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They are now printed, in the fine type of the Maitland Club, in four portly quartos, under the title, Wodrow's Analecta. Few books would hold out so much temptation to a commentator, but their editor is dumb, faithfully reprinting the whole, page by page, and abstaining both from introduction and explanatory foot-note. Perhaps in the circumstances this was a prudent measure.
T. What are the Latin and Greek books you propose to be examined in? C. Homer, Lucian, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Virgil, Horace, Statius, Juvenal, Cicero, Analecta, and Matthiæ. T. No; I mean what are the books I am to examine you in? C. is silent. T. The two books, one Latin and one Greek: don’t flurry yourself. C. Oh, … Xenophon and Virgil. T. Xenophon and Virgil. Very well; what part of Xenophon?
Was it a breath of summer air from Isis that swept out of those pages, which were as white as snow in spite of the lapse of nearly two centuries? He read the title, MUSARUM ANGLICANARUM ANALECTA. The date was 1699. He turned to the table of contents, and his heart gave a contented throb. There was the name he wished to see, J. Addison, Magd. Coll: The name occurred eight times.
In his Analecta Mr. Wodrow noted down all the news that reached him, scandals about 'The Pretender, Court Gossip, Heresies of Ministers, Remarkable Providences, Woful Apparitions, and 'Strange Steps of Providence'. Ghosts, second sight, dreams, omens, premonitions, visions, did greatly delight him, but it is fair to note that he does not vouch for all his marvels, but merely jots them down, as matters of hearsay.
And she was prevailed on by some money from the Sectaries, who were mauled by him, to suppress them. He was very clear in all his notions, and the manner of expressing them. There are six volumes in 8vo manuscript which he wrote at the Assembly of Divines remaining.”—WODROW’S ANALECTA, vol. i. p. 159-160. Jer. ix. 12-14.
'He was then prelatic, says Wodrow in his Analecta, 'and strong for the ceremonies. But as time went on, young Guthrie's whole views of duty and of promotion became totally changed, till, instead of a bishop's throne, he ended his days on the hangman's ladder.
Wodrow was an industrious antiquarian, a student of geology, as it was then beginning to exist, a correspondent for twenty years of Cotton Mather, and a good-hearted kind man, that would hurt nobody but a witch or a Papist. He had no opportunity to injure members of either class, but it is plain, from his four large quarto volumes, called Analecta, that he did not lack the will.
When we compared it with what I wrote, there was not the least variation betwixt the original and what I wrote, save an inconsiderable word or two, here altered; which is an instance of a strong memory, the greatest ever I knew. Sept. 8, 1707 WODROW’s ANALECTA, vol. I, pp. 154-159 What follows about Mr Gillespie I wrote also from Mr Simson’s mouth. “George Gillespie was born January 21st, 1613.
I delight in the analecta, the collectanea, as I may call them, of the preceding day's dinner, which appear on such occasions And see, there is Jenny going to ring the dinner-bell." Be this letter delivered with haste haste post-haste! Ride, villain, ride, for thy life for thy life for thy life. Ancient Indorsation of Letters of Importance. Leaving Mr.
The Analecta is full of remarkable providences, but Lady Robertland's exercises and outgates are too wonderful even for the pages of that always wonderful and sometimes too awful book.
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