DIGAMMA. Evaoiois; and avatav, in Pindar, occurs for datav, i. e. Γαταν. And thus also δάξιον for δαύϊον in Alcman cited by Priscian; but we shall endeavour, by and by, to show that the Grammarian was mistaken in this part of the subject. We have seen that Dionysius observes that it was usual with the very ancient Greeks to prefix this letter to words beginning with a vowel; but we are not to understand by this that they did so in every instance. The ancient inscriptions which contain the Digamma sufficiently disprove such a supposition, and Terentianus contents himself with observing: Nominum multa inchoata litteris vocalibus Usus Eolicus reformat, et digammon proficit. In the extremely unsettled state of the ancient language of Greece, it is probable that this letter was prefixed or omitted, not according to any very minute grammatical regulations, but still with some regard to euphony. The facility with which the Digamma might be employed or neglected, is probably the most satisfactory explanation of its disuse at a period when the language became more cultivated and regular. One of its most usual purposes was to supply the office of the aspirate, to which the Eolians seem to have had considerable aversion. Sciendum tamen quòd hoc ipsum Eoles quidem ubique loco aspirationis ponebant, effugientes spiritus asperitatem. So says Priscian; but his ubique is incorrect, if carried farther than the practice of the Eolians. On the Heraclean tablets, and on many other monuments of antiquity, we find the aspirate F as well as the Digamma F or t. In the tablets we have ce for and its compounds; but always. FETTа for ea and its compounds; and we find Féros, but πενταθέτηρες. As the Eolians inverted the sound of Z (a) by making it oo, and writing odevyλa for gevan, so they appear originally to have inverted the initial (F) and written parpa, afterwards Fpárpa, as it occurs on the Elean inscription; and this occasional insertion of the Digamma before the initial p, may account for the power which that letter sometimes possesses of elongating a short vowel. That the Roman V, which all ancient testimony identifies with the Digamma, had the force of an aspirate, appears from Quinctilian, if the passage be rightly punctuated by Dawes, which it appears not to be. (See Dawes, Miscell. Crit. iv.; Quinct. lib. i. cap. iv.) Certain it is, however, that many words aspirated in Greek begin in Latin with V. A very common use of the Digamma appears to have been to lengthen a short syllable in Poetry. This will appear from the examples in Priscian, although they are most unaccountably arranged and applied. “Est tamen quando Æoles idem F inveniuntur pro duplici consonante posuisse, ut Νέστορα δὲ Fε παίδος and he adds nos quoque videmur hoc sequi in præterito perfecto et plusquam perfecto tertiæ et quartæ conjugationis, in quibus I ante V consonantem posita producitur, eádemque subtractá corripitur, ut cupivi,cupii; cupiveram, cupieram; audivi, audii; audiveram, audieram." So far is very intelligible and analogical. But our sensations must somewhat resemble those of the honest Satyr in the Fable, when we learn from the same oracular authority that this identical letter which sometimes had even the force of a double consonant, was occasionally employed as a short vowel, and to shorten DIa syllable! Yet such is the conclusion of Priscian. GAMMA. "Inveniuntur etiam pro vocali correptá illi usi, ut Alcman. καὶ χεῖμα πύρ τε άξιον Est enim dimetrum iambicum; et sic est proferendum F, ut faciat brevem syllabam." This passage must be understood to signify that the hemistich cited was to be scanned thus, καὶ χει | μα πυρ || τε δα 5 | ιον || where F is used like v, or some vowel. But what prevents that the line should be scanned as a pure iambic καὶ χει | μα πυρ || τε δα | Fιον [ ? In this case the use of the Digamma is ordinary and natural; in the other forced and unexampled; for although Y was sometimes used as a consonant for the Digamma, we do not find that the Digamma was ever Beside which, if Prisemployed for the vowel Y. cian's resolution be true, the Digamma must have had, as we have already observed, the power of shortening no less than lengthening the preceding syllable; for Priscian should have known that the first syllable in aos