it was scarce worth while to make a convert from either of the religions (Popish or Protestant) to the other."-SPENCE's Anecdotes, p. 202.

This can only have been meant as to the improvement of the individual,—and even so confined is not maintainable.

Βλέπου, πῶς ἄνος ὤν, ἀνέστη There are men in place and power always, to whom this may be applied.- ZUINGER, vol. 2, p.

1496.

Ir is lavish expenditure that, more than the plenty of the circulating medium, raises prices, as in markets, lodgings, &c.

A country may be rich, and yet prices continue low, if the habit of frugality be retained.

strong water, but by a skilful company of a number of ingredients, and those by just weight and proportion, and that if some simples, which perhaps of themselves, or in over-great quantity, were little better than poisons, but mixed and broken and in just quantity, are full of virtue."-BACON, vol. 12, p. 285.

"ON Sunday, the 28th March, 1830, the New Baptist Chapel at Highgate, will be opened, when a sermon will be preached in the morning by the Rev. and in the evening by

"N. B. A Prayer Meeting will be held every Tuesday and Friday, at seven o'clock in the morning.

"It is hoped that the Friends of the Redeemer will avail themselves of this opportunity to worship the Lord Jesus in spirit and in truth."

With these handbills the walls were

"BEHOLD I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts; posted about the environs of London. because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.”— JER. vi. 19.

"WHAT a blockhead," says Nelson, " to believe any body is so active as myself!"

"If it be ill, I will not urge the acquaintance."

MANY who think they are proceeding at quick time in the straight forward march of an upright mind, are owing to a squint in the intellect, making all speed in a wrong line.

CHURCH rents,-being saved from rackrent, have become almost the only benefi

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Hum. cial tenure.
Lieutenant, p. 61.

FABULOUS History of Port.-Hist. de le lower ranks in barbarous times.-PHILIP'S Reoja, p. 160.

Her whole practice was by liniments and unctions.

PREFACE to Gondibert, p. 62.-Folly of the maxim exposed, that the people ought to be kept in ignorance.

TENDENCY in the public to disparage what they read, and of unsuccessful authors to became malignant critics. - Preface to Gozzi, p. 31.

WHEN boys (CUDWORTH, e. g.) went at thirteen to College, were they brought more forward at school than they were in the next generation ? I suppose so; the first ardour of study after the revival of letters had not ceased. Emulation has recently brought it back.

ON what authority does the Editor of the Correio Braziliense assert that Charles V. wished at once to have made the Spanish colonies independent, forseeing the impos

ABUSE of words.-THUCYD. p. 181. Trans. sibility, at last, of keeping them in subjecp. 210.1 tion ?-Vol. 5, p. 353.

NOT to be too wise in imminent danger. -Ibid. p. 205. Trans. p. 237.

"He who places a seed in the earth," says FRANKLIN," is recompensed forty fold; but he who draws a fish out of the water, draws up a piece of silver."

How has he overlooked the outlay of tackle and labour?

KEPLER drawing by a camera obscura.SIR H. WOTTON's Remains, p. 300.

COTTAGES and their comforts in Sir G. Wheeler's time.-SURTEES, vol. 1, p. 172.

THE name of the mother is sometimes mentioned in the Old Testament, and not that of the father.

Ar the inns in Germany, TAYLOR, the Water Poet, says, "if we did ask them why they did salt their meat so unreasonable, their answer was that their beer could not be consumed except their meat were salted

By observing the vibration of the lamps in the Cathedral of Pisa, Galileo was led to the important discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum.-Quarterly Review, No. 78, p. 435.

COTTLE, vol. 1, p. 93.-Some very just remarks upon Monday markets.

THE breed of bees is discouraged in the wine countries, owing to the injury which they are known to do to the young blossoms of the vine.-KINSEY, p. 459.

ONE may apply what is said of the various classes who cross the Pont Neuf, (see PRUDHOMME). "You cannot look through a magazine without finding in it things which bear the stamp of a regularly bred author, of an aspirant genius, of a dandy dabbler in fine literature, of a radical, of a soi disant philosopher, of a political economist, of a clever woman, of a coxcomb, and of a thorough-paced profligate."

THERE is a Roman inscription in which bene bibente is written for bene viventi-as a

extraordinarily.”—Travels to Bohemia, P. Spaniard might write it by ear.

99.

The words alluded to are evidently those in the Corcyrean sedition. Kairi siwoviav áži σιν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐς τὰ ἔργα ἀντήλλαξαν τῷ dikatúσet, i. e. as they thought right. Lib. iii. c. 82.-J. W. W.

ELIAN says that all the barbarians established in Europe looked upon the knowledge of letters as mean and disgraceful, as did the barbarians of Asia also.—Collect. Hibernica, vol. 2, p. 166.