FABULOUS History of Port.-Hist. de le lower ranks in barbarous times.-PHILIP's Reoja, p. 160. THE Abbé S. Pierre agrees with Sir William Petty concerning colonies, and condensing a people!-Vol. 1, p. 357-8. INTERNAL and external legislation-for colonies. Fox's distinction.-Parliamentary History, vol. 23, p. 21. ALL Alva's cruelties committed with a good conscience - by Luiz de Granada's account of his death.-Foreign Review, No. 2, p. 628. REPRESENTATION not the principle of our constitution. How it grew up.-LORD HAWKESBURY. Parliamentary History, vol. 35, p. 103. MEN of birth or wealth will always be chosen.-GALIFFE's Italy, vol. 1, p. 306. PITT on removing the casual poor.-Ibid. pp. 199-201. He seems always to have spoken humanely concerning the poor. WINDHAM sees no danger in Popery, and no provocation to unbelief that it gives. -Ibid. p. 347. Africa, vol. 2, p. 128. ADMIRATION of the Greeks and Romans an ill lesson to impress upon youth.—GaLIFFE'S Italy, vol. 1, p. 75. MARRIAGE with religious ceremonies not allowed the plebeians, till they extorted a law for it.-Ibid. p. 320. NUMBERS who died of famine in Italyat Rome, Naples, &c.—Ibid. vol. 2, p. 244. LOTTERY at Salerno in which provisions are the prizes.-Ibid. p. 259. PRIDE of ancestry justified.-Ibid. p.227. OLD families respected by the Hindoos. -HEBER, Vol. 1, p. 294. A BEAUTIFUL picture of the golden age of governments.-LORD BROOKE's Monarchy and Religion, pp. 1-2. MOURNING ale,-perhaps from the Jews. Jeremiah xvi. 7.-" Neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father, or for their mother." CARDINAL XIMENES cured of a hectic fever by outward applications-by an old EMIGRANT religioners. Sir W. Scott. Moorish woman.-ALVAS GOMEZ, p. 40.-— Ibid. p. 360. WADDING, vol. 15, p. 249. 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 imposABUSE 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. "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 extraordinarily.”—Travels to Bohemia, p. 99. 1 The words alluded to are evidently those in the Corcyrean sedition. Kai rny Eiwoviav ȧžu σιν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐς τὰ ἔργα ἀντήλλαξαν τῇ dikawσel, i. e. as they thought right. Lib. iii. c. 82.-J. W. W. 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 Spaniard might write it by ear. 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. SOMEWHERE in his Politics ARISTOTLE observes, that "multo plura Imperia contemptus quam odium evertit." ROMAN prose was corrupted earlier than poetry. THE political economists treat this subject as Machiavelli treated the policy of princes, setting aside all considerations of morals and religion. ATTEMPT to prove that the old law relating to the frequency of celebrating the Jewish continual sacrifice is still in force. A. D. 1755. PRIZE questions proposed by DEAN TUCKER.-Memorial Literario, vol. 8, p. 276. LACTATION, three years.—2 Maccabees, vii. 27. PEPYS, vol. 1, p. 249.-" 25 Feb. 1661-2. Great talk of the effects of this late great wind; and I heard one say that he had five great trees standing together blown down; and beginning to lop them, one of them, as soon as the lops were cut off, did, by the weight of the root, rise again and fasten." Mark vii. 3-9.— DECISION against the Romish doctrine of tradition. JOYOUSNESS of the world.-JAMES'S Comment on the Creed, p. 93. CHANGES of ministry not worth any passionate interest.- MR. VICKAR's Life of Dr. Bard, p. 174-6. BORY ST. VINCENT, in the Isle of France, placed his boxes of insects on a stand surrounded with water, two inches deep. One night the ants constructed a bridge with straws, reached the boxes, and devoured all his insects.-PHILLIP's Coll. vol. 2, p. 77. An officer, writing from the camp near Bhurtpore to his brother, says, that when he went round the walls the day after that place was taken by storm, "I was so horrorstruck, that I could have knelt down, resigned my commission, and have foresworn war in all its circumstances: and I am not very squeamish either." — Times, Dec. 23, black drivers to throw fuel on the fire, and 1829. "THE Negroes of the Isle of Bourbon say that the souls of wicked whites go into the volcano, where they are employed under dig channels for the lava. Troops of white souls, they say, have been seen at this."Ibid. p. 132. "ST. PIERRE saw all the French sailors in a mess (seven in number) agree to go without their allowance of wine or brandy alternately, each for six days, that on the seventh he might have the allowance of the whole."- Voyage to the Isles, p. 18. som, but produce no fruit. And European | cilia's day as late as 1713, and I know not man does not thrive better. He is out of how much later. his place upon the globe. WICKEDNESS Working the designs of Pro "Sows in the Isle of France frequently vidence.-BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 5, p. 116. produce monsters."—Ibid. Р 153. Dogs never go mad there.—Ibid. p. 154. "SCARCELY had the terrace at Windsor been opened ten minutes, before some parties cut their initials in the stone work surrounding it. A strong feeling of indignation was expressed at this abuse of the liberty of walking there, by many respectable persons."