is long; and even were it not so, it might have been lengthened by the Digamma. His Latin analogies, therefore, of sylüæ and soluit are nothing to the purpose. We shall have an opportunity of returning to this inconsistency presently. The Grammarian proceeds: "F Æoles est quando in metris pro nihilo accipiebant, ut ἄμμες δ' Γειράναν τὸ δὲ τ' ἄρ ̓ θέτο μῶσα λιγαία. Est enim hexametrum heroicum." Pro nihilo! If the line as here cited be not a corruption (which is very supposable) there is no reason why it could not have been pronounced ἄμμες δ' νειράναν, &c. which, although not so perfectly euphonous as the ordinary tenour of the language, is much less offensive to the ear than the dwell of the English; and Dawes has proved that in some instances the Digamma was actually used after 8. But as the Digamma, apparently, might arbitrarily be inserted or neglected, there is every reason to suppose that it is here indebted to the Grammarian for its disadvantageous collocation. The example from Terence is nothing to the purpose. It is very possible that the line Sine invidia laudem invenias et amicos pares, might be scanned, sin' ini, &c.; but the licentious prosody of Latin Comedy is quite inapplicable to the Greek heroic metre. One object of using the Digamma appears to have been the removal of the hiatus between two vowels, which, as it seems, was particularly repulsive to the genius of the Eolian dialect. Hiatus quoque causa (says Priscian) solebant illi interponere Digamma; quod ostendunt etiam Poetæ Æolicè usi, Alcman, кaì xeîμа пúρ тe dá Fioν, et epigrammata, &c. This is, no doubt, the true account of Aleman's intention in inserting the Digamma into the word ddïov, and utterly contradicts the supposition which the Grammarian makes above, that the Digamma had the force of a vowel; for if this had been the case, the only effect of such an interpolation would From this epitome of the history of the Digamma, its prevalence and its power, we have a strong à priori argument that its effects could not but have been greatly perceptible in the poems of Homer; which, whensoever they might have been composed, must, undoubtedly, have had their origin in a period when the influence of the Digamma was considerable. It seems, therefore, a very natural à priori supposition, that the writings of Homer should exhibit anomalies in metre and rhythm, which an attention to the force of the Digamma would rectify and explain. This supposition first presented itself to the critical mind of Bentley; and although the virulence of party spirit, and the spleen of the witty but unlearned was abundantly called into exercise by the promulgation of this discovery, in this, as in all contests of a similar nature, the gigantic scholar came off victorious, and successfully and steadily indicated the path which has since been trodden by Dawes, Heyne, and more especially by that most eminent archaic Grecian, the late Mr. Payne Knight. Whatever may be the varieties of opinion with respect to this gentleman's universal success in the Herculean task of remodelling the Homeric Poems by the scanty light of very remote antiquity, no doubt can be entertained that he has in a very great number of instances explained, naturally and beautifully, difficulties which it had before cost volumes of unfounded sophistry to reconcile. The critical ground on which Bentley proceeded was immovable. He did not supply the Digamma wherever there occurred an unpleasant hiatus; but he observed carefully whether there were not some words beginning with a vowel, which were never immediately preceded by a consonant. The general principles of language appeared to suggest that, although the collision of two vowels, as in ô≈på åväктi, might be allowed in Poetry, it could never be harmonious or desirable; and that therefore it would be probable that the oblique cases of avag, for instance, would, most generally, be preceded by a consonant. But when, on examination, he found that these cases were almost in every instance preceded by a vowel; and that, in the few instances where this did not take place, the corruption was easily perceptible and corrigible; there was evidently some cause for so remarkable a phenomenon; and this, in all probability, was, that the word avag had