[This work is attributed to the uncertain author of _The Whole Duty of
Man_, and is included among the collected works of that writer in the
folio edition of {176} 1729. Compare "N. & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 537., with
Vol. viii., p. 564.]
_Obs and Sols._--Burton, in his _Anatomy of Melancholy_ ("Democritus to the
Reader"), 6th edition, has the following passage:
"Bale, Erasmus, Hospinian, Vives, Kemnisius, explode, as a vast ocean
of _obs_ and _sols_, school divinity."
What is the meaning of the terms _obs_ and _sols_?