This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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10766 | Would you acquire the greatest peace-- The sweetest joy-- this world can give? |
13571 | Her brow was fair,the author? |
13571 | Mooney''s Goose? |
13571 | Speak the tongue that Shakspeare spoke,author of? |
13571 | ---- Did Elizabeth visit Bacon at Twickersham? |
13571 | ---- Was Quaries pensioned? |
13571 | ---- when does Easter end? |
13571 | ---- whence comes"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?" |
13571 | ----( H.) on when does Easter end? |
13571 | Boy or Girl? |
13571 | Bunyan, Did he know Hobbes? |
13571 | Carpets, when introduced? |
13571 | Quarles, was he pensioned? |
13571 | Rocque, Jean, query, Who was he? |
13571 | S.(R.J.) on when does East end? |
13571 | Volusemus, or Wilson? |
13536 | ---- who was Lord Karinthon? |
13536 | ----( query) did he write the New Star of the North? |
13536 | ----, was he Sir G. Jackson? |
13536 | ----, why did he quit Manchester? |
13536 | American aborigines, why called Indians? |
13536 | Black broth, Lacedaemonian, was it coffee? |
13536 | Constitution Hill, why so called? |
13536 | Coxcombs vanquish Berkeley, author of? |
13536 | Darnley( Henry Lord), where was he born? |
13536 | Ed., what are deepenings? |
13536 | Father, when did clergymen cease to be so called? |
13536 | Jackson( Sir George), was he not"Junius"? |
13536 | Mayors, what is their correct prefix? |
13536 | { 501} E.F. why are gloves not worn before royalty? |
13544 | Dr. What should the Pater noster, and the holy candell do therto? |
13544 | Is there any doubt on this point? |
13544 | Is this information to be depended on or not? |
13544 | May not the name of the sauce take its origin from the use of it in preparing the turtle for the table? |
13544 | My Query is,"Is it likely he could have obtained it from Junius, if he was neither Junius himself nor a party concerned?" |
13544 | Query? |
13544 | The Query is, to whom was it addressed? |
13544 | What are Depinges? |
13544 | What is known of the work, which is really Columna''s? |
13544 | When the great mortar was set up in St. James''s Park, some one asked"Why the carriage was ornamented with dog''s heads?" |
11577 | ; Clarence[?] |
11577 | Also, where is the correspondent bust of James I., formerly at Whitehall, of which there is an engraving by N. Smith? |
11577 | Are they original? |
11577 | Does any one know the precise whereabouts of such a phrase in the Ancient Service books? |
11577 | Duke of York,"& c. This description raises one''s curiosity greatly, and query, has this tapestry been elsewhere described? |
11577 | Has any reader a_ Note_ whereby to tell who are the present representatives of Greenes of"Green''s Norton?" |
11577 | If not, will you, or one of your readers, give the interpretation to CLERICUS? |
11577 | Is this probable? |
11577 | When a Petition ends with"Your Petitioner shall ever pray,& c."what form of words does the"& c."represent? |
11577 | Who was Mr. Matheman? |
11577 | and what has now become of his acquisition? |
11577 | or who was"Richard Greene, Apothecary,"who was living 1770, and bore the arms of that family? |
11577 | which formerly adorned the Painted Chamber in the ancient Palace of Westminster? |
13684 | (_ qy._ Charles Edward Horn? |
13684 | ).--Is not this word simply a corruption of_ Hockey_? |
13684 | 85.?] |
13684 | Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of this book in a public library, or in private hands? |
13684 | Fudit Josias Ibach Stada Bramensis;"and is Mr. Hewitt, in his recent_ Memoir of Tobias Rustat_, correct in calling him"Stada, an_ Italian_ artist?" |
13684 | How, or what, is the best way of driving the foul air out of those chambers which are aloof from the central shaft? |
13684 | If so, where can more be found respecting him? |
13684 | M._"Who was Temple Stanyan? |
13684 | T.J.[ Footnote 4: Has"ARCHILAEUS"looked for these verses into the_ Rhodologia_ of Rosenbergius? |
13684 | That of_ Leer_ possibly_ lieren_, amittere, privari? |
13684 | The root of_ Leder_ is possibly_ hlid- an_, to cover HIDE? |
13684 | There is a portrait of Dogget the celebrated comedian( said to be the only one extant, but query if it is not Penkethman? |
13684 | [ Footnote 3: Is not the derivation of"feast"and"fast"originally the same? |
13684 | _ Worm of Lambton._--Is there any published notice of the"Knight and Serpent"tradition regarding this family and parish? |
13684 | _ Zenobia a Jewess?_( No. |
13684 | in July 1612? |
13550 | 1. regards, I presume,_ Henno Comediola Rustico Ludicra, nunc iterum publicata_; Magdeburg, 1614, 8vo.? |
13550 | Is there nobody there who could inform us at what time the London coach started a century ago? |
13550 | My question is, whether such a production is in existence? |
13550 | Or, 2ndly, of a little work of early date callled_ Henno Rusticus_? |
13550 | Or, 3dly, of another, called_ Of the Sige( Signe) of the End_? |
13550 | Query.--Which of the two is the more probable version? |
13550 | Should we not read"Borde- hill?" |
13550 | Sir,--Can you or any of your correspondents tell me of one or two of the best works on the"Genealogy of European Sovereigns?" |
13550 | Where did Walpole find this anecdote? |
13550 | Who first used the phrase--"_When bad men conspire, good men must combine_"? |
13550 | Who was the person thus alluded to? |
13550 | Will some of your antiquarian correspondents throw some light on the obscurity? |
11636 | *_ Passage from an Old Play._ Can any of your many readers oblige me by informing me where the following very striking passage can be found? |
11636 | Can any one your readers inform me what became of this collection, which, by Sir Roger''s statement, was finished and completely ready for the press? |
11636 | Can you tell me any thing of a family named"_ Giles_,"whose crest was a horse''s head? |
11636 | Could this have originated the expression"Flemish account?" |
11636 | Did it appear anywhere else and in any other shape? |
11636 | From what author,"chapter and verse,"comes the motto of the University of Cambridge, HINC LUCEM ET POCULA SAGRA? |
11636 | If William de Bolton was an ecclesiastic, as I suppose, how is it that his wife is openly mentioned? |
11636 | Is not"_ Stäts_-Kutsche,"in the same communication, a misprint? |
11636 | Is there an authentic bust of Sir Walter Raleigh in existence? |
11636 | May not a 1 have"dropped"before the 6, so that the true lection will be,"dass wir auf dem ganzen Wege kaum 16 Stunden gefahren sind"? |
11636 | Or were gloves proscribed as the remembrances of the gauntlet cast down as a challenge? |
11636 | The preparation of such catalogues is a work of expense and labour, but must be well repaid(?) |
11636 | This time corresponds with the time of return, on which he set out in the evening( at 8?) |
11636 | Who was"Honnore Pell, 1684"? |
11636 | Will_ MUSARUM STUDIOSUS_ enable us to communicate with him directly? |
11636 | _ Don Quixote._ Sir,--Have the following contradictions in Cervantes''account of Sancho''s ass"Dapple"ever been noticed or accounted for? |
11636 | and if so, where is it to be found? |
12505 | ***** IS THE DOMBEC THE DOMESDAY OF ALFRED? |
12505 | 2. Who were Urbanus Regius and Walter Lynne? |
12505 | 2nd, Are any of your correspondents aware of the existence of a perfect copy of the work? |
12505 | 364 Is the Dombec the Domesday of Alfred? |
12505 | Can any of your readers explain what place is meant by"Scala Coeli?" |
12505 | Does any one know the origin of this singular custom? |
12505 | Is this a known custom? |
12505 | Is this notion prevalent in other parts of the country, as a piece of"Folk- Lore?" |
12505 | Is this volume well known? |
12505 | My queries are, 1st, Who bought Mr. Heber''s fragment, and where is it now to be found? |
12505 | What is its origin? |
12505 | Would it not be worth while to give a_ facsimile_ of the"Tabel for all manere of merchauntes,"in the"Notes and Queries"? |
13713 | It is, in fact,''das Neue''in the genitive case;and"Mr. H."proceeds to mention the German phrase,"Was giebt''s Neues?" |
13713 | ( why was he knighted?) |
13713 | Can any thing be more dogmatic than his assertions? |
13713 | Can he have been born in 1510, as the first one says"obiit_ immaturâ_ morte?" |
13713 | Does the practice exist elsewhere? |
13713 | Had the bearing of coat armour, or a connection with knighthood, any thing to do with the matter? |
13713 | How are these two epitaphs, with their differing dates, to be reconciled? |
13713 | How far was it the voice of God?" |
13713 | M. Stokes of 1531 wrote this distich on him:--''Os, oculi, mentum, dens, guttur, lingua, palatum Sunt tibi; sed nasus, Trimbale, dic ubi sit?'' |
13713 | Ought not the words to be printed"and all- to brake his scull,"where"all- to"="altogether"? |
13713 | Query, did not salt acquire this high character, and its use in all sacrifices, from its powers of resisting corruption? |
13713 | The islet was probably that of_ La Cruz_; but what were the birds? |
13713 | Was he not living there shortly before his death? |
13713 | What relation was Lewis Smith to the Smiths Lord Carrington? |
13713 | Why, too, omit that characteristic feature of the street, the rows of_ sedan chairs_ with which it was formerly lined? |
13713 | _ Fifth Son._--What is the superstition relating to a fifth son? |
13713 | and did not his funeral at Westminster Abbey proceed from Mr. Moore''s? |
13713 | and what was the indigenous name which is represented by_ Solticarios_? |
13713 | as giving the exact sense of our"What is the news?" |
13713 | is not the genitive, but the nominative neuter, so that the phrase is to be literally translated"What is there new?" |
11651 | But what was the peculiar virtue attributed to such coins? |
11651 | Can Portum Pusillum be Littleport, in the same country? |
11651 | Can any of your correspondents enlighten me on the point, and give me references in proof? |
11651 | Do the stanzas"on the Queen''s Return"and the lines on the Death of Sir B. Grenvill exist in any of the various collections of State Poems? |
11651 | Does"mare"stand for"stagnum,""palus,""mariscus,"or our English"mere?" |
11651 | Has your correspondent any authority for his reading? |
11651 | Hence arises my first question-- if Cartwright were not the author of this poem, who was? |
11651 | Query, what was this competition, and were any of the other versions published? |
11651 | Query, when and where originally published? |
11651 | Query, when and where originally published? |
11651 | Sir,--Can you, or any of your readers, give me any information relating to Caraccioli''s_ Life of Lord Clive_? |
11651 | Was the whole poem"On the Queen''s Return"foisted in, or only the two stanzas above quoted, which were excluded when the book was called in? |
11651 | What is the earliest known instance of the use of a beaver hat in England? |
11651 | Would any of your readers favour me with the meaning of the word Trabeatio? |
15638 | 32.,"[ Greek: oude ho hyios],""Neither the Son?" |
15638 | And can any light be thrown upon the authorship of the_ History of the Sevarambians_ from any English source? |
15638 | And who was the writer? |
15638 | Can any of your correspondents refer me to an older copy, or do they know of the existence of one which belongs to a later period? |
15638 | Can this duty have come to be popularly attributed as part of the royal style and title?" |
15638 | From what author is this inscription taken? |
15638 | In Southey''s_ Common- place Book_, 3d series, I found the following in p. 712.:--"Of the wretched poem_ Colin and Lucy_( Tickel?) |
15638 | J.C."_ Talk not of Love._"--Do any of your musical correspondents know the author of the following song, and whether it has ever appeared in print? |
15638 | Query, Are the persons here represented the barons and officers of the Exchequer? |
15638 | Query, Is Vairasse''s residence in England mentioned by any English writer? |
15638 | Query, was he then in England? |
15638 | Was Hewson, the Parliamentarian colonel, a cobbler? |
15638 | What is the etymology of_ grasson_, a word used in some north- country manors for a fine paid on alienation of copyhold lands? |
15638 | Will any of your correspondents oblige me by supplying either a reference for this statement, or a disproof of it-- or both? |
15638 | _ Chapel, Printing- office._--Is there any other authority than Creery''s_ Press_ for the statement that printing- offices are called chapels? |
15638 | _ The Butcher Duke._--Can any of your readers furnish me with the rest of a Scotch song of which I have heard these two couplets? |
15638 | _ Was Quarles pensioned?_( Vol. |
15638 | and, more especially, who are the persons who exclaim"Oy de brie,""Soit oughte,"and"Chalange"? |
15638 | asks, in what rebellion was the banner carried with the motto"God speed the plough?" |
15638 | i., p. 382, whether"Gray''s celebrated Latin Ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse?" |
15638 | published as a fragment of Elizabeth''s age, the reviewer says,''Is this the language of Q. Elizabeth''s time, or something better? |
11929 | Credimus? 11929 ):--A Benefice quha wald give sic a Beist, But gif it were to jingle_ Judas bells_? |
11929 | 5., Dampet says:--"Why, thou rogue of universality, do I not know thee? |
11929 | Ast illam potuitne Puer donare sagittis? |
11929 | Can any of your correspondents produce the authority for this anecdote? |
11929 | Can any of your numerous readers be good enough to mention the title of the novel alluded to, which has escaped my memory? |
11929 | Does your correspondent suppose that Northmouth was among the fens? |
11929 | In_ what_ rebellion was such a banner carried? |
11929 | Is there any English translation of Ælian''s_ Various History_, or of the work ascribed to the same author on the_ Peculiarities of Animals_? |
11929 | Now, the first of these assumptions I answer, by asking,"Does it follow?" |
11929 | Query--_Who_ is the_ poet?_ II. |
11929 | T.J._ Dog Latin._--Permit me also to ask, what is the origin of the expression"Dog Latin"? |
11929 | Was it one of consanguinity, or merely one of feudal dependence? |
11929 | Where is it deposited? |
11929 | Who would not gladly recover this"old rhyme?" |
11929 | _ A"Gib"Cat._--What is the etymology of the term"Gibbe,"as applied to the male cat? |
11929 | _ Lear._"When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools,--This a good block?" |
11929 | asks,"What is the earliest known instance of the use of a_ beaver hat_ in England?" |
11929 | formerly in the possession of the above- named Thomas Astle, formerly Keeper of the Tower Records? |
13513 | : What is the earliest known instance of the card in question being so designated? |
13513 | But,_ query_, was the"Pegg"of the_ Diary_, Peg Hughes? |
13513 | Can any of your correspondents tell me who she was? |
13513 | Can you inform me whether that gentleman published any work or made an avowed communication of any of his researches? |
13513 | Did Madoc, son of Owen Gwynedd, prince of Wales, discover America? |
13513 | If any notice of the tune is to be met with earlier than 1695, when it was printed by H. Playford in his_ Dancing Master_? |
13513 | Mr. Editor,--Legour asks, why the people in Suffolk call a lady- bird"Bishop Barnaby?" |
13513 | The invention of the Pointed Arch can not, surely, be attributed to the_ Goths_; whence then the origin and the_ meaning_ of the term_ Gothic_? |
13513 | What are the modern names of"Watewich,""Portum Pusillum,""Mare de Saham,""Perpessa,"and"Northmuth?" |
13513 | What is the etymon of"Cowley"( Temple Cowley and Church Cowley)? |
13513 | Where any notice of that Roger is to be found? |
13513 | Who can so far confide in his memory as to append his name to a list of authorities without seeming to prove his own superficiality? |
13513 | Who undertakes extensive research except for an especial purpose? |
13513 | Your well- wisher, L.***** THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND-- WHY IS THE NINE OF DIAMONDS SO CALLED? |
13513 | _ Query._--Does the phrase"to eat humble pie,"used to signify a forced humiliation, owe its origin to the"umble pye"specified above? |
13513 | and connected with Bury? |
13513 | and what became of it at the sale of his books? |
13513 | had a son, Charles Fitz- Charles, created Earl of Plymouth, 29th July, 1675, died 1680? |
