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SAUNDERS THE JESUIT. 
DWARD VI. was said to have been 
‘a delivered by the Cesarean opera- 
dieu, and the consequent death of his 
tother. Saunders the Jesuit broached 
the story. The gueen lived twelve days 
aiter his birth. Nichols, in his. Pro- 
gresses, has ¢ given some more lies by him, 
concerning the death of Elizabeth, This 
man made a profession of publishing ftes 
upon every public event of moment; and 
a collection of them would be very Curious. 
ERASMUS. 
The following Epitaph was written 
upon him, 
Hic jacet Erasmus, gui quondam bonus erat 
mus 5 
Redere qui solitus5; roditur a vermibus. 
When the author was asked; why he 
had made ver in vernribus short: he re- 
plied, because he had made le in bonus 
long. . 
BREVITY. 
Ammianus gives the followity fine 
rule of judging of it. Brevity 1s not com- 
mendable, except when, throwing off 
unseasonable retardations, it detracts 
nothing from information. Integra 
brevilas is the fine expression of a so- 
phist. Dion Halicarnass. 
JEWS. 
Ant. Neidus. Quest. Pruetic, No. 20, 
notes that it was about 1551. much in 
vogue in the Ecclesiastieal State, for in- 
dividuals to seize the children of the’ 
Jews, and christen them v7 et armus. 
ROYAL aPosTLes, &c. 
Orosius, 1. 7. c. 14. says that the 
Goths, Huns, &c. invaded Italy, by an 
impulse of Providence, that they might 
be converted. Boscus de Sign. Eccles, 
says, that Tiridates having vanquished 
the ‘Armenians, compelled them to be- 
cone Christians. He adds, that the Bur- 
gundiaus and Franks became so, through 
a vow made, if they were seceeehill s ina 
battle. Charlemagne forced the Saxons 
into Christianity.  Rhegin. E'ginh. and 
dimoin, No. 785: Dubraorus, 
Helnodies, 1. 6. c. 16, 19, 24, Say, that 
Otho the Great thus converted the Bos 
hemians. So also Boieslaus, King of the 
Poles, (see Arnold, 1. 7. c. 9.) converted 
the Prussians; so Waldemar, King of the 
Danes, the ‘Bugiani, (Helnod. 1. 1. 
c. 45. 1. ae Cc. 12, 13.) So Tsid. Hist. 
Gothor. Aira. 630, notes that the Em- 
peror Heraclius, Sisebert, King of Spain ; 
and Dagobert, hing. of Trance, Cuiti- 
4 
5 and 6, 
pelled the Jews to be bat tized. 'S8 ‘caw 
Alfred forced Guthran ans the I. Dares. 
Medisia de Resitt. 9.27. nt Ghe 
Axorius, Instit. BMonal. 1.8. ce and 
others say, that baptism was te aacad 
condition of granting quarter to infidets, 
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH—ATHANASI USS 
The Hist. Eccles. d, 10. andd ber evr 
anus -d. l.'5, ¢ 12.7. 28. say that Alexan= 
der Bishop of Alexandria, when walking 4m 
the street, saw a Jew boy, pained Atha 
nasius, playing at bishop, ad christewmg 
other children: through which he cos 
pelled them all to persevere in the chiris- 
tian faith: and thus it bappened that 
Athanasius became a very great ‘“ Fixlei 
Propugnator,” Defender of the Faith. 
ABRAHAM, A DOCTOR—DOCTOR TITLE OF. 
This, as a degree, commences with the 
12th cent. but Lucian in Ded Syrid, notes 
that there were publict hospites among 
the Assyrians, called Doctores, Loeause 
they narrated and explained all things. 
ABCord DENY. Penéila tke ‘Reb. Sulom. lB. 
27. num. 8. says, “the very hospitalice 
af Abraham shows that he was a Decior * 
See Joseph. Antig. 1. ¢. 16. Euseb. Prep. 
feang. t.9.¢. ult. 
MARTY RDOM—?TOX. 
Sulpitius, in the Life of Martin, relates 
an instance of a charch erected ta thé 
memory, as a martyr. of a man who bad 
been hanged for arobbery. —Aclergyinan, 
in bis sermon, after mentioning the name 
of a martyr, upon the aut thority of Poy 
proceeded to inveigh, by name, against 
his persecutor, of whom he rélated the 
most shocking stories, Whigh were Pe 
nished by a miraculous and disgracetul 
death. The martyr was alive, and the 
persecutor in the church at the time. 
He menaced the preacher with an action, 
of defamatinn, who upon bis. quoting the. 
authonty of Pox pnalde. 
~ GREEK TAM BICS. 
Scaliger says, every body valucs Greck 
iambics, but nobody understauids them, 
EPIGRAMS WITHOUT PotNnt. 
These, says Menage, are excellent, 
when tie sense 15 fine, full, and the mate 
ter described with nuioete where the 
latter makes an Abi oble conclusion, 
and the truth serves instead of point. 
- | SWEETWESS. 
Properly that which results from pers 
fect simplicity. 
HERMIT. 
These have existed from the time 
Pliny, who calls them" gens a@terna in 
yuu neo nescityr.”? 
BAILEY, 
