Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Emblems by John Bunyan_ (Vol. vii., p. 470.).--This work which MR. CORSER
has not met with, is in the folio edition of his works, forming pp. 849. to
868. of vol. ii. (1768). The plates are small woodcuts of very indifferent
execution.
E. D.
_Mr. Cobb's Diary_ (Vol. vii., p. 477.).--This volume was printed solely
for private distribution by the family, who also presented their relatives
and friends (amongst whom the writer was reckoned) with another volume
compiled on the decease of Francis Cobb, Esq., the husband of Mrs. Cobb,
and entitled, _Memoir of the late Francis Cobb, Esq., of Margate, compiled
from his Journals and Letters_: Maidstone, printed by J. V. Hall and Son,
Journal Office, 1835. Both of these are at the service for perusal of your
inquiring correspondent, JOHN MARTIN.
E. D.
"_Sat cito si sat bene_" (Vol. vii., p. 594.).--I have not Twiss at hand;
but I think F. W. J. is mistaken in calling it a "favourite maxim" of Lord
Eldon. I remember to have heard Lord Eldon tell the story, which was, that
the Newcastle Fly, in which he came up to town, in I forget how many days,
had on its panel the motto, "Sat cito si sat bene:" he applied it jocularly
in defence of his own habits in Chancery.
C.
_Mythe versus Myth_ (Vol. vii., pp. 326. 575.).--It gives me much pleasure
to have afforded MR. THIRIOLD an opportunity for displaying so much
learning and sagacity; but I hope he does not imagine that he has confuted
me. As I only spoke of words which, like [Greek: muthos], had a single
consonant between two vowels, such words as _plinth_, _labyrinth_, &c. have
nothing to do with the question. If _mythe_, differing from the other
examples which are to be found, happens to have _the_ for its termination,
and thus resembles words of Anglo-Saxon origin, I cannot help it, but it
was formed _secundum artem_. As to MR. THERIOLD's _m[=y]th_, unless so
written and printed, it will always be pronounced _m[)y]th_, like the
French _mythe_.
As to the _hybrid_ adjectives, I only wished to avoid increasing the number
of them. The French, I believe, have only one, _musical_; for though, like
ourselves, they have made substantives of the Greek [Greek: mousike] (sc.
[Greek: techne]), [Greek: phusike], &c., in all other cases they retain the
Greek form of the adjective, as in _physique_, substantive and adjective,
while we generally have pairs of adjectives, as _philosophic,
philosophical_; _extatic, extatical_; &c. Some may think this an advantage;
I do not.
THOS. KEIGHTLEY.
_The Gilbert Family_ (Vol. vii., p. 259).--If your correspondent seeking
genealogical information in reference to my ancestors, calls on me, I will
show him a presentation copy of _A Genealogical Memoir of the Gilbert
Family in Old and New England_, by J. W. Thornton, LL.B., Boston, U. S.,
1850, 8vo. pp. 24, only fifty printed.
JAMES GILBERT.
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