ST. PIERRE. Harmonies de la Nature. P. 55. BULBOUs and other plants, he says, have as many circles in the root as they are months in growing, "c'est ce qu'on peut voir surtout dans celles des carottes, des betteraves, et dans les bulbes des ognons. Peut-être étoit-ce à cause de ces rapports lunaires que les Egyptiens avoient consacré l'ognon à Isis ou à la lune, qu'ils adoroient sous le nom de cette déesse. Ce qu'il y a de certain, c'est que ces racines triques, c'est à dire autant qu'ils ont été ont pour l'ordinaire sept cercles concende mois à croître, depuis le commencement de Mars où on les sème, jusqu'à la fin de Septembre où on les recueille." 143. "Les arbres aquatiques, tels que les saules, les aunes, les peupliers, sont par leurs racines autant de machines hydrauliques. Ils pomperoient sans bruit l'eau des marais, en changeroient le méphitisme en air pure, et par leur dépouilles annuelles en transformeroient le sol ingrat en terre féconde." 159. Danton in his dungeon said with a sigh, "Ah! si je pouvois voir un arbre." 175. Busbequius is the duced the lilac into Europe. person who intro 212. In Normandy they burn the straw of the bed belonging to a deceased person before his door, where for a time it leaves un rond tout noir sur le gazon." 66 341 "Les philosophes crient beaucoup contre l'intolérance théologique, mais elle 58. He thinks that elephants retire to die where others of their kind have died before them,-gregarious in death. 79. He fixes upon the sun for the heaven of happy souls. a wilderness, like Paul the hermit-so fascinating are these legends! 232. What a theory of language! that men imitate animals! and that English abounds with ss's because it imitates the cries of the sea birds!! 235. Rhyme also learnt from-birds!1 389. His notions of planetary existence are very whimsical. The Lunereans enjoy delightful dreams, where they sleep fifteen days and nights at once. 392. He attests from his own observation the truth of the seaman's proverb, "Que la lune mange les nuages." BAYLE. Beuchot's Edition. P. 2. THE golden calf walked, and ate, and was alive, for which cause Aaron erected an altar to it. One excuse for him is that he did not make the calf; he only put the gold in the fire, to rid himself of the people's importunities, and some magicians made it take the form they wished. 87. Why is the stone of the peach and nectarine often found broken to pieces in In a French Bible printed by Antoine the fruit? The fruit itself being unhurt. Bonnemere, 1538, the fables have been "Est-ce un effet de quelque électricité vé-foisted into the text, of the beards becoming gilt, of those who drank the infusion of calf, if they had worshipped him, and of the Israelites spitting upon Hur, when he refused to make gods for them, till they smothered him. gétale ou animale ?” 94. Dust of the lycopode used in the furies' torches at the Opera. You may throw out with it a flash five yards long. 148. The seal common at French fairs, and very fond of its master. 496. A whimsical theory of animal and vegetable souls! Of the phosphoric particles in the sea, he says, "Ne seroientils pas des molécules organiques répandus partout, suivant Buffon? Seroient-ce les âmes élémentaires des animaux ou leurs âmes animales mêmes ?" Tom. 3. P. 27. SOME good remarks upon the story of Junius Brutus and his sons, and upon all such stories. 3. Aaron placed at the head of sculptors. 7. Abaris made the palladium, and of the bones of Pelops. 12. 13. La Mothe le Vayes said of the old philosophers who foretold earthquakes, "n'est ce point qu'à considérer la terre comme un grand animal, ils avaient l'art de lui tâter le pouls, et de reconnaître par la les convulsions qui lui devaient arriver." 15. Water finders. 18. Water doctors, in his days a new See SOUTHEY's quaint fancy expressed in a Letter to Grosvenor C. Bedford. Life and Cor226. He set out when a child to live in respondence, vol. iii. p. 40.-J. W. W. 260 quackery, and which, he supposed, had been | presently exploded. 25. Abdas, a Bishop in Persia, in the reign of the younger Theodosius brought on a persecution by destroying a Fire temple. 40. Cœlius Rhodiginus never cited any author in his compilations, in order that he might be cited himself. And the artifice succeeded, for he is often quoted for what in him are quotations. 57. There are many men like the Anselm of whom Abelard speaks, "ad quem si quis de aliquâ questione pulsandum accederet incertus, redibat incertior. -Verborum usum habebat mirabilem, sed sensu con temptibilem et ratione vacuum. Cum ignem accenderet, domum suam fumo implebat, non luce illustrabat." 62. The monks tried to poison Abelard in the bread and wine of the Eucharist! 91. History of the creation-imputed to Abraham-published in Latin 1552 and 1642, different translations. dissemblable à celui qui l'a fondée.” 