"That from all books the Book of books may gain,

He mingle-mangles sacred and profane;

Quotes Swift with DANIEL; Byron with SAINT PETER;
EZEKIEL with the English Opium-eater;

Hood with HABAKKUK; Crabbe with ZECHARIAH;
Landor with JOB, and Lamb with JEREMIAH;
The prophet SAMUEL with his namesake Pepys ;
Bunyan and Jean Paul with th' APOCALYPSE;
KING SOLOMON with Shakspeare, Scott, Racine:
ESTHER with Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene;
With MOSES, Dryden, Dante, Doctor Donne;
'Accomplish'd St. John' with Divine SAINT JOHN."
NICIAS FOXCAR.

OTHER

BUTLER & TANNER,

THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS,

FROME, AND LONDON.

PREFATORY.

This volume may be described as, in effect, another and an enlarged series of Secular Annotations on Scripture Texts.

What difference there is, consists

mainly in something more like unity in the design. and method in the arrangement. The NOTES OF INCIDENT are indeed interspersed with the TRAITS OF CHARACTER; but the order of time is, for the most part, observed throughout.

F. J.

GENESIS xlv. 2, 14, 15; LAMENTATIONS i. 16; ii. 18; iii. 48, 49.

WAVE-LIKE WAVERERS: A Sequel to "Unstable as Water".

JAMES i. 6, 8.

GRATITUDE A SOURCE OF RESIGNATION

JOB ii. 10.

GIDEON'S THREE HUNDRED OUT OF THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND

JUDGES Vii. 6.

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