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H'lfloricum, Geographicum, Poeticum, auc- 

 tore Carolo'Slephano ; which had a vaft run. 



Thefuccefs of this work occafioned Ni- 

 colas Lluyd to publi(h at London, in 1670, 

 a liiriiar diftionary in fol'.o. 



AtBafil, in 1677, Hoffmann edited his 

 Lexicon Un'werfale, 



Harris's Loxicon Techinicum, printed 

 at Ljndon, in 1704, feems to be the ear- 

 lielt vernacular attempt of this kind ; and 

 Chambers's Cyclopsedia to be that which 

 inipofed the now appropriated denomina- 

 tion. 



ZWINGLI. 



The Zwinglians, obferves a French ec- 

 clefiaftic hiftorian, have b^tn the molt to- 

 leiant of all the protcftants. Does not 

 this arife from the circumftance that 

 Z'Jvingli never holds out any fpecific creed 

 as eflential to falvation. In his Profcfhon 

 cf Faith, addrefled to Francis I. he fays, 

 " we (hall meet in heaven with Thcfeus, 

 with Ariftides, and with Socrates." 



Zwingii had another merit : he invent- 

 ed the proper reply to the Catholic argu- 

 ment for tranfubftantiation, by oblerving 

 that the verb is often (lands iorjignifies or 

 typifies: as in Exodus, xii. 11 5 where it 

 i« faid of a lamb, " It is the Lord's ftride 

 or pafsover." This is my bot^, means, 

 this typifies my body. Neither Luther, nor 

 Buctr, have got rid of the iheophagite 

 cannibalifm ot the communion-rite. 



GIFT OF TONGUES. 



There is a pifiage in Clemens Alexan- 

 drxnus, (but the memorandum of reference 

 htsbesn loft) in which he ftates it to have 

 been cudomary in the (ynagoguts of Alex- 

 andria, 8nd oiler Mediterranean fea-ports, 

 to (ay the public prayers in three different 

 languages, Syriac, Greek, and Latin, for 

 the accommodation of foreign traders and 



with propriety fay, that he owes the gift 

 of prayer to the holv fpirit which poffefies 

 him. 'Some perfonincatiens originally alle- 

 goric, may ealily have attained a mytho- 

 logical fignificaticn ; and ibme expreifions 

 originally emblem-^'ic, have acquired an 

 epic reality ; in paiilng f oni the lips ot the 

 affertor to the pen ( f the narrator, even 

 where both endeavoured to be ftnaiy 

 faithful. A.t leaft in reading Peter's, or 

 Luke's account of the gift of tongues, one 

 is at firft led to fufpea a miraculous in- 

 terDofition ; yet, in the courle of the Apo- 

 ftoiic H.ftdry, one finds the very perlons 

 recurring to interpreters, who in lome 

 meafure were partakers of this gitt. This 

 is lymptomaiic of limited human acquire- 

 ment. But on this part of the fubjea 

 MidJleton has treated admirably and liit- 

 ticiently. Would it not be worth while 

 in our own fea-ports to open chapels where 

 the liiuvgv might be rip:ated alternately 

 in EngHlir, French, and Dutch? Such 

 places of worHiip would be good fchoois 

 of language to children intended ior the 

 counting-honfe ; and we fliould (oonget 

 over the ridicule of hearirg a prieft, 



Like Cerberus himfelf pronounce, 



A lea(h ot' languages at once. 



ZOOTHECA. 



The Romans gave this Greek name ti 

 (hofe (tables, or (tyes, in which live ani- 

 mals were kept for I'acri/ice. We have no 

 Englifii word corre'ponding with the 

 French menagerie. C^n it be lefs pedan- 

 tically tiaidhued, than by Znotheca ? 

 Would it not be wortiiy of M. Pidcock, 

 to naturalize it, and to advertize his Zoo- 

 iheca, at Extter Chsnge. 



BOMEYCINE. 



Telas araneorum (fiys Pliny, 1. iv. 

 12) modo t extent ad <veftc7n luxiimque 



failors. Each fentence was repeated in feminarum qua: bumhycina appellatur 



each language before the next fentence was 

 begun j as if we wtre to deliver the 

 Loid's piayer thus : " Our father, who 

 art in heaven :" Noire pere, qui es aux 

 deux, U»fer i/ater, der du in himmelbiji, 

 " Hallowed be thy name :" Sandifie foil 

 ton mm ; Geheiiigct ivirde deiii nahnte, &c. 

 The habit, (kill, facility or faculty of 

 nriaking thefe macaronic prayers appears to 

 have bein called the gijt of tongues. It 

 wai jultly faid to be be(towed by tr.e reli- 

 gious or holy fpirit, becauCe the requilite 

 labour of acquirement wis incurred for a 

 hcly or religious purpole. We (till fiy 

 t)( a Itudcnt of the ilogy in the prefbyttri- 



Prima eas redordiri rurfiirsque texere iii- 

 venit in Ceo mulier Pa7>iphila. 



Thele fpider's thieadi of Pliny are no 

 doubt the work of ihe filk-worm. It ap- 

 pears therefore that the bomlycine was ori- 

 ginally a (tuff wholly of (ilk ; but that, on 

 account of the piecioulliefs of that mate- 

 rial, it becMiie a praiticc to ravel or un- 

 weave flich fiiken (tuffs, ar.d to employ 

 both the warp and the (lioot, for the warp 

 of mixed fluff.. Thefc (luffs with filken 

 warps and woollen fiioots were alio called 

 boml-ycines, after the nai^ of the parent 

 article, and were invented in an ifland of 

 the Archipelago (perhaps, according to a 



an fchoois, that he has an excellent gi// if reading inlerud trom ArKiotle, in Coos, 

 prayer, when he has learned to pray ex- 'he patria of Hippocrates) by a lady 

 tempore, with ekcjuence ; and wv might named Pamphila, 



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