259. "Ce serait, je crois, un livre de bon débit que celui de la Religion du Souverain: il ferait oublier celui de la Rel. du Médecin." He relates this as having been recently said by an Italian Prince to the Envoy of a powerful Sovereign with whom he was negociating, and who asked what security he could offer to the king his master. “Assurez-le, repliqua le Prince, que je lui engage ma parole, non pas en qualité de souverain; car en tant que tel, il faut que je sacrifie toutes choses à mon agrandissement, à la gloire, et à l'avantage de mes états, selon que les conjonctures s'en offriront: dites lui donc, que je lui engage ma parole, non pas sous cette qualité-là, ce ne serait rien promettre, mais comme cavalier, et honnête homme." 264. Agesipolis took Mantinea by bringing the waters of a river to bear upon its walls. Cimon had taken Eion on the Stry mon by the same stratagem which was practised by the Peruvians in their last in111. Evil of University Professors being surrection during the American war. So little fixed in their stations. 112. George Wicelius thought Plutarch had written the life of Charlemagne,-because it used to be printed with Plutarch's lives! 116. Accius the tragic poet, being a very little man, put up a huge statue of himself in the Temple of the Muses. Pliny, 1. 34. c. 5. 177. The Hésycastes among the monks of Mount Athos held that in the fervour of their prayers they saw that same uncreated light which was manifest in the Transfigu ration. 190-1. Well would it have been for Bayle, and for thousands whom he has contributed to lead astray, if he had remembered what he has said of the consequences of such philosophy as his own,-when speaking of Acosta. 217. St. Paul thought in Italy to savour of heresy in many things! See Sandys. 221. "Il ne faut quelquefois que trente ou quarante ans, pour rendre une secte fort 277. Three things disgusted Erasmus with the Reformation. The rash writings of some of the reformers; the scandalous lives of some of their followers; and the excesses committed in image-breaking, and in the Peasants' war. 297. "Agrippa, Erasme, et quelques autres grands génies, furent ravis que Luther eût rompu le glace; ils en attendirent une crise qui délivrerait de l'oppression les honnêtes gens; mais quand ils virent que les choses ne prenaient pas le train qu'ils auraient voulu, ils furent les premiers à jetter la pierre contre Luther." 299. Cornelius Agrippa's dog was not the devil, his servant Wier testifies, but a black dog whom he called Monsieur, and for whom he got a black she-dog, and called her Mademoiselle. 309. This passage concerning concubinage was cut out of Cornelius Agrippa's works in the Lyons edition—that he had read of a certain bishop who boasted that he had in his diocese "undecim millia sa cerdotum concubinariorum qui in singulos annos illi aureum pendant." 323. Pierre d'Ailli- —a precursor of Luther, Calvin, and-Descartes ! 324. He was an expert logician. 329. Rinaldo a saint-to whom churches have been dedicated! The Poles threatened the Hussites that if they came there "ignitas exciperent aureolas !" 66 | ceux qui l'entrepennent, ou qui la conseillent, pour remédier à des maux qui peutêtre n'arriveraient jamais, et qui, au pis aller, seraient quelquefois beaucoup moindres que les maux qui suivent necessairement une rupture." He adds, nous aurons lieu de rapporter plus d'une fois les angoisses où de grands capitaines se sont vus réduits, lorsque leur conscience leur reprochait les ravages dont ils avaient été cause." 332. A Treatise by Ayrault "des Procès fait aux cadavre, aux cendres, à la mé477. It is curious to see Bayle arguing moire, aux bestes, brutes, choses inanimées, against the perilous rashness of those who et contumax." advance new opinions, or distrust old ones, 343. Rabbi Akiba learnt from Rabbi-taking part with the Calvinistic party in Joshua, that “in sedis secretæ locum,-non the United States ! versus orientem et occidentem, sed versus septentrionem et austrum convertere nos debeamus." 362. “Un certain Yepes,"-Bayle knew so little of Spanish, or of Ecclesiastical History, as thus to speak of him. Boethius's scientific rarities. See Cassiodorus, L. 1. Ep. 45. 416. "Tel est prèsque toujours le destin de l'homme. Il ressemble à ces terroirs qui produisent pêle-mêle de bonnes herbes et de mauvaises." 420. When Cardinal Aleander went into Germany in 1531, "le peuple, dans les villes Protestantes, n'était plus si animé contre le Pape; mais dans les villes Catholiques, il témoignait une envie extrême de secouer le joug de Rome, et de s'enrichir des biens d'Eglise, comme avaient fait les Protestans. Le changement de ceux-ci venait de ce qu' ayant esperé une grande liberté, pourvu qu'ils secouassent le joug papal, ils éprouvaient que le joug de la puissance séculière sous lequel il leur fallait vivre n'était par plus doux," 453. S. Almāchum, so written at the head of the Kalendar, has been made into St. Almanachus, and the said saint has his place in the Kalendar on the first day of the year! 472. War, relating the sack of Heidelberg, he says, "Voilà les fruits ordinaires de la guerre voilà de quoi faire trembler He uses the word Methodist here, just as it was afterwards applied in England. 