NOTE B. Particular Examen.

NOTE B. PARTICULAR EXAMEN

JOHNSON, who was a careful and learned observer of the Dramatic Laws; and, from all his Comedies, I shall select the Silent Woman [p. 597], of which I will make a short examen [examination], according to those Rules which the French observe.

"Examen of the Silent Woman.

He wrote a piece called the New Rehearsal, or Bays the Younger; containing an Examen of the Ambitious Step-mother, Tamerlane, The Biter, Fair Penitent, The Royal Convert, Ulysses, and Jane Shore, all written by Mr. Rowe; also a Word or Two on Mr. Pope's Rape of the Lock, to which is prefixed a Preface concerning Criticism in general, by the Earl of Shaftsbury, Author of the Characteristics, 8vo.

Cordus' Dispensatory, and Brassivola's Examen simpl., &c.

In November, 1738, was published a translation of Crousaz's Examen of Pope's Essay on Man; containing a succinct view of the system of the fatalists, and a confutation of their opinions; with an illustration of the doctrine of free will; and an enquiry, what view Mr. Pope might have in touching upon the Leibnitzian philosophy, and fatalism: by Mr. Crousaz, professor of philosophy and mathematics at Lausanne.

Crousaz wrote an Examen of the Essay on Man, and, afterwards, a commentary on every remarkable passage; and, though it now appears, that Mrs. Elizabeth Carter translated the foreign critic, yet it is certain, that Johnson encouraged the work, and, perhaps, imbibed those early prejudices, which adhered to him to the end of his life.

See his Examen Comparativo entre los Signos Simbolicos de las Teogonias y Cosmogonias antiguas

Therefore the same poet who had used these uncommon contractions "Patris mei mecûm factûm pudet," for meorum factorum, and, "Texitur: exitiûm examen rapit," for exitiorum, does not say "liberûm" as many of us do say in such an expression as cupidos liberûm, or in liberûm loco, but, as these men approve, "Neque tuum unquam in gremium extollas liberorum ex te genus.

Varro recommends the practice in the large sheep-farms, under certain conditions; and some well-known lines of Horace suggest that on smaller farms, where a better class of slaves would be required, these home-bred ones were looked on as the mark of a rich house, "ditis examen domus."

Nouvel Examen de l'Édition des Oeuvres de Hugues de Saint-Victor.

If any Whig thought it worth while to subject Reresby's Memoirs, North's Examen, Mulgrave's Account of the Revolution, or the Life of James the Second, edited by Clarke, to a similar scrutiny, it would soon appear that Burnet was far indeed from being the most inexact writer of his time.

The examen leads to the discussion of a point, in which Dryden had differed with Sir Robert Howard.

Crousaz, John Peter de, dispute with Warburton, i. 157; v. 80; Examen of Pope's Essay on Man, i. 137.

Examen of Pope's Essay on Man, i. 137.

49; Cooke, correspondence with, v. 37, n. 1; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; Crousaz's Examen, i. 137; death, reflection on the day of his, iii. 165; his death imputed to a saucepan, i. 269, n. 1; death-bed confession, v. 175, n. 5; Dodsley, assisted, ii. 446, n. 4; Dryden, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85; in his boyhood saw him, i. 377; n. 1; Dunciad, annotators, its, iv.

And Huarte, in his book which has been famous for three hundred years, Examen de ingenios para las scienzias, contends that women do not possess the higher capacities.

" Examen de Pertharite.

Examen critique de l'histoire de la géographie

Mais à propos d'interrogatoire, comment appelez-vous cet examen de conscience que vous avez fait subir à ma nièce? MONTRICHARD.

" #examen#, m., test, trial.

Deschamps, in his excellent work on the author, thus defines it: "Cet examen de conscience, dicté par une probité inquiète,cette application à éviter les illusions qui trompent, à déjouer les pièges du caprice

Etes-vous folle, avec votre examen?

Compare: "Dans le Cid, toutes celles (the scenes) de l'infante sont détachées, et paraissent hors d'oeuvre" (Corneille, Horace, Examen).