THE Chev. Ramsay in his Phil. Princip. of Nat. and Rev. Religion (Glasgow, 2 vols. 4to. 1751), held universal restitution.

BERTOLACCI, Vol. 2, p. 139. At the day of judgment the whole sun is to be unsheathed (for part only is now seen) and to consume the wicked.

See also vol. 2, p. 128, 134-41.

PUNISHMENT of neutral angels, and souls neither fit for heaven nor deserving hell. DANTE, canto 3.

Monthly Review, vol. 9, Sept. 1753, p. 200. A curious scheme to prove that all souls will finally be saved, but the bodies of the righteous only.

"NON è alcuna cosi grave miseria in questo mondo, laquale si possa pareggiare al non essere venuto in questa vita. In tanto che Santo Agostino hebbe a dire, che molto meglio è l'essere condannato alle pene dell' Inferno, che non esser mai nato.

S. F. "Io no so conoscere, che dolore o qual pena possa provare chi non ha essere : et certo buoni argomenti ci havrebbono mistiero a farmi credere questo."-Novella delle Donne, ff. 128, LODOVICO DOMENICHI." Yet he proceeds to say 66 'Nondimeno di tanta auttorità sono le parole di quel Santissimo huomo, ch'io stringo le spalle, et m'arrendo."

It is beneath the majesty of the Emperor of Japan to inflict for any the least disregard shown to his imperial commands a less punishment than death, by the offender's own hands, or perpetual banishment, or imprisonment, with the utter ruin of his family.-KEMPFER, vol. 1, p. 267.

GOD forgive those who believe in eternal torments, for to believe in them, is almost to deserve them.

"THE execution of damnation begins in death, and is finished in the last judgment." -PERKINS, vol. 1, p. 107.

This would be so on the scheme of destruction, but how inaccurately does it represent the writer's own opinions.

Surgery.

MITHRIDATES tried poisons and antidotes upon criminals.-SPRENGEL, vol. 1, p. 488-9.

THE Arabian surgeons in the time of Rhazes thought that when a bone was out of joint, the injury was not in the articulation, but in the middle of the bone.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 298.

REALD COLUMBUS, a Professor at Padua, was the first who for the uses of live anatomy substituted dogs for swine.-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 11.

In those days when the anatomists wanted a subject, they begged a criminal of the sovereign, whom they put to death in their way, that is, says SPRENGEL, by opium, and then dissected him.-Ibid. p. 12.

THE lacteals had been discovered in ani

mals by Aselli but never in the human subject, till Peiresc to whom Gassendi had communicated Aselli's work, begged of the magistrate at Aix that a malefactor might be delivered over to the surgeons a little before his execution. They made him take a hearty meal, and one hour and a half after his excustion executed him, and saw the lacteals to Peiresc's great satisfaction.Ibid. vol. 4, p. 203.

Ir was thought that La Noue of the Iron Arms, one of the best of his countrymen, might have been saved, if the surgeon in whom he confided would have trepanned him.-Coll. des Mem. vol. 47, p. 63.

IN that age, Sylvaticus, the Professor at Pavia, said that trepanning ought to be left to the itinerant surgeons. The Circulatores they were called.-SPRENGEL, t. 7, p. 11.

still be wanting.-STEEVENS. Note to Macbeth,-" like a rat without a tail."

AMONG Evelyn's charges against solitude, after saying that it produces ignorance, renders us barbarous, feeds revenge, and disposes to envy, he says it creates witches. Censura Literaria, vol. 1, p. 9.

IT is "their black business to kill children; seeing that the principal preparations whereby they exercise, are made either of the skin or flesh of a child. Of the skin they make their virgin parchment, a thing of great importance as to them, and in which all their spells and charms are to be written. Of the flesh decocted to a jelly they make their unguents, with which they do things of so rare and unreasonable consequence. This practice of theirs, confesseth the secret strength of innocency, and sanctity of children."-JOHN Gregoire, p. 98

SOME admiring reader of Hutchinson has written in the margin of my copy, (vol. 8, p. 263), "all charms have come from the ancients, and have had a mystical signification."

"ALL I can say is, that Satan and he are better acquainted than the devil and a good Christian ought to be."-VANBRugh. Mistake, p. 41.

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SEE Statute, 33 Hen. VIII. c. 8, p. 837. persons who for the execution of their false devices made divers images and pictures of men, women, children, angels, or devils, beasts, or fowls, and also crowns, sceptres, swords, rings, glasses, and other things, and giving faith to such fantastical practices, have digged up and pulled down an infinite number of crosses within this realm,-for despite of Christ, or for lucre of money,-felony without clergy."

EVAX, King of Arabia, dedicated his book on precious stones to Nero, because there was an e in his name as well as in the Emperor's :

"Evax rex Arabum fertur dixisse
Neroni, &c. (?)

Monthly Review, vol. 7, p. 133.

