the paltry temptations of this world were so willing to risque and to lose them: and thus BEAUMONT and FLETCHER say, " Part with their essence."-Queen of Corinth, act i. sc. 1. "NON mihi si latices Siloe, si porrigat He bron Pocula, si cunctis destillent collibus undæ, Et vatem Dan ipse riget, tua dicere dicta (facta) Sustineam, casusque tuos." BARLÆUS, 1. 16. THE famous Père tranquille of the Capuchins (who was he ?) teaches “que le diable HERODOTUS Mentions the Gandarii, Tay- dûëment exorcisé est contraint de dire la dápio. Lib. iii. 91. vii. 66. "SHARP and sententious, pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy."-Love's Labour's Lost, act v. sc. 1. JOSHUA BARNES, when he edited Euripides, preserved with the name of one of his plays the only remaining word of it,-a trisyllable, which has not been found elsewhere.-STEEVENS's Preface. BOSWELL'S Shakespeare, vol. 1, p. 117. vérité."-VIE DU P. JOSEF, p. 309. THE Devil-como gran Filosofo, que es, bronibus, vespis, apibusque feriuntur." If says PIEDRAHITA. You are entering into the story with the deepest interest. You are all animation in pursuit of it,-all anxiety to reach the end next; turn and see what will open with the new point of view. Be not so impatient, not so fast, reader: whither are you hurrying so fast with whip and spur,-gently, gently, draw up, for heaven's sake,-stop, you are on the brink of a hawhaw. DOGDAYS.-The Romans sacrificed dogs to the dogstar.-See Pensées sur la Comète, vol. 1, p. 171. he had said that they hardly felt the sting, there might have been some show of probability in this assertion. It is said of S. Jerome, that he filed away his teeth to the very gums, that he might pronounce Hebrew with greater facility. This I find in the Evangelical Magazine, on what authority the absurd story is given does not appear, but the absurd repeater gives it as an example of " diligence in study." A gentleman is said to have had a front tooth drawn, that he might spit, like a coachman, with the greater effect. THE Dr's opinion of what he himself had COKE said of Garnet upon his trial, that been in prior stages of existence,-he hold- | he was "a doctor of Jesuits, that is, a doc tor of five DD's, as dissimulation, deposing of princes, disposing of kingdoms, daunting and deterring of subjects, and destruction." PROGERS, who had been about the person of Charles the Second, died at ninety-six in cutting his teeth; he had cut four, and many others were coming, which so inflamed his gums, that it proved fatal. Tuk Romans when travelling from home recommended themselves to the goddess Abeona; when returning, to Adeona; when resting, to Statilinus; when weary, to Fessonia. GRUNDULES. Lares of the pigsty, appointed by Romulus in honour of a sow who ST. BARBARA a saint for the mountains. had thirty pigs at one litter. St. Agatha for the vales. "THERE's no making a whistle of a pig's tail."—SHADWELL. Squire of Alsatia. "THE most solemn act of worship performed to the Syrian Baal by his ordinary devotees, was to break wind and ease themselves at the foot of his image."-SKELTON'S Deism Revealed. AN odd notion that "The greatest heads and smallest eke were wont To bear in them the finest wits away; (qy. alway.) This thing is true, thou can'st it not de- HIGGINS, Mirror for Magistrates, "GELDINGS, with their goddess Epona, are objects of admiration to you."-TERTULLIAN'S Apology. "Alhahor it seems is the name of heaven's fierce dog."— M. Magazine, vol. 3, p. 819. "JAQUES GOHORY disoit que ce qu'il avoit traduit du Roman d'Amadis passeroit un joir pour aussi veritable que l'histoire de Paul Jove."-BAILLET, vol. 2, p. 319. TAKE then the book to thy pocket, the doctor to thy heart, Nobs for thy hobbyhorse, and M. Urgandus, the unknown, for thy guide, philosopher, and friend. TELLIAMED theory. "ANTIPHERON, one who," Aristotle says, "met with himself, and saw his own image before him wherever he went." ASPENDIUS, a harper, who would finger the harp so lightly, that none could hear it but himself. HE goat, dog wolf, buck rabbit, Jack hare. It was a comfort to the doctor, that the relative to whom his paternal estate would pass was named Lamb. Sapientia, the ancients connected wisdom with taste.-See VAN HELMONT, p. 737. ABERNETHY says "nature seems to have formed animals to live and enjoy health upon a scanty and precarious supply of food;" and argues that men produce diseases by the repletion to which their tables tempt them. But surely as to animals, he is wrong. WHEN a Venetian ambassador, endeavouring to dissuade Louis XII. from making war upon Venice, spoke of the wisdom of that republic, Louis replied, “J'opposerai un si grand nombre de fous à vos sages, que toute leur sagesse sera incapable de leur résister. Note to M. DU BELLAY, from FER THE leagues Docteur Boucher, preaching in the church of Notre Dame at Paris, 1593, affirmed that the words of the Psalm lxviii. or lxix. "Eripe me, Domine, de luto, ut non infigar," were a direct and positive prophetic | RON. command to the French de se debourbouner, and not to receive a king of that family, however Catholic he might appear to be. Sermons. "I NEVER yet knew a good tongue that wanted ears to hear it."--O. FELTHAM. ""Tis a wonder to me how men can preach so little and so long;-so long a time, and so little matter. As if they thought to please by the inculcation of their vain tautologies."-Ibid. "If we out of copper, lead, or pewter preaching can extract pure gold, 'tis no impeachment to our wise philosophy.”