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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 67. 



for the press my two next volumes of The Judges 

 of England. Edwaed Foss. 



Street- End House, near Canterbury. 



Words are mens daughters (Vol. iii., p. 38.). — 

 I take this to be a proverbial sentence. In the 

 Gnomologia of Fuller we have " Words are for 

 women; actions for men" — but there is a nearer 

 approach to it in a letter written by Sir Thomas 

 liodley to his librarian about the year 1604. He 

 says, 



" Sir John Parker hath promised more than you have 

 signified : but words are women, and deeds are men." 



It was no doubt an adoption of the worthy knight, 

 and I shall leave it to others to trace out the true 

 author — hoping it may never be ascribed to an 

 ancestor of Bolton Corney. 



Passage in St. Mark (Vol. iii., p. 8.). • — Irena?us 

 is considered the best (if not the only) commen- 

 tator among the very eai'ly Fathers upon those 

 words in Mark xlii. 32. "ou5c 6 uibs;" and though 

 I cannot refer Calmet further than to the author's 

 works, he can trust the general accuracy of the 

 following translation : — 



"Our Lord himself," says he, "the Son of God, 

 acknowledfjed that the Father only knew the day and 

 hour of judsjment, declaring expressly, that of that day 

 and hour knoweth no one, neither the Son, but the 

 Father only. Now, if the Son himself was not ashamed 

 to leave the knowledge of that day to the Father, but 

 plainly declared the truth ; neither ought we to be 

 ashamed to leave to God such questions as are too high 

 for us. For if any one inquires why the Father, who 

 communicates in all things to the Son, is yet by our 

 Lord declared to know alone that day and hour, he 

 cannot at present find any better, or more decent, or 

 indeed any other safe answer at all, than this, that 

 since our Lord is the only teacher of truth, we should 

 learn of liiin, that the Father is above all ; for the Son 

 saith, ' He is greater than L' The Father, therefore, 

 is by Our Lord declared to be superior even in know- 

 ledge also; to this end, that we, while we continue in 

 this world, may learn to acknowledge God only to have 

 perfect knowledge, and leave such questions to him ; 

 and (put a stop to our presumption), lest curiously in- 

 quiring into the greatness of the Father, we run at last 

 into so great a danger, as to ask whether even above 

 God there be not another God." 



Blowen. 



" And Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a Grin " 

 (Vol. i., p. 384.). — This line is taken from Dr. 

 Brown's Essay on Satire, part ii. v. 224. The entire 

 couplet is — 



" Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win. 

 And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin." 



Dr. Brown's Essay is prefixed to Pope's " Essay 

 on ]Man" in Warburton's edition of Pope's Works. 

 (See vol. iii. p. 15., edit. 1770, 8vo.) 



Dr. Trmlers Memoirs (Vol. iii., p. 61.). — Tlie 

 first part of Dr. Trusler's Memoirs (Bath, 180G), 



mentioned by your correspondent, but which is 

 not very scarce, is the only one published. I have 

 the continuation in the Doctor's Autogy-aph, which 

 is exceedingly entertaining and curious, and full 

 of anecdotes of his contemporaries. It is closely 

 written in two 8vo. volumes, and comprises 554 

 pages, and appears to have been finally revised for 

 publication. Why it never appeared I do not know. 

 He was a very extraordinary and ingenious man, 

 and wrote upon everything, from farriery to 

 carving. With life in all its varieties he was per- 

 fectly acquainted, and had personally known almost 

 every eminent man of his day. He had expe- 

 rienced every variety of fortune, but seems to 

 have died in very reduced circumstances. The 

 Sentential Variorum referred to by your corre- 

 spondent is, I presume, what was published under 

 the title of — 



" Detached Philosophic Thoughts of near 300 of 

 the best Writers, Ancient and Modern, on Man, Life, 

 Death, and Immortality, systematically arranged imder 

 the Authors' Names." 2 vols. 12mo. 1810. 



Jas. Ckosslet. 



Manchester, Jan. 25. 1851. 



notes on books, sales, catalogues, etc. 



Dr. Latham seems to have adopted as his literary 

 motto the dictum of the poet, 



" The proper study of mankind is man." 



We have recently had occasion to call the attention of 

 our readers to his learned and interesting volume en- 

 titled Tht Englisli Language, — a work which affords 

 proof how deeply he has studied that remarkable 

 characteristic of our race, which Goldsmith wittily de- 

 scribed as being " given to man to conceal his thoughts." 

 From the language to The Natural History of the 

 Varieties of Man, the transition is an easy one. The 

 same preliminary studies lead to a mastery of both 

 divisions of this one great subject : and having so lately 

 seen how successfully Dr. Latham had pursued his 

 researches into the languages of the earth, we were 

 quite prepared to iind, as we have done, the same learn- 

 ing, acumen, and philosophical spirit of investigation 

 leading to the same satisfactory results in this kindred, 

 but new field of inquiry. In paying a well-deserved 

 tribute to his predecessor. Dr. Prichard, wliom he de- 

 scribes as "a physiologist among physiologists, and a 

 scholar among scholars," — and his work as one " which, 

 by combining the historical, the philological, and the 

 anatomical methods, should command the attention of 

 the naturalist, as well as of the scholar," — Dr. Latham 

 has at once done justice to that distinguished man, 

 and expressed very neatly the opinion which will be 

 entertained by the great majority of his readers of his 

 own acquirements, and of the merits of this his last 

 contribution to our stock of knowledge. 



The Family Almanack and Educational Register for 

 1851, with what its editor justly describes as " its noble 

 list of grammar schools," to a great extent the " off- 

 spring of the English lleformation in the sixteenth 



