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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
No. 186. |
Saturday, May 21, 1853. |
Price Fourpence. |
CONTENTS.
Notes:— |
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Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" |
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Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes |
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Hoveden's Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves |
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Folk Lore:—Raven Superstition—African Folk Lore —Funeral Custom |
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Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. |
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Minor Notes:—Portrait of Luther—Randle Wilbraham —Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott—Crassus' Saying |
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Queries:— |
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Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke |
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"The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley |
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Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman |
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Minor Queries:—Polidus—St. Paul's Epistles to Seneca—Meaning of "folowed"—Roman Catholic Registers—St. Alban's Day—Meigham, the London Printer—Adamsoniana—Canker or Brier Rose— "Short red, god red"—Overseers of Wills—Lepel's Regiment—Vincent Family—Passage in the First Part of Faust—Lady Anne Gray—Continental Brasses —Peter Beaver—Cremonas—Cranmer and Calvin |
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Minor Queries with Answers:—"A Letter to a Convocation Man"—Prester John—Homer's Iliad in a Nut—Monogram of Parker Society—The Five Alls— Corvizer |
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Replies:— |
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English Comedians in Germany |
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A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death, by Henry H. Breen |
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Longevity |
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Derivation of Canada, by Robert Wright |
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Setantiorum Portus |
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Photographic Correspondence:—Stereoscopic Queries —Photographic Portraits of Criminals, &c.—Photography applied to Catalogues of Books—Application of Photography to the Microscope |
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Replies to Minor Queries:—Discovery At Nuneham Regis—Eulenspiegel, or Howleglas—Parochial Libraries —Painter—Pepys's "Morena"—Pylades and Corinna—Judge Smith—Grindle—Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle—English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth—Borrowed Thoughts—Dr. South v. Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c.—Foucault's Experiment —Passage in "Locksley Hall"—Lake of Geneva—"Inter cuncta micans"—"Its"—Gloves at Fairs—Astronomical Query—Tortoiseshell Tom Cat—Sizain on the Pope, the Devil, and the Pretender —Wandering Jew—Hallett and Dr. Saxby— "My mind to me a kingdom is"—Claret—Suicide at Marseilles—Etymology of Slang—Scanderbeg's Sword —Arago on the Weather—Rathe—Carr Pedigree— Banbury Cakes—Detached Belfry Towers, &c. |
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Miscellaneous:— |
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Notes on Books, &c. |
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Books and Odd Volumes wanted |
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Notices to Correspondents |
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