Authority Cited: Garlick
Author name and dates: [ J----- G----- ] Garlick (active 1735-41)
BKG Bio-tweet: James? G., surgeon?; Malta visit on British warship, 1735; described St. Paul statue, harbor, Knight's Hospitals, catacombs
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Garlick cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Garlick cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. SJ was editing the Gentleman's Magazine in 1741, so quote and Garlick attribution likely from memory. Thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young, UCF, for finding the text for this quote.]
The Gentleman's Magazine For October, 1741. by Sylvanus Urban, Gent., London: Printed by E. Cave, jun. at St. John;s Gate, and to be sold by booksellers in Town and country; of whom may be had any former Month; also complete sets in 10 Vols on Royal or common paper, beginning with 1731.
Text: "From hence we went to fee a Piece of Sculpture of St Paul, which stands facing the Road upon an Octogon Pedestal, and that upon a very regular circular Mount, about twelve Yards in Diameter, which Mount the Inhabitants fay is a natural Rock, and the very Spot where St Paul stood when he preached first to the Island; he is represented with an extended Arm, his fore Finger; protruded;, and a large Folio, (which I wonder how he came by, as the Ship and every thing was loft, except the Lives of the People, and as he was the first Christian that appeared on that Island) suspended under his Left Arm, which we were told was the New Testament . . . ." (See images from HathiTrust. The Dict. quote is in the second full paragraph on p.534.)
Author name and dates: [ J----- G----- ] Garlick (active 1735-41)
BKG Bio-tweet: James? G., surgeon?; Malta visit on British warship, 1735; described St. Paul statue, harbor, Knight's Hospitals, catacombs
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Garlick cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Garlick cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict. SJ was editing the Gentleman's Magazine in 1741, so quote and Garlick attribution likely from memory. Thanks to Prof. Beth Rapp Young, UCF, for finding the text for this quote.]
The Gentleman's Magazine For October, 1741. by Sylvanus Urban, Gent., London: Printed by E. Cave, jun. at St. John;s Gate, and to be sold by booksellers in Town and country; of whom may be had any former Month; also complete sets in 10 Vols on Royal or common paper, beginning with 1731.
- A Description of the Island of Malta, by J----- G-----; protrude
Text: "From hence we went to fee a Piece of Sculpture of St Paul, which stands facing the Road upon an Octogon Pedestal, and that upon a very regular circular Mount, about twelve Yards in Diameter, which Mount the Inhabitants fay is a natural Rock, and the very Spot where St Paul stood when he preached first to the Island; he is represented with an extended Arm, his fore Finger; protruded;, and a large Folio, (which I wonder how he came by, as the Ship and every thing was loft, except the Lives of the People, and as he was the first Christian that appeared on that Island) suspended under his Left Arm, which we were told was the New Testament . . . ." (See images from HathiTrust. The Dict. quote is in the second full paragraph on p.534.)
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