Π II UBIQUE gentium et terrarum,i eid Nunc factum effe doctoratum.pl TPA, Quoth Prefes, Strictum poft examen, (.) Nunc efto Doctor; fwel faidy Amendrad Ut juvenem quem nos lamamusjour I To please all humours and ætates. In difputando just as keenfas punis Calvin, John Knox, or Tom Aquinas. Sin every queftion of theology, C Verfatus multum in trickology; So Frazer could never ftand before him; griforthe by page and leaf, can quote o cor 101 More books than Solomon ere wrote,clonhi A lover of the Mathematicks He is, but hates the hydroftatics, q -Becaufe he thinks it a cold study, 17110 To deal in water clear or muddy. -nislaob s. quid hello, zeriin. *This Diploma wa profeffor of Philofophy in was written by William Mefton, A. M., who the Marichal College, Aberdeen, about the beginning of the laft century. It has been published in different editions of his poetical works, which are now, however, very rarely to be met with in the shops of the booksellers, and, to use their language, are at prefent out of print." N Doctiffimus eft medicinæ,did not awa! 1 Almost as Boerhaave or Bellinion yedT He thinks the diet of Cornaro, In meat and drink too fcrimp and narrow, And that the rules of Léonard Leffius, 2 Are good for nothing but to stress us.T By folid arguments and keen's adagol He has confuted Doctor Cheyne, : HW And clearly provid by demonftration, I That claret is a good collation,nilivsz Sanis et gris, always betterw 19: T Than coffee, tea, or milk and watery A That cheerful company, cum rifu, wel Cum vino forti, fuavi vifu, nam c12 J Guftatu dulci, ftill has been i woli A cure for hyppoland the spleen; ь InA That hem and capon, yervecina, wellA Beef, duck and pafties, cum ferinâ, T Are good ftomachics, and the best sou Of cordials, probatum efta He knows the symptoms of the phthifis, Et per falivam fees diseases, nilivorI And can difcover in urina, MJINI Quando fit opus medicina. enim no A good French nightcap still has been, I He fays, a proper anodyne, on IP JIN Better than laudanum or poppy, so Ut dormiamus like a toppy. WOT JET Affirmat lufum alearum,ET FORD LIA Medicamentum effe clarum,a tax, taull Or else a touch at three-hand ombre When toil or care our fpirits cumber, A Which graft wings on our hours of leisure, And make them fly with cafe and pleasure. Aucupium et venationem, umisda Poft longam nimis potationem, el TW He has difcover'd to be good not TBoth for the ftomach and the blood, As frequentiexercise and travelli (Arel good against the gout and gravel. 2) He clearly proves the cause of death A Is nothing but the want of breath, ing And that indeed is a difafter, When 'tis occafioned by a plafter Of hemp and pitch, laid clofely on Somewhat above the collar bone. Well does he know the proper dofes Which will prevent the fall of nofes, E'en keep them qui privantur illis, grè utuntur confpicillis.dk M To this, and t ten times more, his fkill Extends when he could cure or kill. " Immenfam cognitionem legum Ne prorfus hic filentio tegam, Cum fociis artis, greafe his fift Torquebat illas as you lift. T Non minus quam fcientia juris ני (Scotfmen will count from a black hour). Ab omni probo nunc fignetur, Qui denegabit extrudetur. Curious, Modes of Expression. DR. DONNE, fpeaking of the Bible, quaintly fays: "Sentences in Scripture, like hairs in horfes' tails, concur in one root of beauty and strength; but, being plucked out one by one, ferve only for fpringes and Inaresto 1970! CALVIN'S mode of expreffion was fometimes rather uncourtly. Luther had, in one of his of his writings, called him a declaimer; and Calvin, to juftify himself from fuch a title, exclaims in reply: Your whole fchool is nothing but a. ftinking ftye of pigs. Dog! do you understand me? Do you un A Spanish preacher, difcourfing on the temptation, exclaimed, "Happily for mankind, the lofty Pyrenees hid this delightful country of Spain from the eyes of the Redeemer, elfe the temptation had been too ftrong for the bleffed Lord." derstand me, madman? Do you under part must be, an ignorance ins the diftinc stand me, you great beast ?" to 175 tion of fexes.” SIR THOMAS BROWNE, fpeaking of thofe bright omens called letters, in the candle, tells us: "They only indicate a moift and pluvious air, which hinders the avolation of the light and favillous particles, where upon they settle upon the fnaft." No ex planation could be cleared: ai 5d 17 TOM BROWN has a curious figure of fpeech. Satirizing fome perfon, he fays, He is as dull as a lawfully begotten citi zen's eldeft fon."" qa tomo no side my lips, with the napkin of thy love! Π !A Dutch ambaffador's wife, at Paris, being asked by the Queen of France how many children he had, replied, "Qu'elle avoit fait deux par devant, et deux par derrière" meaning that he had two by her first husband, and two by her laft. But know, that I alone am king of ME.' In the Gentleman's Magazine (vol. 86, p. 596) is the following extraordinary piece of information By the Jewish law, as to adultery, the woman was put to death as well as the man, fo