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som, but produce no fruit. And European | cilia's day as late as 1713, and I know not man does not thrive better. He is out of how much later.

his place upon the globe.

"Sows in the Isle of France frequently

WICKEDNESS Working the designs of Providence.-BISHOP REYNOLDS, vol. 5, p. 116.

produce monsters."-Ibid. p 153.

"ARISTOTLE (Polit. 7, § 8) reckoneth

Dogs never go mad there.-Ibid. p. 154. divine worship as a principal thing, without

"SCARCELY had the terrace at Windsor been opened ten minutes, before some parties cut their initials in the stone work surrounding it. A strong feeling of indignation was expressed at this abuse of the liberty of walking there, by many respectable persons."-Times, August 9, 1830.

"SOME Bibles sent by the Bible Society for Nova Scotia were taken by an American privateer in 1813, carried into Portland and sold. The Massachusetts' Bible Society resolved to replace them by sending from its own funds the sum. But the people of Boston raised a subscription, and sent the full amount, £155."-History of the Bible Society, vol. 2, p. 486.

"WHEN the Committee of the Bible So

ciety was formed, the Wesleyan Methodists refused to nominate two from their body, assigning as a reason, that they considered themselves represented by the bishops."— Ibid. vol. 1, p. 81.

Truths of Religion, p. 102.—“ In all primitive tongues, vowels of small consequence, and therefore not marked." See the passage.

So idle is it to reason in such matters upon what must naturally be. One nation stretches, attenuates, and liquifies its words: another compresses and hardens and stiffens them.

Co-OPERATIVE system that on which governments would be founded, were it not for the depravity of human nature. This is MR. DOUGLAS's position in his Truths of Religion, p. 157, which see.

SERMONS used to be preached on S. Cæ

which a city or civil polity cannot be."Ibid. p. 333.

WHAT preaching should be.-Ibid. p. 397.

IN feudal times opposition, or rather resistance to the government, arose from personal feelings it was to some favourite or some invidious family, not to public meaThe people took part only upon feudal principles of obedience to their immediate lords.

sures.

THEN Came the age of religious commotion, in which the citizen and the peasant took as deep an interest as the peer.

BOTANY BAY, 1786.-The marines were to take out twelve women to a company of forty men.

Mr. Matre proposed a settlement there for the American loyalists at first; but afterwards recommended it for convicts; and he thought women in sufficient number might be obtained in a friendly manner from New Zealand." He speculated also upon settlers from Java and Japan.

THERE is scripture for the opinion that the will will be accepted for the deed. "The Lord," says SOLOMON," said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart." -1 Kings viii. 18.

DEPRECIATION in consequence of an influx of wealth.-Silver "was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon :-the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the

sycamore trees that are in the vale for | dikes, so that no one can go in or out unabundance."-Ibid. x. 21-27. perceived?"

"Foor passengers in every city of Europe, except London, were exposed to accidents from being mixed with horses and carriages, as well as from the insolence and brutality of their riders and drivers, for want of a footpath. In Paris, a great many people are annually killed and maimed for want of one."-BURNEY, Musical Tour in Germany, vol. 2, p. 197.

"There is a foot pavement in Pompeii; and on each side the Via Appia and other ancient roads in Italy."—Ibid.

Ibid. p. 36.-A STRANGE story of a native of Poole, driving a nail into a horse's head,

A PASSAGE in BEAUMONT and FLETCHER vol. 8, p. 192 (Woman's Prize), which locks as if there was a notion concerning women like that concerning sylphs, upon which the tale of Undine is founded. Yet there cannot have been; the meaning must be accidental, I think.

"A CONJURER'S the devil's master, and commands him.

Whereas a witch is but the devil's prentice,
And obeys him."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Fair
Maid of the Inn, p. 360.

"LES Européens seuls sont capables d'ap

and curing it by a chemical liquid of his prendre aux Indiens leur propre histoire, et own preparing.

SOME excellent remarks upon those poets whose verses are made up from memory, and whose memory sticks in the letter, without having a glimpse of the spirit.— SIR EGERTON BRYDGES' Recollections of Travel, vol. 1, p. 240.

AGRICULTURISTS prone to religion, as soldiers to impiety.-MAX. TYRIUS, Dissert. 14, p. 172. A valuable passage.

THE Hindoos at their marriage invoke the manes of their ancestors to be present. -MORGAN'S Doct. of Mar. vol. 1, p. 97.

1791. THE Royal Academy of Sciences at Gottingen, in 1791, proposed these questions:

"What is the reason that ornaments of public buildings, bridges, railings, monuments, mile stones, trees, and banks of walks, &c. are defaced, out of mere malice (mischief) more in Germany, or in many parts of it at least, than in Italy or other countries? and how may this apparently national viciousness be most securely and speedily eradicated?

"What is the least expensive mode of inclosing towns that have neither walls nor

de voir dans leurs traditions, dans leurs monumens des idées et des faits qui ne sauraient être découverts et compris par les Indiens aux-mêmes."-Doctrine of S. Simon, p. 118, N.

ST. AUGUSTINE derives servus from servare.-Ibid. p. 240.

THE following is said to be the state of church preferment in this country :— Livings in the gift of

The nobility and gentry.
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ONE, in the Serées of BOUCHET, (vol. 2, p. 361) asks, “qui est celuy de nostre temps, qui ne naisse moindre que ses pere et mere?" Perhaps the wars of that age had, as in Buonaparte's, left only the immature and the old to propagate; and in the same way affected female constitutions, as the revolution is known to have done. See

the account of Strasburg.

DURING the civil wars in France, people retired into the lazar houses for safety, feign

ing to be lepers, and exposing themselves to leprosy.

See this very curious passage in the Serées of BOUCHET, tom 3, p. 245-6.

