"THE greatest clerks are not the wisest; and a fool may dance in a hood, as well as a wise man in a bare frock."—Ibid. p. 115. "MAKE you a why of that?" Ibid. vol. 2, p. 7. "THE thirsty earth is broke with many a gap, And lands are lean where rivers do not run." Ibid. p. 139. "LET all men know That tree shall long time keep a steady foot, Whose branches spread no wider than the root."-WEBSTER, vol. 1, p. 124. "THE Egyptian mummies which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth: mummy is become merchandize; Mizraim cures wounds; and Pharaoh is sold W. AUSTIN'S Hæc Homo; wherein the for balsam.”—SIR THOMAS BROWNE. Urn excellency of the creation of woman is de Burial, scribed. Dedicated to Mrs. Mary Griffith, 1639. Two portraits. Perhaps of the author and the lady. WHOLESOME luxuries, which are the magnalia of humble life, and the titivilitia of the great. RAM Runer.-"Runas acerbas, vel amaras," the magic Rune are called. Olaus Wormius, 2. CANNON and Ordnance. Odd, the double meaning of both words. "Er forte mi bisognera ragionar un poco piu diffusamente che non si conviene, ma questo sara quanto io posso dire."—Il Cortegiano, vol. 1, p. 45. "VIDETE la musica, l'armonie della quale hor son grave, e tarde, hor velocissime et di novi modi, et nientedimeno tutte dilettano, ma per diverse cause."-Ibid. p. 53. CUVIER himself designed the patterns for the embroidery of his court and institute "It was wholesome advice that one gave his lewd friend, that he should hang the picture of his grave and serious father in the room where he was wont to celebrate his debauches; imagining that the severe eye of the good old man, though but in effigy, could give a check to the wanton sallies of the intemperate youth."-SCOTT's Christian Life, vol. 1, p. 100.1 ARISTOTLE Commends Archytas for his invention of rattles, because children, by playing with them, are kept from breaking vessels of use.-Ibid. p. 108. "-ET aussi pour fuir la trop grande prolixité, pour laquelle certes je me sens trèscapable."-BRANTOME, vol. 1, p. 120. "FOR to know it, is to be resolved of it; and to be resolved of it, is to make no question of it; and when a case is out of the question,-what was I saying?"—WEBSTER, Northard Ho. vol. 3, p. 147. SOME one has written the "Life and Death of Adam!" 12mo. 2s. 6d. 1811. "THE Hebrew conjugations, Pihel and Puhal, signify to do a thing diligently, earnestly, fervently, &c., and are only distinguished by the vowel points from the conjugation Kal, which simply states that the thing is done."-ADAM CLARKE, Chron. Suc. of Sacred Literature, vol. 1, p. 23. CLEMENS ALEXANDRINUS advises white raiment, and condemns dies of every kind as useless and unbecoming.-Ibid. p. 119. He recommends women to wear shoes that should cover the upper part of the foot as well as the sole.-Ibid. TERTULLIAN says that the apostate angels when they fell in love with women, taught This refers to the folio edition. Southey thought very highly of J. Scott's works. They were reprinted at the Clar. press in 1826. J. W. W. them the use of gold and silver, the virtues of plants, and the power of incantations.Ibid. p. 135. ORIGIN thought that the bodies of the saints at the resurrection would be sphe rical.-Ibid. p. 163. As Mr. Clarke says of St. Jerome (Ibid. p. 485), "the tone of reflection varies as his own skilful hand draws forth the music of a well strung mind, or as he allows his intellect to be played on in submission to the higher, or wild, or rude performance of another." UPON a misinterpretation of Job xxv. 5, "Yea, the stars are not pure in his sight;" it was affirmed by some of the old heretics (Priscellianists, I believe,), that the stars have rational souls, and are capable of sin. -CLARKE'S Ecc. Lit. vol. 2, p. 30. ounces, was fifteen and a half inches in measure about the edge, about the length above thirteen, about the breadth almost thirteen. -Wood's Athena. vol. 2, p. 326. HOPLOCRISMA Spongus, or a sponge to wipe away the weapon salve; wherein is proved that the cure taken up among us, by applying the salve to the weapon, is magical and unlawful, A. D. 1631, by W. Foster. Dr. Richard Fludd answered him, "not without some scorn;" and Osborne also ridicules him in an Essay, "on such as condemn all they understand not a reason for."