Miscellany. XVII. JOHNSONIANA: No. II. LOCAL EMOTION; OR, DR. JOHNSON'S EXCLAMATIONS ON LANDING AT ICOMKILL. "WE are now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses: whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present; advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground, which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona." XVIII. TRADITIONAL SAYING OF CHRIST: A QUERY. THERE is, in the New Testament, a sentence, wellknown, and often-used; and quoted by an Apostle, as spoken by the Lord Jesus; which, yet, is not in any one of the four Gospels! Where, and what, is it? We solicit answers only in verse. XIX. Lexicon Sacrum. No. IV. Absih'ai-Acha'ïcus. Abish'ăi, 1 Sam. xxvi. 6. (Heb. ver. 7.) *אבישי * (my father's gift. One of the three sons of Zeruiah, (David's sister,) and one of David's generals. He was chief of a Trio, (2 Sam. xxiii. 18.) and slew 18,000 Edomites, 1 Chron. xviii. 12. Abish ́ălom, 1 Kings, xv. 2. (Heb. v. 3.) DIN (my father's peace.) The father of Maachah the wife of Rehoboam, and mother of Abijam, kings of Judah. N.B. Father, mother, and son, have each two names in Scripture: Abishalom is called Absalom (2 Chron. xi. 20.) Maachah is called (2 Chron. xiii. 2.) Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah; (a third name of Abishalom, unless Uriel be the name of her mother!) and Abijam is called Abijah 2 Chron. xi. 22. See Abijam, p. 212. Abishúa, 1 Chron. vi. 4. (my father [is] a Saviour.) The son of Phinehas, an Aaronite. (2) 1 Chron. viii. 4. A son of Bela the son of Benjamin. Abi ́shur, 1 Chron. ii. 28. (Heb. v. 29.) N (my father's gift.) A son of Shammai son of Onam, a Judaite. Abi'sum, 1 Esdras, viii. 2. 'Aßioovu, the Apocryphal name of Abishua. Abi'tal, 2 Sam. iii. 4. (Heb. v. 5.) (like a father.) (my father's dew.) One of the wives of David, and mother of Shephatiah. * 2 Sam. x. 10, &c. WN |