"The Franciscans bought up the work, in order to suppress and destroy it: it is therefore no wonder that copies of it are scarce."
Unless you read it, says Professor Ackersdijck, in his Archief voor Kerk. Gesch., you will hardly conceive it possible for any one to write such a mass of folly and absurdity.
V. D. N.
NAVORSCHER, p. 179. June, 1851.
Meaning of Tick (Vol. iii., p. 357.).
—The following anecdote, as characteristic of the individual as illustrative of the above Query, may perhaps be considered deserving a corner in your Journal:—
"A well-meaning friend calling one morning on Richard B. Sheridan, wound up a rather prosy exordium on the propriety of domestic economy, by expressing a hope, that the pressure of some difficulties from which he had been temporarily removed, would induce a more cautious arrangement in future.
"Sheridan listened with great gravity, and thanking his visitor, assured him that he never felt so happy, as all his affairs were now proceeding with the regularity of clockwork, adding (with a roguish twinkle of the eye, and giving his arm the oscillating motion of a pendulum), 'Tick, tick, tick!' It is needless to add, the Mentor took a hasty leave of his witty but incorrigible companion."
M. W. B.