"At first I begin with one I heard from Zet- "Mr. John Simple preaching on the Day of land, who preaching on David and Goliah, he told Judgment, told his Hearers, Sirs, this will be a the Hearers, Sirs this David was but a little man- terrible Day, we'll all be there, and in the Throng ekine, like my beddle Davie Gaddies there, but I John Simple will be, and all of you will ftand Goliah was a meckle ftrong Fellow, like the Laird at my Back; Chrift will look to me, and he will of Quandal there; this David gets a Scrippie and fay, Who is that standing there? I'll say again, Baggie, that is a Sling, and a Stone in it; he flings Yea even as ye ken'd not Lord; He'll fay, I know a Stone into Goliah's Face, down falls Goliah and thou'ft honeft John Simple, draw near John, now David above him: After that David was made a John, what good Service have you done me on King; he that was keeping Sheep before, in truth Earth? I have brought hither a Company of blew he came very well too, Sirs, Well faid, Davie fee Bonnets for you, Lord. Blew Bonnets, John, what comes of it, Sirs, after that he commits what is become of the brave Hats, the Silks, and Adultery with Uriah; Nay, (faid the beddal Davie the Sattins, John? I'll tell, I know not Lord, Gaddies) it was but with Uriah's Wife, Sir. In they went a gate of their own. Well, honeft Faith, thou art right, it was Uriah's Wife, indeed John, thou and thy blew Bonnets are welcome to man;' faid Mr. John.”—p. 86. me, come to my right Hand, and let the Devil take the Hats, the Silks, and the Sattins."-p. 88. "One Ker at his entring into a Church at Teviotdale, told the people the relation that was to be between him and them in these following words: Sirs, I am coming home to be your Shepherd, and you must be my Sheep, and the Bible will be me Tar-bottle, for I will mark you, with it; (and laying his Hand on the Clerk or Precenter's Head) he faith, Andrew, you shall be my Dog; The forrow a bit of your Dog will I be, faid Andrew. O Andrew, I fpeak myftically, faid the Preacher. Yea, but you speak mischievously, faid Andrew."-p. 86. "Another preaching against Drunkenness, told the Hearers, There were four forts of Drunkenness. I. To be drunk like a Sow, tumbling in the mire like many of this Parish. II. There is to be drunk like a Dog, the Dog fills the Stomach of him, and fpues all out again, and thou John Famifon was this way drunk the other day. III. There is to be drunk like a Goofe. Of all Drunkennefs, Sirs, beware of the Drunkenness of the Goofe, for it never refts, but conftantly dips the Gobb (i. c. Beke) of it in the water: You are all drunk this way, Sirs, I need name none of you. IV. There is to be drunk like a Sheep; the filly Sheep feldom or never drinks, but fometimes wets the mouth of it in the water, and rifes up as well as ever, and I myself ufe to be drunk this way, Sirs. But now, I fee (faid he) two Gentlemen in the Kirk, and Gentlemen you are both Strangers to me, but I muft vindicate myfelf at your Hands; I have here the curfedeft Parish that ever God put breath in, for all my preaching against Drunkennefs, they will go into a Change-house after Sermon, and the first thing they'll get is a meckle Cup (i. e. large Dish) full of hot Ale, and they will fay, I wish we had the Minifter in the midst of it. Now, Gentlemen, judge ye how I am rewarded for my good Preaching."-p. 87. "Mr. Robert Steidman in Caridden, told the people in a fermon, 'That Chrift was not proud nor lordly, for he rode upon an Afs, which is a laigh (low) Beaft, and wherefore think ye did he this? It was Sirs, for the Conveniency of the old Wives that follow'd him, that he might kuttle (whisper) the Gospel in their Ears as he went along.'"-p. 100. "Mr. Hugh Kennedy Moderator of the General Affembly, being about to chriften a child in the College-Kirk, looked about him and faid, 'Look, Sirs, and fee the Devil painted in that Bairns face. But we fhall do the best we can to cunjure him out. I fhall fhortly nail his lug to Chrift's trone, till from a Calf he grow up to an Ox to draw in Chrift's Plow.'"-p. 102. "One Mr. Robert Gourly, preaching on the Woman of Canaan, how our Saviour called her a Dog, faid, 'Sirs, fome of you may think that our Saviour fpake very improperly, for he fhould have called her a Bitch; but to this I answer, a Dog is the Masculine or Feminine Gender, there is a Hedog and a She-dog. But you will afk, why did he mifcall the poor Woman, and call her a Dog? There are God's Dogs and the Devil's Dogs, the was God's Dog, not the Devil's Dog.'"-p. 102. "Mr. Kirkton, preaching in his Meeting-house in the Caftle-hill of Edinburgh, adduced feveral inftances of the Poverty of the People of God, amongst others, he had this remarkable one: Brethren,' fays he, Criticks with their frim frams, and whytie whaties (trifles) may imagine a hundred Reasons for Abraham's going out of the Land of Chaldea, but I will tell you what was always my opinion. I believe Abraham, poor man, was forced to run out of the land of Judea for Debt.'"