13513 | or is it only one of the imaginary editions which give bibliographers so much trouble?" |
13513 | papers, been ever verified? |
11265 | ( Ling? |
11265 | --And why do the people in Suffolk call a ladybird"Bishop Barnaby?" |
11265 | Can I learn through your columns whether the work is any where accessible in London? |
11265 | Can any of your readers oblige me by informing me who was their author? |
11265 | Does a copy exist in MS., or in print, of the sermon which Archbishop Tennison preached at the funeral of Nell Gwynne? |
11265 | Is there any contemporary copy of the celebrated letter said to have been written by Anne Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery, to Sir Joseph Williamson? |
11265 | Penes Henrici Muchet; Liber de vita Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ et remediarum(?) |
11265 | Penes Ricardi de Queye; Omeliæ Gregorii(?) |
11265 | Query, the origin of the word"Grog?" |
11265 | Satyricon_, such as Callion, Pereas, Fibullius,& c., are real characters or not? |
11265 | Secondly,"Had they ever appeared in any shape before they were inserted in the copy of Cibber''s_ Apology_ now before me, in 1740, 4to?" |
11265 | Sir,--The following is an extract from a Catalogue of Books for sale, issued by Mr. Asher, of Berlin, in 1844:--"Bodenham? |
11265 | Then come to my pack, While I cry"What d''ye lack, What d''ye buy? |
11265 | What is the origin of the name TOWER ROYAL, as applied to a London locality, and when did our kings( if they ever inhabited it) cease to inhabit it? |
11265 | What pleasure is there in a kiss, To him that doubts the heart''s not his? |
11265 | When was CONSTITUTION HILL first so called, and why? |
11265 | Would you be willing to receive"Queries"respecting_ references_? |
11265 | p.877.? |
11707 | 1539? |
11707 | 1613"? |
11707 | 2.? |
11707 | 30, and that which bears the date,"Copenhagen, Grundtvig, 1840, 8vo"? |
11707 | Can any light be thrown on the doubts respecting the era of the author of this lay? |
11707 | Can any of your readers inform me what is meant by"the blood of the_ Phuôn_?" |
11707 | Can your readers give an explanation of the term"pallace?" |
11707 | Has Mr. B. Ker''s work ever been reviewed? |
11707 | May it not be an allusion to a ballad or song on_ Domingo_, one of King Henry the Eighth''s jesters?" |
11707 | Park was not acquainted with any particulars of this_ Domingo Lomelyn_, for he says, in a note,"Query, jester to the king?" |
11707 | Query, is_ this_ the origin of the phrase? |
11707 | Query, was this the same as the Duke of York''s Bagnio? |
11707 | The whole work will well repay a perusal, and what is there of Defoe''s writing which will not? |
11707 | To the question,"Hwilce fixas gefehst thu?" |
11707 | Yours truly,? |
11707 | may be able to give_ his_, for deriving it from"_ Forest Customs_?" |
11707 | sprout, rod?" |
13463 | Cease, Hippocrites, to trouble heaven How can ye think to be forgiven The dismall deed you''ve done? 13463 ''But how am I to know the house?'' 13463 ''Have some breakfast with me?'' 13463 ''How d''ye do?'' 13463 --Will any of your readers help to interpret the following expression in a mediæval author:--( Ut vulgò loquitur) modum promissionis ostendit?" |
13463 | Can any of your correspondents decide? |
13463 | Can any of your readers inform me who St. Uncumber was? |
13463 | Has this work since appeared? |
13463 | He says:--"Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord''s Prayer in English?... |
13463 | I have reason to think that_ modum promissionis_ means"a provisional arrangement:"but by whom, and in what common parlance, was this expression used? |
13463 | In what part of his works are these words to be found? |
13463 | Is anything known about it, or its authenticity? |
13463 | Is it related to"gnake?" |
13463 | Is there in the British Museum or elsewhere a list of incumbents of church livings in Kent( with name and birthplace) from 1600 to 1660? |
13463 | May_ Cornubioe_ be by error for_ Cordubioe_? |
13463 | Query, Might not Mr. Bohn with advantage include this work in his_ Standard Library_? |
13463 | The great question is, Where was this great city? |
13463 | Then seeing the count, who had so lately been finding fault{ 276} with his son''s name, he roared out,--''Dog, are you here?'' |
13463 | Will any of your correspondents inform me if this reference is correct, and if the list can be examined? |
13463 | _ Doggrel._--Has the word any connexion with_ sdrucciolo_? |
13463 | and, are the_ Julin_ of Adam and the_ Veneta_ of Helmold identical? |
13463 | or would point out the sources from which such information can be obtained? |
13411 | But supposing this to be so, it would in no way affect the only question which is material, Who was Caxton''s patron? |
13411 | By so much the lesse doo I beleeue them; doo not you know that euerie yeare_ such newes are_ spreade abroade? |
13411 | Can any explanation be given of_ alarum_, supposing it to be the original word? |
13411 | Can it be ascertained whether the French took_ alarme_ from our_ alarm_, or we_ alarm_ from them? |
13411 | How far back can the word_ alarum_ be traced in our language, and how far back_ alarm_? |
13411 | Is it a word imitative of sound? |
13411 | Is_ anything_ known of this_ Nothing_? |
13411 | Nothing that I know; can you tell whether the post be come? |
13411 | Or, as our ancestors had_ newelté_ and_ neweltés_, can it have been a contraction of the latter? |
13411 | The question next arises, Does he not mean_ no system_, when he says_ system_? |
13411 | Thorpe, 1616? |
13411 | What doo they say abroade? |
13411 | Where is"sage Homer''s rule"to be found? |
13411 | Why, when he is only Chancellor of Great Britain, should he take the oath of Chancellor of Great Britain_ and Ireland_? |
13411 | _ Mediæval Nomenclature._--In what work is to be obtained the best information explanatory of the nomenclature of the useful arts in mediæval times? |
13411 | and what was the result of that trial-- death or pardon? |
13411 | have ye ony newes?'' |
13411 | what_ newes_ have you, Master Tiberio? |
11653 | By hook or by crook? |
11653 | Are Sjöborg''s works known to any of your readers? |
11653 | By what logic do we call one hundred and_ twelve_ pounds merely a hundred weight? |
11653 | Can any of your readers give me information as to the correctness of this statement? |
11653 | Can any of your readers inform me if D''Israeli acted upon this resolve, and, if so, where the results of labours are to be found? |
11653 | I should be very glad to have some distinct information on the above subject, especially in explanation of any repositories of human bones in England? |
11653 | In what language does he suppose the characters to be? |
11653 | Is the recently published BUSCAPIÉ the work of Cervantes? |
11653 | My own impression is that it will prove an ingenious( perhaps innocent?) |
11653 | Of course this date is a mistake, but query what is the real date? |
11653 | Qu.? |
11653 | What are they intended to represent or to emblemise? |
11653 | What is the origin of the word_ muffin?_ It is not in_ Johnson''s Dictionary._ Perhaps this sort of tea- cake was not known in his day. |
11653 | Will not ringing a peal, then, mean a succession of sweet sounds caused by the ringing of bells in certain keys? |
11653 | _ Fall of Rain in England._--Can you give me any information respecting the fall of rain in England? |
11653 | _ Was not Sir George Jackson"Junius? |
11653 | p.38., will you impress upon your correspondents the necessity of exact references? |
13521 | And whence arises this"earnest co- operation?" |
13521 | Are any aware that this survey, which would be valuable now, still exists? |
13521 | Can any of the correspondents of your valuable paper inform me of the origin and prevalence of this saying? |
13521 | Can any of your readers favour me with a clue to the_ Modest Discourse_? |
13521 | Can any of your readers give a clue to its recovery? |
13521 | Can any of your readers say whether this amulet is still in possession of the President of the French Republic? |
13521 | Can any of your readers supply me with a reference to any detailed plan, from Sir John, for the general improvement of the metropolis? |
13521 | Is any thing known of such a privilege being claimed or exercised by the men of Scarborough? |
13521 | Is the former portion to be understood"[ Greek: A. O. Zoae agion Christos]"? |
13521 | It is not, therefore, probable, that we should read"a several hand?" |
13521 | What does the inscription mean? |
13521 | What evidence is there of this edition of 1536, beyond the statement in Ames? |
13521 | What has become of the copy of the edition of 1540, formerly belonging to Herbert? |
13521 | What is the import of the latter? |
13521 | When there is a choice of nouns to make intelligible sense, how can that one be understood which is not expressed? |
13521 | Why should it not have arisen from the insect''s garb? |
13521 | Would it not be worth while that some inquiry should be made about the fate of this picture? |
13521 | _ Greek Verse._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of the line--"[ Greek: Pollai men thnaetois glottai, mia d''athanatoisi]?" |
13521 | _ To Fettle._--What is the derivation of the verb"to fettle?" |
13521 | and if not, why not? |
13521 | and, 3. Who are the persons who_ peruse_ and revise the latter edition? |
13521 | inquires what modern author suggests the probability of coffee being the black broth of the Lacedæmonians? |
13521 | inquires what was the ultimate fate of the"tall Maypole"which"once o''erlooked the Strand"? |
13729 | Le malheur de ta fille au tombeau descendue, Par un commun trépas, Est- ce quelque dédale, où ta raison perdue Ne se retrouve pas? 13729 Allow me to add a Query: Who are the persons now privileged to wear these collars? 13729 And, indeed, what kind of hounds were they, that thus formed a part of the City establishment? 13729 And-- when did he live? 13729 Can any of your correspondents supply me with any instance in whichplaster"or"plaister"is spelt"paster"by any old English writer? |
13729 | Can any of your readers inform me where the original is to be found, and also the origin of the word"Maggot"as applied to a tune? |
13729 | Can any of your readers tell me whether anything is known of this book? |
13729 | How many of noble_ Chaucer''s_ readers never so much as suspect this his short essay of knowledge, transcending the common Rode? |
13729 | I should like to add two Queries:--Who was the Chevallier de Cailly( or d''Aceilly), the author of the French epigram mentioned by Mr. Singer? |
13729 | Is the doggerel poem in the_ State Poems_ Marvel''s? |
13729 | Is there any other authority for Queen Catharine''s fondness for dancing than the following lines of the poem? |
13729 | Is there any specific account of the"tonne in Cornhyll"existing? |
13729 | Modest._? |
13729 | Mr. SIMPSON''s second question is,"In what book was it first printed?" |
13729 | Of course"Houndsditch"is here meant; but for what purpose were the hounds kept? |
13729 | R.J._ Mildew in Books._--Can you, or any of your readers, suggest a preventive for mildew in books? |
13729 | Were they bloodhounds for tracking criminals, or hounds kept for the special behoof and pleasure of the"Lord Mair, Aldermen, and Comen Coûsel?" |
13729 | When did it become so? |
13729 | Wilts., was buried, and whether there is any monument of him existing in any church? |
13729 | _ Curfew._--In what towns or villages in England is the old custom of ringing the curfew still retained? |
13729 | and are these words to be found in Watson''s_ Quodlibets_? |
13729 | and under what circumstances, and at what dates, was such privilege reduced to its present limitation? |
13729 | scire vellem Si Papatus mutat pellem?" |
16409 | Friend Ass,said the Fox, as he met him one day,"What can people mean?--Do you know what they say?" |
16409 | What are_ depenings_? |
16409 | ; does that signature allude to any matter in particular? |
16409 | Also: What is the origin of the Friday Streets so common in most villages in this neighbourhood? |
16409 | Are they common in other counties besides Suffolk? |
16409 | Can any of your readers tell me whether this is in any way a general superstition amongst the lower orders, or is it confined to the West of England? |
16409 | Can any satisfactory information be furnished which will explain the custom here alluded to? |
16409 | Can it mean a fee paid on_ loosing_ the vessel in order to leave the port? |
16409 | Do these instances imply that a definite boundary, a modern German style, is indefensible? |
16409 | Dr. Wolfe? |
16409 | For what purpose were they anciently used? |
16409 | If your correspondent has nothing to urge in favour of this conjecture, why disinter it? |
16409 | Is, then, the law governing small and large surface different? |
16409 | May I, under these circumstances, crave a short note in your next Number, correcting the oversight, so that my Porker may be set on his legs again? |
16409 | My query is,''Is it likely he would have obtained it from Junius, if he were neither Junius himself nor a party concerned?''" |
16409 | Of another song, equally popular, less pathetic, but of more spirit- stirring character, can any one supply the remainder? |
16409 | Or, is such a picture as the Van Eyh in the National Gallery a vindication of the practice in small works? |
16409 | What can be the meaning of this, obtain_ from Junius_ a letter which Junius had sent to Woodfall? |
16409 | When was it written?--upon what occasion?--who are meant by the Bear and the Louse? |
16409 | Why are they called Guildhalls? |
16409 | _ Rococo._--Would any correspondent of"NOTES AND QUERIES"give the history of this word, or indicate where it is to be found? |
16409 | _ Use of Coffins._--How long has it been the custom to inter the dead in coffins? |
16409 | _ Vox Populi_--_Monody on Sir John Moore._--Can any reader give me the origin of the saying"_ Vox Populi, Vox Dei_?" |
16409 | at p. 243? |
16409 | from which the_ Complutensian Polyglot_ was compiled?" |
16409 | has inquired, What is known of Columna''s book, entitled_ Mare Historiarum_? |
16409 | muttered Jack, quite appall''d by the word,"What can I have done that''s so very absurd?" |
16409 | or only indefensible in miniature? |
16409 | or, if the history is not known, state when, and by whom, it appears to have been_ first_ used? |
13426 | Blush not, fayre nimphe, tho( nee?) 13426 But where is the music on yonder green hill, oh; And where are the dancers, the dancers in yellow, All in yellow, all in yellow? |
13426 | Just when I lay down, I called to the waterman,''It blows hard, waterman,''said I;''can you swim?'' 13426 When she speaks, is it not an_ alarum_ to love?" |
13426 | ''Ay, so it does,''says I;''where are we?'' |
13426 | ''L-- d, Sir,''say''s he,''how can you sleep? |
13426 | ''Nor ca n''t your man swim neither?'' |
13426 | ''Well, well,''says I,''come, have a good heart; where are we now?'' |
13426 | 1.? |
13426 | An?_ an interrogation used when the speaker does not understand a question put to him. |
13426 | Are these verses from some old poet, or are they composed as well as written by the royal tyrant? |
13426 | Has the expression, or the thought, been traced to any writer previous to Bacon? |
13426 | I started up again, but still spoke cheerfully;''What''s the matter now?'' |
13426 | Nor does the latter occur in a perfect collection of the knights made by King James I., by J.P.( Query John Philipot? |
13426 | What was the origin of the custom? |
13426 | Why should not later practice and discoveries be published in a cheaper_ supplement_, to preserve the value of the original work? |
13426 | Will any of your correspondents give me the details of such process, with their opinions as to the practicability of the scheme? |
13426 | Will any of your readers kindly inform me whether his life has{ 218} ever been published, or where I can meet with the best account of him? |
13426 | Yes, we are tempted to spurn the question, When and where was smoking introduced? |
13426 | _ Anan? |
13426 | as being equal to When and where was_ man_ introduced? |
13426 | what, did you ship a sea?'' |
13822 | ).--Has the word"Gourders"any connection with_ Gourtes_, a stream, or pool? |
