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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
and the poetic application of this ring to the admission within a Mason ' s Lodge , though ingenious enough , seems to have been lost sight of by your correspondent at Terth Haugb , who relates a part , indeed ^ of the history of the same Gyges , but as distant as can be conceived from that which is necessary to illustrate the poem . In shortthe ring is not once mentioned . I trust that the following short
,, relation will go something nearer to that purpose . According to Plato , Gyges descended into a chasm of the earth , where he found a brazen horse whose sides he opened , and saw within the body the carcase of a man of uncommon size , from whose finger he took a brazen ring . This ring , when put on his own finger , and turned towards the palm of his handrendered him invisibleand
, ; by means of its virtue he introducer 1 , himself to the queen , murdered her husband , married her , and usurped the crown of Lydia * . I am , Sir , your constant reader , and occasional correspondent , S . J .
Mr. Tasker's Letters
MR . TASKER'S LETTERS
CONTINUED . LETTER THE TENTH . ON ANCIENT NEUROLOGY
SIR , IN the i oth book of the JEneid , now before me , the pious .-Eneas exhibits a-striking proof of the truth of my observations ; for , on his first appearance in the war , he makes his military debtd , and handsells his Vulcanian sword , by killing , indiscriminately , almost every man that has the ill fate to come in his way . I am likewise stopped
in my career ; for what have we here unexpectedly?—Read with me . Dexteraque ex humero NERVIS moribunda pependit—" the dying hand hangs from the shoulder by the nerves or tendons ; " this is the first express mention of nerves in the iEneid , and naturally leads me to the dark subject of the Ancient Neurology : as what I mean to say
may be almost concluded in a nut-shell , if I am erroneous I will be concisely so ; for I realty believe , however novel the notion may be , that the word nerve obtained its appellation from its resemblance to a bow-string ; for though the nerves must necessarily have been prior
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To The Editor Of The Freemasons' Magazine.
and the poetic application of this ring to the admission within a Mason ' s Lodge , though ingenious enough , seems to have been lost sight of by your correspondent at Terth Haugb , who relates a part , indeed ^ of the history of the same Gyges , but as distant as can be conceived from that which is necessary to illustrate the poem . In shortthe ring is not once mentioned . I trust that the following short
,, relation will go something nearer to that purpose . According to Plato , Gyges descended into a chasm of the earth , where he found a brazen horse whose sides he opened , and saw within the body the carcase of a man of uncommon size , from whose finger he took a brazen ring . This ring , when put on his own finger , and turned towards the palm of his handrendered him invisibleand
, ; by means of its virtue he introducer 1 , himself to the queen , murdered her husband , married her , and usurped the crown of Lydia * . I am , Sir , your constant reader , and occasional correspondent , S . J .
Mr. Tasker's Letters
MR . TASKER'S LETTERS
CONTINUED . LETTER THE TENTH . ON ANCIENT NEUROLOGY
SIR , IN the i oth book of the JEneid , now before me , the pious .-Eneas exhibits a-striking proof of the truth of my observations ; for , on his first appearance in the war , he makes his military debtd , and handsells his Vulcanian sword , by killing , indiscriminately , almost every man that has the ill fate to come in his way . I am likewise stopped
in my career ; for what have we here unexpectedly?—Read with me . Dexteraque ex humero NERVIS moribunda pependit—" the dying hand hangs from the shoulder by the nerves or tendons ; " this is the first express mention of nerves in the iEneid , and naturally leads me to the dark subject of the Ancient Neurology : as what I mean to say
may be almost concluded in a nut-shell , if I am erroneous I will be concisely so ; for I realty believe , however novel the notion may be , that the word nerve obtained its appellation from its resemblance to a bow-string ; for though the nerves must necessarily have been prior