Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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[Peter Francius, a celebrated Greek and Latin poet, was born in 1645 at
Amsterdam, afterwards studied at Leyden, and obtained the degree of
Doctor of Laws at Augers. In 1674, the magistrates of Amsterdam
appointed him Professor of History and Rhetoric, which office he held
till his death in 1704. See _Biographie Universelle_.]
_Work by Bishop Ken._--
"A Crown of Glory the Reward of the Righteous; being Meditations on the
Vicissitude and Uncertainty of all Sublunary Enjoyments. To which is
added, a Manual of Devotions for Times of Trouble and Affliction: also
Meditations and Prayers before, at, and after receiving the Holy
Communion; with some General Rules for our Daily Practice. Composed for
the use of a Noble Family, by the Right Reverend Dr. Thomas Kenn, late
Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. Price 2s. 6d."
I find the above in a list of "books printed for Arthur, Betterworth, &c.,"
at the end of the 7th edition of Horneck's _Crucified Jesus_: London, 1727.
I do not remember to have seen any notice of this work in the recent
biographies of the saintly prelate to whom it is here attributed.
E. H. A.
[This work originally appeared under the following title: _The Royal
Sufferer; a Manual of Meditations and Devotions, written for the use of
a Royal though afflicted Family_, by T. K., D. D., 1669, and was
afterwards published with the above title. It has been rejected as
spurious by the Rev. J. T. Round, the editor of _The Prose Works of
Bishop Ken_, l838.]
_Eugene Aram's Comparative Lexicon._--This talented criminal is said to
have left behind him collections for a dictionary of the Celtic, Hebrew,
Greek, Latin, and English languages, comprising a list of about 3000 words,
which he considered them to possess in common. Was this ever published? and
where are any notices of his works to be found?
E. S. TAYLOR.
[The following notice of Eugene Aram's Lexicon occurs in a letter
written by Dr. Samuel Pegge to Dr. Philipps, dated Feb. 18, 1760: "One
Eugene Aram was executed at York last year for a murder. He has done
something, being a scholar and a schoolmaster, towards a Lexicon on a
new plan. Hearing of this, I sent for the pamphlet, which contained
some account of his life, and the specimen of a Lexicon. He goes to the
Celtic, the Irish, and the British languages, as well as others; and
there are things, in the specimen that will amuse a lover of
etymologies." (_Gent. Mag._, 1789, p. 905.) Aram left behind him an
Essay relative to his intended work, from which some extracts are given
in Kippis's _Biographia Britannica_, s.v. The Lexicon does not appear
to have been printed.]
_Drimtaidhvrickhillichattan._--I should feel obliged through the medium of
"N. & Q.," to be informed of the whereabouts of a locality in Scotland with
the above euphonious name.
ALPHA.
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