ructive passages
in Fuller's _Church History_, b. xi, Section 4, 33; and b. ix,
Section 4; and one in Heylin's _Animadversions_ thereupon, p. 196.
On 'admiralty' see a note in Harington's _Ariosto_, book 19; on
'maturity' Sir Thomas Elyot's _Governor_, b. i, c. 22; and on
'industry' the same, b. i, c. 23; on 'neophyte' a notice in
Fulke's _Defence of the English Bible_, Parker Society's edition,
p. 586; and on 'panorama', and marking its recent introduction (it
is not in Johnson), a passage in Pegge's _Anecdotes of the English
Language_, first published in 1803, but my reference is to the
edition of 1814, p. 306; on 'accommodate', and supplying a date
for its first coming into popular use, see Shakespeare's _2 Henry
IV._ Act 3, Sc. 2; on 'shrub', Junius' _Etymologicon_, s. v.
'syrup'; on 'sentiment' and 'cajole' Skinner, s. vv., in his
_Etymologicon_ ('vox nuper civitate donata'); and on 'opera'
Evelyn's _Memoirs and Diary_, 1827, vol. i, pp. 189, 190. In such
a collection should be included those passages of our literature
which supply implicit evidence for the non-existence of a word up
to a certain moment. It may be urged that it is difficult, nay
impossible, to prove a negative; and yet a passage like this from
Bolingbroke makes certain that when it was written the word
'isolated' did not exist in our language: "The events we are
witnesses of in the course of the longest life, appear to us very
often original, unprepared, signal and _unrelative_: if I may use
such a word for want of a better in English. In French I would say
_isoles_" (_Notes and Queries_, No. 226). Compare Lord
Chesterfield in a letter to Bishop Chenevix, of date March 12,
1767: "I have survived almost all my cotemporaries, and as I am
too old to make new acquaintances, I find myself _isole_". So,
too, it is pretty certain that 'amphibious' was not yet English,
when one writes (in 1618): "We are like those creatures called
{Greek: amphibia}, who live in water or on land". {Greek:
Zo:ologia}, the title of a book published in 1649, makes it clear
that 'zoology' was not yet in our vocabulary, as {Greek:
zo:ophyton} (Jackson) proves the same for 'zoophyte', and {Greek:
polytheismos} (Gell) for 'polytheism'. One precaution, let me
observe, wo