come to mean reliance--and in another, a little string.--A. De M.
[63] The Greek lexicographer, a Christian, living after 1000 A. D. His
lexicon was first printed at Milan in 1499.
[64] _Skindapsos._
[65] This was John William Burgon (1813-1888), Gresham professor of
theology (1867) and dean of Chichester. He was an ultra-conservative,
opposing the revised version of the New Testament, and saying of the
admission of women to the university examinations that it was "a thing
inexpedient and immodest."
[66] _Ekklesia_, or _ecclesia_.
[67] _Ennomos ekklesia._
[68] "Without doubt I shall perish forever."
[69] "Every man is an animal." "Sortes is a man." "Sortes is an animal."
[70] "For a special purpose."
[71] Heraclitus of Ephesus, the weeping philosopher, 6th century B. C.
[72] Democritus, the laughing philosopher, founder of the atomistic theory,
5th century B. C.
[73] "Ends to which."
[74] "Ends from which."
[75] "In just as many syllables," "With just as many letters," "In just as
many words."
[76] "I shall make a way," "I shall find a way."
[77] The notion that the Evil Spirit is a functionary liable to be
dismissed for not attending to his duty, is, so far as my reading goes,
utterly unknown in theology. My first wrinkle on the subject was the remark
of the Somersetshire farmer upon Palmer the poisoner-- "Well! if the Devil
don't take he, he didn't ought to be allowed to be devil no longer."--A. De
M.
William Palmer (1824-1856) was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons
and practised medicine at London. He was hanged in 1856 for having poisoned
a friend and was also suspected of having poisoned his wife and brother for
their insurance money, besides being guilty of numerous other murders. His
trial was very much in the public attention at the time.
[78] Advantages and dangers.
[79] The old priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London, was used as an
asylum for the insane. The name was corrupted to Bedlam.
[80] Referring to the common English pronunciation of St. John, almost
Sinjin. John St. John Long (1798-1834), an Irishman by birth, practised
medicine in London. He claimed to have found a specific for rheumatism and
tuberculosis, but upon the death of one of his patients in 1830 he was
tried for manslaughter. He died of tuberculosis four years later, refusing
to take his own treatment.
[81] William of Occam (d. 1349), so called from his birthplace, Ockham, in
Surrey. He
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