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the holy ghost, in those tunes, iuspired 
898 Extracts fromthe Port-folio of a Manof Letters. [Nov.t, — 
also forge that account of a pretended 
convention ef the Jews at Ageda, in Hun- 
gary, which made its appearance in the 
Pheenix, and which seems to have sug- 
gested the idea of Bonaparte’s Parisian 
Sanhedrim? Cannot some of your cor- 
respondents assist in completing a list of 
his works ? 
: TIRAQUEAU. 
Tiraqueau was a counsellor in the par- 
Hiament of Boru nx, under Francis I. 
Ele was a temperate man, was married, 
“and had ‘twenty children: he published 
a multiplicity of legal tracts, On the Pre- 
rogatives of the Nobility; On the Law 
of Lineal Descent; On the Law of Mar- 
riage ; On the Legislation of Alexander; 
é&c. &c. This, epitaph was made for 
him. Hicjacet qui, aguam bibendo, vi- 
gintt liberos suscepit, viginit libros edidit : 
st merum. bibisset, totum orbem implesset. 
In French, thus:— 
Tiraqueau fécond a produire 
A mis au Monge vingt fils 5 
‘Tiraqueau fécond a bien dire 
A fait paret! nombre d’ecrits : 
Sil n’eut point noyé dans les eaux 
Une semence si féconde, 
11 efit enfin remplile monde 
De livres et de Tiraqueaux. 
INSPIRATION ILL DEFINED IN BUTLER’S 
HORE BIBLICE. 
In the fourth edition of Butler’s Hore 
Biblice, (vol. i. p. 240-250,) occurs a° 
dissertation on the inspiration of Scrip- 
ture, in which that intelligent writer ap- 
pears to understand by inspiration, a 
supernatural action on the human mind. 
Surely Saint Paul wnderstood by it, a 
merely natural operation of the pious 
spirit, or devoutfeeling, or, as it is tech- 
nically phrased, of the holy ghost, which 
pervaded al] religious Jews and Chrisuans, 
Saint Paul says: (Cor. IL. 13,) We 
speak not in the words which man’s wis- 
dom teacheth, but which the holy ghost 
teacheth. The obvious paraphrase of 
this passage would be:, We do not employ 
the slang, or cant, in use among literary 
men and philosophers, but the phrase. 
elegy consecrated by the usage of devout 
men. 
In those times, as in these, the evan- 
gclical clergy had their euphemisms, and 
technical expressions, which, within the 
pale of the sect, had peculidr weight and 
currency. To speak in this esoteric 
dialect, is to speak as the holy ghost 
teachel Bah 2 | if 
Now itis plain, from comparing the 
various scriptures with each other, that 
¥. 
every man to speak according to his idio- 
syncrasy: just as it sa inspires men te 
speak in our own times, ‘The female 
quaker, who in Yreland, according to 
Mr. Rathbone’s account, preached uni- 
tarian opinions, was moved by her reli- 
gious sentiments, was stimulated by her 
piety, was prompted by her holy ghost. 
so to do. ‘The person who answered 
her, wasalso divinely inspired, was also 
moved by his theopathetic affections, 
was also prompted by his holy mind, to 
declaim on the opposite side of the ques- 
tion. Se, we find Peter and Paul both 
inspired to differ about circumcision. 
(Acts xv.) So, in relating the cure of 
the Gadarene insanity, Mark (v. 1-15,) 
notices but one patient; and Matthew 
(viii. 28,) two: yet both narrations were 
divinely inspired, both were’ prompted 
by a pure zeal for the glory of God. 
Onthe hypothesis of supernaturalagen= 
cy, these dissonances would be impos- 
sible. . ; vy 
Mr, Batier may, perhaps, have been = 
prejudiced by certain writers, who adopt 
an idea unknown to the origmal sacred 
books, the personification of the Holy 
Ghost—which was never thought of un- 
ul the Scriptures were translated into 
Latin. What in’ Syriac was sanctunie 
mity, and in Greek a holy breath, first- 
became personable, when expressed by 
the words spiritus sanctus. 
; DEATH-WATCH. ! . 
Apollodorus relates of Melampus, that 
he understood the language of wood= 
worms, 
accordingly. ‘Fhis wa§ rationalin Mg 
jJampus. Bat, out of this allegorical nar- 
ration, appears to have grown the super- 
stition about the prophetic gifts of wood- 
worms, ; 
ON A BAD ORATOR. 
You move the people, when yoy speak ; 
For, one by one, away theysmeak, 
PEOPORTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. 
In a late enumeration of the Danish ~ 
people, there were found in the diocese 
He is said to have questioned ; 
them about the fall of a house, which fell 
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of Seeiand, outjof 311,063 inbabitants, — 
168 deaf and dumb petsons ;.1n the dio- — 
cese of Fyeu, out of 190,164 inhabitants, 
113 deaf and dumb; in the diocese of 
Aalborg, out of 104,986 inabitants, 44° 
deaf and domb: in the diocese of 
Aarhuus, out ef 120,164 inhabitants, 61 
desf and dumb; and in the dioceses of | 
Viborg and Hibe, out of 124,242 inhabi- 
tants, 134 deaf and dumb persons. On 
the average, about one in sixteen hun- 
dred, 
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