-p. 107. "Mr. Anderson, a Phanatick Preacher in Perth- thus debafe and prostitute both, yet they fhire, in a prayer faid, 'Good Lord, it is told us, who are unfortunately bound to converse that thou knowft a proud man by his looks, as well as a malignant by his works; but what wilt with, and hear them frequently, cannot be thou do with these malignants? I'll tell thee but fadly fenfible that all that's here charged Lord, what thou wilt do. Even take them up by upon them is but too true, and that many the Heels and reeft (smoke) them in the Chimney of the worst expreffions they are daily guilof Hell, and dry them like Bervy Haddocks; ty of, are purpofely here omitted, left by fuch obfcene, godless, and fulfome stuff, the ears and eyes of modest readers should be naufeated and polluted, which if these Oppofers of Truth and Religion should deny, there are thousands in Scotland of the best Quality and Distinction ready to attest, by their Oaths and Subscriptions, as shall be made appear in another Edition of this Book, if the clamors of the Party extort it."-p. 118. Lord take the Piftol of thy Vengeance, and the Mortar-piece of thy Wrath, and make the Hairns (Brains) of these malignants a hodge podge, but for thy own Bairns, Lord feed them with the Plumdames (Prunes) and Raifons of thy Promifes, and e'en give them the fpurs of Confidence, and Boots of Hope, that like new fpean'd (weaned) fillies, they may loup (jump) over the Fold-dikes of Grace."-p. 113. "Mr. Bailif Hall faid in a prayer, Lord thou haft faid, that he is worse than an infidel that provides not for his own Family; Give us not reafon to fay this of thee Lord, for we are thine own Family, and yet we have been but fcurvily provided for of a long time.'"-p. 116. "Mr. Areskine praying in the Tron-Church Neglected Biography of Booksellers laft year, said, 'Lord have mercy on all Fools and Idiots, and particularly upon the Magiftrates of Edinburgh.""Ib. "One Mr. James Webfter was admired lately at my Lord Arbuthnot his zealous Patron's Table for this Grace before Meat, O Lord out of the boundless, banklefs, brimlefs, bottomlefs, fhorelefs Ocean of thy Goodness we are daily foddered, filled, feafted, fatted,' &c., and half an hour's difcourfe to the fame purpose." "—p. 117. and Book-Collectors. SAMUEL PATERSON. MR. SAMUEL PATERSON was the fon of a refpectable woollen-draper in the parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden, London, and born March 17, 1728. He loft his father when about the age of twelve years; and his guardian not only neglected him, but These extracts will doubtless be amply involved his property in his own bankruptfufficient to give the reader a tolerably cor- cy, and sent him to France. Having there rect idea of the peculiar character of the acquired a knowledge of foreign literature contents of this remarkable volume, and and publications beyond any perfons of his they will also enable him to judge with age, he refolved to engage in the importafome degree of certainty of the popular tion of foreign books; and, when little more style of preaching in Scotland during the than twenty years old, opened a shop in feventeenth century. Regarding the au- the Strand- the only person who then carthenticity of these extracts, the editors of ried on fuch a trade being Paul Valliant. the volume state that "these are but few Though, by the misconduct of fome who of many thousand inftances that might be were charged with his commiffions in fevgiven of that ridiculoufnefs, profanity, and eral parts of the Continent, it proved unblafphemy, which the Scotch Prefbyterians fuccessful to the new adventurer, he condaily ufe in their preaching and praying; tinued in bufinefs till 1753, when he puband tho' strangers may think it incredible, lifhed Dr. Pettingal's Differtation. At the that men profefling religion or reafon, fhould fame early period in which he engaged in business he had married Miss Hamilton, a ftructing libraries became more general than lady of the most repectable connections in in any preceding age; and the only thing North Britain, ftill younger than himself, which appears worthy of remark, and raboth their ages not making thirty-eight years. ther unaccountable, is, that even after the progrefs of philofophy or bibliography, the He next commenced as an auctioneer in Germans in this department have excelled Effex-Houfe. This period tended to de- every other people in Europe. It is univelop completely thofe extraordinary tal- verfally acknowledged that the best work ents in Bibliography (a science till then fo of the kind that ever appeared, about that little attended to), which foon brought him time, was the catalogue of the celebrated into the notice of the literary world. The library of the Count of Bunau, better valuable collection of MSS. belonging to the known under the name