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CHAPTER XII. P. I.-p. 78.
A HISTORY NOTICED WHICH IS WRITTEN BACKWARD THE CON-
FUSION OF TONGUES AN ESPECIAL EVIL FOR SCHOOLBOYS.
For never in the long and tedious tract
Of slavish grammar was I made to plod;
No tyranny of Rules my patience rackt;
1 served no prenticehood to any Rod;
But in the freedom of the Practic way
Learnt to go right, even when I went astray.
CHAPTER XIII. P. I.-p. 80.
Dr. BEAUMONT.
A DOUBT CONCERNING SCHOOL BOOKS, WHICH WILL BE DEEMED
HERETICAL; AND SOME ACCOUNT OF AN EXTRAORDINARY SUB-
STITUTE FOR OVID OR VIRGIL.
They say it is an ill mason that refuseth any stone; and there is no
knowledge but in a skilful hand serves, either positively as it is, or else to
illustrate some other knowledge.-Herbert's Remains.
CHAPTER XIV. P. I.—p. 85.
AN OBJECTION ANSWERED.
Is this then your wonder?
Nay then you shall under-
stand more of my skill.
BEN JONSON.
CHAPTER XV. P. I.-p. 87.
THE AUTHOR VENTURES AN OPINION AGAINST THE PREVAILING
WISDOM OF MAKING CHILDREN PREMATURELY WISE.
USE AND ABUSE OF STORIES IN REASONING, WITH A WORD IN
BEHALF OF CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS, AND IN REPROOF OF THE EARL
OF LAUDERDALE.
My particular inclination moves me in controversy especially to approve
his choice that said, Fortia mallem quam formosa.-Dr. JACKSON.
Τὰ δ ̓ ἂν ἐπιμνησθῶ ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου ἐξαναγκαζόμενος ἐπιμνησθήσομαι.—HERODOTUS.
CHAPTER XIX. P. I.-p. 99.
A CONVERSATION WITH MISS GRAVEAIRS.
Operi suscepto inserviendum fuit: so Jacobus Mycillus pleadeth for him-
self in his translation of Lucian's Dialogues, and so do I; I must and
will perform my task.-BURTON.
QUACK AND NO QUACK, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF DR. GREEN AND HIS
MAN KEMP-POPULAR MEDICINE, HERBARY, THEORY OF SIGNA-
TURES, WILLIAM DOVE, JOHN WESLEY, AND BAXTER.
Hold thy hand! health's dear maintainer;
Life perchance may burn the stronger :
Having substance to maintain her,
She untouched may last the longer.
When the artist goes about
To redress her flame, I doubt
Oftentimes he snuffs it out.
QUARLES.
CHAPTER XXV. P. I.-p. 128.
Hiatus valde lacrymabilis.
Time flies away fast,
The while we never remember
How soon our life here
Grows old with the year
That dies with the next December!
HERRICK.
CHAPTER XXVI. P. I.-p. 129.
DANIEL AT DONCASTER; THE REASON WHY HE WAS DESTINED
FOR THE MEDICAL PROFESSION RATHER THAN HOLY ORDERS;
AND SOME REMARKS UPON SERMONS.
Je ne veux dissimuler, amy lecteur, que je n'aye bien préveu, et me tiens
pour deuement adverty, que ne puis eviter la reprehension d'aucuns, et les
calomnies de plusieurs-ausquels c'est éscrit désplaira du tout.-CHRIS-
TOFLE DE HERICOURT.
CHAPTER XXVII. P. I.-p. 135.
A PASSAGE IN PROCOPIUS IMPROVED A STORY CONCERNING URIM
AND THUMMIM; AND THE ELDER DANIEL'S OPINION OF THE PRO-
FESSION OF THE LAW.
Here is Domine Picklock,
My man of law, solicits all my causes,
Follows my business, makes and compounds my quarrels
Between my tenants and me; sows all my strifes,
And reaps them too, troubles the country for me,
And vexes any neighbour that I please.
CHAPTER XXVIII. P. I. p. 137.
PETER HOPKINS-EFFECTS OF TIME AND CHANGE-DESCRIPTION
OF HIS DWELLINGHOUSE.
Combien de changemens depuis que suis au monde,
Qui n'est qu' un point du tems!
PASQUIER.
CHAPTER XXIX. P. I.-p. 139.
A HINT OF REMINISCENCE TO THE READER THE CLOCK OF ST.
GEORGE'S A WORD IN HONOUR OF ARCHDEACON MARKHAM.
There is a ripe season for everything, and if you slip that or anticipate
it, you dim the grace of the matter, be it never so good. As we say by
way of proverb that a hasty birth brings forth blind whelps, so a good
tale tumbled out before the time is ripe for it, is ungrateful to the hearer.-
BISHOP HACKETT.
CHAPTER XXX. P. I.-p. 141.
THE OLD BELLS RUNG TO A NEW TUNE.
If the bell have any sides the clapper will find 'em.
AN INTRODUCTION TO CERTAIN PRELIMINARIES ESSENTIAL TO THE
PROGRESS OF THIS WORK.