THE elephant which the King of Persia sent by Isaac the Jew to Charlemagne was called Abulabaz.-Zuinger, p. 2444.

AN ancestor of J. Wilkes, Edward Wilkes, who resided in James I.'s reign at Leighton Beausert (now Buzzard), had three sons and one daughter. The sons he christened Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and to come as near John as he could, he called the daughter Joan.-ALMON'S M. vol. 1, p. 2.

In different branches of the family there have been Matthew and Mark to this time.

WHEN John of Gaunt harps mournfully upon his name, Richard II. replies to him,

THEODORE D'AGRIPPA D'AUBIGNE, having had an illegitimate son, born in the fourth year of her widowhood, speaks thus of him in her will:-" Je le fis nommer Nathan, et lui donnai pour surnom Engiband. Premièrement par le nom qui retourné se trouve de même à retourner, le surnom aussi trouve celui du père. En second lieu, j'ai voulu que ce nom me fut un Nathan, qui signifie donné, et que le nom du censeur de David representât mon ord péché aux yeux et aux oreilles incessamment.". - Mem. de M. Maintenon, vol. 6, p. 47.

NAMESAKE feeling in the two Ajaces.— CowPER, b. 17, v. 869.

THE Lord Keeper North thought of introducing Nec-nons as well as Ac-etiams. —Vol. 1, p. 207.

ODYSSEY.-CowPER, b. 8, v. 677-80. Yet some savages have no names.

Hell. "VERISIMILE nimirum est manes colloquiis assuetos esse, nihil est enim aliud quod apud inferos agunt, ubi igni perpetuò assident, nisi ut confabulentur. Atque hinc est fœminas plerumque veneficas esse, et cum dæmone consortium inire, quod hæ ipsum magis promptè ac liberè alloquantur.”— Decl. ascribed to SOUTH, Opera Posthuma, p. 10.

RABBI SIMEON BEN LAKISCH said, “Non erit infernus tempore venturo. Sed Deus Sanct. Benedict. educet Solem e thecâ suâ, facietque ut penetret radiis suis homines; et impii quidem judicabuntur per illum, justi vero canabuntur per illum."

To this they apply Malachi iv. 1.

Avoda Sara, p. 16.

ST. JAMES. "You must not mistake St. James's meaning. He does affirm that a single breach of God's law deserves eternal death, as well as ten thousand; yet he does not say that small and great offenders will have equal punishment. No: mighty sinners will be mightily tormented. Men's future torment will be suited to the number and the greatness of their crimes. Yet moderate offenders can have small consolation from hence, because the shortest punishment is eternal, and the coldest place in hell will prove a hot one."-BERRIDGE, Christian World Unmasked, p. 27.

sit upon the point of a needle." -JOHN GREGOIRE, p. 55, Rusca de Inferno, referred

to.

"ST. AUSTIN might have returned another answer to him that asked him, 'What God employed himself about before the world was made?' 'He was making hell.' No such matter. The doctors in the Talmud say,' He was creating repentance, or contriving all the ways how he might be merciful enough to the Man he is so mindful of, and to the Son of Man so much regarded by him.'"-JOHN GREGOIRE, p. 135.

MASTER HENRY GREENWOOD's Torment

ing Tophet (A. D. 1608), or, A terrible description of hell, able to break the hardest heart, and cause it to quake and tremble." -Monthly Review, vol. 68, p. 343-5. Some just remarks.

"INFERNUS in futuro seculo non erit, sed Sol æstu suo cruciabit impios, idemque exhilarabit pios."—Avoda Sara, p. 16.

Oaths.

M.DE LA TRIMOUILLE was called, Lavraye Corps Dieu, because that was his usual oath. Bayard used to exclaim, Feste-Dieu Bayard. M. de Bourbon (the Constable), Saints Barbe. The Prince of Orange, Saint Nicolas (not the Prince). "Le Bon Homme, M.de la Roche du Maine juroit Teste Dieu pleine de Reliques, (où Diable avoit il trouvé celuy-là?) et autres que je nominerois, plus saugreneux que ceux-là, mais il vaut mieux les taire."-BRANTOME, vol. 6, 129.

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JAMES GRANGER, vicar, preached a sermon October 18th, 1779, in the parish church of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, and published it under the title of An Apology for the Brute Creation; or Abuse of Animals considered. Will it be believed that this very sensible discourse gave disgust to two considerable congregations, and that the mention of dogs and horses was considered as a prostitution of the dignity of the pulpit. This made him publish it. He dedicated it to T. B. Drayman, and addressing him as Neighbour Tom, reminded him that he had seen him exercise the lash with greater rage, and heard him at the same time swear more roundly and forcibly, than he had ever seen or heard any of his brethren of the whip in London. Should he find any hard words in the discourse, he told him that if he could come to the vicarage, he would endeavour to explain them. And he warned him that if he did not alter his conduct, he would take care to have him punished by a justice of peace.-Monthly Review, vol. 47, p. 491-2.