of Bibliotheca BuRight Honorable Sir Julius Cæfar, knight, naviana—so remarkable, indeed, for numjudge of the admiralty in the reign of Queen ber, felection, order, connection, references, Elizabeth, had fallen into the hands of fome and universal interest. The only historical uninformed perfons, and were on the point system of national literature exhibited in of being fold by weight to a cheesemon- Europe was that of the Italian, by Zirager, as wafte-paper, for the fum of ten bofchi. Mr. Paterfon fupplied fome impounds. Some of them happened to be portant materials toward one in English, in fhown to Mr. Paterfon, who examined them, and instantly discovered their value. He then digefted a mafterly catalogue of the whole collection, and, diftributing it in feveral thousands of the most fingular and interesting heads, caufed them to be fold by auction, which produced three hundred and fifty-fix pounds; and had among the purchafers Lord Orford, and other perfons of rank. These occurrences took place in the year 1757. his Bibliotheca Anglica Curiofa, 8vo, 1771. He was an enemy to those systems of bibliography which are now generally practifed on the Continent; and he fet no importance even on the newly-established claffification of the Univerfal Repertory of Literature, published at Jena. Mr. Paterfon acted confiftently with these ideas in all his bibliographical performances; and it is owing to the merit of an appropriate, circumftantial, and judicious claffification, that his The first perfon who attempted to give catalogues are unrivalled, and some of them a sketch of univerfal bibliography and lit- are justly regarded as models. We refer the erary history was the learned and laborious reader to the catalogues themselves, and efChriftopher Auguftus Hermann, profeffor pecially to the Bibliotheca Fleetwoodiana, in the University of Gottingen, in 1718, Beauclerkiana, Croftiana, Pinelliana, pubwhen he published his well-known Con- lifhed from time to time, as well as to those fpectus Reipublica Literariæ, five via ad of the Strange, Fagel, and Tyffen LibraHiftoriam Literariam, which gradually ries, which he prepared within the last two went through seven editions, the laft of years of his life; and he will perceive in which was published at Hanover, in 1763. Numberless other works, analogous to this, were published in the fame interval, in Germany. About the period alluded to, many detailed, descriptive, and rational catalogues of books, appeared in the several countries of Europe; the art and the taste of con each of them an admirable spirit of order, exhibited in different ways, and suggested by those fuperior abilities which alone can discover and appreciate these variable combinations of the feveral circumstances. A man fo thoroughly converfant in the history of literature could not fail to per If, in ceive that a vast number of books were held might be found among his papers. as valuable and fcarce in England, which his employment of making catalogues, he were rather common in other countries. met with a book he had not feen before, He thought he could do his native coun- which excited his curiofity, or interested try an effential fervice, and procure emolu- his feelings, they must be gratified, and his ment for himself, if he should undertake a attendant might amuse himself as he chose, journey through fome parts of the Conti- The confequence was, that, on many occanent, and fucceed in purchafing fome arti- fions, catalogues could be procured only a cles of this defcription. With this view, few hours before the fale commenced. he fet out for the Continent in 1776, and bought a capital collection of books, which on his return to England he digefted in the catalogue (the best, perhaps, of his performances) that bears the title of Bibliotheca Univerfalis Selecta. The immediate caufe of his death was a bruife on his leg, which happened from ftumbling in the dark over a small dogkennel careleffly left by his landlady at the bottom of a staircase. The wound turned to mortification, which foon ended fatally, November 29, 1802. Mr. Paterson was a writer of fome confideration, and from time to time indulged (See Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. in feveral publications, to none of which iii. p. 438; Timperley's Encyclopædia of he ever put his name. The first, in order Literary and Typographical Anecdotes, of time, is, to our knowledge, Another pp. 812, 813; and Monthly Magazine, or Traveller; or Curfory Remarks made British Register, vol. xiv. p. 553.) riodical Physiologia Crepitus Ventris. ITEM RISUS ET RIDICULI ELOGIUM NI HILI, AUCT. ROD. GOCLENIO. FRANCO- upon a Fourney through Part of the Netherlands, by Coryat, Jun., in 1766, 3 vols. 12mo. The fecond is The Joineriana; or the Book of Scraps, 2 vols. 12mo, 1772, confifting of philofophical and literary aphorifms. The third is The Templar, a pepaper, of which only fourteen numbers appear