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"Nec mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars
humana aedidicavit urbes."--Varro, R. R. iii. 1.
"God made the country and man made the town,
What wonder then," &c.--_The Task_, i.
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"[Greek: O de Kritias ... ekaleito idiotaes men en philosophois,
philosuph s de en idiotais.]"--_Schol. in Timoeum. Platonis_.
"Sparsum memini hominem inter scholasticos insanum, inter sanos
scholasticum."--Seneca, _Controv_. i 7., _Excerpt. ex Controv._
ii.
"Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among
Wits."--_Johnsoniana_.
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"[Greek: Ostis eim ego; Meton,
On oiden Hellas cho Kolonos.]"
Aristophanes, _The Birds_, 997.
"Under the Tropics is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke."
_Martinus Scriblerus_, Ch. xi.
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"Pandite, atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci,
obsecro:
Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco: quippe quo
memo advenit
Nisi quem spes reliquere omnes."
Plautus, _Bacchis_, Act iii Sc. 1.
"Per me si va nella citta dolente
Lasciate ogni speranza, voi che intrate."
Dante, _Inferno_, iii. 1-9.
W.B.D.
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FOLK LORE.
_Power of Prophecy._--MR. AUG. GUEST (Vol. ii., p. 116.) will perhaps
accept--as a small tribute to his interesting communication on the
subject of that "power of prophecy" which I apprehend to be still
believed by many to exist during certain lucid intervals before death--a
reference to Sir Henry Halford's _Essay on the [Greek: Kausos] of
Aretaeus_.
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