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Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850Lord Shaftesbury's Letters to a young Man at the University, on which Mr. SINGER has addressed to you an interesting communication (Vol. ii., p. 33.), were reprinted in 1746 in a collection of his letters, "Letters of...
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Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850Though so immeasurably inferior to his own, Johnson may have noticed these verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. Besides the imitation before quoted, both writers allude...
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Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850The subject of the Mosquito country has lately acquired a general interest. I am anxious to insert the following "Notes and Queries" in your useful periodical, hoping thus to elicit additional information, or to assist other inquirers....
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Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850Some eighteen years ago, the writer of the following sonnets, by the kindness of the proprietors of a pleasant house upon the banks of the Teviot, enjoyed two happy autumns there. The Roman road which runs between...
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Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850Although very unwilling to encroach upon the enlarged space which we have this week afforded to our numerous and increasing contributors, we may be permitted to refer to the fact of our having felt it due to...
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Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 2, May-December, 1850 - A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc.A.(A.) on solemnization of matrimony, 46. Admiration, a note of, 86. Adur, origin of, 71. 108. neas, Silvius, 423. Arostation, works on, 199. 251....
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Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850Most people are aware of the great demand there is for English literature, and indeed for all literature in the United States: for some years the anxiety of persons in that part of the world to obtain...
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Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850Most ingenious! most felicitous! but let no man despise little words, despite of the little man of Twickenham. He himself knew better, but there was no resisting the temptation of such a line as that. Small words...
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Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 06, December 8, 1849It was in no boastful or puffing spirit that, when thanking a correspondent in our last number for "his endeavour to enlarge our circulation," and requesting all our friends and correspondents "to follow PHILO'S example by bringing...
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Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850I have the pleasure of inclosing to you (I believe) an unpublished letter of Horace Walpole's. It was found among the papers of the late William Parsons, one of the Della Cruscan poets. That it is genuine...
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Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850A special use of, a use, indeed, that gives a special value to your publication, is the communication through its means of facts and conclusions for the information or assistance of editors or intending editors. I do...
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Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 - A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Abbey of St. Wandrille, 382. 486. Abdication of James II., 39. 489. Aberdeen, Burnet prize at, 91. Aboriginal chambers near Tilbury, 462. A.(B)...
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Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849We have this week been called upon to take a step which neither our best friends nor our own hopes could have anticipated. Having failed in our endeavours to supply by other means the increasing demand for...
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Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849When we consulted our literary friends as to the form and manner in which it would be most expedient to put forth our "NOTES AND QUERIES," more than one suggested to us that our paper should appear...
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Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850The following notes are so trivial, that I should have scrupled to send them on any other ground than that so well-conceived and labouriously-executed a work should have its most minute and unimportant details as correct as...
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Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850Seventy years having passed away since the riots of London, there cannot be many living who remember them, and still fewer who were personally in contact with the tumultuous throng. Under such circumstances, I venture to offer...
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Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850"There is no doubt that eisell meant vinegar, nor even that Shakspeare has used it in that sense; but in this passage it seems that it must be put for the name of a Danish river.... The...
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Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 45, September 7, 1850The First Mole in Cornwall; a Morality from the Stowe of Morwenna, in the Rocky Land.A lonely life for the dark and silent mole! She glides along her narrow vaults, unconscious of the glad and glorious scenes...
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Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 44, August 31, 1850While so much has been said of coaches, in the early numbers of "Notes and Queries" and elsewhere, very little notice has been taken of another mode of conveyance which has now become very important. I think...
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Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850The two exceedingly valuable elucidations which the geography of King Alfred relating to Germany (intercalated in the royal author's translation of Orosius), has received from your learned contributors MR. R.T. HAMPSON (Vol. i., p. 257.) and MR....
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