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"BUT executing Thy judgments upon them by little and little, Thou gavest them place for repentance."-Wisdom xii. 10.

"Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, Thou hast tormented them with their own abominations."-Ibid. 23.

“Ir any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know."-1 Corinthians viii. 2.

"Now the end of the commandment is

charity; out of a pure heart, and of a good
conscience, and of faith unfeigned.".
1 Timothy i. 5.

"FOR we which have believed, do enter into rest.”—Hebrews iv. 3.

"THE kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say, Lo

"Yea, to know Thy power is the root of here! or Lo there! for behold the kingdom immortality."-Ibid. xiv. 3.

"His heart is ashes; his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay :

"Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and Him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit."—Ibid.

10-11.

"But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain; for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means."-Ibid. 12.

of God is within you.”—Luke xvii. 21-2. Into that kingdom he who will, may enter; and begin his Heaven on earth.

"JESUS said unto them, if ye were blind, ye should have no sin: But now ye say, We see therefore your sin remaineth."John ix. last verse.

"AND now, Israel, what doth the Lord

thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God "MYSTERIES are revealed unto the meek." with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

-Ecclesiasticus iii. 19.

"To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes which I command thee this

"Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that day, for thy good?"—Deuteronomy x. 12-13.

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"YE fools, be ye of an understanding JUDGEMENTS, O Lord, anD RECEIVED COMheart."-Proverbs viii. 5. FORT."-Psalm cxix. 52.

L'Envoy.

"DUM RELEGO, SCRIPSISSE PUDET, QUIA PLURIMA CERNO,
ME QUOQUE, QUI FECI, JUDICE, DIGNA LINI."

COURTEOUS READER! No man living can quote those lines with a fuller sense of their reality than myself!-Though I have lived amongst men sharp as Mechi's razors, or a January frost, or the spikes of English bayonets,-yet cognizant as I am with every day life, and practical in my habits and my ways, I am a "Clerke of Oxenforde" withal, and a scholar,—such as the puny scholars of these days are! And, therefore, I lament to find that many errors in these volumes have escaped my notice, even after close and hard labour, and thick thinking too! But, when I state this, I think it right to add, that no research, no looking into libraries, no correspondence with learned men, no labour on my own part, has been spared. Every sheet has taken up more hours in a day than are easily found,—and the making good a single reference has often made night and morning closer acquaintances than is good either for sight or health! Therefore, COURTEOUS READER, look gently upon confessed errors, and, of thy candour, LEARNED CRITIC, correct them for me, and thou shalt have thanks,-the truest, the most unreserved! Ye will not have half the pleasure in correcting, I shall have in learning!

One word more, at parting, on the excellently learned Collector of these Volumes. William Chamberlayne, in the Epistle Dedicatory to his Pharonnida, speaks, in his own quaint language, of "eternizing a name, more from the lasting liniaments of learning, than those vain Phainomena of Pleasure, which are the delight of more vulgar spirits;" and such was the continued onsight of SOUTHEY. He held his learning as a gift, and as a talent to be accounted for, and he laboured for the benefit of others, their moral and religious benefit,-as long as the day lasted, and before

the night came in which it was no longer appointed that he should labour. And be it ever recollected, that although he wrote for his daily bread, and it never failed him, (which was a reward of his faith and truthfulness), yet did he never write a single word or line populo ut placerent fabulæ !

It is the learned BARROW, in his Sermon Of Industry in our Particular Calling as Scholars, that has these words:-" Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori; learning consecrateth itself and its subject together to immortal remembrance. It is a calling that fitteth a man for all conditions and fortunes; so that he can enjoy prosperity with moderation, and sustain adversity with comfort; he that loveth a Book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes." Thus did the lamented SOUTHEY, rooted and grounded in the Faith! And with these words, GENTLE AND COURTEOUS READER, I commend to thee the several Series of his Common Place Books

"He that affecteth God in chief,

And as himself his neighbour;

May still enjoy a happy life,

Although he live by labour!"—G. WITHER.