13822 | 414 QUERIES:-- When were Umbrellas introduced into England? |
13822 | And I would beg to suggest to such of your readers as may in the course of their travels visit this monastery, that books( need I say_ proper_ ones?) |
13822 | Are they tea- cakes? |
13822 | Can any of your readers refer me to where I can find any further account or elucidation of this affair? |
13822 | Can none of your genealogical readers clear up this point? |
13822 | Germ._) HENNES_ Seven Champions of Christendom._--Who was the author of_ The Seven Champions of Christendom_? |
13822 | How ancient that denomination was? |
13822 | Longi longorum longissime, Longe, virorum, Dic mihi, te quæso, num_ Breve_ quicquid habes? |
13822 | May I ask Mr. Singer whether either of these writers mentions the_ Solitaire_ as inhabiting Bourbon? |
13822 | May I be allowed to hazard a suggestion as to the origin of_ peny_, its synonym? |
13822 | To this I give another query,--What is the national motto of England? |
13822 | WHEN WERE UMBRELLAS INTRODUCED INTO ENGLAND? |
13822 | What was the allay that gave silver that denomination? |
13822 | What, too, are the"_ stillyard buns_"of Cotgrave? |
13822 | Whence that denomination came? |
13822 | Will any of your readers kindly tell me whether the view is correct? |
13822 | _ Emblem and National Motto of Ireland._--How long has the_ harp_ been the emblem, and_ Erin- go- bragh_ the national motto of Ireland? |
13822 | _ Geotere_ is the A.-S. word for"melter;"but may not the term be applied to the pourer out of anything? |
13822 | _ Latin Distich and Translation._--Who were the authors of the following Latin Distich, and its English translation? |
13822 | _ Pope Felix._--Who is"Pope Felix,"mentioned in Ælfric''s_ Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory_? |
13822 | in p. 382. of your 24th Number,"Whether Gray''s celebrated Latin Ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse?" |
13822 | or N._"--Of what words are"M. or N."the initials? |
13822 | { 415} Query, what is the date of the first introduction of the_ umbrella_ into England? |
13480 | 4. Who was the_ lady_ the Prior wished to seduce to the Roman party? |
13480 | : did the digamma get to Crediton by way of Cricklade? |
13480 | Adamson_, the author? |
13480 | Are the particular drugs employed by Leicester''s Italian physician"in removing obstacles"now known and in operation? |
13480 | Can any of your readers throw any light on the much disputed tenure_ per baroniam_? |
13480 | I wish to put the Query: Is this abominable massacre in cold blood mentioned by any of our historians? |
13480 | Is the Parisian house accredited by Engelman; or has the former served the latter as the London house has Served both? |
13480 | Is there any other account of the controversy? |
13480 | May I trust to his kindness to explain its purport? |
13480 | Morley are still in existence, either in MS. or in print? |
13480 | Or can any of them mention instances of the monuments of esquires having similar coronets? |
13480 | Query.--Can any of your readers give an accurate description of this coronet? |
13480 | The name is met with in the legends of St. Thomas can it be found elsewhere? |
13480 | What is a_ baker''s dozen_, and why so called? |
13480 | What was a dozen of bread in 1553? |
13480 | What was its essential character, what its incidents, and in what way did it differ from the ordinary tenure_ in capite_? |
13480 | Whether Cosin wrote any letter to the Prior_ later_ than that of July 25? |
13480 | Whether there be any fuller or more authentic account of the controversy than that in these MS. preserved by the care of Dr. Smith? |
13480 | Would it not be desirable that every such alteration should forthwith be communicate to your paper? |
13480 | _ What is the correct Prefix of Mayors?_( Vol. |
13480 | and who was the"giddy son?" |
13480 | ii., p. 214., allow me to ask in what edition of Perrault''s_ Fairy Tales_ the misprint of_ verre_ from_ vair_ first occurs? |
13480 | on which Warburton notes--"_ Arthur Moore, Esq._"Who was_ Arthur Moore, Esq._? |
13480 | what is the date of their first publication, as well as that of the translation under the title of_ Mother Goose''s Tales_? |
13480 | whether Perrault was the originator of_ Cinderella_, or from what source he drew the tale? |
20368 | I can not eat stones and turfs: say, what will he_ clem_ me and my followers? |
20368 | ( Castlereagh?) |
20368 | ):"Tun''_ trium literarum_ homo Me vituperas? |
20368 | 2. v. 83.:"Nemo repente_ venit_ turpissimus?" |
20368 | Can J. L. trace the Scotch term as far back as that? |
20368 | Can anybody furnish me with the place and date of his birth? |
20368 | D. G._ The Reformer''s Elm._--What was the origin of the name of"The Reformer''s Elm?" |
20368 | Has this manuscript ever been printed? |
20368 | May not the Yankee term have been made independently of the British one? |
20368 | Mediæval Collection of the British Museum? |
20368 | Was there ever a regular fraternity of philosophers bearing this appellation; or was it given merely as a title to all students in alchemy? |
20368 | What{ 621} is the meaning of this last word, and to whom does it refer? |
20368 | When inquiring the whereabouts of an individual, Devonians ask one another,"Where is he_ to_?" |
20368 | Where and what was it? |
20368 | Where is this story to be found, and is the fact related physically possible? |
20368 | Why should Aufidius speak thus of a brother who is not mentioned anywhere else in the play or in Plutarch? |
20368 | _ Boom._--Is there an English verb active_ to boom_, and what is the precise meaning of it? |
20368 | _ Garrick''s Funeral Epigram._--Who is the author of these verses? |
20368 | _ How to take Paint off old Oak._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of some way to take paint off old oak? |
20368 | _ Junius''s Letters to Wilkes._--Where are the original letters addressed by Junius to Mr. Wilkes? |
20368 | de la Milice Franc._, and what the origin of the name? |
20368 | what shall be thy amends For thy neglect of truth_ in beauty dyed_?" |
12589 | ''s time? |
12589 | Are Tables, giving the value of money at various periods in our history, to be found in any readily accessible source? |
12589 | By whom was the plan introduced into England? |
12589 | Can any of your correspondents inform me whether this right was exercised till the loss of that town, and, if so, who were the members? |
12589 | Can gratitude out- pant the silent breath, Or a friend''s sorrow pierce the glooms of death? |
12589 | Can this instrument have been a kind of Orrery? |
12589 | Does passion still the formless mind controul? |
12589 | Has any reader of the"NOTES AND QUERIES"met with Mynyddyslwyn in any document bearing an earlier date? |
12589 | Has it been recorded of any people in Europe, Asia, or Africa, that they were addicted to the practice of scalping? |
12589 | Has pride a portion in the parted soul? |
12589 | I should be much obliged by being informed when Easter ends? |
12589 | Is any account of their erection to be found in any_ Blue Book_ of the period? |
12589 | One Query which I would ask is, Was this execution at Winchester, in 1783( or thereabouts), the last instance in England? |
12589 | Perhaps a magic lantern? |
12589 | Was this done by parallel parabolical mirrors? |
12589 | Where may I turn for the above, more particularly for an account of the lady who had lost her hair and her nails? |
12589 | Wherefore was this mode of disposing of the dead bodies called"an ass''s sepulture?" |
12589 | Who was this great nobleman, and where may I find the fullest particulars of the whole transaction? |
12589 | _ Guineas_.--What is the earliest instance of the use of the word_ guinea_ as a name for a coin? |
12589 | _ Members for Durham_.--What was the reason that neither the county nor the city of Durham returned members to parliament previous to 1673- 4? |
12589 | also, what was the comparative value of money at the same date? |
12589 | and another is, Are you aware of any other instance in the latter part of the last century? |
12589 | asks,"Is not the derivation of''feast''and''fast''originally the same? |
12589 | i. p. 147.? |
12589 | that which is appointed connected with''fas,''and that from''fari?''" |
11652 | A SUBSCRIBERasks,"if William de Bolton was an ecclesiastic, how is it that his wife is openly mentioned?" |
11652 | And who can marvel that this should be so? |
11652 | But which take with me could I take but one? |
11652 | Can any of your correspondents favour me with the precise words of the original record, or explain the meaning of the term used? |
11652 | Can any of your reader explain what the_ sangred_ is? |
11652 | Can any of your readers furnish me with information regarding him? |
11652 | Can any of your readers inform me the_ exact date_ of the first publication of Barrington''s Letter in the newspaper? |
11652 | Can any of your readers inform me whether the following, which I quote from memory, is correct? |
11652 | Can your Dorsetshire correspondents inform me whether these letters exist? |
11652 | Has the circumstance ever been explained? |
11652 | Has their presence ever been noticed or accounted for? |
11652 | If so, where? |
11652 | Is there any other authority for this usage? |
11652 | The question, therefore is narrowed to this point:--what is the significance of"la Real, Reole, or Riole?" |
11652 | What reference in ancient documents can be pointed out for the meaning or antiquity of the usage? |
11652 | What reference to, or connexion with,_ mushrooms_ has the word?--and why_ Catsup_, with the inference that it is synonymous with_ Catchup_? |
11652 | When our first parent was made of mud, can we be surprised that a bird should be born of a tree?" |
11652 | Will Mr. Francis, or any of your contributors, inform me where I can find the original statement? |
11652 | [ Was there no such person as Love, and does the writer mean merely to pun upon the word? |
11652 | _ Birthplace of Coverdale._ Can you inform me of the birthplace of Miles Coverdale? |
11652 | _ Henry Lord Darnley._ Can any of your readers inform me where the celebrated Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, was born? |
11652 | as originally a letter z? |
11652 | were deposited in some of our public libraries? |
15216 | Is the_ Great Seal_ alive, or only stuffed?] |
15216 | ).--Why does your correspondent MANLEIUS think this form of expression"putting the cart before the horse?" |
15216 | 1618? |
15216 | A draper, quoth Freeman, what draper-- of woollin or linnen? |
15216 | And is the following a correct list of English Cardinals since Wolsey, who died in 1530? |
15216 | And where now is the crucifix and chain? |
15216 | Are the circumstances attending this discovery well known? |
15216 | Can any of your correspondents inform me where the papal decision on this point is to be found? |
15216 | Do the words_ modde_,_ moddeken,_ quoted by Skinner, exist? |
15216 | Has not Thomas Hearne left us something about this institution? |
15216 | Is anything known on the subject? |
15216 | My copy had successively belonged to Garrick, Fillingham, and Heber; the latter of whom has written in it,"Who has ever seen another copy?" |
15216 | Ostentat_ muros_, jactat sublimia_ tecta_ De_ fundamento_ quis metus esse potest? |
15216 | Query, Is the medal referred to by Voltaire known to exist? |
15216 | ROGERS RUDING? |
15216 | Were not the cross- legged effigies, formerly considered to be those of Crusaders, so arranged with an idea of the mysterious virtue of the position? |
15216 | What is the history of the publication? |
15216 | _ Byron''s Birthplace._--Can any of your correspondents give any information relative to the house in which Lord Byron was born? |
15216 | _ Irish Brigade._--Where can I find any account of the institution and history of the Irish brigade, a part of the army of France under the Bourbons? |
15216 | _ Thomas Regiolapidensis._--Where can I find any information as to the saint who figures in the following curious story? |
15216 | and if so, is the substitution of the unmetrical and prosaic word_ copias_ due to the author of the medal, or to Voltaire himself? |
15216 | and, if so, are they Dutch or Flemish? |
22624 | 12mo.? |
22624 | 28.:--"Qua ratione inquis? |
22624 | Can any of your readers inform me who were the authors? |
22624 | Father in Christ, John B----[ Blackburne? |
22624 | How comes it that the editions since 1740 have been so castrated? |
22624 | If not, to what cause is the difficulty-- if such difficulty really exists-- attributable? |
22624 | If the"cancel- slip"be an"elegant"variation, may not the original stanza be regarded as more vigorous? |
22624 | In what composition of Burke''s is it to be found? |
22624 | Is it the contracted_ feminine form_ of Hasdru_bal_? |
22624 | Mr. Collier, in his recent edition of Shakspeare, after stating Johnson''s and Farmer''s suggestions, says,"where is the difficulty? |
22624 | Now I wish to ask whether any person has ever seen the same effect produced in this country by similar means? |
22624 | Query, Where did he officiate? |
22624 | Upton derived his livery collar of the King of Scotland de gormettis fremalibus equorum?" |
22624 | Was it ever translated into English? |
22624 | When we speak of a_ captious_ person, do we mean one_ capable of taking or receiving_? |
22624 | Who was he? |
22624 | Will some kind friend oblige me with further information of this case, or tell me where I may obtain it? |
22624 | _ Licensing of Books._--Can any of your readers inform me what was the law in 1665 relative to the licensing of books? |
22624 | _ Osnaburg Bishopric._--Can any of your correspondents inform me who succeeded the late Duke of York as Bishop of Osnaburg? |
22624 | also when it was introduced( or revived), and when modified? |
22624 | and whether there were any ecclesiastical duties attached to it? |
22624 | how the Duke of York attained it? |
22624 | or whether the appointment was a lay one? |
22624 | the letters of two words are so transposed that''Vrbe germanie''is turned into''Vrbanie germe?''" |
22624 | what say you? |
22624 | will Phillis then consume her youth as an ankresse, Scorning daintie Venus? |
22624 | { 359} Does it depend upon the nature of the wood used, the condition of the atmosphere, or the dexterity of the operator? |
23212 | Is, is there nothing cann withstand The hand Of Time: but that it must Be shaken into dust? 23212 Thus yf weake builded man cann saye, A day He lives,''tis all, for why? |
23212 | [ 7] Is this therefore the article that Hamlet proposed to_ drink_ UP with his crocodile? 23212 Can any contributor to theNOTES AND QUERIES"suggest what authority his lordship has for his statement? |
23212 | Can any of your readers inform me from what place the Lord of Relton derived his name? |
23212 | Can you inform me whom she married? |
23212 | He says:"In Thomas''s_ Italian Dictionary_, 1562, we have''ASSENZIO,_ Eysell_''[4]; and Florio renders that word[ ASSENZIO, not_ Eysell_?] |
23212 | His companion then awoke him, remarking how soundly he had been sleeping, and asked what had he been dreaming of? |
23212 | Is it a classical allusion, as in the preceding stanza, or has it some reference to any botanical fact? |
23212 | Is it considered that they may assign to persons not relations? |
23212 | Is there any family of the name of Relton now existing in the neighbourhood of Langholme, or in Cumberland or Westmoreland? |
23212 | Is this the case in all districts of Wales where the custom of bidding prevails? |
23212 | Now what is the amount and value of MR. SINGER''S proposition? |
23212 | Now, I ask, wherefore has the poet dwelt with such minuteness upon this forced and improbable incident? |
23212 | Of whom is this a portrait? |
23212 | There is a nursery song beginning--"Harry Parry, when will you marry? |
23212 | What was his proper name, and who is the present representative of the family? |
23212 | When before did English antiquaries see four plates of costume, some of them coloured, sold for one shilling? |
23212 | Wherein, I ask, substantially consists the difference? |
23212 | _ Trinitäll Hall''s Exequies._ Now, to what does Hall refer in the third stanza, in his mention of the almond- tree? |
23212 | _ Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage?_( Vol. |
