Names. THEY said, in Scotland, that Rowland Hill rode upon the backs of order and decorum. "So I called one of my horses Order," said he," and the other Decorum, that they might tell the truth one way, if they did not in another."-Life, p. 191. RUMPELSTILZCHEN in the German Tales, might have kept his own secret in spite of his song, if he had had as many names as King Ferdinand and his brother. AJAX's Lamentation.-SOPHOCLES. DR. HARSNET (afterwards archbishop of York) has a chapter on the strange names of these devils, "lest," he says, “meeting them otherwise by chance, you mistake them for the names of tapsters or jugglers." -Note to King Lear, p. 195. LADY MACBETH's name was Gruach, or Grwok.-RITSON & WINTON. EVAX, King of Arabia, dedicated his book on precious stones to Nero, because there was an e in his name as well as in the Emperor's : "Evax rex Arabum fertur dixisse Monthly Review, vol. 7, p. 133. THE elephant which the King of Persia sent by Isaac the Jew to Charlemagne was called Abulabaz.-ZUINGER, p. 2444. AN ancestor of J. Wilkes, Edward Wilkes, who resided in James I.'s reign at Leighton Beausert (now Buzzard), had three sons and one daughter. The sons he christened Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and to come as near John as he could, he called the daughter Joan.-ALMON'S M. vol. 1, p. 2. In different branches of the family there have been Matthew and Mark to this time. WHEN John of Gaunt harps mournfully upon his name, Richard II. replies to him, THEODORE D'AGRIPPA D'AUBIGNE, having had an illegitimate son, born in the fourth year of her widowhood, speaks thus of him in her will:-" Je le fis nommer Nathan, et lui donnai pour surnom Engiband. Premièrement par le nom qui retourné se trouve de même à retourner, le surnom aussi trouve celui du père. En second lieu, j'ai voulu que ce nom me fut un Nathan, qui signifie donné, et que le nom du censeur de David representât mon ord péché aux yeux et aux oreilles incessamment." - Mem. de M. Maintenon, vol. 6, p. 47. NAMESAKE feeling in the two Ajaces.— COWPER, b. 17, v. 869. THE Lord Keeper North thought of introducing Nec-nons as well as Ac-etiams. -Vol. 1, p. 207. ODYSSEY.-COWPER, b. 8, v. 677-80. Yet some savages have no names. Hell. "VERISIMILE nimirum est manes colloquiis assuetos esse, nihil est enim aliud quod apud inferos agunt, ubi igni perpetuò assident, nisi ut confabulentur. Atque hinc est fœminas plerumque veneficas esse, et cum dæmone consortium inire, quod hæ ipsum magis promptè ac liberè alloquantur."— Decl. ascribed to SOUTH, Opera Posthuma, p. 10. RABBI SIMEON BEN LAKISCH said, "Non erit infernus tempore venturo. Sed Deus Sanct. Benedict. educet Solem e thecâ suâ, facietque ut penetret radiis suis homines; et impii quidem judicabuntur per illum, justi vero canabuntur per illum." To this they apply Malachi iv. 1. Avoda Sara, p. 16. ST. JAMES. "You must not mistake St. James's meaning. He does affirm that a single breach of God's law deserves eternal death, as well as ten thousand; yet he does not say that small and great offenders will have equal punishment. No: mighty sinners will be mightily tormented. Men's future torment will be suited to the number and the greatness of their crimes. Yet moderate offenders can have small consola tion from hence, because the shortest punishment is eternal, and the coldest place in hell will prove a hot one."-BERRIDGE, Christian World Unmasked, p. 27. sit upon the point of a needle." -JOHN GREGOIRE, p. 55, Rusca de Inferno, referred to. "ST. AUSTIN might have returned another answer to him that asked him, 'What God employed himself about before the world was made?' 'He was making hell.' No such matter. The doctors in the Talmud say,' He was creating repentance, or contriving all the ways how he might be merciful enough to the Man he is so mindful of, and to the Son of Man so much regarded by him.'"