No change of Fortune’s calms
Can cast my comforts down;
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think
How quickly she will frown.
[31] This was a German Reformer who died in 1551. His name was Kuhhorn (Cowshorn), but, after the fashion of that day, he Greekified it into Bous (ox) and Keras (horn): the same as Melanchthon, another German Reformer, changed his name from Schwarzed (black earth).
[32] Abbots were then, as Bishops are now, Members of the House of Lords.
[33] Some of these “foundations” were made up with Secular Priests, who had pensions to say Masses for the souls of the founders.
[34] “Premunire” is a punishment inflicted by Statute, and consists of the offender’s being out of the Queen’s protection, forfeiting his lands and goods, and imprisoned during the pleasure of the Monarch.
[35] “That which is most divine in the heart of man never finds utterance for want of words to express it. The soul is infinite [this is saying too much: it is one thing to be infinite, and another to have a sense of the infinite], and language consists only of a limited number of signs perfected by use as a means of communication among the vulgar.”—Lamartine, Preface des Premières Meditations.
[36] As we are not without experience in the management of children, we cannot agree with our contributor in the proposed banishment of the rod from the nursery, however much we may prefer moral suasion when found effectual.—Ed. C. W.
[37] Canadian snow-shoes.
[38] Breviary.