23212 | refer when, in speaking of the Scriptures, he says--"They are not unriddleable riddles, and tiring- irons never to be untied"? |
22126 | They may be fables,said she;"but is this a fable?" |
22126 | And how came the Irish title of Baron Welles into the family of Knox? |
22126 | And in what book was it first printed? |
22126 | Can you give any authentic information as to the origin of this name? |
22126 | How comes this adjective to be applied to marriages in which the wife does not take her husband''s rank? |
22126 | I regret I can not yet answer his precise questions, when Lord Goring the son was married, and when and where he died? |
22126 | If"derry down,"which has been said to be druidical, were judged of by the last song it went with, how old would be the Druids? |
22126 | Is it certain that this was not the old Earl of Norwich himself? |
22126 | Is there any truth in the report that it was an Earl Stair? |
22126 | Might not the madcap adventure of Prince Charles with Buckingham into Spain, to_ woo the Infanta_, be its real origin? |
22126 | P. S. W. E._ French Verses._--Will one of your readers kindly inform me from what French poet the two following stanzas are taken? |
22126 | Terry heigho,& c.''What shall we have for the wedding supper?'' |
22126 | There is a long inscription in verse, and another in prose: query, who was the author of the verses, and what is the date of the engraving? |
22126 | What authority is there for this story? |
22126 | Where now is the original? |
22126 | Where will this judgment or any account of the dispute be found? |
22126 | Who was this Lady Slingsby? |
22126 | _ Execution of Charles I._--Is the name of the executioner known who beheaded King Charles I.? |
22126 | _ Fig- Sunday._--One of my Sunday- school boys, in reply to my question"What particular name was there for the Sunday before Easter?" |
22126 | and xlvi.,"Of Building"and"Of Gardens"? |
22126 | i. KANT''S SAEMMTLICHE WERKE, edition of Schuberand Rosenkrantz( von Leipsic), Part XI.--Query, Has this eleventh part been published? |
22126 | or the origin of the name"Adur,"a small river running into the sea at Shoreham? |
22126 | received seisin of possessions in Ireland, and a mediety of the Seneschalship of the Forest of Essex in her right? |
23235 | _--What is the origin and meaning of the phrase,Hauling one over the coals;"and where does it first appear? |
23235 | _--Who was the author of_ Jerningham_ and_ Doveton_, two admirable works of fiction published some twelve or fifteen years ago? 23235 ).--Where may be found a list ofthe quaint and uncouth titles of the old Presbyterians?" |
23235 | ***** WHO FIRST THOUGHT OF TABLE- TURNING? |
23235 | Am I right in considering the above- mentioned book as rare? |
23235 | And when did he drown him? |
23235 | And who drowned him? |
23235 | But how can he be said to be punished alive when the punishment comes after his death? |
23235 | Can any of your readers tell me what it is, or who wrote it? |
23235 | Can any of your readers tell me whether it signifies a real country, or is a mere fiction? |
23235 | Can your correspondent refer to any account of the origin of the consecration or blessing of the sword, cap, or keys? |
23235 | Could such men have_ ever_ been willingly_ backward_? |
23235 | E. H._ Are White Cats deaf?_( Vol. |
23235 | H. T. Ellacombe and R. W. Elliot 130 Who first thought of Table- turning? |
23235 | Has any one suggested--"Most busy, least when I do"? |
23235 | Is it essential that it should be all of violet- coloured glass, ground at one side, as that would add a good deal to the expense? |
23235 | See''st thou not that my son,_ ev''ry word I have spoken hath sneez''d at_? |
23235 | W. W., alluding to such a custom at Marshfield, Massachusets, asks"if this custom ever did, or does now exist in the mother country?" |
23235 | What are the circumstances alluded to? |
23235 | What is its derivation? |
23235 | What was the glove an emblem of? |
23235 | Whether any of the manufactories have ceased; and, if so, at what period? |
23235 | Whether any particular manufactories were confined to the making of any particular sort or quality of articles; and, if so, what were they? |
23235 | Whether there was more than one manufactory at Delft; and, if so, what were their marks, and what was the meaning of them? |
23235 | Whether there were manufactories at other towns besides Delft? |
23235 | Whether they had any distinctive marks; and, if so, what were they? |
23235 | Why has the form_ pue_ been lately so much adopted? |
23235 | _ History of York._--Who is the author of a_ History of York_, in 2 vols., published at that city in 1788 by T. Wilson and R. Spence, High Ousegate? |
23235 | _ Norman of Winster._--Can any of your correspondents afford information bearing on the family of Norman of Winster, county of Derby? |
23235 | _ Pues or Pews._--Which is the_ correct_ way of spelling this word? |
23235 | or will white glass, with thin blue gauze curtains or blinds, answer? |
23235 | vii., p. 617.? |
15996 | ), is taken( in some parts almost verbally) from Erasmus''dialogue,_ Diversoria_? |
15996 | ), of the Jews desiring to buy the Library of_ Oxford_?] |
15996 | ).--In reply to G.E.N., I would ask, is Mr. Hewitt correct in calling him Stada, an Italian artist? |
15996 | --May not the meaning be a collar in the form of a serpent? |
15996 | But granting that it were so, what then? |
15996 | Can any of your readers give a more satisfactory explanation of this local term? |
15996 | Can any of your readers inform me as to the name of the designer, and where, if at all, in England, a copy of this plan may be obtained? |
15996 | Can it be in any way analogous to the custom of hoisting broom at the mast- head of a vessel which is to be disposed of? |
15996 | Can_ Iklynton_ again be the place where such an ornament was made? |
15996 | Did the following advice of Latimer, in a sermon before King Edward, in 1549, take any effect? |
15996 | Have we not in English many similar adjective substantives? |
15996 | I will therefore only reply to his question,"_ Have_ I wholly mistaken the whole_ affair_?" |
15996 | If so, what is the history of the invention, and what other works were printed in it? |
15996 | In the event of the map above referred to not being accessible, can I obtain a copy of this latter plan by itself, and how? |
15996 | Is it from wood? |
15996 | Is not Mr. Hickson aware that_ la noise_ is a French noun- singular signifying a contention or dispute? |
15996 | Is this practice prevalent in England? |
15996 | M._ Men but Children of a larger growth_.--Can you give one the author of the following line? |
15996 | May I ask who, and whether the contemplated edition includes prose and poetry? |
15996 | May it not have had some reference to the support of the royal stud? |
15996 | Query-- Who was the said John Dutton, and why was such a boon conferred on his heirs for ever? |
15996 | Were they not originally used for the purpose of preserving the cassock from being soiled by the beard? |
15996 | Whence this difference of phrase? |
15996 | Why not as well as"goods, the shallows, blacks, for mourning, greens?" |
15996 | Will any of your correspondents inform me whether this scarlet serge waistcoat was commonly worn by the clergy in those times, namely, in 1671? |
15996 | [ 3] Do any of your readers know any instances of the_ English_ using this gender of the sun? |
15996 | _ Bands_.--What is the origin of the clerical and academical custom of wearing_ bands_? |
15996 | _ Gaol Chaplains_.--When were they first appointed? |
15996 | and that the same word exists in the Latin_ nisus_, a struggle? |
15996 | inquires who was Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation during its session in 1717- 18? |
13362 | --What divine of the seventeenth century adopted these words as his motto? |
13362 | But why so? |
13362 | Can any of your numerous correspondents inform me if this"antient MS."is still in existence, and in whose possession? |
13362 | Can you or any of your contributors give me any further information about this inscription? |
13362 | Did not the chapel continue a chapel until the Reformation, if not later? |
13362 | Erica crescenta, Erica paperina, E. purpurea, E. flammea, and at what season they come into blossom in England? |
13362 | Et Sanctus Ambrosius, Sanctus Augustinus, et alii omnes zelossimi doctores non sciebant ipsi bene tot, sicut iste Ribaldi? |
13362 | Has this inscription ever been explained, and how? |
13362 | If specimens are not procurable without much expense and trouble, can you supply me with the name of a work in which these plants are figured? |
13362 | In order to ascertain the origin of this term these Queries may be proposed:--Is it peculiar to printers and to this country? |
13362 | Is it Butler, Swift, or who, that says,"A Chrysostom to smoothe his band in"? |
13362 | Is it the badge of a chaplain only? |
13362 | Is there any print or view in existence of the"Nunnery,"at Little Gidding? |
13362 | L._ Martinet._--Will the following passage throw any light on the origin of the word_ Martinet_? |
13362 | Magister noster Lupolde, creditis, quod Deus curat multum de iste Græco? |
13362 | May I request a space in your periodical for the following Queries, drawn from Dr. Stukeley''s_ Stonehenge and Abury_, p. 31.? |
13362 | Or is it used also in other trades and on the Continent? |
13362 | Perhaps some of your more learned contributors will obligingly help me to the true import of these words? |
13362 | Should he not rather have given a_ British_ origin to the name of our Christian holy day? |
13362 | Southey acknowledges that the"heathenism which the{ 116} Saxons introduced, bears no[ very little?] |
13362 | Speaking of leviathan, he asks,"Canst thou with_ fiz- gigs_ pierce him to the quick?" |
13362 | Was this sermon ever published? |
13362 | What is its origin and meaning? |
13362 | What is the meaning of Lenton''s title,"the Queen''s Majesties Poet"? |
13362 | What is the precise meaning of the word_ Somagia_? |
13362 | Whence did Risdon derive his copy of King Athelstane''s form of donation? |
13362 | Who amongst the clergy are_ entitled_ to wear a scarf? |
13362 | _ Charade_.--Can any one tell who is the author of the following charade? |
13362 | and secondly, who was the author of the_ Life_ from which the above passage is quoted? |
13362 | or what circumstances justify its being worn? |
12342 | );"Hamlet,"1602,"Measure for Measure,"1603;"Troilus and Cressida,"1603- 1607(? |
12342 | );"Richard II.,"1594;"King John,"1595;"Merchant of Venice,"1596; 1 and 2"Henry IV.,"1597- 1598;"Henry V.,"1599;"Taming of the Shrew,"1597(? |
12342 | ; is the hero of the Cornish ballad,"And shall Trelawney die?" |
12342 | Black?" |
12342 | CLIFFORD, JOHN, D.D., Baptist minister in London, author of"Is Life Worth Living?" |
12342 | COLLINS, MORTIMER, a versatile genius, born at Plymouth; wrote poems, novels, and essays; was the author of"Who was the Heir?" |
12342 | EST- IL- POSSIBLE? |
12342 | How? |
12342 | In such a case the challenge of Goethe is_ apropos_,"What have I to do with names when it is a work of the spirit I am considering?" |
12342 | Johnnie Cowp, are ye wauken yet?" |
12342 | MANNA, the food with which the Israelites were miraculously fed in the wilderness, a term which means"What is this?" |
12342 | Saved or Lost? |
12342 | Sure enough, I am; and lately was not; but Whence? |
12342 | Whereto?" |
12342 | got for answer the counter- challenge"Who made you king?" |
16404 | ( Would our fair Belgravians of 1850 condescend to dance with their kitchen- maids?) |
16404 | ), I would throw out a suggestion to all your readers for notices of similar emblematic playing cards: whether such were ever used for playing with? |
16404 | ***** DID BUNYAN KNOW HOBBES? |
16404 | And when did the latest instance occur? |
16404 | But I would ask when was the time when Bunyan"was nearly persuaded to be of Hobbes''opinion?" |
16404 | Can angels be thy oracle, Who art-- who art Thyself alone? |
16404 | Can any of your readers give an explanation of the inscription? |
16404 | Can any of your readers give an explanation of this? |
16404 | Can any of your readers give me a clue to the derivation of this word? |
16404 | Does T. mean to call Lord Bacon''s English text a_ version_ of his Latin, by anticipation of eighteen years? |
16404 | Else, why did HERMES learn the Dutch language? |
16404 | Good reader, do you wish for better criticism? |
16404 | Has the colour an Egyptian origin, or whence is it? |
16404 | I ask your subscribers if the following verses are_ weak_, and if they would not have done honour to the English Vondel? |
16404 | If he would have any meat? |
16404 | Is this opinion as to the birth of swans common? |
16404 | Query, What were the words of this rhyme? |
16404 | Query, was this punishment peculiar to cooks guilty of poisoning? |
16404 | Then she asked him several questions; viz., if he was cold or hungry? |
16404 | Unde derivatur"cauking?" |
16404 | Were they intimate? |
16404 | Where he came from, and where he was going? |
16404 | Who knows Thee-- Thee the All- unknown? |
16404 | Worthy author of this_ Verse Book for Children_, do you wish for higher praise? |
16404 | [_ Music._]"I pray you, madam, why say you so?" |
16404 | [_ The Musician answers._]"I pray you, good sir, why say you so?" |
16404 | _ Baron Münchausen._--Who was the author of this renowned hero''s adventures? |
16404 | _ Inscription on an Alms- dish._--In Bardsea Church, Island of Furness, is an alms- dish(?) |
16404 | and where? |
16404 | the great Hobbes,''said I,''are you come hither? |
16404 | what period so introduced? |
11575 | _--When was the word_ Cannibal_ first used in English books?--To what language does it belong?--and what is its exact meaning? 11575 --What is the etymology of_ Daysman_, which, in the Book of Job, and in some of our provincial dialects, means a mediator or arbitrator? 11575 --and how came he to spare the helmet, jupon, gauntlets, shield, and_ scabbard_? 11575 Are any anecdotes or circumstances recorded, respecting the worship of this saint in later times, than I have referred to? 11575 But why do not the present inhabitants avail themselves of the same means to health? 11575 Can any of your correspondents inform me when this most interesting relic disappeared? 11575 Did that unscrupulous Protector(?) 11575 Have any of your readers at any time seen and made a_ note_ of such a register? 11575 I beg leave, therefore, to_ query_, Whether the inscription is not intended for a Regulus of Britain of that name? 11575 If the former, where can one find any authentic account of him? 11575 In whose reign were they first created? 11575 Is it that they are idle, or are they too broken spirited and poverty- stricken to unite in any public work? 11575 Is the book scarce?--or is it not esteemed? 11575 Monasteriorum._--Can any of your correspondents give me a reference to the original MS. of_ Boston de Bury de Bibliothecis Monasteriorum_? 11575 Or has the climate changed? 11575 P._ Cazena on the Inquisition_.--Can any one tell me what is the public opinion of Cazena''s work on the Inquisition? 11575 P._ The Origin of the word Snob._--Can any of your valuable correspondents give me the origin or derivation of the word Snob? 11575 To what, then, can this great difference be ascribed? 11575 W._ Duncan Campbell._--Was the Duncan Campbell, of whom memoirs were written by Defoe, a real or an imaginary person? 11575 Were these the two cardinals who fancied themselves injured? 11575 What are the chief historical grounds that endeared his memory to the Church or the people? 11575 When, and under what peculiar circumstances, was it first introduced into our language? 11575 _ May- Day_.--To what old custom does the following passage allude? 11575 and by whom were they appointed? 11575 take away thePavoise"at the same time, or order his Ironsides to"remove that bauble?" |
11575 | { 183} What is the historic probability that the stone coffin, discovered in 1822, contained the remains of this remarkable man? |
15640 | ).--Your correspondent K. asks what other instances there are of_ Wat_ as the name of a_ hare_? |
15640 | Can any of your readers state how this story originated, or whether it really has any foundation in fact? |
15640 | Can any parallel passages be adduced? |
