Narcissus loved himself we know,And you, perhaps, have cause to showWhy you should do the same;But he was wrong: and, if I may,Philautus, I will freely say,I think you more to blame.He loved what others loved; while youAdmire what other folks eschew.
Narcissus loved himself we know,And you, perhaps, have cause to showWhy you should do the same;But he was wrong: and, if I may,Philautus, I will freely say,I think you more to blame.He loved what others loved; while youAdmire what other folks eschew.
Narcissus loved himself we know,
And you, perhaps, have cause to show
Why you should do the same;
But he was wrong: and, if I may,
Philautus, I will freely say,
I think you more to blame.
He loved what others loved; while you
Admire what other folks eschew.
RUFUS.
Junius.—Nobody can read, without being struck with the propriety of it, that beautiful passage in the 8th letter—"Examine your own breast, Sir William, &c. &c. &c." A parallel passage may however be found inBevill Higgons's Short View of English History(temp. Hen. VI.), a work written before 1700, and not published till thirty-four years afterwards:—
"So weak and fallible is that admired maxim, 'Factum valet, quot fieri non debuit,' an excuse first invented to palliate the unfledged villainy of some men,who are ashamed to be knaves, yet have not the courage to be honest."
"So weak and fallible is that admired maxim, 'Factum valet, quot fieri non debuit,' an excuse first invented to palliate the unfledged villainy of some men,who are ashamed to be knaves, yet have not the courage to be honest."
I have not quoted the whole of the passage fromJunius, as I consider it to be in almost every body's hands. I am collecting some curious, and I hope valuable, information about that work.
B.G.
Arabic Numerals.—Your correspondent T.S.D.'s account of a supposed date upon the Church of St. Brelade, Jersey, brings to my mind a circumstance that once occurred to myself, which may, perhaps, be amusing to date-hunters. Some years ago I visited a farm-house in the north of England, whose owner had a taste for collecting curiosities of all sorts. Not the least valuable of his collection was a splendidly carved oak bedstead, which he considered of great antiquity. Its date, plainly marked upon the panels at the bottom of the front posts, was, he told me, 1111. Onexamining this astounding date a little closely, I soon perceived that the two middle strokes had a slight curvature, a tendency to approach the shape of an S, which distinguished them from the two exterior lines. The date was, in fact, 1551; yet so small was the difference of the figures, that the mistake was really a pardonable one.
Is your correspondent "E.V." acquainted with theHistory of Castle Acre Priory, published some years ago? If my memory fails me not, there is a date given in that work, as found inscribed on the plaster of the Priory wall, much more ancient than 1445.
Has the derivation of the first four Arabic numerals, and probably of the ninth, from the ancient Egyptian hieratic and enchorial characters, for the ordinals corresponding with those numbers, ever been noticed by writers upon the history of arithmetical notation? The correspondence will be obvious to any one who refers to the table given in the 4th vol. of Sir G. Wilkinson'sAncient Egyptians(3rd edit.), p. 198.
C.W.G.
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