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as 
1809.]. 
under the name of Mrs.. Glasse, was 
written by Dr. Hill, who as author, dra- 
matic poet, and physician, would scarcely » 
get “salt to his porridge ;” but the re- 
ceipt for making it procured him many a 
dinner. 
MOTIVES FOR MAKING WAR, 
The ambassador of the Grand Signior, 
at the Court of France, during the reign 
of Henry IV. in the greatest heat of the 
league, offered military aid to his Ma- 
jesty. Various, were the motives assigned 
by politicians for such an otier by the 
Sublime Porte.- All their conjectures 
were however wide of themark; for on 
the ainbassador being asked the reason, 
_he-answered, * That his taster na- 
turally hated the word league.”’ 
« 
MONTESQUIEU. 
When Montesquieu’s Persian Letters 
; appeared, they had. such a prodigious 
run, that the booksellers used to stop 
every one they met, with ‘ Write mie 
some Persian letters.” 
INDIVIDUM vaGuM, &e. 
This term, as wellas Individuum in 
Genere, Individuum Entis, 
stantie, Unum Entis, Individuum Insig- 
nitum, Lndividuum Individui, was applied 
to the pronoun Hoc, this, in the Vul- 
gate Translation of “ Hoe est corpus 
meum,” This ismy body ;” the words 
‘used by Christ in consecrating the bread. 
This Hoc has been the source of most 
extraordinary controversy and opinions. 
Gerson, (Contr. Floret. li. 4.) says, 
this pronoun Hoc signifies the substance 
of the bread. Occam (in 4 Sent. dist. 
13.) says, this pronoun Hoe has relation 
‘to the body of Christ; but this is re- 
pelled by Holcot, (in 4 Seni. que. 3.) 
‘who says, that if so, Christ. must say, 
«My body is my body,” which is ciildish 
and vain. Peter Alliacensis (in 4 Sent. 
dist. 18. que. 5.) says, Hoc ‘points out 
the bedy of Christ; otherwise Christ’s 
saying is not true! ! bs Thomas Aquinas — 
-(in 4. Sent. dist. 8. art.16.) says, Hoc, 
‘that is to say, this thing contained under 
these forms is my body. All these expo- 
sitions kicked up the first dust, it being 
discovered that Christ’s body was thus 
~made present before the words of conse- 
cration. Joh,.de Burgo (De Forma 
Verbor. Requisita, &c. ca. 4.) then sa 
piently steps in, as Sir Oracle, to ile 
the Proteus character of this shutHing 
foc with adisjunctive. ‘¢ Hoc, he says, 
his under that either is present: al- 
f Agel und geese forms, or anon will he 
Unum. Sub-- 
Extracts from the Port-folto of a Man of Letters. ~~ 53 
present,is my body.’ But the childishness 
of the exposition, “¢ My body is or shall 
be my body” still remaining, Holcot, 
(ubi stp.) entered the lists by observing, 
that the pronoun Hoc signified a certain 
thing, that was indifferently common, 
as well to the bread as to Christ’s body. 
This did notdo,for what was thisindifferent 
thing? Durand, (46.4 ) most miserably 
hampered with these dithculties, gets out 
of the scrape with ** Some say that this- 
pronoun Hoc significih nothug at alt, 
But is) put materially and absolutely 
withoat any manner of signification!!! 
Chis was playing an eugine with oil in- 
_ stead of water to suppress a fire; for if 
this word Hoc signified nothing at all, 
what power could it have to effect coue 
secration ? 
but of no ferce with two wise-ucres, who 
followed. The first, Inneeentius (De 
Of, Miss, pars iii. c. 6..¢. 14.) says, that 
Christ consecrated the sacrament 7 i, by 
«these words, “ This is my body,” but by 
his blessmg ae went befure!!!  Ab- 
surdum per absurdius! The second, 
Duns Scotus, says, this sentence, “ This 
is my body,” 1s mot the sentence of con- 
secratian, 0 veirfier as It 45 iPue, DOE aS it 18 
false, but only as it isa sehience neuler 
between both, that is to say, neither drwe 
nor false//! At last.a ye 7 in 
great rage and tury, gives the whole Hoe 
controversy a knock-down blow. Uhis was 
Dr. Steph. Gardiner,who, inthe “ Devil’s 
Sophisizy,” fol, 24, says, “ Clirist See 
plainly, This 1s my - body, | making de= 
monstration of the bread ;” and treats 
all the learned doctors with great Scorn. 
DAVID RIZZIO. 
Bishop Jewel Gn his View of a Sedi-~ 
tious Bull, p. 16.) says, that he was a 
state tool, placed in the queen’s confi- 
dence by Pepe Pius, and lost his life 
“ through taking upon him to rule the 
queene there, and seeking all means to 
digrace ana disquiet the nobles, and to 
undoe that country.’ 
i WILL, HAFFLIGINENSIS, - 
in «his \ sermon (De  Adventu) ex- 
pounds the text, ‘Seek: the Lord, while 
be may- be found,” by saying; ‘ He is 
found in the material church of stone: 
there he is hidden under the form. of 
bread.” This writer lived anno.1800, 
COUNCILS. 
Peter Crab, the compiler of the Coun- 
cils, complains, that the copies from 
whence he took them were strangely 
corrapt, and not one of them agreeing 
with the other. 
ORIGINAL 
A pretty weighty objection, | 