15640 | Can you say where the best pedigree of the early kings of Sweden is to be found? |
15640 | I should like to know who and what is this"Spanish friar?" |
15640 | In_ Waverley_, when the hero for the first time meets the Baron Bradwardine, he is accosted by the latter thus:--"And so ye have mounted the cockade? |
15640 | Is it possible that this may be an early and neglected sonnet of Milton? |
15640 | Is not this word closely connected with the_ Eber_ of the German Jägers? |
15640 | May not the word umbrella have been applied to various sorts of_ impluvia_? |
15640 | Or can any of your learned readers say how, where, and when_ bacon_ has signified"dried wood?" |
15640 | Query: Who was the author of the above? |
15640 | Thus, upon the entrance of the Mutes,--"_ Fame._ What are this pair? |
15640 | WHAT OUGHT LANDLORDS AND FARMERS TO DO? |
15640 | What_ dictionary_ defines"aver"( French) as denoting the_ annual_ stock or produce of a farm? |
15640 | Where does this verse occur? |
15640 | Where may be found any account of his connection with the Cherokees; also any thing of his death or descendants? |
15640 | Which of these authorities are we to believe? |
15640 | Who was the author? |
15640 | Will any one kindly refer me to this passage? |
15640 | Will your correspondent refer us to the book? |
15640 | _ Booty''s Case._--Where can an authentic report be found of"Booty''s case,"and before what judge was it tried? |
15640 | _ Darby and Joan._--Can any of your readers refer me to a copy of the ballad of Darby and Joan? |
15640 | _ Did Elizabeth visit Bacon at Twickenham Park?_( Vol. |
15640 | _ Eyes._ The ragged rascals? |
15640 | _ Meaning of Venwell or Venville._--Will you allow me to make the following Query as to the custom of"Ven_well_"or"Ven_ville_"? |
15640 | _ Sir Thomas Bullen''s Drinking Horn._--Does any one know whether the drinking horn which belonged to Sir Thomas Bullen still exists? |
15640 | and was he the_ first_ cousin to Robertson the historian? |
15640 | and yet, could Milton have seriously perpetrated the pun in the second line? |
15640 | explain his allusion to the Abbot''s House at Buckden?" |
15640 | has he not"a local habitation and a name?" |
15640 | has referred me? |
15640 | of the two unpublished volumes are preserved, and where they are to be found? |
13427 | What art thou, that keepst me out from the house I_ owe_? |
13427 | What, are we the dregs of the earth not to hear the Scriptures in our own tongue? |
13427 | _--What is the correct name of the character&?" |
13427 | ''s reign, and of its being stoutly opposed by John of Gaunt? |
13427 | ), oblige me by a"Note"of the story as it is told by Adam of Bremen, whose work I am not within reach of? |
13427 | 1740, instead of 1688- 1698? |
13427 | 2., we read:"Senseless bauble, Art thou a_ feodary_ for this act, and lookst So virgin- like without?" |
13427 | 9., anno 1553, intituled,"An Act for the Restitution in Blood of the Heirs of Sir Miles Partrige, Knight"? |
13427 | ARUN also chooses to say that the only question which is material, is, Who was Caxton''s patron? |
13427 | And is there any continuation of his work up to{ 230} the present day? |
13427 | And the third, the answer to which depends on the preceding, is, Who was the abbot who gave him admission? |
13427 | Did the claim_ originate_ with Pope Innocent? |
13427 | Does it originate in some ghastly legend? |
13427 | G.[ Will our correspondent accept the following as a satisfactory reply?] |
13427 | Has the Roman Catholic Church ever published a translation of the Scriptures, or any part of them, into the vernacular_ Irish_? |
13427 | Have their missionaries in_ China_ ever translated anything beyond the Epistles and Gospels of the Missal? |
13427 | I am very desirous to be informed in what_ French_ author I can find any account of John Jokyn( Joachim? |
13427 | Is any such in existence? |
13427 | Is not existence to her a kind of doom? |
13427 | Is not this a sufficient explanation of the term morganatic being applied to marriages where the parties are of unequal rank? |
13427 | Or, is there any Roman Catholic translation into any of the vernacular languages of_ India_? |
13427 | Query, Did it not take the name of_ King''s_ Square from the architect? |
13427 | Query, In what sort of coin? |
13427 | S.S._ Gospel of Distaffs._--Can any reader say where a copy of the_ Gospel of Distaffs_ may be accessible? |
13427 | Should we say Lord Plunket had read these passages, and is thereby convicted of eloquent plagiary? |
13427 | Speaking of a passage cited by Joannes Andreæ, in his gloss on the preface to the Clementines, he asks,"who is the Anglicus Poeta?" |
13427 | The question now remains, Are the Roman Pontiffs and their Church answerable for the toleration of such language? |
13427 | The second question is, When did Caxton first set up his press in this place? |
13427 | There was a shriek-- a sob-- a cry: and where was Alice of the Lea? |
13427 | Were the debates on the acts of parliament recorded in those days, and if so, how can they be seen? |
13427 | What is that word? |
13427 | Wherefore is she thus a dark, sad exile from the blessed light of day? |
13427 | _ Morganatic Marriages.--Morganatique._--What is the derivation of this word, and what its_ actual signification_? |
13427 | _ Richardson Family._--Can of your correspondents inform me who"Mr. John Richardson, of the Market Place, Leeds,"was? |
13427 | _ Whetstone of Reproof._--Can any of your readers inform me who was the author of the book with the following title? |
13427 | and"what is the name of his poem,"in which it is said to the pope,"Nec Deus es nec homo, quasi neuter es inter utrumque?" |
13427 | and, if not, how is its disappearance to be accounted for? |
15197 | _ Mal._ My masters, are you mad? 15197 ).--Is notFinkle"very probably derived from_ Finc_, a finch, in the A.-S.? |
15197 | *****_ Poor Robin''s Almanack_.--Who was the author or originator of_ Poor Robin''s Almanack_? |
15197 | *****_ The Camp in Bulstrode Park_.--Is there any published account of this camp having been opened? |
15197 | A.C.*****_ Hobit_, a measure of corn in Wales; what is the derivation? |
15197 | Are any particulars known of its successive editors? |
15197 | But could Parr mean to rank Shrewsbury School among the"private schools?" |
15197 | But, Query, is not the second syllable rather_ Gill_, akin to the numerous tribe of"gills"or"ghylls,"in the North Countrie? |
15197 | Can any one inform me whence this prejudice arose? |
15197 | Crossed slabs with Runes have been found at Hartlepool, Durham; have the inscriptions been read? |
15197 | Do you make an alehouse of my lady''s house, that you squeak out your cozier''s catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? |
15197 | Had David a better right to the title than the great poet? |
15197 | Has this inquiry been extended to British Runes, and might it not throw much light upon many monuments of dates prior to the Conquest? |
15197 | Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? |
15197 | He failed, it seems-- but why? |
15197 | How is the metal of which my specimen is composed to be accounted for? |
15197 | In what year did it cease to be published? |
15197 | Is any authentic writing or signature of_ Christopher Marlow_ known to exist? |
15197 | Is not this a vestige of the German"Dog- fiend?" |
15197 | Is there no respect of place, person, nor time, in you? |
15197 | M. May I add, also, another Query? |
15197 | The query is-- have I"mistaken the whole affair"? |
15197 | Therefore, I shall with the more ease join in opinion with those who would have it named_ Dodonesse_, which signifieth[ in what language?] |
15197 | What is meant by_ Knight of the Burnt Island_? |
15197 | What says Mr. James Boswell on that point? |
15197 | Will any correspondent favour me with specific references to the numbers or months in which they were published? |
15197 | Would"JARLZBERG"kindly favour me with a reference to his interesting anecdote of the lion''s whelps? |
15197 | asserts the_ Malone had never seen_ the introductory fragment; and asks, who_ forged_ it? |
15197 | holiday or festival? |
15197 | inquires who was"Pope Felix,"whom Ælfric called the"fifth father"of S. Gregory the Great? |
15197 | of St. John''s College, Oxford?" |
15197 | or what are you? |
15639 | Do any in your parish practise physic chyrurgery, or_ undertake the office of a midwife without license_? |
15639 | ), the same beverage as"lamb''s- wool?" |
15639 | ).--Might it not have happened that swords went out of fashion after the middle of the last century, and were revived towards its close? |
15639 | 1689 How many pages of_ Testimonia_ are there at the end of the Preface? |
15639 | And where now is Prior''s original MS.? |
15639 | And why have the seraphim no bodily representation? |
15639 | Can any of your correspondents furnish me with the correct title, and state whether it is still preserved in this national library? |
15639 | Can any of your correspondents tell me who this person was? |
15639 | Can any of your readers furnish any additional information on this curious point? |
15639 | Can any of your readers tell me whether there be not an older Welsh word for_ water_? |
15639 | Has any one of these three copies a separate leaf, entitled_ Ad Bibliopegos?_ If so, which of them? |
15639 | Has any one of these three copies a separate leaf, entitled_ Ad Bibliopegos?_ If so, which of them? |
15639 | Has it ever been printed, and who is the author? |
15639 | Has the copy with the date 1679_ Testimonia_ at the end? |
15639 | Have these treatises since been printed? |
15639 | Have they a separate title and a separate sheet of_ errata?_ Is there a duplicate copy of this separate title at the end of the Preface? |
15639 | Have they a separate title and a separate sheet of_ errata?_ Is there a duplicate copy of this separate title at the end of the Preface? |
15639 | If so, how many pages do they consist of? |
15639 | Is not this a good instance of the true difference of meaning in these two words, which are now loosely used as if strictly synonymous? |
15639 | Is not_ cader_ akin to[ Greek: kathedra], and_ glas_ to[ Greek: glaukos]? |
15639 | Is there any authentic record elsewhere published? |
15639 | Query, By whom was it made? |
15639 | Sheldrake( who was he?) |
15639 | The information I request is the date of the work, for I can find none; and whether any_ first part_ of it is known in England, and where? |
15639 | This winde was love, which Princes state To Pages turn, but who can hate Where equall fortune love procures, Or equall love success assures? |
15639 | What may that be that mov''d this woe? |
15639 | What sodaine change hath dark''t of late The glory of the Arcadian state? |
15639 | What, in fact, is the supposed distinction between them? |
15639 | Whose want afflicts Arcadia so? |
15639 | Why should"long Meg"be more fabulous than"long Jone?" |
15639 | _ Cherubim and Seraphim._--Why are the cherubim represented as a human head, with the wings of a bird? |
15639 | _ Lynch Law._--What is the origin of this American phrase? |
15639 | _ Sword of William the Conqueror._--Can any one inform me where is the sword of William the Conqueror? |
15639 | and 1 Edward VI.? |
26121 | 1507? |
26121 | Also, whether the habit of smoking( opium or tobacco), now universal_ over the East_, dates there from before the discovery of America? |
26121 | And if not, from what period? |
26121 | But are they therefore"without meaning?" |
26121 | But query whether this is the fact? |
26121 | Can any of your correspondents kindly inform me, who are the lineal representatives of Cosin''s pious executor? |
26121 | Can any of your readers inform me where the fullest account may be found of the state of preaching in England prior to the Reformation? |
26121 | Do his Latin works exist either in print or in manuscript? |
26121 | Do not these qualities help to give them meaning, as well as to preserve them through their long and varied existence? |
26121 | Does any_ Manuscript_ of the"Dialogo de las Lenguas"exist in this country, in any public or private library? |
26121 | Is it a"hypocrite?" |
26121 | Is it known what has become of them? |
26121 | Is such a MS. known to exist in any of our libraries? |
26121 | Is_ sock_ only a corruption of_ suck_, indicating a lollipop origin? |
26121 | It is not now in that library-- is it in any other? |
26121 | May I take this opportunity of asking if anything is known of its history? |
26121 | May not these be the letters described by E. S. T. as L. C.? |
26121 | Out of what verbal raw material are these words manufactured? |
26121 | Query, What is a"hodipeke?" |
26121 | R. J. S._ When does Easter end?_( Vol. |
26121 | What are the principal as well as the latest_ English_ translations? |
26121 | What can typify"laziness"more emphatically than a dog that"lays him[self] down to bark?" |
26121 | What is the meaning of the word_ Pallet_? |
26121 | _ Tobacco in the East._--Can any of your readers inform me whether tobacco is indigenous to any part of Asia? |
26121 | and should not"Phæbus,"in the fourth verse, be"Phoebus?" |
26121 | for asserting that"_ trianon_ is a word meaning a_ pavilion_?" |
26121 | i., p. 441.? |
26121 | or what is its real etymological root? |
23282 | A toothed sleck stone,I take to mean a"jagged whetstone,"very unfit for its purpose; but what is the force of the term"as bullish?" |
23282 | ).--In answer to PURSUIVANT''S Query, How were the families of Morse and Ireton connected? |
23282 | ).--In reference to the Query, Why is St. Thomas frequently mentioned in connexion with onions? |
23282 | 1717, occur the following lines:( Query, whether original, or, if not, from whence quoted?) |
23282 | Can any identity be established? |
23282 | Can any of your correspondents give me information in what work I can find a tolerably full account of this"betraying of Chepstow Castle?" |
23282 | Can any of your correspondents throw further light on the matter, or tell us if the custom extended to other counties? |
23282 | Can it be shown that Dorset- men are given to aspirating their words? |
23282 | Could not_ E. N. W._ exhibit it at the Society of Antiquaries? |
23282 | How is this? |
23282 | I therefore venture to ask once again, Where are the Wilkes MSS.? |
23282 | If such was the lady''s meaning, what is her historical accuracy? |
23282 | Is anything known of this medal, or are any other specimens of it extant? |
23282 | Is the Beast from the Sea the Papacy? |
23282 | Is the word"Prol"Saxon or British, and what is its probable etymology? |
23282 | J. C. makes a tremendous leap in chronology when he asks"Was it not either Julius I. or II.?" |
23282 | May Lord Effingham have changed his religion between the Armada and his mission to Spain? |
23282 | Query, on whom? |
23282 | The legend is"Faites- vous cela pour m''affronter?" |
23282 | The sport was carried on by means of dogs which hunted down the poor birds, and the sticks of the human( or_ in_human?) |
23282 | Was it in the"Lands of Vision,"and with"the damsel and the dulcimer,"that the transcendental philosopher beheld it? |
23282 | Where can it be found? |
23282 | Where now are the original Junius Letters, and where the other MSS.? |
23282 | Where was"Cuicfal in Flandriam,"from whence the voyage was made to Prol? |
23282 | Who was St. Vitus, and how did he give his name to the play of the features which is called his dance? |
23282 | Will some one of your correspondents inform me what amount of property really constitutes an Esquire? |
23282 | Your correspondent suggests"arista;"can he support this historically? |
23282 | _ Matter- of- fact Epitaph._--May I venture to ask a place for the following very matter- of- fact epitaph in the English cemetery at Leghorn? |
23282 | _ Pursuits of Literature._--How came the author of the_ Pursuits of Literature_ to be known? |
23282 | _ to his initials? |
23282 | and also of what place in the county was this Morgan, Sheriff of Monmouth? |
23282 | and can they be consulted? |
23282 | i., p. 4.,& c.).--May not these be possibly only Spenser''s"rings of rushes,"mentioned by him among other fragile ornaments for the head and neck? |
23282 | it appears that Jane, only child of Richard Lloyd( of Norfolk? |
21503 | And side by side the moon, he cried''How do, fair cousin moon? 21503 Clarum et venerabile nomen Gentibus, et multum nostræ quod proderat urbi?" |
