[It does not appear that Robert Recorde, the celebrated
mathematician, was ever connected with the Bristol mint. The best
account we have met with of the author of _The Whetstone of Wit_,
is in Mr. Halliwell's pamphlet on _The Connexion of Wales with the
Early Science of England_, 8vo., 1840. Consult also a very able
and learned article in the _Companion to the British Almanack_ for
1837, pp. 30-37., by Professor De Morgan.]
_Strange Opinions of great Divines._--I shall be obliged to any of your
correspondents who can give me references to the following quotations
from the works of two great divines:
(1.) "I would that we were well rid of this [the Athanasian]
Creed."
(2.) "The Apocalypse either finds a man mad, or leaves him so."