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 573. WM. WHATELY, vicar of Banbury, who laid the foundation of Puritanism there, published, A. D. 1624, A Care - cloth, or Treatise of the Cumbers and Troubles of Marriage.—Ibid. p. 639. Names. VICTOR, who wrote against Augustine, and held that unbaptized infants might be saved, asserted that the cause of their hap- FAUNT the Jesuit "altered his Christian piness or misery was "God's foreknowing name of Arthur, because, as his kinsman what works they would have done had they tells us, (W. Burton, in his Description of lived, and rewarding them accordingly."— | Leicestershire, p. 10,) no kalendar saint was Ibid. vol. 2, p. 39. ever of that name." He assumed that of Laurence.-FULLER'S Church History, p. ELIZABETH'S accession, English exiles. “I | 213. knew one right well,” says FULLER, “whose father amongst them, being desperately dis CLASSIFICATION of ships from A 1, to 01. eased, was presently and perfectly cured-Report on Manufactures, 1833, p. 232. THO. NEWTON translated from the Latin of Gul. Gratarolus, A Direction for the Health of Magistrates and Students, namely, such as be in their consistent age, or near thereunto. A.D. 1574. There are extracts from it in the British Bibliographer, vol. 2, p. 414. NIC. BYFIELD the Puritan died at fortyfour of the stone, after fifteen years' suffering. It weighs more than thirty-three SCRIMANSKY and George Stone were bears in the days of the bear garden.-GREY, Hudibras, vol. 1, p. 127. SACKERSON, whom Master Slender had seen loose twenty times, and taken him by the chain. Merry Wives of Windsor, act i. sc. 1. IN one of Wolsey's inventories, is one bed called the Infantelage, and another called the Sun.-ELLIS's Original Letters, vol. 2, p. 15. L HERCULES d'Este. A son of the Count de Furstenberg killed at the battle of Censolles, is called Vulcan by P. Jovius. But the editor of Brantome supposes that this must mean Wolfgang. Ibid. vol. 5, p. 4. sum abbreviare, imò abrumpere planè, prætermisso eo, quod et tunc quam maximè scriptum volui, nunc otii plusculum nactus, nescio quàm nervosè, verbosè certè decrevi pertractare.”—CRANMER to Osiandler. CRANMER's Remains, vol. 1, p. 303. THE once celebrated physician, Sirenus ANDREA DONA had a gallery called La Sammonicus, prescribes the fourth book of Temperance. Ibid. p. 60. the Iliad to be laid under the patient's head, for a quartan ague.-Preface to GREY's DR. AKAKIA, whose portrait is in the Hudibras, p. xliii. town hall at Chalons, sur Marne. HERR! Denck an David Ps. 131, V. 1. und Elisabeth 1809. An innkeeper at Ulm thus notified his piety and his name on a slate-coloured gilt stone crucifix.-DowNE's Letters, vol. 2, p. 44. MARIA GLORIOSA, a bell at Erfurth, said to be the largest in Europe.-Ibid. p. 443. AMAIMON, according to Reginald Scott, is king of the east; but, according to Randle Holme, his dominion is on the north side of the infernal gulf. Barbatos is a great countie or earl; he is like a sagittary, and hath thirty legions under him.-SHAKSPEAR, (BOSWELL) N. vol. 8, p. 91. "ONE of the first calico printers in France came to England expressly in search of ideas for next spring. He has visited all the shops in London, and has gone home well satisfied. I went to Paris three weeks ago for the same purpose."-JAMES THOMSON, Report on Manufactures, 1833. P. 240. SAYING of Francis the First about a fine woman, a fine horse, and a fine greyhound. -Brantome, vol. 2, p. 406. In the island of Desolation, South Georgia, and South Shetland, the seals have already been almost destroyed.-P. 515, Report of Manufactures, &c. 1833. MEN of whom the best that can be said is, that they are "of the better sort of beasts."-HENRY MORE, Th. W. p. 88. "It was said of one who, with more industry than judgment, frequented a college library, and commonly made use of the worst notes he met with in any author, that he weeded the library."-FULLER, Holy State, p. 149. COMMUNICATING with the dead by keeping their memory alive.