Now bething the, gentilman, How Adam dalf and Eve span. From a MS. of the 15th Century in the British The same proverb existed in German. Agricola (Prog. No. 254). So Adam reutte, und Eva span ; Wer was da ein eddelman? For angling-rod, he took a sturdy oak; His hook was baited with a dragon's tail, In Chalmers's British Poets the following is ascribed to William King (1663-1712). His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak; His line a cable which in storms ne'er broke; In the Preface to Mr. Nichol's work on Autographs, among other albums noticed by him as being in the British Museum is that of David Krieg, with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following verses. "Virtus sua gloria." Think that day lost whose [low] descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. Bobart died about 1726. He was a son of the celebrated botanist of that name. From The Letters of Junius. I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton. The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.1 Letter xxxvii. City Address and the King's Answer. Private credit is wealth, public honour is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands. 1 Compare Clarendon, ante, p. 170. OLD TESTAMENT. It is not good that the man should be alone. Genesis ii. 18. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. . . . . For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. The mother of all living. Am I my brother's keeper? Gen. iii. 19. Gen. iii. 20. Gen. iv. 9. My punishment is greater than I can bear. Gen. iv. 13. There were giants in the earth in those days. Gen. vi. 4. The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Gen. viii. 9. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. In a good old age. Gen. ix. 6: Gen. xv. 15. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. Gen. xvi. 12. Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Gen. xlii. 38. Genesis xlix. 4. Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. I have been a stranger in a strange land. The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire. When we sat by the fleshpots. Man doth not live by bread only. Ex. xiii. 21. Ex. xvi. 3. The wife of thy bosom. Deuteronomy viii. 3. Deut. xiii. 6. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. Deut. xix. 21. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Deut. xxviii. 5. The secret things belong unto the Lord our Deut. xxix. 29. God. He kept him as the apple of his eye. Deut. xxxii. 10. As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Deut. xxxiii. 25. I am going the way of all the earth. Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Quit yourselves like men. Ruth i. 16. 1 Samuel iv. 9. Is Saul also among the prophets? A man after his own heart. I Sam. x. II. 1 Sam. xiii. 14. David therefore departed thence and escaped to the cave of Adullam. 1 Sam. xxii. 1. Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon. 2 Sam. i. 20. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. How are the mighty fallen! 2 Sam. i. 23. 2 Sam. 25. Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. 2 Sam. i. 26. There ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. 1 Kings xviii. 44. |