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Notes and Queries, Index to Seventh Volume, January-June 1853Notes and Queries, Index to Seventh Volume, January-June 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Printed by Thomas Clark Shaw, of No. 10. Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No. 5. New Street Square, in...
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Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.The letters of great men are always interesting, more particularly when they are connected with important historical facts. I presume, therefore, that those I subjoin...
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Notes and Queries, Number 176, March 12, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 176, March 12, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.The Rev. Mr. Dyce omits the play of Lust's Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen, from the excellent, and (in all other respects) complete edition of...
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Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.The following genial and characteristic letter from the poet, having escaped the research of the Rev. T. S. Grimshaw, may be thought worthy of transference...
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Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.On the south side of the chancel of Conington Church, Hunts., stands a handsome, massive, and elaborately-carved oaken chair, which has been traditionally known as...
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Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.One of the most striking predictions occurs in Daniel Baker's Certaine Warning for a Naked Heart, Lond. 1659. After much invective against the evil ways...
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Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.I have been favoured by a friend, who visited Italy last year, with the perusal of a small guidebook, which has afforded me much amusement,...
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Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 171, February 5, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.I send you a very eloquent tribute to the genius and power of the English language by Jacob Grimm, extracted from a paper entitled "Ueber...
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Notes and Queries, Number 170, January 29, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 170, January 29, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.This work, so often quoted, is familiar to every antiquary; but as the name of the intelligent and laborious editor does not appear in any...
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Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.In some of the earlier numbers of "N. & Q.," there occur disquisitions as to the origin of the term blackguard, and the time at...
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Notes and Queries, Number 168, January 15, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 168, January 15, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.In an original letter from James Boaden to Northcote the artist, I find the following passage; and I add to it the verses to which...
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Notes and Queries, Number 167, January 8, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 167, January 8, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.In the Museum of Antiquities of Rouen is preserved an original document, thus designated, "Lettre d'Edouard, Prince de Galles (1471)." It is kept under a...
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Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853Notes and Queries, Number 166, January 1, 1853 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.We might, without any offence against truth or modesty, begin our Seventh Volume by congratulating ourselves and our Readers on the continued success and increasing...
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Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.By far the larger portion of our tales consist of those connected with the popular mythology of elves, and giants, and bleeding trees; of witches...
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Notes and Queries, Number 138, June 19, 1852Notes and Queries, Number 138, June 19, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.It is impossible to read Chalmers' and Wilson's Lives of Defoe without being constantly struck not merely by the want of all critical acumen and...
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Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.The London booksellers of the present day (good harmless men!) are satisfied with endeavouring to put down heresies as to discounts. Their predecessors, in the...
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Notes and Queries, Number 136, June 5, 1852Notes and Queries, Number 136, June 5, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Previous to receiving the appointment of Norroy King at Arms, Oldys wrote a short account of his own life, which is now in my possession;...
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Notes and Queries, Number 135, May 29, 1852Notes and Queries, Number 135, May 29, 1852 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Possibly some of the readers of "N. & Q." may remember that King John II. of France was taken prisoner by Edward the Black Prince...
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Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF CICERO, translated from the German of ABEKEN. Edited by the REV. C. MERIVALE, B.D., late Fellow of...
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Notes and Queries, Number 226, February 25, 1854Notes and Queries, Number 226, February 25, 1854 - A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.1. The Courses of Instruction are intended to impart systematically a knowledge of the scientific principles of Art, especially in its relation to the useful...
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