26-27.] NOTES. 101 



Schoolmen for many of the technical terms of the formal logic, 

 and for a number of words, such as essence, entity, substance, 

 etc., which are familiar to students of philosophy. 



1. 28. the Pharisees, a sect of the Jews, remarkable for their 

 scrupulous observance of the precepts and ritual of the Mosaic 

 Law. 



1. 33. the vulgar sort, the common people. 



Page 27, 1. 1. copia, a Latin word for fluency. 



1. 4. round and clean, perfect and polished. The word 

 1 round ' expresses an absence of roughness. 



1. 5. falling, cadence : rhythm. 



1. 7. tropes, a trope, is a figure of speech. It is derived from a 

 Greek word signifying to turn, or twist. 



1. 8. life of invention, lively invention, vigorous. 



1. 9. watery, thin : unsubstantial. The word denotes the 

 absence of matter in his speech. Osorius was Bishop of Sylves 

 in Algarves. He died in 1580. One of his chief works was a 

 book containing an account, of the Portuguese discoveries and 

 conquests which took place in the reign of Emanuel the Great 

 (1495-1521). E. 



1. 10. to be in price, to be valued : a Latinism. 



L 11. Sturmius (1507-1589) was a Professor at Paris and 

 Strasburg. He has been styled ' the German Cicero.' E. Her- 

 mogenes lived under Marcus Aurelius. He was so successful in 

 communicating a polished style that he went by the name of 

 ' the file.' curious, p. 19, 1. 9. 



1. 13. Car of Cambridge, Nicholas Carr (1523-1568) was Pro 

 fessor of Greek in the University of Cambridge. 



1. 14. Roger Ascham (1515-1568) was tutor to Queen Eliza 

 beth. 



1. 16. delicate, p. 26, 1. 2. 



1. 17. Erasmus, one of the most learned scholars of the Renais 

 sance period. See Green's History of the English People, vol. ii. 

 p. 81. 



1. 18. The last word in Erasmus' sentence is ' Cicerone ' : the 

 Greek word which echoes to it is ' owe,' i.e., ' thou donkey.' 



1. 31. patent, any warrant issued by the sovereign, and con 

 ferring a title or privilege on a subject. It is so called because 

 such a warrant is open to public inspection, limned book, illus 

 trated book, though it bath large flourishes, though it is much 

 ornamented : in the Latin translation, it is ' though it be deco 

 rated with flourishes of the pen and flowers.' 



1. 32. It seems, etc. Pygmalion fell in love with a statue of a 



