A political society which obtained its name from the malt liquors consumed at its meetings, and which was popularly termed October from the month when it was usually brewed. This club advocated the claims of the House of Hanover, and may have originated the Mughouses noted in p. [32].—Ed.
I subjoin, for the gratification of the curious, the titles of a few of these books. “Spanhemii Opera;” “Clerici Pentateuchus;” “Constantini Lexicon Græco-Latinum;” “Fabricii Codex Apocryphus Vet. et Nov. Test.;” “Synesius de Regno;” “Historia Imaginum Cœlestium Gosselini,” 16 volumes; “Caryophili Dissertationes;” “Vonde Hardt Ephemerides Philologicæ;” “Trismegisti Opera;” “Recoldus, et alia Mahomedica;” all the Works of Buxtorf; “Salviani Opera;” “Reland de Relig. Mahomedica;” “Galli Opuscula Mythologica;” “Apollodori Bibliotheca;” “Palingenius;” “Apuleius;” and every classical author of antiquity. As he was then employed in his curious history of the Druids, of which only a specimen is preserved, we may trace his researches in the following books: “Luydii Archæologia Britannica;” “Old Irish Testament,” &c.; “Maccurtin’s History of Ireland;” “O’Flaherty’s Ogygia;” “Epistolarum Hibernicarum;” “Usher’s Religion of the ancient Irish;” “Brand’s Isles of Orkney and Zetland;” “Pezron’s Antiquités des Celtes.”
There are some singular papers among these fragments. One title of a work is “Priesthood without Priestcraft; or Superstition distinguished from Religion, Dominion from Order, and Bigotry from Reason, in the most principal Controversies about Church government, which at present divide and deform Christianity.” He has composed “A Psalm before Sermon in praise of Asinity.” There are other singular titles and works in the mass of his papers.
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A lover of all literature,
and knowing more than ten languages;
a champion for truth,
an assertor of liberty,
but the follower or dependant of no man;
nor could menaces nor fortune bend him;
the way he had chosen he pursued,
preferring honesty to his interest.
His spirit is joined with its ethereal father from whom it originally proceeded; his body likewise, yielding to Nature, is again laid in the lap of its mother: but he is about to rise again in eternity, yet never to be the same Toland more. |
Mr. Nichols’s “Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele,” vol. i. p. 77.