21503 | Good folks, can you believe your eyes? 21503 Say, didst thou think within this sculptured stone Thy faithful partner should immortal be? |
21503 | ).--Have we not a relic of this word in the vulgar_ leary_, used of a_ tough_ customer, one not easily taken in? |
21503 | 9).--Should not the end of Easter be considered its octave-- Low Sunday? |
21503 | And is not the common belief as to Becket''s parish correct? |
21503 | Can any of your readers inform me of the author''s name; or is there any one who has seen the book, or can tell where a copy may be found? |
21503 | Can any of your readers inform me where that church is in the south of France; and when such prayers and masses were first said? |
21503 | Can any of your readers tell me where this invaluable MS.( if existing) may be found? |
21503 | First, as to Gray and Dodsley:--Is the epithet_ droning_, or_ drony_, in the first edition of the_ Elegy_? |
21503 | Is it to be taken that the publication of this chap- book edition is merely a proof of the extreme popularity of Dryden''s half of the poem? |
21503 | Is the French translation of the latter work considered a good one? |
21503 | Is the Welsh word applied to both equivocally as distinct{ 468} objects? |
21503 | Is there an English translation of Apuleius''_ Golden Ass_? |
21503 | Is there any evidence, not contemporary, which shows the contrary? |
21503 | Peter Hall''s collections in manuscript? |
21503 | Query, Who was the enlightened individual who produced the_ two_ copies? |
21503 | Was it the usual custom for women sentenced to whipping to be consigned to the tender mercies of one of their own sex? |
21503 | Was there not then an ancient church so called, until the demolitions of Protector Somerset in that quarter? |
21503 | What has become of the MS.? |
21503 | Which is the best and most complete English translation of Erasmus''_ Colloquies_? |
21503 | \]_ Twickenham-- Did Elizabeth visit Bacon there?_( Vol. |
21503 | _ Titus Oates._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to an_ autograph_ of Titus Oates? |
21503 | _"Clarum et venerabile nomen._"--Can any of your correspondents inform me in what author the following lines are to be found? |
21503 | of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible?" |
21503 | or is the vow to be considered revocable? |
13540 | ):--"_ Burnet''s Own Times._--Did you ever read that garrulous, pleasant history? |
13540 | 6.:"The common people swarm like summer flies, And whither fly the gnats, but to the sun? |
13540 | And who shines now, but Henry''s enemies?" |
13540 | Breton''s Fantastiques_ contain? |
13540 | But who, besides these, is interested in maintaining the precedence of Marlowe? |
13540 | Can any information be given as to the assumed or real author of these works? |
13540 | Can any of your readers state where a copy of this production may be found? |
13540 | Can any one tell whether this was done merely to afford a gangway for want of room outside? |
13540 | Can anything be done to check this ill- fated word in its career? |
13540 | Can even the Muses of burlesque and slang furnish such an instance? |
13540 | Does any reader of the"NOTES AND QUERIES"know of_ any other author_ who says that he_ has seen_ such an exhibition? |
13540 | Does this throw any light on the popular negro song--"Out o''de way, old Dan Tucker,"& c.? |
13540 | Had I the opportunity, I might ask Mr. Dyce"which style?" |
13540 | Have critics or ethnographers commented on this passage, which, to say the least, is remarkable? |
13540 | How did JANUS DOUSA learn that her maiden name was Schweickhardt? |
13540 | Is there a monument or inscription to his memory in any church in or near Carmarthen? |
13540 | May I ask, further, whether any particulars are known of this contemporary and admirer of Chaucer? |
13540 | Or can Ringelbergius''s assertion be confirmed from any source? |
13540 | Query, By what Socinian writer are these two hexameter verses used? |
13540 | This is literally all; and, I ask, can any"conclusion"be much more inconclusive? |
13540 | To the special inquiry of JANUS DOUSA I can say nothing, but I would fain ask who was Katherine Wilhelmina Schweickhardt? |
13540 | Was Mrs. Bilderdijk his daughter? |
13540 | Was this copied into the_ Literary Gazette_? |
13540 | What is the meaning of this term? |
13540 | Where can a perfect copy be found? |
13540 | Where can access to this work be obtained? |
13540 | Where may I find this tradition? |
13540 | Where was he buried? |
13540 | _ Cheshire Cat._--Will some of your correspondents explain the origin of the phrase,"grinning like a Cheshire cat?" |
13540 | and, if not, what must we look to for a successor? |
13540 | intends us to infer), or simply for"small, petty, of little size or value"? |
13540 | or where meet with any information on the subject? |
13540 | { 377} The point is this, Is it_ inflected_, or, does it employ_ affixes_, or is it absolutely without inflections and affixes? |
13540 | { 378} What does Pope''s epithet"low"mean? |
22639 | ).--Why is Lord Crewe always called so, and not Bishop of Durham, considering his spiritual precedency? |
22639 | ***** Whereshall we go this morning? |
22639 | 61. of the_ Spectator_, as"The Witches''Prayer,"which falls into verse either way, only that it reads"cursing"one way, and"blessing"the other? |
22639 | Anthony Horneck._--Do any of the letters of the once celebrated Dr. Anthony Horneck exist in any library, public or private? |
22639 | Are we not apt to underrate the number of Romanised Celts remaining in England after the Saxon Conquest? |
22639 | At what parts of the service were these psalms and hymns directed to be introduced? |
22639 | By what authority was it sanctioned? |
22639 | Can any of your readers inform me_ when_ the elder Tradescant came over to England, and when he was appointed royal gardener? |
22639 | D. C._ Shaking Hands._--What is the origin of the custom of_ shaking hands_ in token of friendship? |
22639 | Does he mean to infer that it did not in reality equally belong to Shakspeare''s age? |
22639 | Have these collections been carefully examined, and their contents made use of in any topographical publication? |
22639 | I. H. T._ Meaning of Waste Book._--Can you or any of your readers inform me the origin of the term used in book- keeping, viz.,_"Waste"book_? |
22639 | If so, how has its place been supplied heretofore in our diplomatic correspondence? |
22639 | In a burlesque some years ago, I recollect a passage was brought to a climax with the very words,"Wilt eat a crocodile?" |
22639 | May I hazard a few conjectures? |
22639 | Or is the epigram only a creation of the pleasing author''s fertile imagination? |
22639 | The books were sold by auction; but what has become of the manuscripts? |
22639 | The question is: Does the meaning MR. SINGER attaches to this word require in the passage cited the expression of quantity to make it definite? |
22639 | Was it not in the reign of Elizabeth? |
22639 | Was not Lord Bristol( who was an Earl) always called Bishop of Derry? |
22639 | Was this custom contemplated by the compilers of the Book of Common Prayer? |
22639 | When and how did the custom of singing metrical psalms and hymns in churches originate? |
22639 | Whether_ any_ portrait of Thomas Earl of Ormonde has been published? |
22639 | Why should sixes and sevens be more congruous with disorder than"twos and threes?" |
22639 | _ A Cracow Pike._--Can any of your readers tell me what_ a Cracow pike_ is? |
22639 | _ George Steevens._--Can any of your readers inform me whether a memoir of George Steevens, the Shakspearian commentator, ever was published? |
22639 | _ How many_ engraved portraits of Thomas, the famous Lord Ossory, have been issued? |
22639 | _ How many_ engraved portraits of the first and second Dukes of Ormonde, respectively, have appeared? |
22639 | _ Lincoln Missal._--Is a manuscript of the missal, according to the use of the church of Lincoln, known to exist? |
22639 | _ Newburgh Hamilton_.--Can any of your readers inform me who Newburgh Hamilton was? |
22639 | and whence comes the saying? |
22639 | and, if so, where may it be seen? |
22639 | or that I was ignorant of its earlier prevalence? |
12018 | Are not these words identical with_ aver, averium_, in the sense of cattle, tame beasts? |
12018 | But how is the-_amitas_ to be explained? |
12018 | But query? |
12018 | Dodd, in his_ Church history_,--when will the new edition begin to move again? |
12018 | Does it not rather originate in the_ Latin_? |
12018 | Has the Durham Cathedral Library, in particular, a copy? |
12018 | How did they come by these arms? |
12018 | How much is it reasonable to suppose that a publisher may have given for the copyright? |
12018 | In fact, where is any effectual intelligence of the fugitive to be found? |
12018 | Is anything known concerning them? |
12018 | Is it now extant, and where? |
12018 | Is there any contemporary notice extant in print or in MS. which confirms this statement? |
12018 | Is there any example earlier than the time of Henry III.? |
12018 | Is there any other printed copy of the Saxon_ Orosius_ than Barrington''s? |
12018 | Is this the fact? |
12018 | Now, the questions which I want to have solved are these:--Was the book ever extant in MS. Or print? |
12018 | PINGRE''S ACCOUNT OF HIS VOYAGE TO RODRIGUEZ, published(?) |
12018 | This exotic bird doth equal a swan in bigness,"& c.& c. Now I wish to ask, where did this family of_ Dronte_ reside? |
12018 | What did Christabel see in her, at times, so unutterably horrible? |
12018 | What did Coleridge mean to represent or imply in his tale of_ Christabel_? |
12018 | What is its size, date, and extent? |
12018 | What is meant by"the ladye strange"making Christabel_ carry_ her over the sill of the portal? |
12018 | Where did the compiler of the article pick up this statement? |
12018 | Who has seen a copy? |
12018 | Who or what was Geraldine? |
12018 | _ Query I._--Is there any historical record of the first discovery of Mauritius and Bourbon by the Portuguese? |
12018 | _ Query VII_--What is the derivation or meaning of the words_ Dodaers_ and_ Dronte_, as applied to the Dodo? |
12018 | _ Query VI_.--Is there in existence any figure, published or unpublished, of the Dodo- like bird which once inhabited the Isle of Bourbon? |
12018 | and are any members of the family now living? |
12018 | and if so, what is the title of his work? |
12018 | or how far may it have gone towards the payment of a bookseller''s bill? |
12018 | right in supposing the prefix"De"to be_ French_? |
11958 | Seest thou these_ lids_ that now unfold in vain? |
11958 | ), the house of God? |
11958 | ).--Are not_ Baxter_ and_ Tupster_ the feminines of_ Baker_ and_ Tapper_?--and may not_ Shipster_ signify a_ female ship- owner_? |
11958 | ***** WHAT IS A CHAPEL? |
11958 | ***** WHO TRANSLATED THE"TURKISH SPY?" |
11958 | A.G._ Memoirs of an American Lady_.--Are the_ Memoirs of an American Lady_ out of print? |
11958 | Addita cur nuper pedibus talaria? |
11958 | Amat._ l. 475, 476.:--"Quid magis est saxo durum? |
11958 | An quia nil referunt ingrati, atque arcula inanis Est Charitum? |
11958 | Are the following extracts from the register above referred to of sufficient interest to merit your acceptance? |
11958 | At what period of ecclesiastical history was the{ 334} word Chapel first introduced? |
11958 | Cur nudæ? |
11958 | I know that it is commonly attributed to Demosthenes? |
11958 | If this direction be neglected, could not the party next benefited sue for it on that ground, and with success? |
11958 | Implicitis ulnis cur vertitur altera? |
11958 | Is Chapel a_ legal_ description of the houses of religious meeting, which are used by those who dissent from the Church of England? |
11958 | Is it known who really translated that clever work,_ Letters writ by a Turkish Spy_? |
11958 | Is it not invariably the purpose of a Chapel to supply the absence or incommodiousness of the parish church? |
11958 | Was not Stephens subsequently Vicar of St. Andrew''s, Plymouth? |
11958 | Was there a Herald painter of the time named Ambrose Moore? |
11958 | What is the most approved derivation of the word Chapel?--_Capella_, from the goat- skin covering of what was at first a movable tabernacle? |
11958 | _ Gourders of Rain._--Will any of your correspondents be kind enough to suggest the etymology of the word"gourders"(= torrents)? |
11958 | _ Paying through the Nose_.--Can any one tell me the origin of the phrase,"Paying though the nose,"expressing a dear bargain? |
11958 | _ Smelling of the Lamp._--Can you or one of your learned correspondents, tell me the origin or first user of the literary"smelling of the lamp?" |
11958 | _ capa_, a cape worn by_ capellanus_, the chaplain? |
11958 | _ capsa_, a chest for sacred relics? |
11958 | and for line 533, Seest thou this lid that now unfolds in vain? |
11958 | and was it taken from the name of the animal, or did it give the name to it?] |
11958 | or what other and better etymon? |
11958 | quid mollius unda? |
11958 | what a world of profit and delight, Of power, of honour, of omnipotence, Is promis''d to the studious artizan?" |
11958 | what is the use of the royal license for the change of a surname? |
11958 | { 336}_ John Bull_.--Might I beg to ask, through your columns, the origin of the name"_ John Bull_,"as applied to Englishmen? |
13393 | _ Rykelot_, a magpie? |
13393 | ),"Why are gloves not worn before royalty?" |
13393 | ***** AN OLD GUY? |
13393 | 121.)? |
13393 | 1647_? |
13393 | 6d., Contains, Who wrote Shakspeare''s Henry VIII.? |
13393 | And Gascoigne, when Henry refers to the incident in these words:"How might a prince of my great hopes forget So great indignities you laid upon me? |
13393 | But where did JARLTZBERG learn that it was"executed during her captivity before she ascended the throne?" |
13393 | Can any of your correspondents furnish me with information as to the origin and antiquity of this family of Comber? |
13393 | Can any of your readers inform me whether he published the information he may have obtained from those documents; and, if so, where it may be found? |
13393 | Can any of your readers tell me who is the author of the above verse? |
13393 | Can you or any of your numerous readers inform me in whose possession the volume is_ now_? |
13393 | Had he any daughter Ilda? |
13393 | Have, however, any of your readers met this title, or any allusion to it, in any writer previously to 1605? |
13393 | Is this the same as Ben"Jonson?" |
13393 | J.B._ Hornbooks._--Can either of your numerous intelligent readers give me an account of the hornbooks from which our ancestors learned their letters? |
13393 | May this be wash''d in Lethe, and forgotten?" |
13393 | Or was there some other Ben"Johnson,"a poet of that period? |
13393 | Query, if now in payment?_ ANNUAL gifts of Lady Coventry for putting out two poor children born in this parish. |
13393 | To what does this allude? |
13393 | Was this easy? |
13393 | What family had King Harold II.? |
13393 | What is the name of his poem? |
13393 | Whether there be any historical authority for Waltheof being sent as envoy to William? |
13393 | Who is the Anglicus Poeta? |
13393 | _ Haberdasher-- Martinet._--Can any of your correspondents suggest an etymology for the word_ haberdasher_? |
13393 | _ The Sicilian Vespers._--In what English work can a full and correct narrative of this event be found? |
13393 | and E._ Was Quarles pensioned?_( Vol. |
13393 | and if so, how comes it the"h"has been dropped from his name? |
13393 | and, if so, is there any record or mention of her husband''s name? |
13393 | and, if so, on what mission? |
26897 | ).--"_ Fro Venus_ VALANUS_ might this palais see._"( or) volant? |
26897 | And yet the Prince took the saying from the mouth of Madame Pompadour; and she took it-- from whom? |
26897 | But are these stories to be believed? |
26897 | But how is the latter to be read? |
26897 | But the question is, whether there has since been any meaning in other like celestial illuminations? |
26897 | Can any of your learned correspondents furnish materials illustrative of this figurative relation between the serpent and the elements? |
26897 | Can any of your readers give me any information respecting these officials? |