that the parties could neither of them marry again!" ९ 9136 CARDINAL DU PERRON complains of a spiritual orator, of his time, for faying, Seigneur nettoyez-moi le bec, de la ferLord, cleanfe thou viette de ton amour.” MATTHEW HENRY, in his Expofition, has this odd way of expounding part of the ninth chapter of Judges: We are here told by what acts Abimelech got into the Saddle -none would have dreamed of ma bas king fuch a fellow as he king-fee how he 66 It is very hard, my lord," faid a convicted felon at the bar, to Judge Burnet, to hang a poor man for ftealing a horfe." Dr. Smollett, who felt his heart foftened at the fight of the famous ftatue of the Venus de Medicis, fays, "Her limbs and proportions are elegantly formed, and the Or Tare execute back parts, efpecially, are executed fo happily, as to excite the admiration of the most You are not to be hanged, fir,” anindifferent fpectator." He exclaims, with fwered the judge, "for Itealing a horfe, but Lucian, Ut exuberantes lumbi amplex- you are to be hanged that horfes may not antes manus implent." etc. (Works, vol. be ftolen." (FIELDING'S Voyage to Lisbon.) v. p. 446.) m b'donos auidtny) sains #i "I The Reverend John Borafton, condoling with Sir N. Herbert on the lofs of his father, fays, The bleffèdness of our deare deceased relation is handkerchiefs enough to dry our eyes."(WARNER's Epistolary Mr. Pennant) a worthy, learned, and pious Curiofities.) divine of Glafgow; when he died, he be SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, Converfing with queathed, his fortune and manufcripts to an Italian lady at Naples, who was rather the college-a rare and munificent bequest, proud of her knowledge of English, afked if we may judge by the following extract her how many children the had. "I have from his poem Jonah. The extract forms done feven," faid the lady. part of the foliloquy of Jonah in the whale's belly "What houfe is this?here's neither coal: nor candle; URBAN CHEVREAU, a French historian, fells us: "When I was young, I remember attending a fermon preached by a prelate Where I nothing but guts of fifhes handle; who was celebrated at court for the great- I and my table are both here within, hefs of his talent. It was on the feaft of Where day ne'er dawn'd, where sun did never shine. Mary Magdalen. The bishop, having en- The like of this on earth man never saw, larged much on the repentance of Mary, Buried under mountains, which are high and steep! A living man within a monster's maw! obferved, that her tears had opened to her Plunged under waters hundred fathoms deep! the way to heaven; and that she had traur Not fo was Noah in his houfe of tree, elled by water to a place where few other For through a window he the light did fee; perfons had gone by land." He failed above the higheft waves, a wonder, I and my boat are all the waters under! He and his ark might go and alfo domé; As is moft uncouth; head and feet together, But I fit ftill in fuch a straighten'd room Among fuch greafe as would a thousand fmother.” 1 THE ΤΟ RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. 1. COUNT RUMFORD gives us, in the following extract (Philofophical Effays, vol. i. P 251), the ufeful hint of eating hot "haftypudding" by gradual advances, circumventing the outwork, and ftorming the parapet. Thefe are his words: "THE HASTY-PUDDING being spread out equally on a plate while hot, an excavation is made in the middle of it with a poon, into which excavation a piece of butter, as large as a nutmeg,. is put, and upon it a fpoonful of brown fugar, &c.; the butter, being foon heated by the heat of the pudding, mixes with the fugar, and forms a fauce, which, being confined in the excavation, occupies to the middle of the plate"! Thus far for the array; now for the battle: Dip each ot Spoonful in the fame, before it is carried to THE MOUTH, care being had, in taking it up, to begin on the outfide, and near the brim of the plate, and to approach the centre by gradual advances, in order not to demolish too foon the excavation, which But fcarcer books had kept their station here, Had warning Cynthius touch'd my infant-ear, forms the refervoir of the fauce”! To in And he'd the glave collector's toll employ'd, The Reverend Zachary Boyd, who lived -To gain, the works my childish sport destroy'd. about a century and a half ago, was (faps fii Voyage Pittorefque de l'Ifirie et de la Dalmatie. ban JOHN FERRIAR, M. D. CAN I forget my Caffas fav'rite theme! in thofe rude wilds, by wand'rers fcarcely trod, Parifmus then had shone in decent pride, Dame Partlet wrong'd, and Ifgrim fore bewray'd: With deep concern, the curious bid me tell, I leave to thofe whom headftrong fashion rules, To choose his friends, not for their parts, but drefs? go, Through wintry blafts, or fummer's fire I Hiftory of Parifmus and Parifmenos, once a child's book, now exceedingly fearce and dear. Hiftory of the Seven Champions." dear. Hiftory of Reynard the Fox, very scarce and Academy of Compliments, very curious and fcarce. VOL. II.-V A |