And Jeremy B., with his riff-raff. There is Jamie the great, and Jeffrey the MR. Cut-and-come-again, the surgeon. Dr. Drastic, and his apothecary, Mr. Doseum. GENERAL civilization missionary society, the nothing at in which all religious denominations and all parties may join. "BUT I am proof against their flashy stuff; And for their scornings, I have scorn enough."-WITHER, To the King. B. Remembrancer. "AND I am willing to be thought A fool, that they more wisdom may be taught."-Ibid. "I AM no statesman ; But being set on such a middling height, When I (by God's permission) have the sight Of many things, which they shall never see, Who far above, or far below me be. Ibid. "Do you say rash or tisha when you sneeze?" said Isabel just now. "A GENTLEMAN now resides near Exeter, who has not washed his face or hands for forty years, and speaks of the circumstance with pleasure. He is about four-score years of age, strong, and in good health. Though he does not apply water in cleansing his skin, he is, however, in the daily habit of dry rubbing himself." "QUOD ad omnes res veniat dicta est Venus." She was worshipped also as the eldest of the Parcæ, and goddess of death, by the name of Libitina. THEY have a good fashion in Valencia of to accommodate persons of different statures. “Nis. Ay, concerning his being sent I making the chairs of unequal heights, so as know not whither. The Rabbis say they were sweetened," EFFECT of diet.-SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, for they got drunk.-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 8, vol. 1, p. 52. p. 376. They say a demon called Cordicus possesses them, who are drunk with new wine. -Ibid. p. 377. DEKKER uses to wihy, for neigh.—Wonder of a Kingdom, p. 15. It may, perhaps, not be known to the generality of readers, that the following twenty-two occupations are engaged to produce a single book :-"The author, the designer, the rag-merchant, the paper-maker, the stationer, the type-founder, the pressmaker, the ink-maker, the roller-maker, the chase-maker, the reader, the compositor, the pressman, the gatherer, the folder, the stitcher, the leather-seller, the binder, the coppersmith, the engraver, the copper-plate printer, and the bookseller! There are more than these:-the smel ter, the tanner, the gold-beater, the bookbinder's toolmaker, the miner,—and then it supports reviews and small critics, brings money to newspapers, and contributes by its duty on advertisements to the revenue. "It is enough for me that I do know What they commend, and what they disallow. And let it be enough to them, that I Am pleased to make such faults for them to spy." WITHER, Remembrancer, p. 137. "THE chiefest cause why I wrote this, was on set purpose to please myself."-TAYLOR, the W. P., Preface. TAYLOR'S Revenge, or William Fenner firked, ferreted, and finally called over the coals. "NOT a letter but what is fair: in technical language no pick, blot, bur, friar or monk is to be seen in the work."-ISAIAH THOMAS, Vol 1, p. 54. "CONJECTURE is all that one can go upon here; and it is better to conjecture at Satan's mind, in such a thing as this, than to be acquainted in it."-LIGHTFOOT, vol. 9, p. 365. "O thou vinegar, the son of good wine!" a Rabbinical expression for "O thou wicked son of a good father."—Ibid. vol. 12, p. 407. "WHO would marry a woman, though of a comely and well-proportioned body, who had the head of an ugly dragon? Certainly, although she had a great dowry, none would covet such a bedfellow."-J. TAYLOR, vol. 3, p. 445. "APOLLINIS simulachrum quatuor olim auribus Lacedæmonii donarunt, ut sapientiam ostenderent, cujus imaginem Apollo referebat, multarum auditione rerum enutriri." —Orationes, Jo. ALOYSII CERCHIARII, p. 76. 'Quin ipsi physiognomones, qui indolem animi ex notis corporis, cum quâdam veritate conjectant, ex auribus pressis, et simiarum ad instar adherentibus, stuporis et imperitiæ signum eliciunt; quæ si paulisper promineant et extent, mentem ad omnia compositam arguunt, et in studiis mirificè profuturam."-Ibid. p. 71. "THE circle is oλoywvía, a totangle: it -is also ισογώνιος ἰσόπλευρος, as well as óλóñλevpoç.”—JACKSON, vol. 2, pp. 103-4. ONE in merriment proposed this question in the schools, "An Chimera, calcitrans in vacuo terat calceos?"-Ibid. p. 152. “ALPHABET de l'imperfection et malice des femmes"-par J. OLIVIER, Rouen, 1635. WHY he would have liked a deaf and dumb wife, not meaning any reflection upon Mrs. D., but because of the perfect dog- | Brewer and druggist. Baker and pipelike attachment and dependence which this deficiency would have occasioned. INDIGNATION at the charge of making Doncaster a peg on which to hang my loose thoughts. A FAREWELL to the two letters which pass-Potential through all Freeling's wide domain. I who came from Rhedycina Bovin!'