414. A fraternity of topers at Franeker, where the students solemnly enrolled themselves in the service of Bacchus, and were sworn "par un S. Etienne de bois," that they would spend all their money. 533. "En parcourant bien l'histoire, on trouverait apparemment plus de princes renversés du trône, parcequ' ils étaient trop bons et trop faibles, que parcequ'ils étaient trop méchans. Ceux-ci trouvent plus de ressources dans leur propre méchanceté contre les machinations de leurs ennemis, que ceux-là dans la justice de leur cause, et dans la fidélité de leurs peuples.” Vol. 2. P. 11. Anabaptists expelled from Zurich, 1622, for not bearing arms. Sub voce. The Libraire-Editeur in the Avis prefixed to this volume, by way of praising "l'admirable dictionnaire de Bayle," describes it as a work "où il n'y a pas une ligne qui soit une blasphème évident contre la religion Chrétienne, mais où il n'y a pas une page qui ne mène au doute." 4. Anabaptists. Their excesses brought a scandal upon the Reformers, “et quand on voyait les suites funestes, que l'entreprise de la réformation avait produites si promptement, en était tenté de croire que ce n'était point l'ouvrage de Dieu." 6. Weke Walles, an Anabaptist, sui generis, held that neither Judas nor the other persons who were concerned in crucifying our Lord, committed any sin in so doing, and that they were all saved. He excommunicated those who would not agree with him in this notion, for which he was banished first from Groninguen, then from Franeker. 9. Useful peculiarities of the Mennonites, stated by Van Benning to Turenne. 9. Henry Stephens obtained his first MS. of Anacreon' from John Clement, a domestic of Sir T. More's. He destroyed this and the only other MS. during his insanity. 62. The servant who intrigued with the wife or daughter of his master was punished with death in France, and Bayle seems to think the same law prevailed in other countries. He notices an execution on this at Paris, in 1698. score, 69. Under Ancillon, some good remarks upon elective pastorships, and their ill consequences. 70. Cardinal Du Perron printed a small number of copies of every work which he wrote, for private distribution among those friends whose criticisms he wished to obtain; then he corrected the book, reprinted it, and published it. 71. Ancillon's library pillaged after the Revocation by the priests. His correspondence was thus lost, and among it Daille's letters to him, which were intended for publication. Bayle writes with some feeling upon this subject, and (72) upon those who wait for second editions. 80. Payva Andrade fairly asserted that there could be no worse cruelty ("neque immanitas deterior ulla esse potest") than to condemn men to eternal torments for not believing what they had never any opportunity of learning. "On a footed Augustinian. Bayle says, beau faire, si la Nature nous incline à certaines choses, on n'en guérit pas sous le froc. Le père Anselme était né pour les recherches généalogiques; le peu de rapport qu'elles ont avec le genre de vie auquel il s'était voué n'empêcha pas qu'il ne suivît son penchant. Un de ses confrères (P. Lubin) mais qui n'était pas dechaussé courait nuit et jour après les découvertes géographique c'étoit son naturel; l'habit d'Augustin ne le changeait pas." 135. "Bellarmin, contre les enthousiastes, soutient que l'Ecriture est toute remplie de caractères de divinité; mais contres les Protestans, il soutient qu'elle est obscure, et qu'elle a besoin de l'autorité de l'Eglise." 195. What Bayle says of Blount's translation of Philostratus, and the justice with which his book was suppressed, applies with singular exactness to himself. 272. A story from Aulus Gellius, xv § 1, that Archelaus opposed to Sylla a tower which he had rendered in combustible by alum. Bayle thought that a pen might thus be rendered fire-proof, but thought this impossible. 292. Leonard Aretin produced a translation of Procopius as an original work of his own, and died before the plagiarism was exposed. 354. There were heretics who worshipped the image of Aristotle with that of our Lord. The Carpocratians. 369. Bayle had read that before the Reformation there were churches in Germany where on Sundays Aristotle's Ethics were read instead of the Gospel. 370. Melancthon is the authority. 368. Sepulveda maintained that Aristotle was saved. 369. Pilate was said to have made the 123. P, Anselme the genealogist, a bare- image of our Lord which the Carpocratians The poems of Anacreon we now have, are generally admitted to be spurious. In Suidas's time five books of his poems were extant. J. W. W. ? ANTONY FARINDON speaks of "those students who have Aristotle for their God."-Sermons, vol. ii. p. 886, folio.-J. W. W. |