26897 | Cur me spectas fronte tristi? |
26897 | Does any one of the Tyneside readers of the"NOTES AND QUERIES"personally recollect the actual existence of such a memorial? |
26897 | Had he any descendants? |
26897 | How was Bryan related to Sir Thomas? |
26897 | I shall conclude by another Query: What is the Greek word transformed by Asiatic scribes into_ Karábádén_? |
26897 | In what classical author is it to be found? |
26897 | Is it known to any collector of tracts relating to the Battle of Edgehill? |
26897 | Is the_ real name_ of the author of the entertaining work disclosed in any subsequent publication, or is it generally known? |
26897 | Or how far back can it be traced? |
26897 | Peter?" |
26897 | The fair held on old St. Andrew''s Day is always called in Kimbolton and the neighbourhood"Tandrew"fair, so why not"Tanthony"for"Saint Anthony?" |
26897 | Were they persons of any standing in the Society? |
26897 | Where is an account of this race to be found? |
26897 | Who was the"worthy divine,"the writer? |
26897 | _ Sathaniel._--Can any of your correspondents inform me in what book, play, poem, or novel, a character named Sathaniel appears? |
26897 | _ Trisection of the Circle._--Has the problem of the trisection of the angle been solved? |
26897 | and, if they are, where is the line of credibility to be drawn? |
26897 | in error when he says the original travels of the Baron were written to ridicule Bruce? |
26897 | or, if not, is there any reward for its solution; and what steps should be taken to obtain it? |
26897 | quo venisti? |
26897 | vil._, should become naturalised among the peasantry, as is the case with the word Venville? |
26899 | Go to Bathis common enough; but why should either of these places be singled out? |
26899 | _--What is the meaning of the wordeign"in Presteign, also the name of a street and a brook? |
26899 | ?_--Sir Harris Nicolas, in his_ Chronology of History_( 2nd edition, p. |
26899 | Can any of your numerous contributors give me information as to the name and achievements of the Crusader? |
26899 | Can any of your readers give me the titles of the editions in Spanish, or any language, of this interesting little book? |
26899 | Can any of{ 350} your correspondents offer any confirmation of this? |
26899 | Can you inform me how this captain was thus related to George II.? |
26899 | Has any other commentator besides Pricæus alluded to the passage in Demosthenes? |
26899 | Has the authorship of the original ever been hinted at? |
26899 | Is Howel''s little translation scarce? |
26899 | Is it connected with the Anglo- Saxon_ thegen_ or_ theign?_ H. C. K. Hereford. |
26899 | To what other ark, then, could he have been alluding, if not to the_ horary_ diurnal ark? |
26899 | What is the derivation of it? |
26899 | What is the earliest edition of the Prayer Book in which the Form for the Healing appears? |
26899 | Why is it so designated? |
26899 | _ Aristotle and Pythagoras._--What reason( if any) is there for supposing that Aristotle derived his philosophy from Pythagoras himself? |
26899 | _ Experto crede Roberto._--What is the origin of this saying? |
15354 | _ By the bye,& c._--What is the etymology of the phrases"by the bye,""by and by,"and such like? |
15354 | Above all, is it authentic? |
15354 | Again:"This is a hard sermon:''Who is able to abide it?'' |
15354 | Are these the author''s faults, or are they merely editorial embellishments? |
15354 | Brewer''s work appeared? |
15354 | But whence has it arisen? |
15354 | By the Romans; by the Visigoths; or by the Franks themselves? |
15354 | By what people were camels first brought into Gaul? |
15354 | Can any information, throwing light upon this subject, be given? |
15354 | Can any of your correspondents throw any light on the matter? |
15354 | Can any of your readers communicate any particulars of his history? |
15354 | Can this coat be assigned? |
15354 | I should be glad to know if this saying is to be met with elsewhere, and what gave rise to it? |
15354 | If not, is it known when, and by{ 425} whom, and under what circumstances it was written? |
15354 | In what year was the improved woodcut of the_ Prelum Ascensianum_ used for the first time? |
15354 | Is it in the sense of_ post_ or_ secundum_? |
15354 | Is there a heart that ca n''t affection feel For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele? |
15354 | The late Mr. Octavius Gilchrist considered that"Rowlands was an ecclesiastic[?] |
15354 | Was it not first published without notice that any other person was concerned in it but Dryden? |
15354 | What is the meaning of"W.C. or twice five hundred"? |
15354 | What is the meaning of[ Greek: ek] in the above line? |
15354 | Where can any account of the translation of the Canons of 1604 into English be found? |
15354 | Where is the original, or supposed original, to be seen? |
15354 | Who was the author of_ Peniteas cito_? |
15354 | Will you allow another suggestion? |
15354 | _ Brandon the Juggler._--Where is any information to be obtained of Brandon the Juggler, who lived in the reign of King Henry VIII.? |
15354 | _ Hard by._--Is not_ hard by_ a corruption of the German_ hierbei_? |
15354 | asks whether Lord Deputy Wandesford( not Wanderforde)"ever took up this title, and what became of it afterwards?" |
15354 | of Randle Holme, of Chester, 1670, which afterwards were penes Dr. Latham, are still accessible? |
15354 | { 424}_ To save One''s Bacon._--Can you or any of your correspondents inform me of the origin of the common saying,"He''s just saved his bacon?" |
13361 | ), will you allow me to inquire whether there is any evidence that its members deserved Fuller''s severe condemnation? |
13361 | --What is the derivation of the word"yote"or"yeot,"a term used in Glocestershire and Somersetshire, for"leading in"iron work to stone? |
13361 | 10.? |
13361 | 3., in the Septuagint? |
13361 | A.M._ Jewish Music_.--What was the precise character of the_ Jewish music_, both before and after David? |
13361 | And what variety of musical instruments had the Jews? |
13361 | Can any learned clerk inform me where a copy of such Homilies can be seen? |
13361 | Can any of your correspondents inform me of the origin of this? |
13361 | Can any person inform me who now possesses the said pedigree, or is there a copy of it which may be consulted? |
13361 | Can the noble editor of Pepys''_ Diary_, or any of your readers, inform me who and what was this Mr. James Carkasse? |
13361 | Have we not seen participial adjectives made from nouns? |
13361 | If the Pythian priestess was really a ventriloquist, to what extent was she conscious of the deception she practised? |
13361 | Is it not odd that Reiff should have made no remark on the utter want of connection between the"honor manifestus,"and the"ludibria"of Olaus? |
13361 | Is there a bath there? |
13361 | Is there a copy of the Statutes of these colleges in the British Museum, or in any other public library? |
13361 | Is there any list extant of persons who were honoured with that badge? |
13361 | Is_ Berwick_ right? |
13361 | It is used with us to mean intelligence and the phrases,"Is there any thing new?" |
13361 | It runs thus:--"-- Quo flectis inertem Rex periture, fugam? |
13361 | Monmouth and Albermarle); but who was the_ third_, and where can a_ detailed account_ of the transaction be found? |
13361 | Query, where may the accounts of the respective baronies of the bishoprics be found? |
13361 | That the context of the passage in which it occurs is as follows:--"-- Quo tendis inertem Rex periture, fugam? |
13361 | Was the Witch of Endor a ventriloquist? |
13361 | What are the present incomes of New College, and St Mary''s, Winchester? |
13361 | What says Shakspeare? |
13361 | What was his cause of anger? |
13361 | What were the circumstances of the rise of William of Wykeham, respecting which Lowth is so very scanty and unsatisfactory? |
13361 | _ Lammas Day_.--Why was the 1st of August called"Lammas Day?" |
13361 | _ Lux Fiat_.--Who was the first Christian or Jewish writer by whom_ lux fiat_ was referred to the creation of the_ angels_? |
13361 | _ Passage in Lucan_.--What parallel passages are there to that of_ Lucan_:--"Communis mundo superest rogus, ossibus astra Misturus?" |
13361 | _ Rainbow_.--By what heathen poet is the_ rainbow_ spoken of as"risus plorantis Olympi?" |
13361 | _ Richard Baxter''s Descendants_.--Can any of your correspondents inform me of the whereabouts of the descendants of the celebrated Richard Baxter? |
13361 | _ Ventriloquism_.--What evidence is there, that_ ventriloquism_ was made use of in the ancient oracles? |
13361 | _ William of Wykeham_.--Is there any better Life of William of Wykeham than the very insufficient one of Bishop Lowth? |
13361 | an example of the exercise of this art? |
13361 | and"Is there any news?" |
13361 | collar? |
13361 | or on the[ Greek: kata to legomenon] of the author that he was illustrating? |
13361 | young ladies, you are in the sulks, eh? |
13406 | _ Deale_,if an interjection(? |
13406 | ''s question,"Who are the persons now privileged to wear these collars?" |
13406 | ''s question,''Is there any list of persons who were honoured with that badge,( viz., the Collar of SS.? |
13406 | ( it is not, I believe, marked on the Ordnance Survey;) and would it be possible to traverse it at the present time? |
13406 | ), who asks,"Where can I procure a_ translation_ of Robert de Bury''s_ Philobiblon_?" |
13406 | 196 QUERIES:-- Who wrote Shakspeare''s Henry VIII.? |
13406 | 41., favour us with the means of addressing a letter to him?_***** TESTIMONIAL TO DR. |
13406 | Agnes?) |
13406 | But is it necessary that_ delighted_ should have the same signification in all the three passages? |
13406 | But when we are told that a writer flourished about the year 1328( such limitation of florescence is not uncommon), what is then meant? |
13406 | Can any of your readers give me particulars about this John Maire? |
13406 | Can any of_ your_ readers supply this deficiency? |
13406 | Can any one of your readers go farther back? |
13406 | I had no sooner read the title of an essay in the current number of the_ Gentleman''s Magazine_,"Who wrote Shakspeare''s Henry VIII.?" |
13406 | II., that it may then have been styled"Pons fractus?" |
13406 | If none, what ought to be?) |
13406 | Is any definite notion attached to this word? |
13406 | Is it not probable that these were written at different periods? |
13406 | Is the route of the old pilgrims''road laid down upon any early maps? |
13406 | Is there extant any list of their writings as presented to parliament in 1575, and has their confession been published, and when? |
13406 | Is this answer complete and correct? |
13406 | It may be asked, if Baker was burned, how came he to have a tomb with gloves, helmet,& c., suspended over it in Cranbrook Church? |
13406 | One more, not for the wretched play upon words, but because it may make a new Query,--What does it all mean? |
13406 | Query, Is this custom practised elsewhere; and what is the meaning and origin of the use of the bay? |
13406 | Query, What is the origin of this practice? |
13406 | The hero is attired in the costume of the latter part of the seventeenth century(? |
13406 | WHO WROTE SHAKSPEARE''S HENRY VIII.? |
13406 | We read in our public papers of the Pope''s Bull and the Pope''s Brief; pray, Gentlemen, what is the difference between them? |
13406 | What are we to understand he did in or about 1328? |
13406 | What is the technical name for this mode of publication? |
13406 | Why does the Oxford edition of 1598 call itself"editio_ secundo_?" |
13406 | Will some of your readers direct me where further information can be had of him, and his ultimate destination? |
13406 | _ Logic._--What is the earliest printed book on logic? |
13406 | inquires whether anything is known of the_ authorship_ of the_ Querela Cantabrigiensis_? |
13406 | of 1500 so far differ from that of 1473 as to entitle it to be considered a different work, had the second MS. passed through Holcot''s hands? |
13406 | the passage--{ 196}"What are you,"( a philosopher was once asked),"in consequence of your admiration of these abstruse speculations?" |
12198 | ''s prescription; or is it the grain of Attic salt or wit for which allowance has to be made in every well- told story? |
12198 | ), and shown to be identical with one in_ Doctor Faustus_? |
12198 | ), regarding"gourders of raine?" |
12198 | --Can any of your readers inform me of the name of the author of_ Literary Leisure_, published by Miller, Old Bond Street, 1802, in 2 volumes? |
12198 | Are any of these still preserved in the library of that college? |
12198 | Can a person, having dark eyes and hair, but with a clear white skin, be said to be fair? |
12198 | Can any one inform me as to the fact, or refer me to any ornithological work in which I can find it? |
12198 | Dost thou hear, tailor? |
12198 | I am anxious to know who the said Colonel was, his birth,& c.? |
12198 | I have often heard the charm: it commences,"Peter sat upon a stone; Jesus said,''What aileth thee, Peter?''" |
12198 | If further evidence were requisite, old Elyot might be cited, who renders both_ sarcinatrix_ and_ sutatis_(? |
12198 | If the latter, in what author? |
12198 | Is any copy of it to be had or seen? |
12198 | Is it in Seneca? |
12198 | Is the work noticed in the_ Monthly Review_, about that time? |
12198 | Is this, or any like expression, to be found in Homer? |
12198 | Query of"barren,"in the sense of fruitless or useless? |
12198 | Query? |
12198 | The first question I put to myself was, Had Shakspeare himself any concern in the older play? |
12198 | The motto in the title- page is--"Saiva res est: philosophatur quoque jam; Quod erat ei nomen? |
12198 | Thou hast fac''d many_ things_? |
12198 | Well, Sir? |
12198 | What is the Greek Book, and who is the king of Greece alluded to? |
12198 | What is the derivation of_ cum grano salis_ as a hint of caution? |
12198 | What was his relationship to R. Snow, mentioned above? |
12198 | What was this? |
12198 | Why"brown,"rather than blue or yellow? |
12198 | _ Cold_? |
12198 | _ Selden''s Titles of Honour_.--Does any gentleman possess a MS. Index to Selden''s_ Titles of Honour_? |
12198 | acquainted with the_ History of Castle Acre Priory_, published some years ago? |
12198 | and whether_ The Bristol Riots, their Causes, Progress, and Consequences, by a Citizen_, is generally received as an accurate account? |
12198 | asks our Bristol readers what compilation may be relied on as an accurate description of the Bristol riots of 1831? |
12198 | or can any one, who has seen it, inform me what is the style and character of it? |
12198 | or, in modern phase,_ raw_,_ neat_, or_ genuine_? |
22127 | _ Psyllus._ No, verily; why, what''s a_ quip_? 22127 ( G.):--_ Manes._ Didst thou not find I did_ quip_ thee? |
22127 | Are there any instances of sepulchral monuments, between the above dates, now existing in churchyards? |
22127 | Can any kind correspondent inform me where in Gloucestershire it is situated? |
22127 | Can any of your readers inform me whether Bishop Neile''s episcopal register for Lincoln is in existence, or whether any transcript of it is known? |
22127 | Can any of your readers, therefore, oblige me with some information upon these points? |
22127 | Can you, Sir, or any of your intelligent correspondents, oblige me by saying who introduced the kilt into Scotland and when? |
22127 | He asks,"Has there been a live hippopotamus in Europe since the reign of Commodus?" |
22127 | Is it not, indeed, stated in one of your former numbers, that this very inscription was to be read 1408, and not 1048? |
22127 | Is there any ground for believing that our churchyards were ever thus consecrated on the south side of the church to the exclusion of the north? |
22127 | Is there any recent edition with notes? |
22127 | Query, Were our ancestors justified in boasting that they were"free- born"Englishmen as long as one of these taxes existed? |
22127 | Query, What has become of the other five"famous statues in brass?" |
22127 | Was the former brother of Francis? |
22127 | What authority is there for such an assertion, and do any examples of such structures remain? |
22127 | What became of Bishop Jewell''s library? |
