Apud Oxonienses bonis literis Haud leviter imbutus; In urbe hac

haud passibus aequis, by younger proselytes, and that to outrer whatever was by anybody considered offensive in the doctrines and maxims of Benthamism, became at one time the badge of a small coterie of youths.

"Si verbo audacia, detur Haud metuam summi dixisse

they haud their weary roar, An' slide awa', an' I grow sleepy: Or lang, they're up aboot my door, Yowlin', I'm cauld, an' weet, an' creepy!

Clearchus vowed to his friend Amyander in Aristaenetus, that the most attractive part in his mistress, to make him love and like her first, was her pretty leg and foot: a soft and white skin, &c. have their peculiar graces, Nebula haud est mollior ac hujus cutis est, aedipol papillam bellulam.

" "Haud timet mortem, cupit ire in ipsos obvius enses.

For my part I'll dissemble with him, "Este procul nymphae, fallax genus este puellae, Vita jugata meo non facit ingenio: me juvat," &c. many married men exclaim at the miseries of it, and rail at wives downright; I never tried, but as I hear some of them say, Mare haud mare, vos mare acerrimum, an Irish Sea is not so turbulent and raging as a litigious wife.

Quos ille timorum Maximus haud urget lethi metus: inde ruendi In ferrum mens prona viris, animæque capaces Mortis.

Oh haud your hands frae inkhorns, though a' the Muses woo; For critics lie, like saumon fry, to mak' their meals o' you.

That this was said of him by a Roman, and not invented for him by Plutarch, seems probable because the combination is one peculiarly Roman; so Livy, when he wishes to describe the finest type of Roman character, says that a certain man was "haud minus libertatis alienae quam suae dignitatis memor."

I got haud o' Andrew, and his mother got haud o' him, and we a' grat wi' joy.

I got haud o' Andrew, and his mother got haud o' him, and we a' grat wi' joy.

Then he would tak haud of his tail in his twa hands, and wag it at Donald, and steeking his nieves, he would seem to threaten him wi' a leatherin'.

And he gi'ed him anither shakethen, laying haud of his nose, he swore that he would pu't as lang as a cow's tail, if he didna that instant restore him his lost property.

Hence, I am now in the position of the fugitive Queen in the well-known passage, who, "haud ignara mali" herself, had learned to sympathise with those who were inheritors of her past wanderings.

Quos ille timorum Maximus haud urget lethi metus: inde ruendi In ferrum mens prona viris, animæque capaces Mortis.

Nam quod fuit ante, relictum est; Fitque quod haud fuerat: momentaque cuncta novantur.' Ov. Met.

'Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti In quascunque voces artes, haud tarda sequentur.' Virg.

There were some clever things enough, (dicta haud inepta,) a few of which are worth reporting.

Haud it down, man!

"Then, Jeems," said the minister, "when ye see my wife asleep again, haud up your hand."

Thus, a late minister of Caithness, when examining a member of his flock, who was a butcher, in reference to the baptism of his child, found him so deficient in what he considered the needful theological knowledge, that he said to him, "Ah, Sandy, I doubt ye're no fit to haud up the bairn."

Sandy, conceiving that reference was made not to spiritual but to physical incapacity, answered indignantly, "Hout, minister, I could haud him up an he were a twa-year-auld stirk."

A neighbouring laird having called a few days after, and having referred to the accident, Balnamoon quietly added, "Indeed, I maun hae a lume that'll haud in.

Balnamoon, laird of, carriage to haud in.