formerly possessed an initial consonant which would have lengthened any syllable preceding it terminated with a consonant. Now, as Dionysius of Halicarnassus expressly asserts, that Farag was the ancient pronunciation of this word ; and as this account of the matter is an adequate explanation of the whole phenomenon, the chain of critical evidence is complete, and the conclusion irresistible. This principle has been pursued, and the consequence has been the discovery of a very considerable number of words of which the Digamma appears, at least in the Poems of Homer, to have formed a constituent part. although the evidence of ancient inscriptions favours For the belief that the Digamma could be added or omitted at pleasure, such does not appear generally to be the case in the writings of Homer. : Dawes, who acquired from Bentley both the discovery itself and the means of its prosecution, appears to have thought cavilling at the discoverer the surest proof of originality. Accordingly he strenuously contends against Bentley, that although the power of the Digamma certainly prevailed in the poems of Homer, its form never appeared there. The point itself is not of the slightest consequence; there is some difficulty, however, in admitting the belief that Homer employed the power of a letter which was a regular component part of his alphabet, without once writing it. Indeed there can be no doubt that, since every writer in the age of Homer would have used the Digamma, Homer also would himself have used it so that it is easy to give an answer to Dawes's quaint bit of patchwork Latinity: quá tandem virga plusquam Circæd Homeri scripta tam inauditam metamorphosin subire potuissent; quæ tandem esset singularis illa virgæ ȧvricijáμμs qualitas, quæ luis Egyptiacæ ad instar in unius hujus elementi internecionem grassaretur. When the Digamma was disused in Greece generally, it was disused in the copies of Homer, which only underwent a change similar to that which Shakspeare has experienced among ourselves, whose orthography is no longer that of the first editions, but that in ordinary use among us at the present day. Indeed it is the opinion of many critics, and one adopted by Mr. Payne Knight, that the Poems of Homer were never committed to writing before the age of Pisistratus. After this ungracious cavil, as groundless as it is unimportant, Dawes proceeds to exemplify Bentley's theory in the examination of the words avag and πos, and their inflexions and derivatives. This has been done most convincingly; and although this great scholar seems occasionally to have taken unwarrantable liberties with some of the very few examples which oppose him, no doubt can remain on the general truth of his position. Some of his corrections are evidently true; but in those wherein his alterations are less justifiable, it is very possible that there are corruptions, or that Homer himself omitted the Digamma, which we know the state of the language then allowed. Heyne has followed up the work of Dawes, in three excursions on the 19th Book of the Iliad, in the second of which he has given a very elaborate and very valuable critical catalogue of the Digammated words in the works of Homer; from which it appears that the Digamma was sometimes omitted even by him, as in the word ůπýýкioe from ảnо Foikiw, which regularly would give ȧre Foi κισε. The theory of Dawes differs, however, in many respects from that of Mr. Payne Knight. The use of the Digamma in Homer will explain the effect which the liquids sometimes appear to have of lengthening a short syllable, as a dogoμévn (Ελισσομένη,) μάλα μέγα (Εμέγα,) δε νέφος (Ενέφος,) παρά ῥηγμῖνι (Γρηγμῖνι.) The Digamma is to be found in literature much later then the time of Homer. We have already seen that it existed in the writings of Pindar; and a trochaic in Aristophanes, (Ran. 742,) if genuine, can only be scanned by its admission. Προσέχειν then becomes προσθέλειν. But the Alexandrian writers appear to have been totally ignorant of its use and power. DIGAMMA. A certain muscle, called the diagastric, rises on the side of the face, considerably above the insertion of the lower jaw, and comes down, being converted in its progress into a round tendon. DIGE'ST, v. DIGE'ST, n. DIGE'STER, Paley. Natural