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policary, the cider form of spelling, from 
doticn'io ; the derivation from the Greek 
atvoOyxn is an atter-refinement. 
“'P. 275. Corn-chandley probably is 
corn-cantler, one who seils or buys corn 
by the sample; from the French echan- 
tilfon, sample, is derived the English 
word cantle. 
PP. 302.“ We ought to reform our 
cards of invitation and acceptance,” 
says Mr.‘Peege. His reasons will amuse. 
*© Compliments—seem to mean comply, 
ments, and. therefore cannot be used in the 
first instance of an invitation, as it rather 
appears to be the language of the invité than 
of the inviter. Aasks B ta dine with him, 
B returns for aaswer, that he will comply: 
with A’s invitation. Compliments, there, 
fore, ought to he the cardinal word of ¢cre- 
mony inthe return, and notin the request, 
«A good morrow ule: to you*;’ an 
evening compliment, which I have heard 
made use of, as well as a morning one, 
“« Wait upon.—Vhe answer to an invitation 
from A to Bis, that B will do himself the 
pleasure of wailing upon A. This is eon- 
trary to all the rules of etiquette; for A, at 
whose house the scene is to lie, is bound to 
weit upon B, his guest. I remember when 
the language was, that A. should say to B, 
on inviting him to his house, ‘that he would 
be very happy to wai upon him in St, James's 
square.’ Every man is to wait upan his 
guests, by himself, or his suflicient deputy, 
and not ¢icy upon him.’ In‘the first instance 
to wait means to attend upon: just the re~ 
verse of the French aftendre, which signi- 
fies to. wait for, or expect. ; 
«© There are many words and expressions 
in-use among our forefathers, which would 
wake very strange havock with our present 
modes of writing and ppeaKing 
«J have received the unvalued book you 
sent me: Milton’s verses on Shakspeare.> 
« MrZA keeps a very hospital table.t 
«« } have visiied Mr. B, this summer, and 
feel great resen/ment of the treatment I re- 
ccived.§ | oa holt 
<<] have Jately read Mr. ——s history of 
It is a most pityful performance. Sir 
‘Thomas More’s Edward V. 1641, is called 
his ¢ Pityful Life of Edward V.’ 
~ «* King Charles J. was very much reduced 
indeed ; but the reduction of King Charles 
YJ. brought things right again.|| 
“© Mr. A is as humoursome a manas I ever 
met with; though at certain times he can be 
as Aumourous as any body.—Shakspeare. 
*« J never saw any Man more important 
than he was, when he came to beg I would 
PHILOLOGY AND CRITICISM. 
do him the greatest favour in the world; 
Comedy of Errors, act v. scene 1.—And I 
treated him respectively. ‘Two Gentlemen 
of Verona, and Godwin's Henry VIII. p. 101. 
*« But I afterwards found that he was a. 
man of the greatest dissolution in the world. 
Robertson's Charles V. vol. iv. p. $62. 
* Execedingly may be used ine 
as an adverb, but not as an augmenting ad- 
cannot say ¢ exceedingly well,” and should 
say ‘exceeding well,’ z. ¢. mare than well; 
as Shakspeare does the word passing.—* Tig 
strange, ‘tis passing strange.’ 
«© Where does he live? In a very inhalit- 
able part of shire, where his futher lived 
before him. Richard II. act i. se. 3. 
“To the affectation of new-fangled modes 
of spelling words, we may add what has of 
late years happencd to names and titles, some, 
of which have heen expanded, Gr altered, in 
the position of letters, or in their termina- 
tions, and in other particulars, contrary to 
long-established practice, however they may 
be warranted by ancient usage, imsomnc 
that one scarcely knows them again when 
seen in their old new clothes. 
* If every name of a person or place were 
to be restored to original spellings, we should 
not discover who was meant; nay, the sim-. 
lest names have been so mutilated, that the 
earned editor of the Northumberland House- 
hold Book assures us that he has seen the 
plain, dissyllabical name of Percy, in vari« 
jective: as, ‘J like it exceedingly; but we — 
oys documents which have come before him, 
written fiffeen different ways. 
“ The family name ofthe Earl of 
Dysart 
has so long been spelt T’a/mash, that one 
stares at the first view of the present mode 
of writing it—TZollemache. The peerage of 
Seotland, Crawfurd, Douglas, &e. and the 
heraldic writers, Sir George Montague, and 
Mr. Nisbett, give it as Tull/mash. 
«© The name of Littleton is now studiously 
to be written Lyttleton, under pain of dis- 
pleasure. 
yer of the present age would seruple'to do it; 
as does his commentator, Lord Chief Justice. . 
Coke. I fancy that our friend Adam Little- 
ton, the dietionarian, would have whipped 
a boy for spelling it otherwise than as we 
find it at the end of his dedication, Littleton. 
<« Some words have got back again. 
The great lawyer, the head of - 
‘that name, wrote it Lifélefon ; and io law- 
Fau-.. 
eonterg was for a long time Falconbridge, _ 
and is now got back again to L’guconterg. 
Shakspeare has it both ways. Ae 
«< ] Jove to learn, sir, but I hate to uns 
learn. ‘To you and I, sit, who haye seen 
half a hundred years, it is re-funding. 
“€€ Consequential. 
the interests of life.”” Mr. Steevens’s note to 
* ¢¢ Good-morrow; for, as I take it, itis almost day.” Measure for Measure, act iv. se. 2- 
+ “See a note on Richard III, act i. scene 4. edit. 1778, 
+ 
‘¢ Fuller, Ch. Hist. b- v. p- 197. 
«See Life of Dr. Radcliffe, 
= Pi + 
p- 92, edit. 1736. N. B. Itis in Johnson's Dictionary. 
Life of DretPhimas' Fuller, London 1661, 12mo. p: 104.” * ‘ie 
* Less consequential ta 
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