_Hotspur_. What say'st thou, my lady?
_Lady Percy_. What is it carries you away?
_Hotspur_. Why my Horse, my love, my Horse.
SHAKESPEAR.
CHAPTER CXXXIX.—p. 11.
FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS RELATING TO ONOMATOLOGY.
Moreover there are many more things in the World than there are names
for them; according to the saying of the Philosopher; _Nomina sunt
finita, res autem infinitæ; ideo unum nomen plura significat:_ which
saying is by a certain, or rather uncertain, author approved: _Multis
speciebus non sunt nomina; idcirco necessarium est nomina fingere, si
nullum ante erit nomen impositum._
GWILLIM.
CHAPTER CXL.—p. 32.
HOW THERE AROSE A DISPUTE BETWEEN BARNABY AND NICHOLAS CONCERNING THE
NAMING OF THIS COLT, AND OF THE EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES THAT
ENSUED.
_Quoiqu'il en soit, je ne tairai point cette histoire; je l'abandonne
à la credulité, ou à l'incredulité des Lecteurs, ils prendront à cet
égard quel parti il leur plaira. Je dirai seulement, s'ils ne la
veulent pas croire, que je les defie de me prouver qu'elle soit
absolument impossible; ils ne le prouveront jamais._
GOMGAM.
CHAPTER CXLI.—p. 39.
A SINGULAR ANECDOTE AND NOT MORE SAD THAN TRUE.
Oh penny Pipers, and most painful penners
Of bountiful new Ballads, what a subject,
What a sweet subject for your silver sounds!
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.
CHAPTER CXLII.—p. 42.
A DEFECT IN HOYLE SUPPLIED. GOOD ADVICE GIVEN, AND PLAIN TRUTH TOLD. A
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF F. NEWBERY, THE CHILDREN'S
BOOKSELLER AND FRIEND.
Neither is it a thing impossible or greatly hard, even by such kind of
proofs so to manifest and clear that point, that no man living shall
be able to deny it, without denying some apparent principle such as
all men acknowledge to be true.
HOOKER.
CHAPTER CXLIII.—p. 47.
A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO DESCRIBE THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL QUALITIES OF NOBS.
_Quant à moi, je desirerois fort sçavoir bien dire, ou que j'eusse eu
une bonne plume, et bien taillée à commandement, pour l'exalter et
louër comme il le mérite. Toutesfois, telle quelle est, je m'en vais
l'employer au hazard._
BRANTOME.
CHAPTER CXLIV.—p. 74.
HISTORY AND ROMANCE RANSACKED FOR RESEMBLANCES AND NON-RESEMBLANCES TO
THE HORSE OF DR. DANIEL DOVE.
Renowned beast! (forgive poetic flight!)
Not less than man, deserves poetic right.
THE BRUCIAD.
CHAPTER CXLV.—p. 101.
WILLIAM OSMER. INNATE QUALITIES. MARCH OF ANIMAL INTELLECT. FARTHER
REVEALMENT OF THE COLUMBIAN PHILOSOPHY.
There is a word, and it is a great word in this Book,[1] _ἐπι το
αὐτο,_—_In id ipsum_, that is, to look to the thing itself, the very
point, the principal matter of all; to have our eye on that, and not
off it, upon _alia omnia_, any thing but it.—To go to the point, drive
all to that, as also to go to the matter real, without declining from
it this way or that, to the right hand or to the left.
BP. ANDREWS.
[Footnote 1: The New Testament which the Preacher had before him.]
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