The Arkansas advocate., 1835-07-03
From the National Entelligencer. THE ENGLISH THE EPRfM1TIVErk GIIAEE Qta YfTE NnpTn

THE ENGLISH TIE EpRfM1TIVE IAN
 GUAGE Of9 THE WORLD.
 Such IS the title of a humorous chapter in the miscellanies of that strange creature, Dean Swift. It Is above eighteen years ago since read il, and it was only recalled to iny mind tic other day by reading some of the articles of your grammatical corres- pondents. l am not one of those who ai- feet to despise the learned labors of efy- mologsts; who, not satisfied with drinking of the stream, must trace il to it's source. 1t IS a aiaudabe curiosity, and there are more unPfehtable shuntlng excursionsn than his
 .'Who starts word, and hunts il in tho dark.
 Through Greece and Rome, and inio Noais af<''
 But the Dean of St. Patrick sat down every thing as fair game, and showed as little mercy to etymologists as he did 10 any other class Of worthies. Fl commences hls chapter, ] remember by stating as q proveable fact, that neither the Hebrew nor the Welch was the primitive language of our race, but the Eaghsh. And he then proceeds to adduce his prools-some of them sufficiently dfoll. It may not be una musing to your readers to give them, from memory, specimen of these proofs.
 .Moses, (Mow-seas.) He cut the Red Sea into two parts.
 lSaac, (eyes-ache.) Having been trot,- bled with much painAin his eyes, previous to bis total blindness.
 Again in the Greek.
 s4ndiomache, (Andrew Mackie,) was called after her parent, Scotchman.
 .9lerandef the Gfeat, Gall eggs under the grate.) The Emperor was very fond of poached eggs, and when the servants of the kltchen---the Kitchen cabinet of other days saw him approaching, they were won't to exclaim, 'all eggs under the grate p
 B,,cephalas, (busy fellows5 Alexander's fayorlte steed was attended by vast num- Der of ofgrooms, who were always busy about him, and hence the term which described the hostlers, came to be applied to the horse itself-busg feltoaes.
 Peleponaesus. (Pail up and ease us.) The inhabitants had to fetch their water in palls, from considerable distance without the city. Whenever they met wth stran- ger they put down their pails, and address, ed him with this phrase, ''pail up and ease us.'' Hence the place was so called by foreigners.
 Staabo, the traveller and geographer, was exceedingly fastidious in his dress and for this reason was denofninated in his tray els, as a stfag beau
 .tfisantfsropus, (pure English, mice and throw puss.) The individual thus dcsg- hated was splenetc churl, who, having quarrelled with all his neighbors, till he could get no one to quarrel with him, even, resorted 10 the following expedent to grati- iy his malicions inclination. He had an empty attic ln his house, into which, by dint of CHEESE, and other mouse-like temptations, he succeeded in congregating every week great number of mice. He would then bring up his cat, and suddenly opening the door, thow it in amongst them. His neighbors, hearing of this, bestowed on him the appellaon of mice aad Mroac pstss, which other pretended scholars would pretend to be derived from misos and an- Mropes.
 conclude with one more instance, which the Dean gives
 archimedes, heark' 'ee-maids. Every one knows that this great philosopher was exceedingly abstracted when at his studies, and every one knows equally well that moi sy servants have but little consideration for quiet philosophers. Such was the case with the great mathematician. Every five minutes he had to leave his interrupted studies and call out to the vociferous popu- lation of his kitchen, ''heark'ee-maids e "Heark ee-maidso And in revenge they called him .frchi-medes
 l will, in conclusion, repeat that in tend no disrespect to those who admire the Diuersioms q Patrley, in thus narrafing the "Etymological Diversions of inc Dean of St. Patrick" s. ".