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| JOHNSON AND BAILEY. 
Bailey's explanation of thunder, must 
yield,in point of beauty and intelligence, 
to Dr. Johnson’s definition of a boy, viz. 
“© A Man-child, not a Girl.” 
THE PENTATEUCH. 
_ Amongst the Jews, every man was 
obliged to write over with his own hand, 
once in his lite, the books of the law. 
Hires were obliged to write them twice. 
ANACREON, 
The first French translation of Ana- 
creon was by Mademoiselle Je Fevre, 
daughter of ‘M. Daciers’ literary pre- 
ceptor. _Sheafterwards ¢ attempted. trans- 
lations of Aristophanes, Sophocles, and 
Euripides. 
OPERAS. 
The first Opera that appeared -in 
France was by Perrin, a translator of 
Virgil. 
TRAGEDIES. 
The first Tragedy that appeared in 
France, and also in Italy, was Sophonisba. 
PATER-N NOSTER 
Pope Adrian the Fourth, who was s the 
son of Robert Breakspeare, of Abbot's 
Langton, i in Hertfordshire, presented the 
following translation of the Lord’s Prayer 
to Henry the Second : 
‘* Ure fader in hevene riche 
Thi name be haliid everliche, 
Thou bring us to thi michilbliscey 
Thi wil to wirche ther us wisse, 
Als bit is-in hevene ido 
Ever in erth ben hit also, 
‘That heli brede yat lastyth ay, 
Thou sende hiouse yis ilke day, 
Forgiv ous al yat we havith don, 
Ais we forgiv och oder mon, 
Ne let ous falle in no foundinge, 
Ak schilde ous fro ye foule thinge, 
Amene.” 
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ECCLESIASTICAL CENSURES. 
‘During the submission of England to 
the Papal yoke, ecclesiastical censures 
were rigidly imposed, and implicitly 
obeyed. “An eminent instance of this 
occurred in the reign of Henry the 
Fifth, when the wives of Lord Strange 
and Sir Jobn Tressel, ‘* striving for 
place” -at St. Dunstan’s church during 
divine service, their husbands and at- 
tendants at length engaged in the affray. 
The quarrel soon became general ; many 
were wounded, and one man ‘actually 
killed. ‘The delinquents, however, were 
guick:y secured, and the service of-the 
church immediately suspended, After. 
due examination, lord and Lady Strange 
~ deemed, - Among. these was the helmet 
in the Te Deum, “ We believe that thou 
iia. adjudged by the Arcee of 
Canterbury to be the aggressors, were 
commanded to do public penance, wnich 
they thus pertormed. he officiating 
priest of St. Dunstan’s led the procession, 
after whom walked his lordship’s servants, 
partly unclothed; then followed Lord 
Strange, bare-headed, carrying a lighted 
taper; his lady bare-footed; and last of 
all the archdeacon. In this order they 
proceeded from St Pauls, where the sen+ 
tence was pronounced, to St. Dunstan’s, = 
where the lady, at ihe ceremony of re- 
hailowing the church, filled all the vessels 
with water, and presented at the altar an 
ornament of ‘ten pounds value, while , 
Lord Strange gave a pix of silver sie q 
cust half thatsum. » ; 
RICHARD THE THIRD, 
in the second year of -his reign, being 
hard pressed for pecuniary supplies, bor. 
rowed various sums of money from the e 
aldermen, and other principal citizens of — j 
London, to whom certain pledges were 
ther delivered by his “ Chaplen Chater- 
ton,” that were never afterwards re- 
of the late King his brother, adorned 
with a rich garniture of gold, precious 
stones and pearls; cups of gold, also 
decorated with pearls and other jewels, 
‘and thé twelve apostles of silver git, ~~ 
which had previously ornamented his 4 
private chapel. For this accommoda-  —~ 
tion he presented to the. chamber of 
London a rich gold cup and cover, set — 
with diamonds and pearls, * valued at 
an hundred marks.” 
~The learned judge, being on the Welsh 
circuit, previous to opening the assizes at — 
C—, attended deat service. Whenthe 
honest Welsh curate came tothe passage 
“MR, JUSTICE! BULLER. . a4 
shalt come to be our Judge,” be turned 
towards his lordship, and as he concluded | 
the sentence, made him a most perearee ) 
bow. O Rite f 
_ INTREPIDITY. 4 
‘At the battle of Minden, a corps. sie: a 
French greradiers,commanded by M. de 
St. Percr, being. exposed to a battery es 
that Cares off whole files at once; St. - 
Perer wishing them not to fall back, rode ~ E 
slowly in front of the line, with his snuff 
box in his hand, and said, “ Well, my 
boys, what’s the matter, ch—Cannon ? a 
- Well, it kills you, it kills you, that’s: all, 
my boys—march on and never seid It. 
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