Theology, p. 125. Lat. digerere, divisum vel diversum gerere; from Lat. dis, and gerere, which Vossius interprets manum administrare, (q. d. to han>dle,) formed from xep-òs, geni| tive, from Xep, the hand. It. digerire; Sp. digerir; "Fr. digerir; to disgest, concoct; brook, bear, digest, abide, away with; also, to sort, order, dispose." Cotgrave. To digest food; to bear or convey food concocted into different parts of the body. DIGE'STIBLE, DIGESTION, DIGESTIVE, adj. DIGE STIVE, n. DIGE STING, N. DIGE STEDLY. To digest ideas or thoughts, is to arrange or distribute them in order for consideration; to dispose them methodically; to consider them well; to meditate upon, to contemplate; to sink or settle them in the mind. Hence the application of the Noun is plain to any work digested into good order: as by Tertullian to the Gospel of St. Luke; and by the Civilians to the Pandecta of Justinian. The Digests; Fr. Digestes; It. Digesti; Sp. Digestos; Lat. Digesta, from digerere, to set or order. A volume of the Civil Law, so called, because the legal precepts therein are so excellently ordered, disposed, and digested. Minshew. And the n. Digest, may be applied to any work so ordering and disposing; and was applied by Tertullian to the Gospel of St. Luke. Than thus proceeded Saturne & the Mone Chaucer. The Testament of Creseide, fol. 196. Of his diete mesurable was he, For it was of no superfluitee, But of gret nourishing, and digestible, Id. The Prologue, v. 414. The norice of digestion, the slepe Id. The Squieres Tale, v. 10640. Of wormes, or ye take your laxatives. Id. The Nonnes Preestes Tale, v. 14942. If all the world were thyne, thou couldest not make thyselfe one inche leger, nor that thy stomacke shall digeste the meate that thou puttest into it. Tyndall. Workes, fol. 235. Exposition vpon the sixth Chapter of Matthew. Your singing is but roaring to stretch out your mawes to make the meate sinke to the bottome of the stomacke, that he may haue perfect digestion, and be ready to deuoure afreshe against the next refection. Id. Ib. Exposition vpon the seventh Chapter of Matthew. More ouer, there be dyuers maners of exercyses, whereof some, onely prepareth and helpeth dygestyon, some augmenteth also strength and hardynesse of body. Sir Thomas Elyot. Governour, book i. ch. xvi. To thintent, that nature, which is made by custom, but not rebuked, & the power digestiue therby debilitate. Id. The Castel of Helth, book iii. ch. iii. He should receyue such meates, drynkes, and medicines, which doth attenuate or make thynne, cutte, and digest gross humours without vehement heate, whereof it is written in the table of digestiues. Id. Ib. book iv. ch. i. His next counsel was, That with other practicall doctrines they should not forget to preach and press charity; and this not in a slight perfunctory manner, but studiedly and digestedly to give the people the true nature of it, the full latitude of it, the absolute and indispensable necessity of having it. Mede. Works, fol. 69. Appendix to the Author's Life. their government digestible, were wont to take away that grievThe Romans, when they had subdued many nations, to make ance, as much as they thought necessary, by giving sometimes to whole nations, and sometimes to principal men of every nation they conquered, not only the privileges, but also the name of Hobbes. Of Commonwealth, part ii. ch. xix. Romans. Falling purposely with Palma, with intention to haue taken our pleasure of that place, for the full digesting of many things in order, and the better furnishing our store with such severall good things as that afforded very abundantly. Sir Francis Drake. West Indian Voyage, fol. 9. For some constitutions, and some men's customs, and some men's educations, and necessities, and weaknesses are such, that their appetite is to be invited, and their digestion helped, but all this while we are within the bounds of nature and need. Taylor. Sermons, fol. 157. Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. Jonson. Epigram 101. Inviting a Friend to Supper. Notwithstanding these gluts cf favours wrought onely the digestion of falshood in him, who could taste nothing vnlesse it was Speed. Ethereld, book vii. ch. xliv. sec. 20. Thy style's the same, whatever be thy theme, As some digestions turn all meat to phlegm. sauced with treason. The Earl of Dorset to Mr. Edward Howard. Dryden. Astrea Redux. He who will believe all that he finds related by the writers of the fourth and fifth centuries should be provided with a double portion of credulity, and have the stomach of an ostrich to digest fables. Jortin. Works, vol. i. p. 306. Remarks on Ecclesiastical History. Though the History of Herodotus be of greater compass than that of Thucydides, and comprehend a much greater variety of dissimilar parts, he has been more fortunate in joining them together, and digesting them into order. Blair. Lecture 35. vol. iii. p. 27. They who enjoyed it must have had coarse palates, and a stomach like the ostrich, by whom lead or dirt, it may be imagined, is no less digestible than iron. Knox. Works, vol. iii. p. 317. Winter Evenings, even. 70. In every brake Wormwood and centaury their bitter juice, Dodsley. Agriculture, can. 3. Macrobius (Sat. vii. 4,) may be referred to for the ancient medical doctrine of the four DIGESTIONS ; for we must give his untranslateable terms as we find them. The 1st is Kа0EKTIKỳ (for which, since it by no means expresses the quality which Macrobius seeks to imply, we would willingly read KaleλKTIKη with Gronovius,) promoting the descent of the food. The 2d, KaradεKTIKη, which retains all of it that is alimentary to the body. The 3d, allowTIKỳ, which effects the various changes to which it is subject, is paramount over the others, and regulates the stomach qui pater DIGEST. DIGES DIGHT. DIGES- familias dici meruit. The 4th, dokρITIKỳ, which preTION. sides over egestion. The moderns may have exploded this system, (if system it may be called,) but they have not yet established any other which will explain all the phenomena of the different processes. See, however, among other Works, the brutal and disgusting experiments of Spallanzani, Expériences sur la Digestion, &c.; and Fordyce's Treatise on the Digestion of Food. DIGESTION, in Pharmacy, is the effect produced on bodies subjected to a gentle heat. In Surgery, it is the disposition of wounds to suppurate. DIGESTER, a steam-tight boiler, invented by Denys Papin, a Physician at Blois, in the XVIIth century. Water became heated in it far above the boiling point, so that even bones when reduced to powder were rendered soluble. A description of the vessel was published by Papin himself in 1682, La Manière d'amollir les os et de faire cuire toutes sortes des Viandes en peu de Tems et à peu de Frais. This is to be found also in English, under the title of The New Digester. DIGHT, A. S. dihtan, parare, procurare, insti- ze zonge men, quop Merlyn, cubeb now youre mygte, Whan his lotte was to walke a night, His instruments would he dight Chaucer. The Romant of the Rose, fol. 136. For men also that were dede Thei hadden goodes as I rede, And tho by name Manes highten, To whom full great honour thei dighten. Gower. Conf. Am. book v. fol. 91. He hathe put hys swearde to the dightyng, [Mod. Ver. to be furbished that good hold may be taken of it. This swearde is sharpned and dyght, [furbished] that it may be geuen into the hande of the manslayer. Bible, Anno 1551. Ezechiel, ch. xxi. MADG. We shall be hang'd anon, awey good wenches, and have a care you dight things handsomly, I will look over you. Beaumont and Fletcher. The Coxcomb, act iv. sc. 1. That pretty Cupid, little God of love, Whose imped wings with speckled plumes are dight, Drayton. Pastorals. Eclogue 8. While as he sought with all his might and main In Aphidnes upon the pleasant plain Bold Theseus to cruel death him dight. Sir Thomas North. Plutarch, fol. 13. Theseus. Just so the proud insulting lass, Butler. Hudibras, part i. can. 3. v. 927. But (trust me, gentles!) never yet Parnell. A Fairy Tale. Mickle. Ballad 1. DI'GIT, v. DIGI TARIA. Fr. digitte; Lat. digitus; perhaps DIGIT. DIGIT, n. -Gr. deik-eiv, monstrare, to show or DIGITATED. point out, quasi dcikτns, ostensor : from its being used to point out. Feltham used the verb, to digit, to point out with the finger, in allusion At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier: Hic est. Persius, Sat. 1. v. 28. to. The Romans, (says Dr. Adam,) as other nations, derived the names of measures chiefly