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dissipation and consequent shallowness.

"An intellectual man, as the world now conceives of him, is one who is
full of 'views,' on all subjects of philosophy, on all matters of the
day. It is almost thought a disgrace not to have a view at a moment's
notice on any question from the Personal Advent to the Cholera or
Mesmerism. This is owing in a great measure to the necessities of
periodical literature, now so much in request. Every quarter of a year,
every month every day, there must be a supply for the gratification of
the public, of new and luminous theories on the subjects of religion,
foreign politics, home politics, civil economy, finance, trade,
agriculture, emigration, and the colonies. Slavery, the gold fields,
German philosophy, the French empire, Wellington, Peel, Ireland, must
all be practised on, day after day, by what are called original
thinkers."--_Dr. Newman's Disc. on Univ. Educ._, p. xxv. (preface).

This writer follows up the subject very ably, and his remarks on that
spurious philosophism which shows itself in what, for want of a better
word, he calls "viewiness," are worth the attention of all _homines unius
libri_.

P.S.--As I think of it, I shall make a cognate Query. Some facetious
opponent of the schoolmen fathered on St. Thomas Aquinas an imaginary work
in sundry folio volumes entitled _De Omnibus Rebus_, adding an equally
bulky and imaginary supplement--_Et Quibusdam Aliis_. This is as often used
to feather a piece of unfledged wit, as the speculation concerning the
number of angels that could dance on the point of a needle, and yet I have
never been able to trace out the inventor of these visionary tomes.

EIRIONNACH.

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THE FORLORN HOPE.

(Vol. viii., p. 411.)

My attention was directed to the consideration of this expression some
years ago when reading in John Dymmoks' _Treatise of Ireland_, written
about the year 1600, and published among the _Tracts relating to Ireland,
printed for the Irish Archaeological Society_, vol. ii., the following
paragraph:

"Before the vant-guard marched the _forelorn hope_, consisting of forty
shott and twenty shorte weapons, with order that they should not
discharge untill they presented theire pieces to the rebells' breasts
in their trenches, and that sooddenly the short weapons should enter
the trenches pell mell: vpon eyther syde o