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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'«i S. VIII. Dec. 31. '59. 



Cf. also a remark -which Fenelon makes to a 

 disciple of his who requested his spiritual counsel : 

 " You know a great deal more than you practise, 

 and have much less occasion for new lights than 

 to follow those you have already received." * 

 I may refer also to Baxter's Treatise of Know- 

 ledge and Love, p. 158., et passim. 



Mr. Helps, I think, somewhere observes that 

 earnest thinkers love to repeat and reproduce 

 certain leading truths and favourite thoughts which 

 they have made their own. One of Leighton's 

 was the Scholastic Aphorism, Quicquid recipUur, 

 recipitur ad modum recipientis : — 



"A Christian acts and speaks, not according to what 

 others are towards him, but according to what he is 

 through the grace and Spirit of God in him ; as they say, 

 Quicquid recipitur, recipitur ad modum recipientis : The 

 same things are differently received, and work differently, 

 according to the nature and way of that which receives 

 them." — Comment on St. Peter, iii. 9. vol. ii. p. 93. 



Coleridge does not quote this, but he has an 

 apposite remark of his own : — 



" Quantum sumus scimus. That which we find within 

 ourselves, which is more than ourselves, and j'et the 

 ground of whatever is good and permanent therein, is the 

 8ubstan-ce and life of all other Knowledge." — Aids, p. 15., 

 note. 



Mr. Payne, in a remarkable preface which he 

 prefixed to his edition of the Imitation of Christ, 

 makes the following quotation, but does not give 

 his author f : — 



" The Measure of our Life is the Measure of our Know- 

 ledge: and as the Spirit of our Life worketh, so the 

 Spirit of our Understanding conceiveth." — P. 24. 



Another favourite Aphorism of Leighton's was 

 the saying of Pythagoras : Summa Religionis imi- 

 tari quern colis. It occurs vol. i. p. 119.; ii. 272.; 

 iii. 309. 416. ; iv. 130. 393. I shall make but one 

 citation : — 



" The chief study of a Christian, and the very thing 

 that makes him to be a Christian, is. Conformity with 

 Christ. Summa Religionis imitari quern colis : This is the 

 Sum of Religion (said that wise heathen, Pythagoras,) to 

 be like Him whom thou worshippest." — Com. St. Refer, 

 iv. 1., vol. ii. p. 272. 



Cf. vol. iv. pp. 291. 317. : 



" It was the saying of the Pythagorean Philosophers 

 that • The End of Man is to be made like to God.' It 

 was also a general maxim with the followers of Plato." — 

 Theol. Led., xvi. xx. 



Another favourite Maxim was that of St. Gre- 

 gory Nazianzen : " Either teach none, or let your 

 life teach too:' (Vol. ii. pp. 57. 155. 411.) 



• Quoted by Mrs. Keltj', who adds some excellent re- 

 marks. — Visiting My Relations, Br A ed. Lend. 1853, pp. 

 91-92. 



t 1'he Imitation of Christ in Three Books : By Tlios. 

 a Kempis. Translated from the Latin, by John Payne. 

 London : Printed and published by J. F. Dove, St. John's 

 Square. No date. 32mo. pp. 240. 



Where can I find the story of the young and 

 enthusiastic Platonist referred to by Leighton ? — 



" It was a strange power of Plato's Discourse of the 

 Soul's Immortality, that moved a young man upon read- 

 ing it, to throw himself into the Sea, that he might leap 

 through it to that Immortality." — Com. St. Peter, ii. 24. 

 vol. ii. p. 35. 



Compare Plato's notion of Love (ih. p. 40.) with 

 Wordsworth's well-known lines in Laodamia. 

 On Human Merit, Leighton well observes : 

 " The more ancient writers, when they used the word 

 Merit, mean nothing by it but a certain correlate to that 

 reward which God both promises and bestows of mere 

 grace and benignity." — Med. on Ps. CXXX., vol. ii. 

 p. 528. Cf. Hooker, Serm. II. § 21. Cf. Leighton, vol. i. 

 p. 23. 



With regard to Leighton's language, Coleridge 

 says that the only vulgarism, or L'Estrange slang, 

 he met with in the Archbishop's Works, occurs in 

 the Exhortation before the Communion : " Ask 

 yourselves, therefoi*e, what you ivould be at,'' &c. 

 (_Lect. XXIV. vol. iv. p. 343.) But Coleridge for- 

 got that these are not Leighton's words, only a 

 translation of his words. I have not the Latin 

 original at hand. 



Leighton uses a curious phrase to express in- 

 sincerity or mere conventionalism, viz. " Court 

 holy-water" : — 



" Those expressions must be cordial and sincere, not 

 like what you call court holy-water, in which there is 

 nothing else but falsehood, or vanity at the best:" — Vol. i. 

 p. 24. 



It occurs also at p. 345., and in vol. ii. p. 416. 



With regard to Presentany, my query as to 

 whether it be an airai, AeySfityov remains unan- 

 swered. However, I can bring forward an an- 

 alogous word, viz. Momentany : " Momentany 

 perswasions" is a phrase which occurs in Dr. 

 Ingelo's work above quoted (Part i. p. 162.) 



I beg to thank Mb. Pearson for his kind and 

 j courteous reply (p. 150.), and regret that in his 

 excellent Memoir he did not disclaim having any- 

 thing to do with the editing of the edition which 

 goes by his name, and thus prevent mistake. 

 The value of his elegantly-written Memoir gives 

 sale and curi-ency to an extremely bad edition 

 — one, in fact, which requires to be corrected 

 like a proof. I began to make a list of the chief 

 Errata, but I soon got tired. However, I send 

 a few which I noted : — 



Vol. i., " illusion" for allusion, p. 111.; "hatred" 

 for hated, p. 223. 



Vol. ii., " decree " for decere, p. 95. ; " gracing 

 grace" for decoring grace, p. 607. (cf. vol. iv. p. 

 127.) ; " Similude '• for similitude, p. 197. 



Vol. iii., " treats of Viper's flesh," query treacles? 

 p. 22. ; "liberty" for liberality, p. 47. 



Vol. iv., "chance of" for chance or, p. 316. ; 

 " dilicious," p. 332. ; " brible" for bridle, ib. ; 

 " piece" for peace, p. 193. ; " precarious" iov pre- 

 cious, p. 424,; " soberly" for sobriety, ib. ; "Christ's 



