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"Your only way is to send him word you'll meet him on Calais sands; duelling is unsafe in England for men of estates," &c. So in Mynshul's Essays, 4to, 1618.
Pelling, who come to see me, and so spent the evening, and then to supper and to bed. I hear that eight of the ringleaders in the late tumults of the 'prentices at Easter are condemned to die. See "The Tryals of such persons as under the notion of London Apprentices were tumultuously assembled in Moore Fields, under colour of pulling down bawdy-houses," 4to., London, 1668. 6th.
By A.T. de Berneaud, 1814. 8vo. This work, translated from the French, contains a very accurate survey of this island. Tour through Elba. By Sir R.C. Hoare, bart. 1814. 4to. Only seventeen pages are devoted to the journal, the remainder of the books consists of 8 views and a map: and a sketch of the character of Buonaparte.
It seems strange that I am to be bound to write for men who have broken every bargain with me. Arrived at Abbotsford at eight o'clock at night. The Hector of Germanie, or the Palsgrave Prime Elector. An Honourable History by William Smith. 4to, 1615. Two London playhouses. See Knight's Biography of Shakespeare. See Crabbe's Tale of The Struggles of Conscience. Tales of a Grandfather, Miscell.
The Testimony to the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Church of Scotland, as it was left in write by that truly pious and eminently faithful, and now glorified Martyr, Mr John Dick. To which is added, his last Speech and Behaviour on the Scaffold, on 5th March, 1684, which day he sealed this testimony. 57 pp. 4to. No year or place of publication.
Rae's History of the Rebellion, 4to, p. 287. If we are to believe the account of the expedition given by the historian Rae, they leapt on shore at Craig-Royston with the utmost intrepidity, no enemy appearing to oppose them, and by the noise of their drums, which they beat incessantly, and the discharge of their artillery and small arms, terrified the MacGregors, whom they appear never to have seen, out of their fastnesses, and caused them to fly in a panic to the general camp of the Highlanders at Strath-Fillan.* The low-country men succeeded in getting possession of the boats at a great expenditure of noise and courage, and little risk of danger.
There is also an edition published in Paris in 1616, 4to, Petri Abelardi et Heloisae conjugis ejus, opera cum praefatione apologetica Franc. The famous champion of orthodoxy, St. Bernard, examined the book, and at the Council of Sens in 1140 obtained a verdict against its author.
Middleton's Life, vol. i. p. 13. 4to; de Clar. Orat. 89. Ibid. Pro Muræna, 11; de Orat. i. g. In Catil. iii. 6; in Pis. 3; pro Sylla, 30; pro Dom. 37; de Harusp. resp. 23; ad Fam. xv. 4. De Clar. Orat. 91. Middleton's Life, vol. i. p. 42, 4to. Plutarch, in Vitâ. Warburton, Div. Leg. lib, iii. sec. 3; and Vossius. de Nat. Logic. c. viii. sec. 22. Pro Planc. 26; in Ver. vi. 14. Pro Dom. 57, 58.
By Sir G. Mackenzie, 1811. 4to. Almost every topic on which a traveller is expected to give information is here treated of: the history, religion, natural history, agriculture, manners, &c.; and all evidently the result of much previous knowledge, good sense, and information collected on the spot. Hooker's Journal of a Tour in Iceland in 1809. 2 vols. 8vo.
From exuberant 4to, down to the fid-fad concentration of 12mo from crown demy to diamond editions no end to these chartered documentations of the sex! The women of this favoured kingdom of Queen Victoria, appear to have been unexpectedly weighed in the balance, and found wanting in morals and manners; or why this sudden emission of codes of morality?
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