-the most unlettered of her sons-proceeding not even to A.B. My Oxford apotheosis-where I was LL.D. ified. Honour from Banff, which came after me by the mail coach, and found me at Elgin. RABBI KIMCHI says, "Homo cum dormiturus est, commendat Spiritum suum D.O. M. ne forte surgens crastino mane requirat animam suam nec inveniat; aut repereat suam in corpore alterius, alteriusve vicissim in eo."—GARMANNUS, de Miraculis Mortuorum, p. 26. RABBI ALEXANDRINUS:-"Scito tibi rem ita se habere: Homo expedit opus suum interdiu, unde vespertino tempore anima ejus fatigata est et attrita. Cum igitur ipse dormit, Deus laborat et redintegrat animam, ut sequenti mane revertatur in corpus suum vegeta, nova et quieta."-Ibid. PLINY's story of Hermotimus Clazomenius, whose body was burnt by his enemies while his soul was on an excursion more suo.-Ibid. clay dealer. Patriot and dealer in scrip. Bookseller and pirate. Coffeehouse keeper and slop seller. Taylor and cabbage cutter. DUKE OF GRAFTON'S motto. BURLEIGH. GULLEY'S fortune more comfortable than if it had been made in many other ways. DR. GREEN, and Kemp his merry-Andrew. NEXT to your real great secrets, secrets which are no secrets produce most effect. -Sir Walter's e.g. And so with jokes. The joke that is no joke tells well in parliament, as Lord K. and Mr. B. know. "WHAT was the subject of this day's conference will be the subject of an accusation to-morrow; and that secret which we thought we did but lately depositate in our friend's breast, will shortly fly in our faces from the mouth of our enemies."-SIR G. MACKENZIE, p. 133. PIECES of ash tree, cut at a critical moment, supposed to cure most diseases. Concerning the moment, doctors differ.-British Apollo, vol. 3, p. 770 A MAN speaking at random was said to "talk like an apothecary."-Ibid. 777. WHY the beating of a drum in an aleWITCHES' Souls fly out of their mouths in house should turn their drink sour ?—Ibid. the shape of a fire-fly.-Ibid. p. 27. p. 785. Will it do so? and if so, is the same effect UNION of Trades, the one public and the produced by bell-ringing? other secret. Shoemaker and corn factor. It is hardly necessary to say that Rydychen, and Vadum Boum, and Oxford, are the same. Rydychen is the old British name. 2 Cf. lib. vii. c. 52. J. W. W. A NOTION said to be confirmed by gravediggers, that the earth which is dug out of a grave will not fill it after the coffin is put in!-Ibid. p. 795. OLD NICK said to be so called from Nic Machiavelli!-Ibid. p. 822. HARCOURT (Longeville), "Histoire des personnes qui ont vecu plusieurs siècles, et qui ont rajeuni."—A.D. 1715. I KNEW a man to whom all the middle walks of life were open in his youth, and yet in spite of all dehortation he would be nothing but a tailor. He was not, as might perhaps be supposed, either effeminate in disposition or fractional in person, but an absolute integer in form, stature, appearance, and in heart also. Inclination, however, for an art is no more a proof of aptitude or genius for it in a sartorian aspirant than in a stage-struck youth, or votary of the muses. The person in question made me one pair of breeches, and they did not fit. "AN aged saying, and a true, SOME one was asked which of Cicero's orations he liked best, and he answered"eas sibi videri optimas quæ essent longissimæ."-LANGUET. Epist. p. 175. THE Scotchman who said men were divided into those who preyed upon others and those who were preyed upon. But neither all men nor all animals can thus be classed. The elephant, which is the noblest of quadrupeds, neither preys nor is preyed upon. "MUCH matter decocted into few words." This is Fuller's definition of a proverb. "A CONTINUAL emanation of unsavouriness, so that the stink doth never cease or give over."-BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 4, p. 203. แ 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 shi 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.'-Avered, but neither horse nor man much inreply at which he took no small offence."CRADOCK'S Works, vol. 4, p. 88. 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. jured.-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, (1708) It was built by Mr. Thwaits, a Yorkshireman, (formerly schoolmaster at Doncaster), at the expense of £1000, on the road from Leeds to Grantham. MARTIN LISTER. 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. |