on him,) would more admire, if
admitted to this spectacle.

"Vives telleth us of village in Spain, of about an hundred houses,
whereof all the inhabitants were issued from one certain old man who
lived, when as that village was so peopled, so as the name of
propinquity, how the youngest of the children should call him, could
not be given.[1] 'Lingua enim nostra supra abavum non ascendit;' ('Our
language,' saith he, meaning the Spanish, 'affords not a name above the
great-grandfather's father'). But, had the offspring of this lady been
contracted into one place, they were enough to have peopled a city of a
competent proportion though her issue was not so long in succession, as
broad in extent.

"I confess very many of her descendants died before her death; in which
respect she was far surpassed by a Roman matron, on which the poet thus
epitapheth it, in her own person[2]:

'_Viginti atque novem, genitrici Callicrateae,_
_Nullius sexus mors mihi visa fuit._
_Sed centum et quinque explevi bene messibus annos,_
_In tremulam baculo non subeunte manum._'

'Twenty-nine births Callicrate I told,
And of both sexes saw none sent to grave,
I was an hundred and five winters old,
Yet stay from staff my hand did never crave.'

Thus, in all ages, God bestoweth personal felicities on some far above
the proportion of others. The Lady Temple died A.D. 1656."]

[Footnote 1: In Comment upon 8th chapter of lib. xv. de Civitate Dei.]

[Footnote 2: Ausonius, Epitaph. Heroeum, num. 34.]

_Samuel White._--In Bishop Horsley's _Biblical Criticism_, he refers
several times to a Samuel White, whom he speaks of in terms of contempt,
and calls him, in one place, "that contemptible ape of Grotius;" and in
another, "so dull a man." Query, who was this Mr. White, and what work did
he publish?

I. R. R.

[Samuel White, M.A., was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and
Chaplain to the Earl of Portland. His work, so severely criticised by
Bishop Horsley, is entitled _A Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah,
wherein the literal Sense of his Prophecies is briefly explained_:
London, 4to., 1709. In his Dedication he says: "I have endeavoured to
set in a true light one of the most difficult parts of Holy Scripture,
following the footsteps of the learned Grotius as far as I find him in
the right; but tak