—ADAM LIttleton, p. 62, Funeral Sermon. DR. BEALE made "rests for water on the body of Kentish codlin trees, and caused water to be frequently poured into those cavities. The effect was, that the apples grew to an extraordinary size, but were very insipid, and many of them had parts in appearances much like the pulp of lemons. Some he suffered to hang on the tree as long as they would, and these became full of spots of the colour of earth, or like the rottenness of an apple."—Abr.Phil. Trans. vol. 1, p. 335. Suckling gooseberries. Holder's classification of the elements of speech.-Ibid. p. 352. A way of dwarfing men, by anointing -THIS point which at that time, "coactus ther back bones in their very infancy with the grease of moles, bats, and dormice; together with an intimation of the art used at Bononia to dwarf their dogs, by often washing (from the first day they are whelped) their feet and back bone, thereby drying and hardening those parts, and so hindering their extension. From a Miscellanea Curiosa Medica Physica, published at Leipsic, 1670; the commencement of an intended series. — Ibid. vol. 1, p. 562. "Jeremiah Horrox died 1640, in the twenty-second year of his age; born at Toxteth, Lancashire, and began to study astronomy at fourteen. He was the first who predicted or saw Venus in the sun, and made from it many useful observations, though he was not aware of the great use that was to be made of it. And his new theory of lunar motions Newton made the groundwork of all his astronomy relative to the moon.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 12. Christian Adolphus Baldiunus, who accidentally discovered phosphorus, thought that it contained the red spark, yea, the most secret soul (secretissima anima) of the fire and light of nature, consequently the innate and invisible fire of philosophers, attracting magnetically the visible fire of the sun, and afterwards emitting and diffusing in the dark the splendour of the same. -Ibid. vol. 2, p. 368. One Signor Zagonius had a way of making out of the Bologna stone calcined statues and pictures, variously shining in the dark.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 382. "If I keep a passion, I'll never starve it in my service.”—Dryden, vol. 2, p. 307. Mock Astrologer. CONCLUDE instead of finis, with KOPE OMIJAE. Two barbarous words with which the mysteries were closed and the assembly dismissed; "shewing," says Warburton, "the mysteries not to have been originally Greek." -Ibid. vol. 1, p. 204. WHEN the king of Fetou was dying of consumption, at Cape Corse, the Fetishers not only made several pellets of clay, which they ranged in order in his room, and sprinkled them with blood; but besides they eat several muttons to his good health.—Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 4, p. 201. At Copenhagen, a perspective of the late king of Denmark's family, the queen's face being in the middle, and eight princes and princesses round her, yet all conspire to form the king's face, when seen through the hole of a glass tube.-Ibid. vol. 5, p. 48. Increase of a turnip from its seed to its full growth.-Ibid. vol. 6, p. 404-5. AN English gentleman showed me once in Holland, in 1687, a cherrystone, with 124 heads on the outside of it, so that you might distinguish with the naked eye popes, emperors, kings, and cardinals by their crowns and mitres. It was purchased in Prussia, where it was made, for £300 English, and is now in London (1703), there having been a law-suit not long since commenced about it in Chancery.-Phil. Tran. Abr. vol. 5, p. 49. Dr. William Oliver. LEUWENHOECK says, that in any quantity whatever of sand you cannot find two particles that are entirely alike. He gives drawings of them magnified.—Ibid. p. 94. DERHAM (ibid. p. 394), says that some of his observations on the motion of sound may be useful to the Echometrician. "Several learned men, both ancient and modern, have carefully examined into that ludicrous and agreeable phenomenon of sound called echo. I am persuaded, though any reflecting object were capable of returning all the syllables of the following verse, Vocali nymphæ, quæ nec reticere loquenti, yet it could not reflect all the syllables of this other, because its pronunciation is a little longer, Corpus adhuc Echo, non vox erat, et tamen usum: |