“Nations, like individuals, may get free and rid of certain prejudices, beliefs, customs, abuses, &c., in two ways.  They may really have risen above them, or they may have fallen below them and become too bad for them.”

In a volume of tracts (Class mark Gg. 5. 27.) in St. John’s College Library, Cambridge, is a copy of Nicolas Carr’s edition of the Olynthiacs and Philippics of Demosthenes, (4to.  London, Henry Denham 1571.).  As Carr died before the work was published, his friends wrote a number of commemorative pieces in Greek and Latin, prose and verse, which are annexed to the volume.  Amongst the rest, Barth.  Dodyngton wrote a copy of Greek elegiacs, and a Latin prose epistle.  On Dodyngton, Baker has written the following note:—­

“Barthol.  Dodyngtonus in Com.  Middlesex. natus, admissus fuit Discipulus Coll.  Jo. pro Fundatrice an. 1548.—­Idem admissus Socius, Apr. 8, an. 1552.—­Idem admissus Socius Senior, an. 1558.—­Idem admissus Socius Major Coll.  Trin.  Oct. 29, an. 1580.”

In the same volume is note on Cheke:—­

    “Joan.  Cheke admissus Socius Coll.  Jo.  Cant., Mar. 26, an. 21. 
    Henrici 8’vi.”

Another tract in the same volume is “Exodus, &c., a Sermon Preach’t Sept. 12, 1675.  By occasion of the much lamented Death of that Learned and Reverend Minister of Christ, Dr. Lazarus Seaman.”—­By William Jenkyn.  After Dr. Seaman’s name Baker adds, “some time Master of Peter House.”  Of Jenkyn he says:  “Gul.  Jenkin Coll.  Jo. admissus in Matriculam Academiae (designatus Joannensis), Jul. 3, an. 1628.”

J.E.B.  Mayor.

St. John’s College, Cambridge.

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PARALLEL PASSAGES.

I believe the following have not been hitherto noticed in “NOTES AND QUERIES.”

  “Nec mirum, quod divina natura dedit agros, ars
  humana aedidicavit urbes.”—­Varro, R. R. iii. 1.

  “God made the country and man made the town,
  What wonder then,” &c.—­The Task, i.

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    “[Greek:  O de Kritias ... ekaleito idiotaes men en philosophois,
    philosuph s de en idiotais.]”—­Schol. in Timoeum.  Platonis.

    “Sparsum memini hominem inter scholasticos insanum, inter sanos
    scholasticum.”—­Seneca, Controv. i 7., Excerpt. ex Controv.
    ii.

    “Lord Chesterfield is a Wit among Lords, and a Lord among
    Wits.”—­Johnsoniana.

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  “[Greek:  Ostis eim ego; Meton,
  On oiden Hellas cho Kolonos.]”

  Aristophanes, The Birds, 997.

  “Under the Tropics is our language spoke,
  And part of Flanders hath received our yoke.”

  Martinus Scriblerus, Ch. xi.

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  “Pandite, atque aperite propere januam hanc Orci,
          obsecro: 
   Nam equidem haud aliter esse duco:  quippe quo
          memo advenit
  Nisi quem spes reliquere omnes.”