from the parts of the human body. Digitus, a digit or finger's breadth. Each foot (pes) was divided into sixteen digiti, each supposed equal to four barley-corns. The numbers or figures also are called digits, from the practice of counting upon the fingers, (computandi per digitos.) Digit is principally used by Astronomers. The diameter of the respective heavenly bodies is divided into twelve Digits; and by the number of these which are obscured, the extent of an Eclipse is computed. It will leave some doubt behind, in what subjection hitherto were the lives of our forefathers presently after the Flood, and nore especially before it, who attaining unto 8 or 900 years, had not their climacters computable by digits or as we do account them. Sir Thomas Brown, book iv. ch. xii. Let me haue but so much wisdom as may orderly manage myself, and my means; and I shall never care to be digited, with a Feltham. Resolve 28. THAT IS HE. DIGITALINE, in Zoology, a genus of the subkingdom Acrita, belonging to the infusorial animals of the family Vorticellida, separated from the genus Vorticella of Muller, by Bory St. Vincent. Generic character. Stem fistulous, rather flexible, simple or dendroidal, and divided into rigid branches, supporting a cylindrical or oblong urn; the mouth of the urn more or less regularly cordate. This genus has very great affinity to the true branchy Vorticella, but the mouth of the urns are destitute of beards, and the stems are not contractile nor spiral. They differ from the genus Dendrella, to which they have many points of resemblance, by the peculiar form of the mouth of the urn. The Digitalines commonly grow on the back of the minute crustaceous animals which live in fresh water, as the Cyclopes, Monoculi, and Daphnes, covering them so completely, as to make it difficult for them to swim about. At a particular time the urns of this genus separate from their stems, and float freely about in the water. Three species of this genus have been described : 1. D. simplex, Bory, Lederm. pl. vii. fig. 8. Th. 2. D. Raselii, Bory; Vorticella Digitalis, Muller, Infus. pl. lvi. fig. 6. 3. D. anastatica, Bory; Vorticella Anastatica, Muller, Infus. pl. xlvi. fig. 5. The Rose of Jericho, of the old Works on the Microscope. DIGITALIS, in Botany, a genus of the class Didynamia, order Angiospermia, natural order Scrophularia. Generic character: calyx five-parted; corolla bellshaped, ventricose, five-cleft; capsule ovate, twocelled, flowers in a spike. Twenty-two species, natives of the Northern hemisphere. D. purpurea, the Fox-glove, is a native of England, enlivening the road sides with its beautiful flower spikes. DIGITARIA, in Botany, a genus of the class Triandrta, order Digynia. Generic character: calyx two and three-valved, concave, the outer valve very small, DIGITARIA. or wanting, the second valve variable, the interior valve as long as the corolla; corolla two-valved, obDIGNIFY. long, ovate; style very long; nectary cloven; spike digitate, linear; flowers in pairs, one nearly sessile. Eleven species, natives of the Northern hemisphere. Persoon. DIGITIGRADA, in Zoology, the second tribe of the family Carnivora, order Sarcophaga, class Mammalia, DIGLA'DIATE, Lat. digladiare, to fight with DIGLADIATION. swords, (gladiis.) Cockeram says, "Digladiation; fight, strife, debate." For what else are writings of many men, but mutual pasquils and satyrs against each others lives, wherein digladiating like Eschines and Demosthenes, they reciprocally lay open each others filthiness to the view and scorn of the world. Hale. Remains, part i. p. 46. The passions being engaged in the quarrel, the judgments of both sides are lost, or blinded, or silenced with the dust and noise of passionate digladiations. Id. Contemplations, vol. i. p. 481. A Discourse of Religion. DI'GNIFY, DIGNIFICATION, DIGNATION, DIGNITY, DIGNITARY, DIGNIFYING. And he is heed of the bodi of the chirche, whiche is the by- DIGNIFY. gynnyng and the first bigetun of deede men, that he holde the firste dignyte in alle thingis. Wiclif. Colocensis, ch. i. Age to compare vnto thine excellence I nil presume him so to dignifie. Chaucer. The Remedie for Loue, fol. 322. ties, and defouled of my name by gessyng, haue suffred turmentes And I that am put way