a 
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407 
the meaning is swingeing, “huge, great,” which I 
admit was generally, if not always, in those days 
spelled swinging, as in Johnson—“ Swinging, from 
swinge, huge, great ;’ but which ought to be, as it 
is pronounced, swingeing. 
Tureen (pp. 246. 307. 340.).—“ And instead of 
soup in a China terrene.” (Knox, Essay 57, Works, 
vol. ii. p. 572.) 8.8.5. 
“4” or “An.” — Quem Deus vult perdere.— Allow 
me to refer your correspondents ‘“* Priscian” and 
“HE. S. Jackson” (of No. 22.), to the Selections 
From the Genileman’s Magazine, London, 1814, 
vol. ii. pp. 333. and 162., for some interesting 
papers on the subjects of their respective inqui- 
ries. 
The paper first referred to, at p. 333., is cer- 
tainly well worth perusal, as the writer, “ Kuster,” 
has examined the question with considerable care, 
and proves, by many curious instances, that most 
of those whom we have been taught to look up to 
as the greatest authorities in English writing — 
Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and others —seem 
to five had no fixed rule on the subject, but to 
have used “a” or “an” before the same words 
with the most reckless inconsistency. 
The second paper, at p. 162., gives a more de- 
tailed account of the adage, “‘ Quem Deus (potius 
Jupiter) vult perdere,” &c., than “F. C. B.” 
(whose object, of course, was rather to compare 
results than to trace derivations) has supplied in 
his interesting communication. C. Forses, 
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