—Ibid. OPIATE sermons; drastic, laxative, alterative, sedative, carminative, corroborent. "FOR you must know strange things in pulpits Are told to please the listening dull pates." Hudibras, Redivivus, i. 12. WHEN the elder Sheridan advertized his Attic Morning Entertainment, "that it might answer some purposes of all as well as amusement, he proposed to read part of the Liturgy, and to deliver a sermon, with strictures upon the manner in which those acts of public worship are usually performed."-CHURCHILL, vol. i. p. 43. N. Libertin, says the Jesuit Garasse, signifies a Huguenot and a half. "Le cueur leur devint foye, et se rendirent."-MARTIN DU BELLAY. THE proprietor of the Imperial Magazine assures the public "that its type and paper will not shrink from the most rigorous inspection." "As the strokes in music answer the notes that are prickt in the rules, so the words of the mouth answer to the motions and affections of the heart. The anatomists teach that the heart and tongue hang upon one string. And hence it is, that as in a clock or watch, when the first wheel is moved, the hammer striketh, so when the heart is moved with any passion or perturbation, the hammer beats upon the bell, and the mouth sounds."-FEATLEY. Clavis Mystica. p. 867. Comes very near essays,-a pretty poet,— REDEMPTION for animals.-BISHOP REY- Begins to piddle with philosophy." NOLDS, Vol. 1, pp. 21, 297-8. WHEN any great and noble qualities are observed in a woman, the poet says it "drives into a stound The amazed shepherd, that such virtue can 3e resident in lesser than a man." Faithful Shepherdess, act ii. sc. 2. 1775. "TELL Mrs. Damer," says HORACE WALPOLE," that the fashion now is, to erect the toupée into a high detached tuft of hair, like a cockatoo's crest; and this toupée they call la physiognomie,-I don't guess why." -Letter IV. p. 32. AN absurd respect to the direct line of descent is shown by St. Jerome, when he supposes that God delayed the flood till after Methusalem's death, because there was then an end of Seth's generation, so that none of it suffered in the vengeance.-VAN SCRIECK, 2. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Wit without Money, act i. sc. 2. "THERE be three kind of fools: * * An innocent, a knave fool, a fool politic." "ABOUT sixteen years ago, I met, on the banks of the Danube, with a work in four volumes, entitled, "L'Art de la Guerre," by a Colonel Faesch, a Saxon officer. The author like every other German collector, had culled his treatise from all the books that had been written upon the subject; and he had the honesty to name them. was forcibly struck with one passage, in which he sums up the qualities of a good officer, and which the present subject has recalled to my recollection. He says that an able officer ought to be a sound mathematician, a good lawyer, an acute surgeon, an excellent historian, a good judge of beef, pork, and mutton, and a sound divine! Although his ingredients of an officer combine much taste with science, I will not go so far as to assert that all these qualifications are necessary to a British, however proper they may be to a German officer. But I will venture to affirm, that an uninstructed lad of sixteen years of age, whose mind is incapable of commanding himself, is not fit to command others." Nash, of Bath, to the ringers of the abbey there, is contained in a codicil to his will, proved in Doctors' Commons:-'I do hereby give and bequeath to the mayor, the senior alderman, and town clerk of Bath for the time being, the sum of £50 per annum, in trust, payable out of the Bank Long AnInuities, standing in my name at the Bank of England, for the use, benefit, and enjoyment of the set of ringers belonging to the Abbey Church, Bath, on condition of their ringing, on the whole peal of bells, with clappers muffled, various solemn and doleful changes (allowing proper intervals for rest and refreshment), from eight o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock in the evening, on the 14th day of May in every year, being the anniversary of my wedding day; and also the anniversary of my decease, to ring a grand bob major and merry mirthful peals unmuffled, during the same space of time, and allowing the same intervals as above mentioned, in joyful commemoration of my happy release from domestic tyranny and wretchedness, and for the full, strict, and due performance of such conditions, they, the said ringers, are to receive the sum of £50 per annum, in two payments of £25 each, on those respective days of my marriage and my decease. And now that dear divine man (to use Mrs. Nash's own words) the Rev. of may resume his amatory labours, without enveloping him "M. ANTONIUS, Triumvir, corporis excrementa non nisi vasis aureis excipiebat." -TEXTOR. Pref. ad Cornucopiam. He loved Erasmus, because Erasmus, writing to Daniel Benedictus of Milan, says to him, "Dictus est Daniel vir desideriorum, quid itaque mirum si desiderius Desiderium desideras ?"-Ep. p. 908. TAMERLANE used to boast that he was descended from the tribe of Dan."-R. B. Mem. Remarks concerning the Jews, p. 29. "BA-BA, black sheep, have you any wool ?" Applied to a wicked book, from which some good may be extracted. THE report of an Irish society tells us that Lord Chesterfield's Letters are often met with among the books used in the low Irish schools. Munster is the part spoken of. "OF TWO EVILS CHOOSE THE LEAST.-The following singular bequest, made by Thomas self in a sedan chair for fear of detection. I further will and direct that the aforesaid ringers do enter upon office (for the first time only) the very next day following after my interment, and to receive £25, one halfyear's dividend, for so doing. Written with my hand, this 14th May, 1813.—THOMAS NASH.'" |