Philadelphia.
Memorial Lines by Thomas Aquinas.—
"Thomas Aquinas summed up, in a quaint tetrastic, twelve causes which might found sentences of nullity, of repudiation, or of the two kinds of divorce; to which some other, as monkish as himself, added two more lines, increasing the causes to fourteen, and to these were afterwards added two more. The former are [here transcribed from] the note:
'Error, conditio, votum, cognatio, crimen,
Cultûs disparitas, vis, ordo, ligamen, honestas,
Si sis affinis, si forte cöire nequibis,
Si parochi, et duplicis desit præsentia testis,
Raptave si mulier, parti nec reddita tutæ;
Hæc facienda vetant connubia, facta retractant.'"—From Essay on Scripture Doctrines of Adultery and Divorce, by H. V. Tabbs, 8vo.: Lond. 1822.
The subject was proposed, and a prize of fifty pounds awarded to this essay, by the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Diocese of St. David's in 1821. This appears to me to have been a curious application of its funds by such a society. Can any of your readers explain it?
Balliolensis.
"Johnson's turgid style"—"What does not fade?"—Can any of your readers tell me where to find the following lines?
"I own I like not Johnson's turgid style,
That gives an inch th' importance of a mile,"
&c. &c.
And