Seven ages. Seven Champions. Seven Churches. Seven days in a week. Seven days' notice. Seven Dials. Sevenfold. Seven Hills. Seven months' child. Seven penitential psalms. Seven senses. Seven-shilling piece. Seven Sisters. Seven Sleepers. Seven Sons. Seventh son of the seventh son. Seven stars. Seven stages of life. Seven times. Seven times seven years a jubilee. Seven wise men. A jury of seven matrons. Seven wonders of the world. Seven years' apprenticeship. Seven years, a change. Seven years' transportation. Seven years' Income-tax, Sevenpence in the pound yearly; and these last are two of the Seven abominations. HENRY EDWARDS. 35. Gifford Street, Kingsland Road. [The number _seven_ has been a subject of particular speculation with some old writers, and every department of nature, science, literature, and art has been ransacked for the purpose of discovering septenary combinations. In the Year 1502 there was printed at Leipsic a work entitled _Heptalogium Virgilii Salzburgensis_, in honour of the number seven. It consists of seven parts, each consisting of seven divisions. But the most curious work on the subject of numbers is the following, the contents of which, as might be expected, are quite worthy of the title: _The Secrets of Numbers according to Theological, Arithmetical, Geometrical, and Harmonical Computation; drawn, for the better part, out of those Ancients, as well as Neoteriques. Pleasing to read, profitable to understande, opening themselves to the capacities of both learned and unlearned; being no other than a key to lead men to any doctrinal knowledge whatsoever._ By William Ingpen, Gent. London, 1624. In chap. ix. the author has given many notable opinions from learned men, to prove the excellency of the number _seven_:--"First, it neither begets nor is begotten, according to the saying of Philo. Some numbers, indeed, within the compass of ten, beget, but are not begotten; and that is the unarie. Others are begotten, but beget not; as the octonarie. Only the septenarie, having a prerogative above them all, neither begetteth, nor is begotten. This is its first divinity or perfection. Secondly, this is an harmonical number, and the well and fountain of that fair and lovely _Digramma_, because it includeth within itself all manner of harmony. Thirdly, it is a theological number, consisting of perfection. (See _Cruden_.) Fourthly, because of its compositure: for it is compounded of one and six; two and five; three and four. Now, every one of these being excellent of themselves (as hath been remonstrated), how can this number be but far more excellent, consisting of them all, and participating, as it were, of all their excellent virtues."--ED.] * * * * * ROBERT DRURY.