W., making it clear that
Watson, the author of _Important Considerations_ and the _Quodlibets_,
was the writer, and accounting for the connection which seemed to exist
between the _Discursus_ and the _Quodlibets_.
The two passages quoted by Bishop Andrewes (_Resp. ad Apol._ pp. 7.
117.) are to be found in p. 13. But the question now arises, from what
earlier book the quotations are taken, as they both appear in the
_Sparing Discovery_ in Latin, and not in English? Did the Jesuits
publish a work containing such statements? or are we to accept them as
their opinions only on the authority of so bitter an opponent as Watson?
James Bliss.
"_Rapido contrarius orbi_" (Vol. ii., p. 120.) is in one of the finest
passages in Ovid:
"Nitor in adversum nec me qui caetera vincit
Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi."
C.B.
_"Isabel" and "Elizabeth."_--At pages 439. and 488. of Vol. i., "Notes
and Queries," are questions and answers on the names of "Isabel" and
"Elizabeth."
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