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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
conversation in Latin by alleging the difference 
betwixt the continental pronunciation of the lan- 
guage and our own, since the general inability as 
regards writing it is the same; nor, hence, to put 
it upon the fact that Latin has ceased to be the 
medium of literary intercourse. Is not a faulty 
system of teaching the root of this incompetency ? 
Taught thoroughly, and on a proper system, the 
power of speaking and writing a language ought 
to keep pace with the ability to read it. Besides 
the fact that even with our well-educated men 
the Classics, in a few years after leaving school or 
college, become a dead letter, — how many are 
there of our crack public-school men, of our uni- 
versity degree men, or even of class or prize men, 
who can do more than read a certain set of books, 
as young ladies become mistresses of certain pieces 
of music, and who, when asked to play so fre- 
quently plead and truly, ‘I should be happy to 
oblige you, but have not brought my music!” 
How many are there who can or will hang for 
hours over Plato, as Shelley is reported to have 
done, without comment or lexicon, drinking in 
his “divine philosophy?” How many who — 
double-first, and up in their Aristotle, Auschylus, 
Thucydides, &c. — can read ad aperturam libri, 
and with pleasure, the Byzantine Historians, the 
Greek Fathers, the novelists of the lower empire, 
or even fluently, and as if written in their mother 
tongue, the inexhaustibly delightful Plutarch ? 
How many sixth-form men sit entranced by the 
““Pheedo” even, like Lady Jane Grey?- H.D. 
NOTE FROM A FLY-LEAT. 
(2™ S. i. p. 148.) 
The accompanying hand-bill illustrates Mrs. Pi- 
ozzi’s statement, that half the world looked on 
Buonaparte as the Man of Sin. It was purchased 
at the time of its publication (1808) by my father, 
who assures me that it was the opinion of many 
persons, whose education ought to have taught 
them better, that much of the Apocalypse and 
the Book of Daniel had special reference to Na- 
poleon I. 1 Gro Ug. Oe 
« A PROPHECY : 
(From the 13 Chapter of Revelations) 
ALLUDING TO. 
BUONAPARTE, 
Verse 1st. 
«“ And a Beast rose out of the sea, having ten crowns on 
his head,” &c. 
“This Beast is supposed to mean Buonaparte, he being 
born in Corsica, which is an island, and having con- 
quered ten kingdoms.” 
Verse 5th. 
“And a mouth was given him speaking blasphemies; 
and power was given him upon the earth, forty and two 
months,” 
“Buonaparte was crowned in December, 1804; it is 
therefore supposed the extent of his assumed power 
upon earth will now be limited, this present month 
(June), 1808, being exactly the forty-second month of 
his reign.” 
Verse 16th, 
« And he caused all to receive a mark in their hands, 
and no one could buy or sell, save those who had the 
mark of the Beast.” 
“To persons conversant in commercial affairs, these 
verses need no comment. There are at present some of 
these marks to be seen in this country; they had the 
crown of Italy, &c. at top,.and are signed ‘ Buonaparte,’ 
‘Talleyrand:’ all of them are numbered.” 
Verse 18th. 
“Let him that hath understanding, count the number 
of the Beast, for it is the number of a man, and his num- 
ber is SIX HUNDRED SIXTY AND SIX.” 
“This verse is curious, and should be read attentively. 
The method of using letters for figures, at the time the 
Revelations were written, is proved by many monuments 
of Roman antiquity now extant.” 
“ The above verses are not the only parts of the chap- 
ter which have reference to Buonaparte, but the mosr 
PROMINENT ONES: the connection throughout has been 
clearly ascertained. 
The ancient Alpha- | Buonaparte’s Name, | Ten Kingdoms 
bet of Figures. with the Figures. conquered, 
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pBi 2) soos) BYPASS -o = = Ly BRANGs 
thew ver Ste dil Bil- w= le SGOT Bipgeara. 
[DD =~ = f=. 4/0 =. — - 50d Agena: 
|E - - - 5|/L - = = 20 | ’SARpintA. 
[Ro- = <6) BO - =. =, 36) Niger 
\G@o= - =- GTj/A - + © 1] Rome, 
H - »- =. 8j)N - '- = 40) Toscany. 
D viiewh's), Late HuNGARY. 
bK - - -« 10}/B,.-. =. =: 2 }),Portucat. 
L - - - 20}U -  - +110 } Spam. 
VM ck elie BOnOioe a} aye teal 
|}|N - - ~ 40);N - =| =, 40 
Ok: e046 eo RAO WAL ent =, hell 
bP) os) 8) os 60a dP belo 8 a 460 
1.Q: gsteiey c= = 70M ALi a= sale Some el 
iR - - = 80|}R - - = 80 
Si 2 55) o -9ON"B «= te =) 200 
Dine! pee 200) Beare Lie eld 
{U0 - + -=110 = 
V - =. - 120 | The number of 
X - - = 130) the Beast - 666 
he sit of MAO. 
Z - «=» - 150 
| NAPOLE- -AN BUON- -APARTE, 
6 . 6 6 
ETYMOLOGY. 
(28 S. i. 200.) 
In my answer to the Query about erysipelas 
(p. 122.), I referred to a “ common book of refer- 
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