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Barker against Evah's Sex, and Ansuere made to Jo. Swetnan's Arraignment of Women, 4to. with many MS. Notes, half russia, 9s. 6d., sold for £1. 11s. 6d. at Gordonstoun sale. 1617.

"In ancient Rome, when the empire was come to its height, and learning and arts were grown into reputation among them, it was the fashion for such as aimed at the credit of being accomplished gentlemen, to frequent conferences, and entertain the company with discourses of philosophy, and all other specimens of study and wit. In consequence to this it happened, that others who had neither parts nor industry to accomplish themselves on this manner, and yet were ambitious to have a share in every thing that made men look great, made it their practice to buy some learned slaves out of Greece, and to carry those about with them into company; and then whatsoever wit or learning the slaves could produce, that the masters looked upon as their own, and took the glory of it unto themselves." YOUNG (the father's), Sermons, vol. 1, p. 97.

Times, 23d March, 1836.-Wax and composition casts from the heads of Fieschi, Lacenaire, Avril, and David, exhibited at the Cosmorama in Regent Street; in appearance like so many heads just separated from the bodies by the guillotine. And to make them more complete, the hair and whiskers are those of the murderers themselves!

July, 1836. STRANGE Discovery.-"About three weeks ago, while a number of boys were amusing themselves in searching for rabbit burrows on the north-east range of Arthur's Seat, they noticed, in a very rugged and secluded spot, a small opening in one of the rocks, the peculiar appearance of which attracted their attention. The mouth of this little cave was closed by three thin pieces of slate-stone, rudely cut at the upper ends into a conical form, and so placed

as to protect the interior from the effects of the weather. The boys having removed these tiny slabs, discovered an aperture about twelve inches square, in which were lodged seventeen Lilliputian coffins, forming two tiers of eight each, and one on a third, just begun! Each of the coffins contained a miniature figure of the human form cut out in wood, the faces in particular being pretty well executed. They were dressed from head to foot in cotton clothes, and decently "laid out" with a mimic representation of all the funereal trappings which usually form the last habiliments of the dead. The coffins are about three or four inches in length, regularly shaped, and cut out from a single piece of wood, with the exception of the lids, which are nailed down with wire sprigs or common brass pins. The lid and sides of each are profusely studded with ornaments, formed with small pieces of tin, and inserted in the wood with great care and regularity. Another remarkable circumstance is, that many years must have elapsed since the first interment took place in this mysterious sepulchre, and it is also evident that the depositions must have been made singly, and at considerable intervals-facts indicated by the rotten and decayed state of the first tier of coffins, and their wooden mummies, the wrapping cloths being in some instances entirely mouldered away, while others show various degrees of decomposition, and the coffin last placed, with its shrouded tenant, are as clean and fresh as if only a few days had elapsed since their entombment. As before stated, there were in all seventeen of these mystic coffins; but a number were destroyed by the boys pelting them at each other as unmeaning and contemptible trifles. None of the learned with whom we have conversed on the subject can account in any way for this singular fantasy of the human mind. The idea seems rather above insanity, and yet much beneath rationality; nor is any such freak recorded in the Natural History of Enthusiasm. Our own opinion would be, had we not some years ago abjured witchcraft and

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to it should be regulated with a more than ordinary regard to propriety and decorum." -OWEN. Hist of B. Soc. vol. 2, p. 529. See vol. 3, pp. 154-5.

became the more degraded and corrupt in their national religion."

"Ir is no bad maxim, where there are two handles, to take hold of the cleanest."

How the B. Soc. may be looked at by its MAJOR DOYLE. Irish Debates, vol. 7, p. 225. friends.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 44.

"WHAT truth, what knowledge, What any thing but eating is good in her? 'Twould make a fool prophecy to be fed continually;

Inspired with full deep cups, who cannot prophecy?

A tinker, out of ale, will give predictions." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Prophetess, p. 115.

BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 3, p. 201.—Wish for a Bible in every family,-for education and discipline.

Ibid. vol. 4, p. 268.-CHURCH and State. Plato.

The Jesuits divide them,-agreeing here with the schismatics.

