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never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours."-H. WALPOLE, vol. 4, p. 344.

SULLY, vol. 1, p. 79. He once found Henry, then King of Navarre, in his cabinet. "L'espée au costé, une cappe sur les espaules, son petit toquet en teste, et un pannier pendu en escharpe au col, comme ces vendeurs de fromages, dans lequel il y avoit deux ou trois petites chiens pas plus gros que poing.”

Paradisiacal State.

WATTS, vol. 3, p. 375. Nothing but man was created with a telescopic and microscopic sight, and all sense of hearing, feeling, and smelling, in proportional superiority.

Ibid. P. 378. AND without any principle of decay or death in him.

Ibid. p. 424. THEY might have been translated, like Enoch.

Ibid. p. 437. "Ir is very probable, though Adam and Eve had no garments in their state of innocency, yet they were not entirely naked, but were covered with a bright shining light, or glory, as a token of their own innocence, and of the Divine favour or presence: such glory as angels sometimes appeared in, and such as Christ wore on the holy mount: such as arrayed him like a bright cloud at his ascent to heaven, and such as saints shall put on at the resurrection, when they shall be raised in power and glory." 1

CAPT. MARRYAT asked a Burman soldier what was his notion of a future state. "I shall be turned into a buffalo," he replied; "and shall lie down in a meadow of grass

See the opinion of Stephen Gobarus, Third Series, p. 679.-J. W. W.

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THE war cry of the Melek Nazr ad Deening wickedness, and mad rebellion of damned was, "I am a bull, the son of a bull."HOSKINS, p. 45.

Times, Friday, 3 July, 1835.

"A MAN about fifty years of age lately died in the hospital at Arras of spontaneous hydrophobia, a disease of the rarest occurrence."

spirits, may bring upon them new judgments and more weighty vengeance."-Vol. 5, p. 645.

"PERHAPS as the wicked of this world when they die, have left evil and pernicious examples behind them, or have corrupted the morals of their neighbours by their en

ticements or their commands, or by their wicked influence of any kind, so their punishment may be increased in proportion to the lasting effects of their vile example, or their vicious influences. And perhaps too there are no men among all the ranks of the damned, whose souls will be filled so high with the dread and horror of increasing woes, as lewd and profane writers, profane and immoral princes, or cruel persecutors of religion.”— Ibid. p. 646.

"WHY may he not suppose that their bodies shall be raised with all the seeds of disease in them, like the gout or the stone, or any other smarting malady,—that God will create bodies for them of such an unhappy mould and contexture as shall be another perpetual source of pain and anguish."-Ibid.

"SOME writers, elder and later, have held that the vast numbers of indifferent persons, who have neither been evidently holy, nor evidently wicked, shall be sent to a new state of trial in the other world.”—Ibid. p. 647.

He does not name those writers; and can find no hint of them in the Bible except 1 Peter iii. 19, about Christ preaching to the Spirit of those who were drowned in the flood,-“an obscure text" which may be construed to another sense with truth and justice.

"Ir is not at all unlikely that their habitation shall be a place of fire, and their bodies may be made immortal to endure the smart and torture without consuming. Did not this God by his Almighty power and mercy preserve the bodies of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the burning fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar, so that the fire had no power to consume or destroy them? And cannot his power do the same thing under the influence of his justice, as well as of his mercy? When the power and the wrath of a God unite to punish a creature, how miserable must that creature be!"Ibid. p. 649.

"CON que se castigarà dignamente el desprecio de tan grande magestad? Claro està que con ninguna pena menor que con la que està à los tales aparejada, que es arder para siempre en los fuegos del infierno; y con todo esto no se castiga dignamente."-LUIS DE GRANADA, tom. 1, p. 5.

Ir one of the damned were to drop one tear, once in a thousand years, in time he would have shed more in quantity than all the waters of the flood!

If the worst pain of hell were no more than the prick of a needle, think what that would be, if it were eternal.-Ibid. p. 35.

The flames of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace rose to the height of forty-nine cubits, not fifty, because fifty would have tokened a jubilee, a time of remission, and the furnace was to be a type of hell.—Ibid. p. 36.

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THE Chev. Ramsay in his Phil. Princip. of Nat. and Rev. Religion (Glasgow, 2 vols. 4to. 1751), held universal restitution.

BERTOLACCI, Vol. 2, p. 139. At the day of judgment the whole sun is to be unsheathed (for part only is now seen) and to consume the wicked.

See also vol. 2, p. 128, 134-41.

PUNISHMENT of neutral angels, and souls neither fit for heaven nor deserving hell. DANTE, canto 3.

Monthly Review, vol. 9, Sept. 1753, p. 200. A curious scheme to prove that all souls will finally be saved, but the bodies of the righteous only.

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"NON è alcuna cosi grave miseria in questo mondo, laquale si possa pareggiare al non essere venuto in questa vita. tanto che Santo Agostino hebbe a dire, che molto meglio è l'essere condannato alle pene dell' Inferno, che non esser mai nato.