JOHN WOOD WARTER.

INDEX.

A.

ABBE DU BOS, saying of, that
different ideas are as plants
or flowers, 612.
Abdera, law at, relative to the
dissipation of patrimony,456.
ABDOL MOTALLEB, father of
Mahomet, 177.
Aberfraw Palace, 61.
Abrojos, used in Columbus'
Journal, 699.
Adam, yearly meeting of those

so called in 1681, 373.
Adam's first Wife, 85.
Adder's-tongue Fern, 29.
Adites, tribe of, 97.
Advocate of Poictiers, story of,
and results, 713.
ESOP, good morals in, and in

Reynard the Fox too, 621.
African Mule Monsters, 75.
Aggawam, cobler of, 622. Ex.
tracts, 681.
Agla, what, 432.

AGNES SOREL AND CHARLES,
death of, 26.
AGNES, ST. name explained,
132.

Agriculturists, seditious when
provisions are cheap, 667.
Agues cured by electricity, 436.
By fear, 441. By the fourth

Book of the Iliad. 507.
Agyei, sort of directing Posts,
432.

AIGNAN, ST. 59.

Akakia, what? See Meurs.
Gloss. Græc. Barb. in v. 432.
AKBAR'S Seal, Motto on, 450.
AKENSIDE, 343.

Alaodin's Paradise, 84.
Ale-house, parsonage in Lang-
dale formerly licensed for,

537.

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ALLEINE, RICHARD, his Vindi-

cia Pietatis, 399.

All Souls' Day, customs on, at

Naples and Salerno, 163.
Allumée, heraldic term, 432.
Alnwick, the miry pool of, 419.
ALPHERY MOKEPHER, history
of, 399.

Almanack, Egyptian, 165.

Story of one at Kendal, 354.
Aloes, cloth for pantaloons made
from, 395.
Alphington, near Exeter, wo-
men freak there, 380.
ALONSO DE ERCILLA, author of
the Araucana, so called from
Arauco, a mountain province
of Chili. -Q. R. vol. 87, p.
317, 16.
AMANT, ST. extracts, 433.
Amatory Poems, general con-
demnation of, 258.
American Savage, old age of, 39.
Servants, object to answer-
ing a bell, 365.
AMPHIARANS, Descent of, 227.
Amreeta-cup of Immortality,

254.

Amusements, Public, 368.
Anatomy, subjects begged for,
588. Discovery of the Lac-
teals, ib.

Analto, use of, 399.

| Ancestry, one good effect of, 79.
ANCILLON, remarks of, 439.
Anecdotes for Espriella, 358.
And gleanings, 540, &c.
ANGER, remark on, 625.
Animals, Arabian, 110-112,
175. Not morally respon
sible, 593. Saying of Cana-
dian Indians about, 607.
Slaughtered in London, in the
year 1810, 392. Have rea-
soning, 428. Redemption
for, 446. Extracts, 541.
Antimony, red oil of the glass
of, 436, 546.

Apes, venerable ones in Guinea,

483.

| Apium Raninum, root of, best
medicine for swine, 574.
Apollo, victim to, 58.
Appleby Assizes, way of doing
justice at, 397.

Appleby, pretty town, 532.
Apple trees, wassailing and
howling of, 380-1.

Arabian Scenery, extracts rela-

tive to, 102. Horses, 109.
Atmosphere,-birds, beasts,
and plants, 110-112. Hospi-
tality, ib.
Arabs, devotement of, 105.
Corrupted the science of me.
dicine, 438.

Araucan Song during Thunder
Storm, 199.

Araucana, extracts from, 630.
ARC, JOAN Of, 17.
ARCHIMEDES, his rams, who by

their bleating shewed which
way the wind blew, 613.
ARCHY, Charles the First's
fool, died at Arthuset, in
Cumberland, 368.

ARETINE LEONARDO, his use of
michi for mihi, 643.
Army, Pomp of, 62. Remarks

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