Of those that punish them that write."
It is mentioned in The Catalogue of English Heads, by Jos. Ames, p. 57.
JOHN I. DREDGE.
"Cleanliness is next to godliness" (Vol. iv., p. 256.).
—The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews says (ch. x. v. 22.):
"Let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."
It has long been my opinion that the proverb in question arose from the above text, in which a pure conscience, a necessary condition of godliness, is immediately followed by an injunction to cleanliness.
H. T.
Cozens the Painter (Vol. iv., p. 368.).
—I would refer your correspondent, for the few particulars known of him, to Edwards's Anecdotes of Painting, 1808 (in continuation of Horace Walpole's Anecdotes), p. 120.