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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 286. 



tMnk better. Dr. Johnson was in a bookseller's 

 shop, when a drover, who was very thin, taking 

 up a book, read aloud : 



" Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free," 



and turning to the Doctor, whom he did not 

 know, asked what he thought of that noble senti- 

 ment. Johnson answered, " Rank nonsense, Sir, 

 the author might as truly have said : 



' Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat' " 



This was a home thrust at the thin drover ; but it 

 has been remarked that the great man was not 

 here just to his own sentiment, for a fat drover 

 woiild be obliged to have some consideration for 

 his fat animals. F. C. H. 



Passage in St. Augustine (Vol. xi., pp. 125. 251.). 

 — The sentence alluded to is, I think, incorrectly 

 quoted in the first of the above references. I be- 

 lieve the true reading is this : 



" Onus est, ne desperes : unicus est, ne praesumas." 



When I first saw the Query of E. D. R., I felt 

 sure, as one often does, of being able easily to lay 

 my hand upon the author and the page of the 

 quotation. The sentence has long been a familiar 

 one with me for citation, and I have always given 

 it as from St. Augustine. Yet, though I have 

 recently examined every passage where that 

 eminent Father was likely to introduce it, it has 

 not yet been discovered. Perh ips St. Augustine 

 is not its author; but from its peculiar quaintness 

 it must have come, one would say, either from hiaa 

 or St. Bernard. The latter I have searched alike 

 in vain. I cannot believe it the production of 

 Quesnel. He probably only alluded to it, or 

 transferred the sentiment to his own language. It 

 is expressed much more closelj' to the original in 

 a book entitled Entretiens de tAbbe Jean et du 

 Pretre Eusebe, as follows : 



** II J' en a eu an, afin que les prehears, qui sont pres 

 de sortir du monde, ne desespferent pas : et il nV cb a 

 qu'un, afin que les pecheurs, pendant la vie, ne con^oivent 

 point de pr^somption." 



F. C. H 



Sir T. Bodleys Life (Vol. xi., pp. 125. 251.). 

 — An autobiography of Sir Thomas Bodley was 

 published in London in the year 1703, in an octavo 

 volume entitled — 



" Reliquiae BodleiansB : or some genuine Remains of Sir 

 Thomas Bodley. Containing his Life, the first draus^ht 

 of the Statutes of the Public Library at Oxford (in En- 

 glish), and a Collection of Letters to Dr. James, &c., pub- 

 lished from the Originals in the said Library." 



In Oldys's Brit. Lihr., pp. 239 — 250 , there is a 

 copious account of the contents and value of the 

 "work, and the following remark : 



"These remains of that famous founder of the Public 

 library at Oxfonl, are pretty well known to have been 

 published (though their editor's name appears not to 

 them) by the late Mr. Hearne." 



The book is, I believe, scarce ; my copy appears 

 to have belonged to Archdeacon Nares. The 

 editor in his preface says : 



" It was for the sake of this noble librarv, that lately 

 in my searches in it, finding Sir Thomas Bodley's Life, 

 the first draught of its Statutes, and a Collection of 

 Letters to Dr. James (first keeper of it), &c., all written 

 by Sir Thomas Bodley's own hand, I immediately took a 

 transcript of them and sent them to the press. . . . , 

 The life of Sir Thomas, it is true, was printed some years 

 ago, and the two letters written to Sir Francis Bacon, not 

 long since at the end of the Collection of Letters of Arch- 

 bishop Usher ; but the copies of the former being all dis- 

 persed, and the latter containing in them things of more 

 than ordinary moment, it was thought fit to reprint 

 them." 



The Life begins'thas, " I was bom at Exeter, in 

 Devonshire, the 2nd of March, in the year 1544 ; " 

 and it ends with these words : " Written with 

 mine own hand, anno 1609, December 11th." It 

 occupies fifteen pages ; the whole volume consists 

 of 383 pages. The letters afibrd a striking proof 

 of the unwearied zeal and labour with which this 

 second Ptolemy (as he has been called) prosecuted 

 the magnificent work of founding his noble li- 

 brary, which he terms his Cabinet of the Muses. 

 Wm. Sidney Gibson. 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 



Artifirdul Teeth (Vol. xi., p. 264.). — According 

 to Ames, there is in Ashmole's Museum a copy of 

 Blagrave's MathematicalJewel (1585), in which it 

 is written, among other things concerning the 

 author, that his nephew was Sir John Blagrave, 

 " who caused his teeth to be all drawne out, and 

 after had a sett of ivory teeth in agayne." M. 



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