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Food.

"THE sense of taste is the most necessary of all our senses, it being that by which all animals live, and take in their food and nourishment, and therefore has in it a power to judge what is grateful and convenient to the nature of each kind, what not."ADAM LITTLETON, p. 85; HEZEKIAH'S Return of Praise.

RENAUD DE BEAULNE, archbishop of Bourges; his remarkable appetite; eating supplied to him the want of sleep, for he scarcely slept four hours in the twenty-four, and then hunger awoke him.-See the Memoirs of DE THOU, Coll. Mem. tom. 53, p.

240-2.

THE prodigious eater of Wittenberg.Monthly Review, vol. 21, p. 339.

"SOME choice spirits, to the number of five-and-twenty, agreed to dine at White's, and the orders were, "Get a dinner as expensive as you can possibly make it :" which was punctually performed, and to their great surprise and mortification, they found that the most luxurious dinner amounted to no more than £10 a man. T's served to convince them that eating was . mean paltry enjoyment, and only fit for cits and aldermen, to whom they left it, because it cost so little, and therefore confessed the supremacy of gaming, which they embraced as their summum bonum, for the contrary reason. A.D. 1759."-HULL'S Select Letters, vol. 1, p. 248.

EFFECTS of food and climate upon character.-MASDEU, vol. 1, p. 59.

IRISH labourers, "when working for others, or not closely overlooked, work in a manner the most languid and indolent; their mode of living, perhaps, totally on vegetable food, produces a general debility, which must have powerful motives to overcome it."-TIGHE'S Survey of Kilkenny; WAKEFIELD, vol. 1, p. 520.

FOLLY of expense in eating.-TOOKE'S Lucian, vol. 1, p. 28.

THE athletæ great beef-eaters, in order to increase their muscular strength.—Ibid. vol. 1, p. 67. Like our pugilists.

Women.

THEIR praise. Adam Littleton, pp. 57-9. Funeral Sermon.

"THAT toy, a woman, Made from the dross and refuse of a man. Heaven took him sleeping when he made her too;

Had man been waking, he had ne'er consented."

DRYDEN. Spanish Fryar, vol. 5, p. 75.

MADAME DE THOU, Thuanus's mother, used to say, "qu'elle auroit volontiers donné la moitié de son bien, pour pouvoir être homme." She was a woman of masculine courage and mind.-Coll. Mem. t. 53, p. 227, N.

PLATO ranked them between men and brutes, and Minerva was feigned to have sprung from the head of Jupiter, "pour signifier que la sagesse ne vient pas des femmes."-CRESPET, de la haime du Diable, p. 165.

LODOVICO DOMENICHI, La Nobilta delle Donne, ff. 99. Because we learn to talk from our mothers and nurses, "la natura, concesse al sesso Donnesco che poche, o nessuna Donna mutola non si trovi."

Ibid. ff. 106. WE read in Scripture of "molti huomini condannati alle pene dell' Inferno; et di nessuna Donna non si ritrova questo."

ONE reason why women are less inconstant than men is, that they have not the

same opportunities to be so. Where women only coquette, men play fast and loose with their affections, because they can do it with safety.

"WERE I a woman,

(As Nature only huddles into the world When she sends forth a man.")

SHIRLEY. Example, vol. 3, p. 301.

A DISCOURSE upon Religion. 8vo. 5s. Edinburgh, 1772.

Monthly Review, vol. 46, pp. 189-90, showing that Adam began to fall before the creation of Eve, otherwise it would have been good for him to be alone. See the passage, which is whimsical enough. 190. M. Bourignon's notion is taken up by this writer, without acknowledgment.

"IF a man must endure the noise of words without sense, I think the women have more musical voices, and become nonsense better."-CONGREVE. Double Dealer.

ORDER of Blue Stockings. Lives of the North, vol. i. p. 61.

In the Samoa (Navigator's) Island, where men buy their wives, Williams saw one for whom her husband had given the amazing price of more than 200 pigs, beside a quantity of siapo, or native cloth.-Miss. Enterprizes, p. 538, WILLIAMS.

Travels of Cyrus, vol. 1, pp. 72-4. THE Lycians governed by women, and found it the easiest and most convenient form of government. Their queens had a council of senators, who assisted them with their advice. The men proposed good laws, but the women caused them to be executed. The sweetness and mildness of the sex prevented all the mischiefs of tyranny; and the counsel of the wise senators qualified that inconstancy with which women are reproached.

HEARNE'S Journey, p. 55.

BODINUS gives this reason why there are more women than men in the world, "parum honestè et prudenter de naturâ et fœminis sentiens, quod in naturæ universitate rerum deteriorum major sit affluentia quam pretiosarum.”—Sennertus, t. 3, Dedication.

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Shape of Utensils.

THE Duke de Friar, who came ambassador to England to conclude the peace with James I., drank the king's health to the queen "out of the lid of a beautiful dragonshaped vessel of crystal set in gold. Her majesty pledged him, and the dragon was replaced on the queen's cupboard."-ELLIS. Original Letters, second series, vol. 3, p. 213.

URGANDA'S ship.

Miss Barker's sugar-stork.

IN the church at Arth. is the silver drinking-horn of Charles the Bold, forming with his goblet part of the spoils taken at Morat. The horn is in the shape of a whale; on its scales were recorded the duke's battles, and there is a little figure of Jonah within the mouth."-DowNES's Letters, vol. 1, p. 130.

LAMPS in Friburg cathedral "wrought into the form of swords, with an escutcheon attached to each."-Ibid. p. 206.

Rabelais, vol. 8, pp. 388-9. BREVIARIES made to hold liquor, &c. à-la-mode chess and backgammon books.