-Times, August 9, 1830. "SOME Bibles sent by the Bible Society for Nova Scotia were taken by an American privateer in 1813, carried into Portland and sold. The Massachusetts' Bible Society resolved to replace them by sending from its own funds the sum. But the people of Boston raised a subscription, and sent the full amount, £155."-History of the Bible Society, vol. 2, p. 486. "WHEN the Committee of the Bible Society was formed, the Wesleyan Methodists refused to nominate two from their body, assigning as a reason, that they considered themselves represented by the bishops.”— Ibid. vol. 1, p. 81. Truths of Religion, p. 102.—“In all primitive tongues, vowels of small consequence, and therefore not marked." See the passage. So idle is it to reason in such matters upon what must naturally be. One nation stretches, attenuates, and liquifies its words: another compresses and hardens and stiffens them. Co-OPERATIVE system that on which governments would be founded, were it not for the depravity of human nature. This is MR. DOUGLAS's position in his Truths of Religion, p. 157, which see. "ARISTOTLE (Polit. 7, § 8) reckoneth divine worship as a principal thing, without which a city or civil polity cannot be."— Ibid. p. 333. WHAT preaching should be.-Ibid. p. 397. IN feudal times opposition, or rather resistance to the government, arose from personal feelings it was to some favourite or some invidious family, not to public measures. The people took part only upon feudal principles of obedience to their immediate lords. THEN came the age of religious commotion, in which the citizen and the peasant took as deep an interest as the peer. BOTANY BAY, 1786.-The marines were to take out twelve women to a company of forty men. Mr. Matre proposed a settlement there for the American loyalists at first; but afterwards recommended it for convicts; and he thought women in sufficient number might be "obtained in a friendly manner from New Zealand." He speculated also upon settlers from Java and Japan. THERE is scripture for the opinion that the will will be accepted for the deed. "The Lord," says SOLOMON," said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart." -1 Kings viii. 18. DEPRECIATION in consequence of an influx of wealth.-Silver "was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon :-the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as SERMONS used to be preached on S. Cæ- | stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale for | dikes, so that no one can go in or out unabundance."-Ibid. x. 21-27. perceived?" "Foor passengers in every city of Europe, except London, were exposed to accidents from being mixed with horses and carriages, as well as from the insolence and brutality of their riders and drivers, for want of a footpath. In Paris, a great many people are annually killed and maimed for want of one."-BURNEY, Musical Tour in Germany, vol. 2, p. 197. "There is a foot pavement in Pompeii; and on each side the Via Appia and other ancient roads in Italy."—Ibid. Ibid. p. 36.-A STRANGE Story of a native of Poole, driving a nail into a horse's head, and curing it by a chemical liquid of his own preparing. SOME excellent remarks upon those poets whose verses are made up from memory, and whose memory sticks in the letter, without having a glimpse of the spirit. SIR EGERTON BRYDGES' Recollections of Travel, vol. 1, p. 240. AGRICULTURISTS prone to religion, as soldiers to impiety.—MAX. TYRIUS, Dissert. 14, p. 172. A valuable passage. THE Hindoos at their marriage invoke the manes of their ancestors to be present. -MORGAN'S Doct. of Mar. vol. 1, p. 97. 1791. THE Royal Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, in 1791, proposed these questions : "What is the reason that ornaments of public buildings, bridges, railings, monuments, mile stones, trees, and banks of walks, &c. are defaced, out of mere malice (mischief) more in Germany, or in many parts of it at least, than in Italy or other countries? and how may this apparently national viciousness be most securely and speedily eradicated? "What is the least expensive mode of inclosing towns that have neither walls nor A PASSAGE in BEAUMONT and FLETCHER vol. 8, p. 192 (Woman's Prize), which looks as if there was a notion concerning women like that concerning sylphs, upon which the tale of Undine is founded. Yet there cannot have been; the meaning must be accidental, I think. "A CONJURER's the devil's master, and com mands him. Whereas a witch is but the devil's prentice, BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Fair "LES Européens seuls sont capables d'apprendre aux Indiens leur propre histoire, et de voir dans leurs traditions, dans leurs monumens des idées et des faits qui ne sauraient être découverts et compris par les Indiens aux-mêmes."-Doctrine of S. Simon, p. 118, N. ST. AUGUSTINE derives servus from servare.-Ibid. p. 240. THE following is said to be the state of church preferment in this country :— Livings in the gift of The nobility and gentry The universities 5033 3769 1014 814 197 64 ONE, in the Serées of BOUCHET, (vol. 2, p. 361) asks, “qui est celuy de nostre temps, qui ne naisse moindre que ses pere et mere?" Perhaps the wars of that age had, as in Buonaparte's, left only the immature and the old to propagate; and in the same way affected female constitutions, as the revolution is known to have done. See the account of Strasburg. DURING the civil wars in France, people retired into the lazar houses for safety, feign |