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JOHN JACKSON, the Arian, Master of Wigstow Hospital, Leicester, when his eyes began to fail, was immoderately fond of cards, and devoted every evening to the quadrille-table. "The seven o'clock bell at the hospital called him to evening prayer in the midst of a dispute at the game, and he crossed St. Martin's churchyard in great haste to his constant duty. As soon as prayers were over, he returned to the cardtable, and said 'I am confident I was right as to that card.' I submit,' replied his opponent,' for you have had leisure to consider the state of the game attentively.'-A | reply at which he took no small offence."CRADOCK'S Works, vol. 4, p. 88.

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MRS. BRAY.-DR. VIAL, Vol. 3, p. 200. His father was Vicar of Doncaster, and he, who was born at a farm-house, Sensey, near Thirsk, was educated at Doncaster, where Dr. Bland, after head master of Eton, dean of Durham, and provost of Eton, was master. He was born 1686; and studied Hebrew under Simon Ockley at Cambridge. Warburton said of him, that he had spent his days in the republic of letters, just as vagabonds do in London, in one unwearied course of begging, railing, and stealing.NICHOLS, Vol. 2, pp. 519-31.

IN Defoe's time there was a great manufacture of stockings, gloves, and knit waistcoats there.

A. D. 1812. A SERVANT of Williamson, the horsedealer of York, was trying a horse on the road toward the High Street, Doncaster, when it took fright between the Rein Deer and Ram inns, and leaped through the shop window of Mr. Whalley, shoemaker. The rider crouched, or he must have been killed, the height from the ground to the under part of the beam being only seven and a half feet. He was thrown upon the counter, which, being near the window, prevented the horse from getting wholly into the shop. The window was of course shivered, but neither horse nor man much injured.-Edinburgh Annual Register, p. 61.

THORESBY, (Diary, vol. 2, p. 13,) speaks of a delicate parsonage-house at Cromwell, thought to be one of the best in England, Yorkshireman, (formerly schoolmaster at (1708): It was built by Mr. Thwaits, a Doncaster), at the expense of £1000, on

the road from Leeds to Grantham.

MARTIN LISTER. Dean Waddilove. Sterne.

Hall Stevenson.

"Voici un dogme fort choquant; c'est que les choses qui n'ont jamais été, et qui ne seront jamais, ne sont point possibles. C'a été sans doute le sentiment d'Abelard ; et je ne vois pas que ceux qui disent que Dieu est déterminé par sa sagesse infinie à faire ce

Wish that Drayton and Barnabee had qui est le plus digne de lui puissent nier

said more of it.

HUNTER in his History of the Deanery of Doncaster, says, "it is distinctly related by Bede, that the church at Doncaster was founded by Edwin, under the auspices of Paulinus."

"WE have notable fellows about Doncaster; they'll give the lie and the stab both in an instant."-WEBSTER, vol. 3, p.

186.

Kate, the innkeeper's daughter, says this.

sans inconséquence la doctrine de ce philosophe."-BAYLE, tom. 3, p. 335.

PHILIPPUS CAROLUS, a commentator upon Aulus Gellius, says, after the Hebrews, "que ceux qui auront été mal mariés, seront absous devant Dieu, sans comparoître devant son tribunal.”—Ibid. p. 450.

"NESCIO quomodo nihil tam absurdè dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.”—Cic. de Divinat. 1. 2, c. 58.

"NEMO ægrotus quicquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus."-VARRO in Eumenid. apud Nonium.

AT Hurdenberg, in Sweden, M. HUET says the mode of choosing a burgomaster is this the persons eligible sit with their beards upon a table, a louse is put in the middle of the table, and the one in whose beard he takes cover is the magistrate for the ensuing year.-BAYLE, vol. 3, p. 484.

JACOBUS GADDIUS must have been an odd fellow, for he thought the "Batrachomyomachia, nobilior, propriorque perfectione' than the Iliad or Odyssea.-H. N. COLERIDGE, Intr. p. 184.

LAISSEZ nous faire

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"THE root out of which the fruits of the earth do grow, is above, in heaven: the

What is it men do when this maxim is genealogy of corn and wine is resolved into

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"OR dare your vamping valour, goodman cobler,

Ibid. act i. sc. ii.

THE Malays have so great a prejudice | Clap a new sole to the kingdom."

against a great book, that though they now ask for the Englishman's Koran, they are literally afraid to receive so large a book, and invariably refuse to take it, though they will accept any portion of it. The Bible Society has therefore been asked to publish it in parts.

"THIS is most certain. God had rather have his trees for fruit, than for fuel."BISHOP REYNOLDS, tom. 2, p. 365.

"FOR God will not suffer his gospel to be cast away, but will cause it to prosper unto some end or other; either to save those that believe, or to cumulate the damnation of those that disobey it!"—Ibid. p. 271.

"OUT, ye flesh flies,

Nothing but noise and nastiness."

Ibid.

"ALL other loves are mere catching of dot-
trels,1
Stretching of legs out only, and trim lazi-
Ibid. act iv. sc. ii.

ness."

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"IF himself
(I dare avouch it boldly, for I know it)
Should find himself in love,-
Surely his wise self would hang his beastly
self,

His understanding self so maul his ass-self."
Ibid. act v. sc. ii.

"No owl will live in Crete."-Euphues.

OLD Merrythought's advice to his son is, "Be a good husband; that is, wear ordinary clothes, eat the best meat, and drink the best drink; be merry, and give to the poor, and believe me, thou hast no end of thy goods."-Kt. of the B. Pestle, p. 378.

