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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: iander Subjects. To the words?Metelill?very good, but omits Pasquinade; Grasshopper, good; Apathy derives marauder from French maraud, from mrag (Sanskrit), to seek, and lumber from Hebrew golem, a mass, or lumpen, rags, or Danish belemmeren, to hinder; Spectacles, good; Titania says lumber comes from Saxon lorna, or Dutch lornermering, things out of place; Alert has briefly answered, from illness; Vbgelein, Frances, Clover, also received; Spinning-Jenny best. Alert's is the best Tonnage and Poundage; the others are Hermine, Titania, Cobweb, and Apathy. Marcus Aurelius (deferred from last time) has been worked out excellently, but at too much length, by Vbgelein, Frances,"and Titania; a Bee and Grizel are likewise very good; Nightingale, a Huguenot, clear and good; Vbgelein is inserted. GIVE THE HISTORY AND ALLUSIONS CONTAINED IN THE WOEDS CANDIDATE, CICERONE, DELIRIUM, MARAUDER, PASQUINADE, TRIBULATION. Arachne has erected a stage, ou which she requires seven words to be represented in such attire and circumstance as shall tell something of their history. Candidate.?First a Roman citizen comes upon the scene, clothed in white, drawing aside his candid toga to display wounds received in defence of his city, and also to show that it forms no cloak for money to be used as bribes to help him to secure the place he seeks in the government of the State. ' Tribunicius candidatua, ' says the voice of Livy. Then, as face and form change while the garment remains the same, Pliny says, ' Candidatus gloria et immortalitatis.' While he is speaking, we seem to see a Christian church, and white-robed figures waiting for the laying-on of hands. To each of them may Dryden's words apply?' a candidate of Heaven.' But the world soon pushes them aside. The hustings and commerce, ...