In the Daily Advertiser (A.D. 1754) the public might learn whether Mr. Stephen Pitts was not the best qualified to furnish gentlemen's and ladies' libraries with tea chests in octavo, and close stools in folio. Connoisseur, vol. 1, p. 237.

MR. HARVEY, of Ickwell, a village about four miles from Biggleswade (A. D. 1757), whom Perceval Stockdale describes as an old and merry bachelor, living upon an estate of £2000 a year at that time, weighing

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Honnes was of opinion that physics, ethics, and politics, if they were well demonstrate would be as certain as the mathematics; and

he wrote a book to show that there is no

less uncertainty and falsity in the writings of mathematicians than there is in those of naturalists, moralists, and politicians. This was his treatise "De Principiis et Ratioci natione Geometrarum, contra fastum professorum Geometriæ." In this book he says, "Eorum qui de iisdem rebus mecum aliquid ediderunt, aut solus insanio Ego, aut solus non insanio, tertium enim non est, nisi (quod dicet forte aliquis) insaniamus omnes."Phil. Tran. Abridg. vol. 1, pp. 85-6.

The Soul.

ISAAC VOSSIUS wrote an essay to show that the soul of animals is nothing but fire. In the same treatise he denies that there

are any pores in the skin. - Abr. Phil. Transact. vol. 1, p. 118.

WILLIS thought that "certain animal spirits constituted the being of the corporeal soul, and were the immediate instruments of all animal motions, producing them by a kind of explosion, or shooting; upon which elastic or explosive power he establishes his whole doctrine of convulsions."-Ibid. p.

215.

WHERE it makes its exit when a man is hanged.-GARMANNUS, p. 180.

A2′′EEN OF NAVARR fue the exis of ce-bar

Warn's erme in spying that mind (wel, mis have been paired wi any other human body, ce this body any other mivi”—VA 7, p. 309.

A. D. 1758 CALEB FLAMING published - A Survey of the Search after Souls, by Dr. Coward Dr. S. Clarke, Mr. Baxter, Dr. Sykes, Dr. Law, Mr. Pockar‍d, and others.

His notion was, "that the soul, after death, innellately returns to the exercise of an vehicle, the resurrection body, which acactive consciousness, in a well-prepared new commodates the departing spirit, unclothed Review, vol. 19, p. 353. of its mortal and corruptible one.”—Monthly

JEAN D'ESPAGNE. Shibboleth, p. 123. Where it goes out.

naculo Animarum), and till all these shall All unborn souls are in Guph (i.e. retihave been born into the world, the Jews hold

that the Messiah cannot come.

"Animæ quæ sunt in Guph retardant adventum Messiæ; animæ, inquam, illæ in Guph, quas ego feci; quando quidem Messias non antè est adventurus, quam omnes animæ e Guph exierint in corpora.”—Avoda Sara. p. 28.

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the inverted bellows.-Abr. Phil. Trans. vol. 1, p. 201.

It was thus that Jeremy B. suckled his disciples.

LOUIS DE BILS, or Bilsius, a Flemish nobleman, whose passion was anatomy. One of his treatises was De Anatomia Incruenta, though he kept secret his art of dissecting, and of preserving or embalming bodies without effusion of blood. He had a large collection of bodies thus prepared, and set a very high price on them; but in process of time they became putrid, and he died of consumption, induced, it is said, by the fetor emitted from them.-Ibid. p. 283, N. See Sprenger, vol. 4, p. 227.

Speech.

ISAAC VOSSIUs affirmed "that if we employed as much labour and time in learning the pantomimical art as we do in learning a language, we might possibly come to express our mind and thought as clearly by that way as now we do by the aid of a language; nor does he think that mankind would suffer anything by it if the pest and confusion (these are his own words) of so many tongues were banished, and instead of them this sole art of the pantomimes were known by all mankind, and men explained everything by signs, nods, and gestures; on account of which he thinks the condition of brutes to be much better than that of men, seeing they signify without an interpreter their sense and thought more readily, and perhaps better, than any man can do."!Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 2, p. 63.

See Puttenham, p. 119, for something quite as good in its way.

"WHAT am I the better," says NORRIS, "for being able to tell what 'tis o'clock in several languages? How great a folly must it needs be to place learning in that which is one of the greatest curses upon earth, and which shall utterly cease in heaven!"-Reflections upon the Conduct of Human Life

with reference to the Study of Learning and Knowledge, pp. 45-6.

SHAW. Minerva's Triumph, or Grammar and Rhetorick, personated by Youths in Dramatick Scenes in a Country School, calf, 68. 12mo. 1682.

Theatre.

TATE WILKINSON, vol. 1, p. 184. Saturday, no material distinction in the nights at Doncaster and Wakefield.

Vol. 2, p. 191. MRS. JORDAN, at York, in 1786, playing at £1. 11s. 6d. a-week. The London performers who saw her thought her acting really very clever; but all said it would not do among them.

He is "compelled to declare, that Mrs. Jordan, at making a bargain, is too many for the cunningest devil of us all."

T. DAVIES married his " very pretty wife at York, where he acted, and her father also." Yarrow was her name.-MALCOLM GRANGER, p. 69.

Vol. 3, p. 119. "A FARCE, if it possesses true humour, will be greatly relished and applauded in London. In the country,

very possibly the same piece, (even decently acted), shall be termed vile, low, vulgar, and indelicate. The Love for Love of Congreve, The Trip to Scarborough, The Way of the World, The Confederacy, and others, are in London attended to as plays of wit and merit, (witness their constant repetition), but in the country not permitted; or, if permitted to appear, not upon any account fashionable, which is just as bad."

Vol. 4, p. 18. Provoked Wife. See the

place.

Vol. 3, p. 127. CUSTOM of begging support at a benefit abolished by Tate Wilkinson.-Vol. 4, p. 65.

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