"PLUSIEURS blâmeront l'entassement de

passages que l'on vient de voir; j'ai prévu leurs dédains, leurs dégoûts et leur censures magistrales, et n'ai pas voulu y avoir égard.-BAYLE, vol. 4, p. 461.

P.CAUSSIN'S Sympathy with the sun, which he called "son astre, et duquel il ressentait des opérations fort notables. Tant au corps qu'en l'esprit, selon ses approches et ses éloignemens, et à proportion qu'il se montrait, ou qu'il était couvert de nuages."Ibid. P. 612.

THE tongue made less for language than for taste,-beasts the proof, and that men can speak without tongues."—Ibid. vol. 5, p. 15. Cerisantes. Theban Legion. SIR J. MALCOLM'S Sketches of Persia.

"PLURA proponere est tutius; ne una definitio parum rem comprehendat, et, ut ita dicam, formula excidat."-SENECA, de Benef. vol. 1, p. 283.

Street, Grosvenor Square, so far back as the 20th of February, 1801, and who was then supposed to be only fifteen months old, and his linen marked with the letter C, will apply personally, or by letter, post paid, to Mr. Jordan, solicitor, 7, Lincoln's Inn Fields, they will hear of something greatly to their advantage.

ST. JEROME.

"Infans eram, nec tum scribere noveram:

Nunc, ut nihil aliud profecerim, saltem Socraticum illud habeo, Scio quod nescio."— BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 3, Ded.

"Do you not," BISHOP SANDFORD asks, "find yourself continually inclined to forget that inanimate things have no volition ?" "Yes," he answers himself, "I do, but so did Dean Swift, a wiser man than I, who used to say that nothing was more provoking than the perverseness of inanimate things."-Remains, vol. 1, p. 216.

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“I REMEMBER," says BISHOP SANDFORD, (vol. 1, p. 205,) “ once hearing old Dr. W. with the mild appearance of an old lion tormented with the tooth-ache, utter this charitable wish,' I wish,' said he, that more people would die of diseases in the spleen, that we might know what purposes the spleen is intended to answer.' Nothing would have tempted me to trust myself in the old Ogre's hands. I never heard a wish so truly professional.”

"Je ne crois pas que l'on ait pensé dans ce siècle rien de grand et de délicat, que l'on ne voie dans les livres des anciens. Les plus sublimes conceptions de métaphysique et de morale que nous admirons dans quelques modernes, se rencontrent dans les livres des anciens philosophes."—

OCCASIONAL drunkenness advised by Se- BAYLE, vol. 5, p. 295. neca.- -Ibid. p. 229.

AUGUST 18, 1830.-If the parents or next kin of a boy who was left in the passage of the Coach and Horses public-house, Mount

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CURION, the Piedmontese reformer, who found a place of refuge in Switzerland, published a treatise de Amplitudine beati regni Dei,-“où il tâcha de montrer que le nombre

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A HUGE fellow.

Street has thought proper to lay claim to be | Though roughly, yet most aptly, into anger." the birth-place of Milton. If your suppoAct iii. sc. ii. sition be founded upon the circumstance of the street in question being now called Milton Street, I beg to inform you, that "Milton" happens to be the name of a very respectable carpenter who has lately taken a lease of the whole street, and who is swayed by the very pardonable ambition of perpetuating that fact. I am, sir, your very obedient servant, Sept. 10.

A Constant Reader.

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"CEs discours je faisois d'une pensée gaye, Ne pensant point adonc que la suite en fust

vraye;

-"that gross compound cannot but diffuse
The soul in such a latitude of ease
As to make dull her faculties and lazy."
Ibid. Maid in the Mill, act ii. sc. i.
"FOR my part, sir,

The more absurd, I shall be the better wel-
come."
Ibid. act ii. sc. ii.

"A FOUNDER of new fashions, The revolutions of all shapes and habits Run madding through his brains."

Ibid. act iii. sc. ii.

This, which Beaumont and Fletcher say of a tailor, may be parodied to a constitu

Mais à mes propres cousts j'ay du depuis tion-fashioner of these days. apris

Que bien souvent le vray se loge dans le ris." PASQUIER, tom. 2, p. 871.

ONE of those happy men who have been "anointed with the oil of gladness above their fellows."

I SHALL not administer to thee "a drachm of Ovid's art, nor a grain of Tibullus's drugs, nor one of Propertius's pills."Euphues.

CHINCHE, in Spanish, signifies a stinking wall louse, says Theobald in a note upon Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. 7, He p. 9. then did not know the name of bug.

"THE canker soonest entereth into the white rose."-Euphues.

"I KNOW, sir,

Both when and what to do without directions,

And where and how."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Love's
Pilgrimage, act ii. sc. ii.

"KNAVE is at worst of knave When he smiles best." Ibid. p. 258.

"THE eagle dieth neither for age, nor with sickness, but with famine."-Euphues.

"THOUGH the tears of the hart be salt, yet the tears of the boar be sweet."-Ibid.

"THE adamant, though it be so hard that nothing can bruise it, yet if the warm blood of a goat be poured upon it, it bursteth."— Ibid.

"THE breath of the lion engendereth as well the serpent as the ant."-Ibid.

“THE eagle at every flight loseth a feather, which maketh her bald in her age."Ibid.

"THE stone Pantura draweth all other stones, be they never so heavy, having in it

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It is very well known that few of LILLY'S similies are to be relied upon, but I have several instances of this old notion, which, as this sheet passes through the press, I cannot lay my

"AND as occasion stirr'd her, how she started, hand upon.-J. W. W.

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