to have been published, and the THIS inftructive treatife has also been inlaft of them in December, 1773, intended ferted in the first volume of the Amphitheas an attack on the newspapers for adverti- atrum Sapientia Socratica Foco-Seriæ, etc. fing ecclefiaftical offices, and places of truft of Gafpar Dornavius, where it occupies pp. under government. And the laft is Specu- 349-354- Becmann attributes this enterlations in Law and Lawyers, applicable taining work to the father of Goclenius, but to the Manifeft Hardships, Uncertainties, we cannot fhare this opinion, for the fimand Abufive Practice of the Common Law, ple reafon that Goclenius père had a mind 1788, 8vo, tending to evince the danger not the leaft difpofed to pleafantry. Goand impropriety of personal arrests for debt, clenius fils alfo compofed a treatise De vitâ previous to any verification. proroganda, id eft animi et corporis vigoAt the preffing folicitations of his friends, re confervando et falubriter producendo. Mr. Paterson confented, as foon as the Fa- Francofurti, 1608, 12mo. This may be gel catalogue was completed, to undertake confidered new and decifive proof of the fome Memoirs of the Viciffitudes of Lit- clofe connection which exists between the erature in England during the Latter fubject of the above work and the preferHalf of the Eighteenth Century, for which vation of health; fince Goclenius, having it was hoped in vain that fome materials ftudied this question in 1607, was prepared in the following year to disclose the means fcious of great strength, Goclenius does not of prolonging human life, and of preferving hesitate to meafure himfelf with the most the vigor of the body and mind beyond the ordinary limits of natural existence. celebrated perfonages of antiquity; and he alternately difcuffes his fubject with HippoThis learned differtation is drawn up in crates, Diofcorades, Galen, Socrates, Hora masterly manner; and we may fay, with- ace, Martial, and Suetonius. He severely out exaggeration, that the subject is enlarged criticizes Aristophanes, and comments upon and exquifitely embellished by the magic Erafmus; and his learned compofition is pen of Goclenius. The fubject is thorough- richly decorated with Greek, Latin, and ly difcuffed and confidered from an elevated German quotations, both in prose and popoint of view. The different denomina- etry. In short, his work is truly an evertions of the peditus among divers nations; blooming parterre, where fragrant flowers its fignification; the near, remote, and effi- of antiquity fpring up at every step. cient caufes of it; its dimenfion, resonance, emiffion, retention, and odor; and indeed all the acceffory and concomitant circumftances, are fucceffively and learnedly dif cuffed. But this, however, does not exhauft the curiofity and fecundity of our ingenious author; the moft fingular and unexpected questions are raised and refolved. AN ACCOUNT OF THE Bishop of Durham, AUTHOR OF THE brorum. In confirmation of this, we recommend the Philobiblien, sive de amore Licurious reader to examine the following paragraphs: V. De crepitibus artificialibus. VII. Cur Vandali ex ceparum ufu IT has been frequently remarked, that frequentius pedunt. XIII. Effetne in hoc the life of a scholar is devoid of incident crepitu mufica. XVII. De connexis. Cur or variety, and confequently prefents but prodeft fimul et pedere et meire. XXIII. fcanty materials to the biographer. If this "Cur multi etiam imperatores crepitum ven- obfervation be correct when applied to tris tanti faciant. XXX et XXXI. De modern times, how much more appofite is comparatione cum tonitru et cum fulmine. it, as our researches extend to the dark and Finally, musicians and natural philofophers gloomy period of the earlier ages! whofe will find, perhaps, fome new and important very spirit was inimical to the progrefs of ideas in the paragraph where the erudite letters, chiefly as it tended to diffipate the author compares the variations of found clouds of ignorance, that ftronghold of with the capacity and power of the inftru- monkish fupremacy. This obftacle of itself ment which produces it. would neceffarily deter many from the laIt may be truly faid that Goclenius has bor of investigation; yet he whose perseveftudied his interefting fubject ab ovo. He rance and difcrimination were competent takes the peditus at its origin-in that ele- to collect and separate truth from the mafs mentary state which chemists defignate as of fiction in which it was buried, would too gaz-naiffant, when it is yet only a gentle often have reafon to refign the attempt, murmur, which the Greeks named Bopßo- disgufted by the dreary profpect of moral ovyμos; he follows it to the age of virility, turpitude which the hiftory of mankind in and abandons it only at its complete eman- a femi-barbarous state generally exhibits. cipation and deliverance. As a man con- How refreshing, then, and grateful to |