Ibid. pp. 290-1.-How unity is to be preserved-unquiet-and in the end uncomfortable singularities.

"THE very philosopher could say that 'wickedness doth putrify the principles of the mind,' and that such as are men's courses of life, such likewise are the dispositions of their minds towards practical truth.'"-Ibid. p. 303.

"WHEN the payment of the clergy by tithes in kind was instituted, the landlord was also paid in kind. The clergy were paid by the produce of the land, to be consumed upon the land; and the landlord was also paid by the produce for the use of his land."-MR. BROWNE. Ibid. p. 349.

"COARSE expressions-which men are apt to bring forth, when they are pumping in vain for strong ones.”—MR. BURKE. Ibid. vol. 11, p. 327.

Lords B. and Nugent to wit.

"APRES avoir creusé les fertiles sillons, Qui reçoivent le grain, espoir de nos mois

sons,

Si chaque jour le soc repasse sur la terre, Au lieu de l'abondance il produit la misère, Et detruit aujourd'hui ce qu'il a fait hier. Tel est le mouvement dont le siecle est si fier.

Le talent naturel s'éteint dans la lecture, Et l'esprit est sterile à force de culture."

"D'UN ton fier, en vrai gentilhomme de lettres," said of Chateaubriand in this MS. satire.

Nov. 1786. "A MEETING of lawyers at Lord Mansfield's to take into consideration

Kakia p0aprikǹ άpxñc. — Arist. Eth. the alarming growth of perjury, which had lib. 6, c. 5.

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become so very rife in our courts of justice, as to threaten the most dangerous consequences: it was determined at this meeting that nothing short of capital punishment was sufficient to deter persons from the commission of this crime, and it was agreed that a bill should be prepared to make perjury in any court of justice, &c. a capital offence, punishable with death."- Lady's Magazine, vol. 17, p. 667.

“QUOIQU'ON en dise, l'imagination sert à | long volumes of antiquity, if we would be voir beaucoup de choses très-réelles." F. R. Bibliothèque Universelle. Mai 1830. p. 84.

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diligent to mark them, so that they can be compared to nothing fitter, than to a wheel ever turning in the same motion."—Ibid. p. 9.

"WHATEVER Occurrences seem strange, they are but the same fable acted by other persons, and nothing different from those of older times but in the names of the ac

OAFBOROUGH, Rascalburgh, and Rabble- | tors."—Ibid. p. 8.

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"THE public mind," says SIR E. BRYDGES, thereby intimating that solitude was the " is as servile as it is capricious."—Recollec- best opportunity of religion.”—Ibid. p. 163. tions, vol. 1, p. 163.

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"THERE are monstrosities in the soul as well as the body."-Ibid. p. 224.

"It is well observed by PLUTARCH, 'that men of desperate and bankrupt fortunes have little regard to their expenses, because should they save them, the tide of their estates won't rise much the higher, and so they think it impertinent to be frugal, when there's no hope of being rich. Yet they that see their heaps begin to swell, and that they are within the neighbourhood of wealth, think it worth while to be saving, and improve their growing stock."-NORRIS, Miscell. p. 268.

LEVELLERS.-It is not thus that " every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low; that the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.”—Isaiah xi. 4.

"Ir is not to be conceived how many people, capable of reasoning, if they would, live and die in a thousand errors from lazi

"AND Friendship like an old acquaintance ness; they will rather adopt the prejudices

sends

To his friend Justice, that she should be mild

And look with eyes of mercy on your fault."

GOFFE'S Orestes, p. 237.

NORRIS'S Miss. p. 158.-The atheistic argument from the self-sufficiency of God, -to which that from his goodness is a conclusive answer.-P. 320.

"CERTAINLY," says NORRIS (ibid. p. 160), "there is more required to qualify a man for his own company than for other men's." It is not 66 every man that has sense and thoughts enough to be his own companion."

"THE ancients chose to build their altars and temples in groves and solitary recesses,

of others than give themselves the trouble of forming opinions of their own. They say things at first because other people have said them, and then persist in them because they have said them themselves."-CHESTERFIELD, vol. 1, p. 335.

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