from good men, and dispoiled of dignifor my good deeds. Id. The first Booke of Boecius, fol. 214. O king, God the hyest gaue vnto Nabuchodonosor thy father, the dygnitte of a king, with worshippe and honour: so that all people kynreddes and tunges stode in awe and feare of hym, by reason of the hie estate, that he had lent hī. Bible, Anno 1551. Daniel, ch. v. 1 Fox. Martyrs, fol. 1497. Hopkins. Fr. dignité; It. dignità; Sp. dignidad; Lat. dignitas. Dignus is by some Etymologists supposed to be from the Gr. dekvŮEiv, ostendere, demonstrare, to show, to point out, for different reasons: Perottus; because those who appear worthy, (digni,) are usually pointed out to others by the finger, (digito demonstrantur.) Vossius, however, is inclined to believe that dignus, or as the Ancients wrote it, dicnus, comes from Gr. dikη, id est jus; ut dignus, cui tribui aliquid æquum est. To dignify, (formed of dignus and fieri,) is, literally, to be or cause to be worthy: but by common application it is To bestow or confer that of which any one is worthy; and thus, to distinguish by honours or emoluments; to advance, to prefer, to promote to honours or emoluments or authority; to exalt to honour, to rank, to grandeur; to elevate. Dignation; estimation, sc. of worth or worthiness. Dygne, in Chaucer, Mr. Tyrwhit says is,-worthy, proud, disdainful. Letter of M. Bradford to M. Richard Not to mention the patronage of those many prelates and dignitaries of the church, men of piety and learning, with whom he lived in a close intimacy and friendship. The Life of Walton, p. 55. All dignification retains still the same title of the merit of some virtue, and those that attend the least to virtue, will not referre their temporall successes to lesse then the adeption of them by some virtue. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 5. part i. sec. 2. well be dazled with their splendour; we must therefore take off They who gaze only upon the glorious robes of tyrants, may our eyes from their palaces, and look upon them in the sanctuarie; where, understanding their latter ends, we shall find they were set up, thus to be deluded, rather then dignified. Id. Ib. Treat. 4. part ii. sec. 2. And towarde the dignifying of this office, God's purpose seems so express, that he has not only furnish'd subjects for our personating his office of beneficence, but submitted himself to be represented by the same subjects. Id. Ib. sec. 1. The first of these great dignities [Lord High Chancellor of England, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford] King Charles the Second had conferred on him, whilst he was yet in banishment with him; which he held, after the Restoration, above seven Change work of bischopriches, & the digne sege [worthy seat] years, with the universal approbation of the whole kingdom, and Ywys Work ybrogt to Canterbury, þat at London now ys. R. Gloucester, p. 132. po com Merlyne's word to sope atte ende þat þe dygne se to Kaunterbury of London ssolde wende Id. p. 231. Vor hys robe & hys dignite was al wel byset. Id. p. 312. An oper Sir William, Bishop of Ely. He was to sinful men not dispitous, Chaucer. The Prologue, v. 519. Yet sang the larke, and Palemon right tho I mene Venus, honourable, and digne. Id. The Knightes Tale, v. 2218. And certaine the same thing may I most dignely iudgen. Id. The second Booke of Boecius, fol. 219. VOL. XXI. the general applause of all good men. Clarendon. History of Civil War, vol. i. part i. Preface i. He [the pious man] is dignified by the most illustrious titles, a son of God, a friend and favourite to the Sovereign King of the world, an heir of heaven, a denizen of the Jerusalem above: titles far surpassing all those which worldly state doth assume. Barrow. Sermon 2. vol. i. fol. 19. For this commandment we have from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also. The first commandment excells in the dignity of the object; but the second hath the advantage in the reality of its effects. Tillotson. Sermon 18. Then Pallas over all his features shed Superior beauty, dignified his form With added amplitude, and pour'd his curls Like hyacinthine garlands from his brows. Cowper. Homer. Odyssey, book xxiii. Name to me yon Achaian chief for bulk Id. Ib. Iliad, book iii. |