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Isaiah, being questioned, told of Zoeth's coming in for dinner and of his Isaiah's handing him the morning's mail. "I fetched it myself down from the post-office," said Isaiah. "There was a couple of Hamilton and Company letters and the Wellmouth Register and one of them circulum advertisements about So-and-So's horse liniment, and, and yes, seems to me there was a letter for Zoeth himself.
The soul, quoth I. 'Nay then, said he, 'you answer not like a scholar. Hereupon I endeavoured to prove that it was scholarlike, nay, in such disputes as this, usual and necessary to run in circulum, partly because definitio rei was primum et immediatum principium, and seeing primo non est Prius, a man must of necessity come backward, and partly because definitio and definitum be naturae reciprocae, the one convertible, answering unto the question made upon the other.
While Willis considers that the term corona was a common one for an apse at the end of a church, citing "Ducange's Glossary," which defines "Corona Ecclesiæ" as Pars templi choro postica, quod ea pars fere desinat in circulum; "at all events," he concludes, "it was a general term and not peculiar to Christ Church, Canterbury.
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