qualities. BISHOP HALL, enquiring "in what point the goodness of honour consisteth," and if it is "in high descent of blood," says—“ I could think so, if nature were tied by any law to produce children like qualified to their parents. But, although in the brute creatures she be ever thus regular, that ye shall never find a young pigeon hatched in an eagle's nest; yet in the best creature, which hath his form and her attending qualities from above, with a likeness of face and features, is commonly found an unlikeness of disposition; only the earthly part follows the seed: wisdom, valour, virtue, are of another beginning."-Sacred Classics, vol. 5, pp. 45-6. In the time of the League "On érigea en axiome de droit public, qu'il n'y avoit plus de parenté au dixième degré, et qu' ainsi la descendance du Roi de Navarre étoit un être de raison. Les Théologiens et les Publiastes se réunirent pour démonstrer au Cardinal de Bourbon que la succession linéale en fait de parenté finissoit inclusivement à sa personne." A book was written to prove this point; and an answer was written which "prouva que la succession linéale s'étendoit à l'infini." This letter, by Pierre Belloy, is printed in the Memoires de la Ligue.-Coll. des Mem. t. 50, pp. 328-9. AMADIS, Vol. 11, p. 24. Breed of heroes improving from generation to generation. A CONTRARY opinion.-COWPER's Odyssey, vol. 1, p. 37. JARROLD'S Instinct and Reason, pp. 241. 135. BREED of Chiefs. Physical superiority | b. 4, p. 153. secured by breed and feeding.—WILLIAMS' Missionary Enterprizes, pp. 512-3. KÆMPFER, vol. 1, p. 265. "SENSE and fidelity are wonderful recommendations; and when one meets with them, and can be confident that one is no imposed upon, I cannot think that the two additional legs are any drawback. At least I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they | higher than my head, and shall eat all day had walked on all fours."-H. WALPOLE, long, and there won't be a single mosquito to annoy me."-TURNER'S Sac. Hist. vol. 3, vol. 4, p. 344. p. 520. 66 SULLY, vol. 1, p. 79.. He once found Henry, then King of Navarre, in his cabinet. L'espée au costé, une cappe sur les espaules, son petit toquet en teste, et un pannier pendu en escharpe au col, comme ces vendeurs de fromages, dans lequel il y avoit deux ou trois petites chiens pas plus gros que poing." Paradisiacal State. Watts, vol. 3, p. 375. Nothing but man was created with a telescopic and microscopic sight, and all sense of hearing, feeling, and smelling, in proportional superiority. Ibid. p. 378. AND without any principle of decay or death in him. Ibid. p. 424. THEY might have been translated, like Enoch. Ibid. p. 437. "It is very probable, though Adam and Eve had no garments in their state of innocency, yet they were not entirely naked, but were covered with a bright shining light, or glory, as a token of their own innocence, and of the Divine favour or presence: such glory as angels sometimes appeared in, and such as Christ wore on the holy mount: such as arrayed him like a bright cloud at his ascent to heaven, and such as saints shall put on at the resurrection, when they shall be raised in power and glory." 1 CAPT. MARRYAT asked a Burman soldier "I what was his notion of a future state. shall be turned into a buffalo," he replied; " and shall lie down in a meadow of grass See the opinion of Stephen Gobarus, Third Series, p. 679.-J. W. W. THERE were two boys belonging to the Artificer's Company at Gibraltar during the siege possessed of such extraordinary quickness of sight that they could see the enemy's shot almost immediately as it quitted the gun. They were constantly placed therefore on some of the works to observe the enemy's fire, and give notice. Their names were Richardson and Brand. The former was reputed to have the best eye.Drinkwater, p. 227. Progressive Life. "SOME delight in low and wanton jests, and their satisfaction lies in foolish merriment, in mean and trifling conversation, a little above the chattering of monkeys in a wood, or the chirping of crickets upon a hearth, but not always so innocent."Watts, vol. 3, p. 405. LYCANTHROPY-Sprengel, vol. 2, p. 174, WATTS thinks it "highly probable that the damned will exist in a perpetual expectation and dread of new and increasing punishment without end, and that such an increase will be their portion; for as the capacities of the saints to take in new scenes and new degrees of pleasure will be enlarged as their knowledge and their love increases, so the increasing sins, the growing wickedness, and mad rebellion of damned spirits, may bring upon them new judg ments and more weighty vengeance.”—Vol. 5, p. 645. "PERHAPS as the wicked of this world when they die, have left evil and pernicious examples behind them, or have corrupted the morals of their neighbours by their en ticements or their commands, or by their wicked influence of any kind, so their punishment may be increased in proportion to the lasting effects of thèir vile example, or their vicious influences. And perhaps too there are no men among all the ranks of the damned, whose souls will be filled so high with the dread and horror of increasing woes, as lewd and profane writers, profane and immoral princes, or cruel persecutors of religion."Ibid. p. 646. "WHY may he not suppose that their bodies shall be raised with all the seeds of disease in them, like the gout or the stone, or any other smarting malady,—that God will create bodies for them of such an un happy mould and contexture as shall be another perpetual source of pain and anguish."—Ibid. "SOME writers, elder and later, have held that the vast numbers of indifferent persons, who have neither been evidently holy, nor evidently wicked, shall be sent to a new state of trial in the other world."-Ibid. p. 647. He does not name those writers; and can find no hint of them in the Bible except 1 Peter iii. 19, about Christ preaching to the Spirit of those who were drowned in the flood,-"an obscure text" which may be construed to another sense with truth and justice. "Ir is not at all unlikely that their habitation shall be a place of fire, and their bodies may be made immortal to endure the smart and torture without consuming. Did not this God by his Almighty power and mercy preserve the bodies of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the burning fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, so that the fire had no power to consume or destroy them? And cannot his power do the same thing under the influence of his justice, as well as of his mercy? When the power and the wrath of a God unite to punish a creature, how miserable must that creature be!"Ibid. p. 649. "CON que se castigarà dignamente el desprecio de tan grande magestad? Claro està que con ninguna pena menor que con la que està à los tales aparejada, que es arder para siempre en los fuegos del infierno; y con todo esto no se castiga dignamente."-LUIS DE GRANADA, tom. 1, p. 5. Ir one of the damned were to drop one tear, once in a thousand years, in time he would have shed more in quantity than all the waters of the flood! If the worst pain of hell were no more than the prick of a needle, think what that would be, if it were eternal.—Ibid. p. 35. The flames of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace rose to the height of forty-nine cubits, not fifty, because fifty would have tokened a jubilee, a time of remission, and the furnace was to be a type of hell.—Ibid. p. 36. WHAT a support would he have had for his theory which places hell in the sun, if he had known that "Hλog is derived from the oriental hel, briller, and no doubt brûler also?-C. DE GEBELIN, Calendrier, p. 43. |