S. F. "Io no so conoscere, che dolore o qual pena possa provare chi non ha essere : et certo buoni argomenti ci havrebbono mistiero a farmi credere questo."-Novella delle Donne, ff. 128, LODOVICO DOMENICHI." Yet he proceeds to say "Nondimeno di tanta auttorità sono le parole di quel Santissimo huomo, ch'io stringo le spalle, et m'arrendo."

It is beneath the majesty of the Emperor of Japan to inflict for any the least disregard shown to his imperial commands a less punishment than death, by the offender's own hands, or perpetual banishment, or imprisonment, with the utter ruin of his family. KEMPFER, vol. 1, p. 267.

GOD forgive those who believe in eternal torments, for to believe in them, is almost to deserve them.

"THE execution of damnation begins in death, and is finished in the last judgment." —Perkins, vol. 1, p. 107.

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THE Arabian surgeons in the time of Rhazes thought that when a bone was out of joint, the injury was not in the articulation, but in the middle of the bone.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 298.

REALD COLUMBUS, a Professor at Padua, was the first who for the uses of live anatomy substituted dogs for swine.—Ibid. vol. 4, p. 11.

In those days when the anatomists wanted a subject, they begged a criminal of the sovereign, whom they put to death in their way, that is, says SPRENGEL, by opium, and then dissected him.-Ibid. p. 12.

THE lacteals had been discovered in ani

mals by Aselli but never in the human subject, till Peiresc to whom Gassendi had communicated Aselli's work, begged of the magistrate at Aix that a malefactor might be delivered over to the surgeons a little before his execution. They made him take a hearty meal, and one hour and a half after his excustion executed him, and saw the lacteals to Peiresc's great satisfaction.— Ibid. vol. 4, p. 203.

Ir was thought that La Noue of the Iron Arms, one of the best of his countrymen, might have been saved, if the surgeon in whom he confided would have trepanned him.-Coll. des Mem. vol. 47, p. 63.

In that age, Sylvaticus, the Professor at Pavia, said that trepanning ought to be left to the itinerant surgeons. The Circulatores they were called.-SPRENGEL, t. 7, p. 11.

THE ancients believed that goats operated upon themselves for a cataract, by pressing a thorn into the eye, and that men learnt it from them.-Ibid. vol. 7, p. 38.

It may have been learnt from such an accident, as Standert observed, when a man by a fall from his horse fractured his skull, and dislodged a cataract. His life was saved, and his sight recovered.

THERE were itinerant rupture-surgeons also; often most ignorant and brutal. One is mentioned who used to feed his dog with testicles. Dionis knew the fact.-Ibid. t. 7, p. 159.

THE Chev. Saint Thoan found a silver nose so inconvenient that he submitted to be Taliacotified, and succeeded in obtaining "un charme et très bien conforme."-Ibid. t. 8, p. 177.

THE nose cannot be made from another person's flesh, because two persons cannot be kept without moving for the length of time required.—Ibid. p. 179.

ZACCHIAS raised the legal question, whether it were lawful to make a new nose for one who had been deprived of his own by the sentence of the law.-Ibid. p. 185.

THE Apollo Belvidere is the best model when one is to be made.-Ibid. p. 199.

ABUL KASEM the first who made false teeth.-Ibid. p. 247.

Witchcraft.

INNOCENT VIII.'s Bull against it, was really designed against the Hussites. In the Electorate of Treves alone, 6500 men put to death as sorcerers.-SPRengel, t. 3, p. 232.

THOUGH a witch could assume the form of any animal she pleased, the tail would

still be wanting.-STEEVENS. Note to Macbeth,—" like a rat without a tail."

AMONG Evelyn's charges against solitude, after saying that it produces ignorance, renders us barbarous, feeds revenge, and disposes to envy, he says it creates witches. Censura Literaria, vol. 1, p. 9.

Ir is "their black business to kill children; seeing that the principal preparations whereby they exercise, are made either of the skin or flesh of a child. Of the skin they make their virgin parchment, a thing of great importance as to them, and in which all their spells and charms are to be written. Of the flesh decocted to a jelly they make their unguents, with which they do things of so rare and unreasonable consequence. This practice of theirs, confesseth the secret strength of innocency, and sanctity of children."-JOHN GREGOIRE, p. 98

SOME admiring reader of Hutchinson has written in the margin of my copy, (vol. 8, p. 263), "all charms have come from the ancients, and have had a mystical signification."

"ALL I can say is, that Satan and he are better acquainted than the devil and a good Christian ought to be."-VANBRugh. Mistake, p. 41.

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SEE Statute, 33 Hen. VIII. c. 8, p. 837. persons who for the execution of their false devices made divers images and pictures of men, women, children, angels, or devils, beasts, or fowls, and also crowns, sceptres, swords, rings, glasses, and other things, and giving faith to such fantastical practices, have digged up and pulled down an infinite number of crosses within this realm,-for despite of Christ, or for lucre of money,-felony without clergy."

PERKINS, Vol. 1, p. 40.

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