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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 214. 



that letter should have it fully sounded. Such 

 being my practice, I cannot be accused of culti- 

 vating the Heapian dialect, which I hold to be 

 equally abominable with the improper use of the 

 letter h. Fkas. Ckosslet. 



May not the following be the true solution of 

 the question ? All existing humility is either pride 

 or hypocrisy ; pride aspirates the 7j, hypocrisy 

 suppresses it. I always aspirate. M. 



Continuation of Robertson (Vol. viii., p. 515.). 

 — The supplementary volume proposed by Mr. 

 TuBNBULL, which is wanted extremely, was never 

 published, owing to the fact that eighty subscribers 

 could not be found to indemnify him for the ex- 

 pense of printing. G. 



Nostradamus (Vol. vii., p. 174.). — My edition 

 of Nostradamus, 1605 (described in "l!>J. & Q.," 

 Vol. iv., p. 140.), has the quotation in question ; 

 but the first line has "le sang du juste," not "le 

 sang du jusse." 



The ed. of 1605 is undoubtedly genuine. Be- 

 sides the twelve centuries of prophecies, it contains 

 141 " Presages tirez de ceux faits par M. Nostra- 

 damus," and fifty-eight " Predictions admirables 

 pour les ans courans en ce Siecle, recueillies des 

 memoires de feu M.Nostradamus," with a dedica- 

 tion to Henry IV. of France, " par Vincent Seve, 

 de Beaucaire, 19 Mars, 1605." E. J. K. 



Quantity of Words (Vol. viii., p. 386.). — Anti- 

 Barbarus need not say we always pronounce 

 Candace long, for I have never heard it otherwise 

 than short. Labbe says it should be short, and 

 classes it with short terminations in acus ; but I 

 am not aware that ^tliere is any poetical authority 

 for it. Canace and canache are both short in 

 Ovid ; all which may have helped to the inference 

 for Candace. Facciolati has an adjective candacus, 

 to which I refer your correspondent. W. Hazel. 



'■^ Man proposes, but God disposes" (Vol. viii., 

 p. 411.). — This saying is older than the age of 

 Thomas a Kempis, who was born about a.d. 1380. 

 It probably originated in two passages of Holy 

 Scripture, on one or both of which it may have 

 been an ancient comment : 



" Hominis est animam praoparare, et Domini guber- 

 nare linguam." " Cor hominis disponit viam suam, 

 sed Domini est duigere gressus ejus." — Proverbs xvi. 

 1. 10. 



The sentiment in both is the same, and their 

 pith is given in a still more brief and condensed 

 form in our own proverb. It is remarkable that 

 •while Dr. A. Clarke, in his notes on Proverbs xvi., 

 has quoted it without reference to its authorship 

 in the edition of Stanhope's version of De Imita- 

 tions Christi, which I happen to have, it is not to 



be found ; but its place (according to your corre- 

 spondent's reference) is occupied by the two texts 

 above quoted. The work referred to is asserted 

 by some to have been only translated or tran- 

 scribed by ii Kempis, and written by John Gerson, 

 Chancellor of the University of Paris, a great 

 theologian, who died in 1429. Be that as it may, 

 I can assure your correspondent A. B. C. that the 

 saying in question did not originate with the author 

 of that work. In Piers Ploughman's Vision, 

 written a.d. 1362, it is thus introduced: 



" And Spiritus justiticB 

 Shall juggen, wol he nele he Qicill he nil he /) 

 After the kynges counseil, 

 And the comune like. 

 And Spiritus prudentice. 

 In many a point shall faille. 

 Of that he weneth will falle, 

 If his wit ne weere. 

 Wenynge is no wysdom, 

 Ne wys ymaginacion. 

 Homo proponit, et Deus d'lspoiiit. 

 And governeth alle good vertues." 

 Vol. ii. p. 427., 11. 13984-95. Ed. London : 

 W, Pickering, 1842. 



In the same way the author frequently intro- 

 duces Latin texts from the Bible, and other books 

 of authority and devotion. In the notes the 

 editor generally refers to the place from whence 

 the quotation is taken ; but as there is no re- 

 ference in connexion with the present passage, I 

 infer that he was not aware of its source. 



J. W. Thomas. 



Dewsbury. 



Polarised Light (Vol. viii., p. 409.). — I am 

 unable to furnish H. C. K. with knowledge from 

 the fountain-head touching this phenomenon. On 

 referring, however, to a little work, much valued 

 in my boyish days, I find it thus mentioned : 



" The blue light of the sky is completely polarised 

 at an angle of seventy-four degrees from the sun, in a 

 plane passing through the sun's centre." — P. 219. 

 Newtonian Fhilosophy, by Tom Telescope : Tegg, Load. 

 1838. 

 Surely the Herschels mention this. K. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



:8tlt^ccnanc0ti5. 



NOTES OS BOOKS, ETC. 



Tlie attempt to establish a Surrey Archccological 

 Society has at length proved successful. Upwards of 

 one hundred and seventy Members have already joined 

 the Society. The Duke of Norfolk has accepted its 

 Presidency, and tiie Earl of Ellesmere, the Bishop of 

 Winchester, and Lord Viscount Downe, are among the 

 number of its Vice-Presidents. The Society has good 

 work before it, and we trust will set about it in a way to 