-JOHN Gregoire, p. 135. MASTER HENRY GREENWOOD's Torment ing Tophet (A. D. 1608), or, A terrible description of hell, able to break the hardest heart, and cause it to quake and tremble." -Monthly Review, vol. 68, p. 343-5. Some just remarks. "INFERNUS in futuro seculo non erit, sed Sol æstu suo cruciabit impios, idemque exhilarabit pios."—Avoda Sara, p. 16. Oaths. M.DE LA TRIMOUILLE was called, La vraye Corps Dieu, because that was his usual oath. Bayard used to exclaim, Feste-Dieu Bayard. M. de Bourbon (the Constable), Saints Barbe. The Prince of Orange, Saint Nicolas (not the Prince). "Le Bon Homme, M. de la Roche du Maine juroit Teste Dieu pleine de Reliques, (où Diable avoit il rois, plus saugreneux que ceux-là, mais il trouvé celuy-là ?) et autres que je nomine vaut mieux les taire."-BRANTOME, vol. 6, p. 129. "QUAND la Pasque1 Dieu deceda, Louis the Eleventh. "I HAVE wondered much at the curiosity (how learned soever) of some who undertake to set down the subterraneous geography of this place, and describing it so confidently, as if they had been there already; not the gates and chambers of death only, has, with perfect propriety, put this oath into but the very points of the compass in that region and shadow, and how many souls may I SIR WALTER SCOTT, in Quentin Durward, the mouth of this mean and crafty prince. J. W. W. JAMES GRANGER, vicar, preached a sermon October 18th, 1779, in the parish church of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, and published it under the title of An Apology for the Brute Creation; or Abuse of Animals considered. Will it be believed that this very sensible discourse gave disgust to two considerable congregations, and that the mention of dogs and horses was considered as a prostitution of the dignity of the pulpit. This made him publish it. He dedicated it to T. B. Drayman, and addressing him as Neighbour Tom, reminded him that he had seen him exercise the lash with greater rage, and heard him at the same time swear more roundly and forcibly, than he had ever seen or heard any of his brethren of the whip in London. Should he find any hard words in the discourse, he told him that if he could come to the vicarage, he would endeavour to explain them. And he warned him that if he did not alter his conduct, he would take care to have him punished by a justice of peace.-Monthly Review, vol. 47, p. 491-2. of a pinch of snuff. Our informant has within these few days seen Billy masticate a large quid of pigtail with as much goût as any Jack tar in his majesty's service. When he had finished the tobacco, a pinch of strong rappee was administered, which Billy snuffed without the least demur, and curling up his olfactory organ, delivered one of those charming solos so peculiar to his species. Billy is chiefly employed in carrying milk from his master's farm to Bolton; and if Mr. Walton has any other business to transact in the town, he can leave Billy with security at the door of any customer, whence he will not budge an inch until he hears his master's voice. Billy is invariably accompanied on his journies to Bolton by a small cur dog, which is so attached to him that in the absence of Mr. Walton, he takes his station close to Billy, and will not suffer any stranger to come near him. WILLIAM ELLIS, once a farmer at Little Gaddesden, who in A.D. 1760, published Every Farmer his own Farrier, says, upon his own experience, that "half an ounce of tobacco at a time, given among a horse's corn, and continued for a week, will pre- | vent worms, cure greasy heels, and create a fine coat."-Monthly Review, vol. 22, p. 156. PRIOR speaks of "Portugueze" snuff. A. D. 1641. A MISSION to the "Kionontatehronou, ou Nation de Petun."-Rel.N.France, tom. 5, p. 131. “A LAS aguas singulares de Sevilla deben los Españoles la bondad de sus tabacos, los mas estimados del mundo."-MASDEU, vol. 1, p. 14. The note says, "La experiencia confirmó la bondad dicha de estas aguas, habiendo procurado en vano os Ingleses imitar el tabaco Español, valiendose de artifices, que sobornados sacaron de la misma fabrica de Sevilla." |