THERE used to be a very considerable demand for Irish editions, from America. Irish Debates, vol. 16, p. 73.

THE roots of the couch grass (triticum repens) in Flanders, and in the south of Italy, are collected, washed, and sold in bundles for horses.-QUAYLE's Survey of Jersey, Guernsey, &c. p. 255.

WHOEVER Would understand what reliance may be placed upon the Unitarian writers on the score of integrity, should consult Archbishop Magee's notes upon their improved version of the New Testament. They are to be found in the third volume of his most valuable discourse on the Atonement.

See also in the same volume, N. p. 810, the fraudulent manner in which they have used the names of Dr. Watts and Mrs. Trimmer.

HOBBES recommends the Whole Duty of Man, as (except a few passages that he misliked) very well worth reading; and as containing the then system of church morals. -BEHEMOTH.

IT has been said that " bugs were first brought into the country after the fire of London, in the fir timber imported for the rebuilding of the city." Gifford says, "unfortunately for them, however, they were the greatest sufferers by the fire, having been denizened in vast numbers long before that calamitous event took place."-B. J. vol. 6, p. 50, in a note upon

"Run away like cimici, Into the crannies of a rotten bedstead." This seems to be an Italian word.

DUELS.-B. JONSON, vol. 6, p. 69.

GILL, the master of St. Paul's school, circiter A. D. 1600, published Logonomie,

a conceited and barbarous attempt, Gifford calls it, to rectify the writing of the English language, which seems to have fallen into the hands of the late James Elphinstone.-Ibid. vol. 6, N. p. 127.

"As just a carrier as my friend Tom Long was." Ibid. Tale of a Tub, p. 201. He was of that age then, and noted for his honesty.

"THE whirligig, the whibble, the carwidgen.
Hey day, what names are these?
New names of late."
MIDDLETON, Mayor of Queenborough,
Old Plays, vol, 11, p. 167.

VINDICATION of Alva's cruelty.

Adventures of Five Hours, Old
Plays, vol. 12, p. 41.

THE most curious stage direction I have seen is in Apius and Virginia. "Here let him make as he went out, and let conscience and justice come out of him; and let conscience hold in his hand a lamp burning, and let justice have a sword, and hold it before Apius's breast."-Ibid. p. 356.

French Memoirs.

Tom. 28.-VINCENT CARLOIX, Mem. du Vieillevilli.

Tom. 165.-Defence of spies, as men of principle.

Tom. 331.-Bull dogs, and bull baiting introduced from England into France.

Tom. 32.-Mem. de Tarannes. A Frenchman proposes to surprise Malta, as a sure step to Sicily, and to the conquest of Italy.

Ibid. tom. 30, p. 197. By the usage of war, the cannoneers had a right to all "les cloches d'une ville qu'ils ont battue, en quelque sorte qu'elle se sont rendue, ou par force ou composition."-VINCENT CARLOIX.

IN R. Greene's Looking Glass for London and England, Jonah is cast out of the Whale's belly upon the stage.

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WALLIUS, p. 106. Paulus Manutius Al- ¦ dus, lib. 1, ep. 4, describes his way of borrowing from ancient authors, which is precisely the same as Ebenezer Elliot's. Wallius himself (p. 150) recommends it.

PARNASO Ital. Modern. vol. 13, Parini, p. 125-7. What men of rank learnt from Voltaire, and what they did not learn.

MR. DEVAY of Boston tells me, that madness is more common in America than in England; and that the most frequent cause is political excitement, the boundless ambition, and continual ferment of democracy.

He says also, that a small collection of good books is more generally to be found in an American house, than in an English one.-July, 1833.

UNCALCULATED and, quasi, uncalculable dangers, or consequences——

"It lately happened that an iron bridge fell in very curious circumstances, by the marching of a body of soldiers over it. Now, the bridge was calculated to sustain a greater weight than this body of men; and had they walked tumultuously over it, it would have withstood the pressure: but the soldiers marching to time, accumulated a motion, aided by the elasticity of the material, which broke it down.”—BELL's Bridgwater Treatise, p. 234.

"Nous entrâmes dans un petit batteau rond qui avoit à chacun de ses flancs une roue attachée dont les ailes servoient de rames, une manivelle double les faisoit tourner à la fois."-LAMEKIS, vol. 1, p. 93.

QUESTION de Amor. At a tournay, prizes both for knights and ladies who shall appear in the most gallant attire.-H. 2, I. 5.

"I Do not like that he names me so often, Especially on his death-bed: 'tis a sign I shall not live long."

WEBSTER, Vol. 1, p. 134.

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IN Gregorius Nyssensis, is a full account of the necessity of hands to a rational being." il n'y a qu'au Tribunal de Dieu, que le Ir is a just remark of CHARLEVOIX, that -Ibid. vol. 1, p. 422.

AUGUSTINE says that infants dying unbaptized, depart into a slight damnation, "in damnatione mitissimâ."-Ibid. vol. 2, p.

34.

ACCIDENTAL discovery of fire by Adam and Eve throwing a stone at a serpent, which struck a spark from a flinty rock, into the crevice of which the serpent escaped, and that spark kindling the dry vegetation around. This is related by Victor of Marseilles in his poetical commentary on Genesis.-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 216.

témoignage de la Conscience rassure parfaitement."-N. France, tom. 1, p. 92.

OUR old lawyers were fond of rhymes, as witness John Doe and Richard Roe. So when two representative places are spoken of, the one is Dale and the other Sale; a beggar is to be whipped at Dale and passed to Sale. Statutes, tom. 3, p. 331.

We may not readily forget the words of the Quaker in the Spectator, " Thy drum is a type of thee; it soundeth because it is empty. Verily it is not from thy fulness, but thy emptiness that thou hast spoken this day." No. 132.-J.W.W.

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