Notes and Queries Vol. IV., No. 95, Saturday, August 23. 1851
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- Various
- Title
- Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 95, August 23, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- AG: General Works: Dictionaries and other general reference books
- Subject
- Questions and answers -- Periodicals
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- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38386
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38386
- Release Date
- December 22, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Vol. IV.—No. 95. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.Notes. — THE PENDULUM DEMONSTRATION OF THE EARTH'S ROTATION. — Minor Notes. — The Day of the Month. — Foreign English. — Birds' Care for the Dead. — Snake's Antipathy to Fire. — Aldgate, London. (A Note for London Antiquaries) — Erroneous Scripture Quotations.
- 4.Queries. — THE LADY ELIZABETH HORNER OR MONTGOMERY. — POPE AND FLATMAN. — Minor Queries. — 80. Southampton Brasses. — 81. Borough-English. — 82. Passage in St. Bernard. — 83. Spenser's Faerie Queene (b. ii. c. ix. st. 22.).— — 84. Broad Halfpenny Down. — 85. Roll Pedigree of Howard, of Great Howard, Co. Lancaster. — 86. Rev. John Paget, of Amsterdam. — 87. Visiting Cards. — 88. Duke de Berwick and Alva. — 89. The Earl of Derwentwater. — 90. "But very few have seen the Devil." — 91. Aulus Gellius' Description of a Dimple. — 92. Forgotten Authors of the Seventeenth Century. — Minor Queries Answered. — Sundays, on what Days of the Month? — John Lilburne.
- 5.Replies. — "LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL." (Vol. iii., p. 464.) — MEANING OF "PRENZIE." (Vol. iv., pp. 63, 64.) — HOUSE OF YVERY. (Vol. iii., p. 101.) — QUEEN BRUNÉHAUT. (Vol. iv., p. 86) — LORD MAYOR NOT A PRIVY COUNCILLOR. (Vol. iv., p. 9.) — COWPER OR COOPER. (Vol. iv., pp. 24.93) — Replies to Minor Queries — Voce Populi Halfpenny (Vol. iv., pp. 19. 56.). — Dog's Head in the Pot (Vol. iii., pp. 264. 463.). — " O wearisome Condition of Humanity " (Vol. iii., p. 241.). — Bunyan and the "Visions of Heaven and Hell" (Vol. iii., pp. 70. 89. 289. 467.). — Pope's Translations or Imitations of Horace (Vol. i., p. 230.; Vol. iv., pp. 58. 122.). — Prophecies of Nostradamus (Vol. iv., p. 86.). — Thread the Needle (Vol. iv., p. 39.). — Salmon Fishery in the Thames (Vol. iv., p. 87.). — Entomological Query (Vol. iv., p. 101.). — School of the Heart (Vol. iii., p. 390.). — Fortune, Infortune, Fort une (Vol. iv., p. 57.). — Ackey Trade (Vol. iv., p. 40.). — Curious Omen at Marriage (Vol. iii., p. 406.)
- 6.Miscellaneous. — NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. — BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. — Notices to Correspondents.
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