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Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850The history of books and periodicals of a similar character ought to be the object of interest to the readers of this work. The number of works in which answers have been given to proposed questions is...
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Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850Although you and I no doubt unite in the admiration, which all our fellow-countrymen profess, and some of them feel, for our immortal bard, yet I do not think that our zeal as Shakspearians will extend so...
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Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850Mr. Markland's ascertainment (Vol. i., p. 481.) of the origin of Johnson's "From China to Peru," where, however, I sincerely believe our great moralist intended not so much to borrow the phrase as to profit by its...
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Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850I wish to call attention to the peculiar use of a word, or rather to a peculiar word, in Shakspeare, which I do not recollect to have met with in any other writer. I say a "peculiar...
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Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850Without being what the Germans would call a purist, I cannot deem it an object of secondary importance to defend the principles of the law and constitution of the English language. For the adoption of words we...
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Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 31, June 1, 1850[** Transcriber's note. I used the Unicode combining diacritical to indicate a long o in Hreseos. In the note on Parish Register's Tax, I could not make out one superscript; I have left it as an asterisk....
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Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850I am not sufficiently Quixotic to attempt a defence of the Carthaginians on the western coast of Africa, or any where else, but I submit that the accusation brought against them by Mr. S. Bannister, formerly Attorney-General...
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The Nuttall EncyclopædiaThe Nuttall Encyclopædia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge"The NUTTALL ENCYCLOPDIA" is the fruit of a project to provide, in a concise and condensed form, and at a cheap rate, an epitome of the kind of information given in the...
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Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the author of the Taming...
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Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850The sketch of Europe, which our illustrious Alfred has inserted in his translation of Orosius, is justly considered, both here and on the Continent, as a valuable fragment of antiquity1; and I am sorry that I can...
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Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850Perhaps some one of your numerous readers will be good enough to inform me whether any general statistical returns, compiled from our early parish registers, have ever been published. An examination of the register of Chart next...
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Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Running my eye accidentally through the household book of Sir Roger Twysden, from 1659 to 1670, it occurred to me to make a comparison between the relative prices of meat and wages, as there given, in...
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Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 13, January 26, 1850T. Warton, in a note in vol. xvii. of the Variorum Shakespeare, says, "Samingo, that is San Domingo, as some of the commentators have observed. But what is the meaning and propriety of the name here, has...
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Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850About ten years since, I remember seeing, in the hands of a London bookseller, a curious MS. purporting to be the "Household Book of Receipts and Expences of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., of Surrenden Dering, Kent, from...
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Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849Sir,In Dr. Maitland's able vindication of the Dark Ages (p. 419. 1st ed.), he concludes his interesting extract from the scribe Otloh's account of himself by saying:"One would like to know what books they were which Otlohnus...
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Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849[Among the curious documents which have been produced from time to time before the House of Lords in support of peerage claims, there have been few of greater historical interest than the one which we now reprint...
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Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849[The following valuable original letter is now published for the first time. It will be found to be of very considerable historical curiosity and interest. The resignation of the Great Commoner in 1761, and his acceptance at...
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Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849I suppose that the history of travelling in this country, from the Creation to the present time, may be divided into four periodsthose of no coaches, slow coaches, fast coaches, railways. Whether balloons, or rockets, or some...
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Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850generally supposed to form a part of Hudibras, are to be found (as Mr. Cunningham points out, at p. 602. of his Handbook for London), in the Musarum Delici, 12mo. 1656; a clever collection of "witty trifles,"...
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Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 02, November 10, 1849In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform. We stated that "we would rather give a specimen than a...
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