22127 | What evidence is there that this business was transacted in the churchyard, in the porch, or in any particular part of the edifice? |
22127 | What is its history? |
22127 | What is the exact meaning of the word"yard?" |
22127 | When did churchyards cease to be places of sanctuary? |
22127 | Where were the alms bestowed, if not here? |
22127 | Why is he called"Gandavensis,"or"De Gandavo,"seeing that he is said to have been born in London? |
22127 | Will S. W. S., or any one who takes interest in Ulrich, tell me where it is? |
22127 | _ Anthony Warton._--Who was Anthony Warton, minister of the word at Breamore, in Hampshire, and author of_ Refinement of Zion_, London, 1657? |
22127 | _ Griffith of Penrhyn._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to a good pedigree of GRIFFITH OF PENRHYN AND CARNARVON? |
22127 | _ How often has it been reprinted?_ What other English translations have been made, and what are the latest? |
22127 | _ How often has it been reprinted?_ What other English translations have been made, and what are the latest? |
22127 | _ Maps of London._--I should be grateful to any of your correspondents who could inform me whether there are any maps of London before that of Aggas? |
22127 | _ The Mariner''s Compass._--What is the origin of the_ fleur- de- lis_ with which the northern radius of the compass- card is always ornamented? |
22127 | and was not"God''s acre"applied to Christian cemeteries before sepulture was admitted in churches or churchyards? |
22127 | and where they are to be found? |
22127 | or if any evidence, confirmatory of Le Neve''s statement of the fact and date of the consecration of the chapel of Hatfield, is known to exist? |
22127 | what they are? |
26753 | What judgment would_ stoop_ from this to this? |
26753 | ).--Mention is made of_ Censura Euphormionis_ and other tracts, called forth by Barclay''s works: where can some account of these be found? |
26753 | ): will any of your readers inform me where this MS. is preserved, and whether I can have access to it? |
26753 | Can any of your correspondents inform me where such an account is to be met with, as I have forgotten the name of the book in which I have seen it? |
26753 | Can any of your readers inform me who is the author, whether it has ever appeared in print, or give me any other information respecting it? |
26753 | Can any reader enlighten MUHAMMED? |
26753 | D. S. asks,"What were these privileges, and whence was the term Campvere derived?" |
26753 | Did any one else ever hear of this tradition? |
26753 | Is it so? |
26753 | Likewise, of what faculty was Samuel Kettilby, D.D., Professor; and when did he die? |
26753 | May I inquire if any new light has been thrown upon this disputed song since the publication of Mr. Collier''s_ Lyric Poems_ in 1844? |
26753 | T. F._ Whence the Word"Cossack? |
26753 | These reasons embolden me to ask if it be worth preserving in"N.& Q,"and who was the author? |
26753 | Was he a grandson of John Boyle of Hereford, eldest brother of Roger, father of Richard, first Earl of Cork? |
26753 | Was he the Robert Johnson who entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1671, as a Fellow Commoner at the age of fourteen? |
26753 | Was he the then Vice- Chancellor? |
26753 | What is to_ wound the loud winds_ but to_ wound the air that sings with piercing_? |
26753 | What is_ still- closing_ but_ still- piecing_, the silent reunion after severance? |
26753 | Where can any references to his real or supposed history be found, and what are the legends of which he is the hero? |
26753 | Who was the purchaser of this precious MS.? |
26753 | Who was"W. D."? |
26753 | Why is the first of the adjectives agreeing with_ les sentimens_ in the wrong gender? |
26753 | _ Curiosities of Railway Literature._--Has"Bradshaw"had any reviewers? |
26753 | _ Life._--Is it not the general feeling that man, in advancing years, would not like to begin his life again? |
26753 | and, if so, by what name is the property now known? |
26753 | inform me where I can procure the_ several_ fine copies of verses, or where they are to be seen, and any other particulars relating to Jacob Bobart? |
26753 | noticed a similar illusion, and can they explain it? |
26753 | vi., p. 495.? |
26753 | wishes to instal illegally in the Provostship of King''s, as he attempted to impose a President on Magdalen, Oxon? |
20408 | ).--Was S. S. S.''s farmer a native of an eastern county? |
20408 | 324.; said to be_ privately printed_? |
20408 | And yet was no one, or both, of the following passages floating in his brain when his pen traced the line? |
20408 | Are DR. DIAMOND''S_ Notes_ published yet? |
20408 | Can any of your readers throw any light on this passage in Dr. Johnson''s_ Life of Sir John Denham_? |
20408 | Can any one tell me what these"minute appearances"are? |
20408 | Could we not co- operate in finding the earliest known mention of words, and thus perhaps trace the occasion and manner of their introduction? |
20408 | Could_ this_, at least, not be done without much objection? |
20408 | I attribute the fading to the hyposulphate not being got rid of; and the question is, Can the picture he restored? |
20408 | I can not but observe that the doubt expressed in the Diary of Moore-- whether Shakspeare''s monument is"at Leamington or Stratford(?)" |
20408 | If so, was there any official inquiry-- any"crowner''s quest?" |
20408 | Is any pedigree extant of either of these families, and what arms did they bear? |
20408 | Is anything known of the latter, or of his writings? |
20408 | Is the hypothesis of poison coeval with the date of Marvell''s demise? |
20408 | Is there any evidence to connect him with this hall, as the place of his residence? |
20408 | Might I ask if any of your correspondents find an earlier use of the word; and can it be gifted with a probable paternity? |
20408 | Might not a person have been suborned to represent the fictitious Robert Drury, to the benefit of the coffee- house keeper as well as the publisher? |
20408 | P.S.--Query, from whom did the present possessor obtain it? |
20408 | Query, what is the authority for this heraldic distinction, said to have been assumed by Charlemagne? |
20408 | _ Bankruptcy Records._--Where can I search for evidence of a bankruptcy, probably about 1654? |
20408 | _ Ennui._--What is our nearest approach to a correct rendering of this expression? |
20408 | _ M._ For a hawk, a horse, or a husband? |
20408 | _ Nuns of the Hotel Dieu._--What is the religions habit of the nuns at the hospital of the Hotel Dieu in Paris at the present day? |
20408 | _ Symbol of Globe and Cross._--Can any one oblige me with an explanation of the mysterious symbols on a seal not older than the last century? |
20408 | line 140.,& c. Where can I find a description of this flower, and what is its scientific name? |
20408 | point out any simple test by which unscientific parties desirous of practising photography may be enabled to judge of the goodness of a lens? |
20408 | v., p. 346., as to a list of these officers, and any account of their origin and history? |
22625 | [ Greek: oude ho huios?] |
22625 | A piece of the true cross was enclosed in it"? |
22625 | Are we a branch of the Blowers( as you appear to think we must be), that useful family of alarmists, whose services in early times were so necessary? |
22625 | Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon this subject? |
22625 | Can any of your readers point out its locality at the present time? |
22625 | Dunelm_ is curious; but is there any contemporary authority for the Black Rood having been taken with King David at the battle of Durham? |
22625 | E. L. N._ Inscribed Alms- dish._--There is an alms- dish(?) |
22625 | Has that work ever been printed? |
22625 | Has this letter been printed, and where? |
22625 | I am desirous of ascertaining in whose possession these volumes are? |
22625 | In what contemporary work is this recorded? |
22625 | Instead of this famous cross being destined by St. Margaret for Dunfermline, was it not transmitted by her as an heir- loom to her sons? |
22625 | Is any copy existing which has the original passage? |
22625 | Is not Fordun_ quoting_ from Turgot and Aelred( whom he names Baldredus) when he speaks of"illa sancta crux_ quam nigram_ vocant?" |
22625 | Is there any existing periodical suitable for the purpose? |
22625 | My Grandfather had been ill for a great while after a Fall, by w^{ch} his Breast was so bruised that in time it came to an Imposthumation(?) |
22625 | Or can any of your readers, by any other means, strengthen the probability, or prove the truth, of my conjecture? |
22625 | P. S. Can MR. DOUSA fix a positive date to my undated_ History of Dr. John Faustus_? |
22625 | Phoebus liked Daphne; Jupiter Io; and why not I then Fawnia?'' |
22625 | Query, Did Anna Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII., ever spell her name so? |
22625 | Query, origin of that appellation, so used? |
22625 | Query: Have B and F been at all used convertibly? |
22625 | Rosalind asks Orlando,"I pray you what is it_ a clock?_"to which he replies,"You should ask me what time_ o''day_; there''s no clock in the forest." |
22625 | What has become of the painting? |
22625 | Will he kindly set the example?_ T. F. R.(_ Oriel_). |
22625 | Will he send his address to Mr. Bell?_ U. U. C._"A Roland for an Oliver"is explained in our Second Volume, p._ 132. |
22625 | Will one of your readers be good enough to enlighten me? |
22625 | [ Fear God( and?) |
22625 | _ Blunder_.--What is the origin of this word? |
22625 | _ Did St. Paul''s Clock strike Thirteen?_( Vol. |
22625 | _ Drachmarus._--Can any of your readers kindly inform me, under what name"Drachmarus,"one of the Schoolmen, is commonly known? |
22625 | _ What are the coins? |
22625 | and is it not, therefore, absurd to speak of such a cross being taken at the battle of Durham, or to identify it with the Black Rood of Scotland? |
22625 | or are we the descendants of the Flanders"Boleyns,"Anglicanized"Bloyen?" |
22625 | or are we to debate which of the interpretations would be the lesser anachronism? |
23225 | ).--Do I understand your correspondent to ask whether mistletoe is found now except on oaks? |
23225 | 179.)? |
23225 | A rack of what? |
23225 | Also the dates of her birth and death, and the name of her husband, and of any children? |
23225 | And where is the word to be found explained? |
23225 | Can any of your correspondents inform me who John Quebecca was, and where the epitaph may be found? |
23225 | Can any of your readers inform me the name of this daughter, and of her mother? |
23225 | Could not a Society be formed for the purpose, so that mutual correspondence might take place? |
23225 | Did it take its rise from Cowper''s fable,_ the Love of the World reproved_, in which it is shown how"Mahometans eat up the hog?" |
23225 | Has our correspondent consulted Mr. Akerman''s_ Numismatic Manual? |
23225 | Have we not in all this a remnant of"Psyche?" |
23225 | I.: Holofernes says,"What is the figure?" |
23225 | Is it Roman or Spanish? |
23225 | Is it ever found now on other trees? |
23225 | Is not the superstition analogous to that noticed by MR. WAY? |
23225 | Is there any foundation for this supposition? |
23225 | May I ask if the name of"Chorus"was thus indiscriminately applied at the time when the poem was composed? |
23225 | Pray, who_ was_ the chaplain? |
23225 | Query the_ size of that_? |
23225 | S. M._ Meaning of Gig- Hill._--Can any of your readers favour me with an explanation of the following matter in local topography? |
23225 | Warren, in a note of his letter on"The Queen or the Pope?" |
23225 | What is it that shall"leave not a rack behind?" |
23225 | What is the meaning of this inscription? |
23225 | _ Going the Whole Hog._--What is the origin of the expression"going the whole hog?" |
23225 | _ Odour from the Rainbow._--What English poet is it that embodies the idea contained in the following passage of Bacon''s_ Sylva_? |
23225 | asks"What are''slums?'' |
23225 | for Lynn Regis, denominated_ Little Holland_, which he increased by reclaiming large portions in the Dutch manner from the Wash? |
23225 | { 223} Are there any instances to be met with where the place of punishment by the stocks or pillory in olden times, was known by that name? |
13638 | Has_ Cosmopoli_ been ever appropriated to any known locality? |
13638 | ( quere, where is it now? |
13638 | ***** WHAT IS THE MEANING OF"LÆRIG?" |
13638 | 1415)? |
13638 | 229, wherein it is ascribed to Antonio Tebaldeo--"_ De Cupidine._ Cur natum cædit Venus? |
13638 | Arcum Nunc quis habet? |
13638 | At the same time I venture, with much diffidence, to offer a reply to your question which occur in that work at p. 663.:--"Was heisst_ lærig_?" |
13638 | Can Mr. Tyler have confounded it with Drayton''s_ Poem_ on the same subject? |
13638 | Can any of your readers furnish a further account of this lady? |
13638 | Can any of your readers inform me whether there is such a book? |
13638 | Dyce made use of the MS. notes, and the Latin Epitaph on Sir Roger Manwood, by Marlow, contained in this copy? |
13638 | Has any recent evidence been discovered as to the authorship of_ The Complaynt of Scotland_? |
13638 | Have the researches since that time in the Record Offices supplied this hiatus; and if so, in which department of it are these documents to be found? |
13638 | I should feel much obliged if( when you can find space) you would kindly put the query to your correspondents--"What has become of this Form?" |
13638 | Is Sir David Lindsay, or Wedderburn, the author of this very interesting work? |
13638 | Is it not a relic of Norman rule, from the French_ journée_, signifying a day- man? |
13638 | Is there any authority for Breton''s knighthood? |
13638 | Is this bit of weather- wisdom current in other parts of the kingdom? |
13638 | May not the English term_ Jack_, if not directly borrowed from the Scottish_ Jock_, have been formed_ through_ the primary_ Jock_--John-- Jock-- Jack? |
13638 | Query, is Breton its author? |
13638 | Qui factum? |
13638 | The Carthaginians most probably received the custom from their ancestors the Phoenicians, but where did the Americans get it? |
13638 | Was Corinna in mistake put for_ Colonna_? |
13638 | Was he married, and did he leave a daughter? |
13638 | Was this_ old Lanam_, the same person as Robert Laneham, who wrote"a Narrative of Queen Elizabeth''s Visit to Kenilworth Castle in 1575"? |
13638 | What is the earliest printed copy of the beautiful old song"My Mind to me a Kingdom is?" |
13638 | Who was Will Bagnall? |
13638 | Who was the wife of Patrick Ruthven, youngest son of William, first Earl of Gowrie, and where was he married? |
13638 | _ Lollius._--Who was the Lollius spoken of by Chaucer in the following passages? |
13638 | _ Trophee._--Who or what was"Trophee?" |
13389 | A grisly idol hewn in stone? 13389 But", he added, musing,"what is Dryden''s? |
13389 | Is it a fiend that to a stake Of fire his desperate self is tethering? 13389 Is it a party in a parlour? |
13389 | ''Is this the same ax; are you sure?'' |
13389 | ''Where is the instrument that did it?'' |
13389 | ( G.):--"Saw you not a lady come this way on a sable horse_ studded with stars_ of white?" |
13389 | An alarm is originally the signal to arm: Query, Is it not formed from the cry_ à l''arme_, which in modern times is_ aux armes_? |
13389 | Are there any proofs of its growing wild in America? |
13389 | But the"narghile,"the"kaleoon,"the"hookah,"the"hubble- bubble,"whence came they? |
13389 | Can any of your readers say into what collection it passed? |
13389 | Can any of your readers suggest an explanation? |
13389 | Did the Jesuits publish a work containing such statements? |
13389 | Does not the variation"cobbler''s dog"tend to prove the alliterative principle for which I had been contending? |
13389 | Does not this very notice imply something unusual? |
13389 | Dost thou miss a lamb to- night?" |
13389 | Dr. Cleland shows the three last to be falsehoods(?). |
13389 | He adds:--"Hath some churle done thee a spight? |
13389 | I have his Russian, Dutch, and Spanish_ Anthologies_:_ Did he ever publish any others_? |
13389 | I heard him say,''Sirrah, wert thou not afraid?'' |
13389 | If so, where can the account be found? |
13389 | In the Tartar( Calmuc and Bashkir?) |
13389 | Is Peter of himself afraid? |
13389 | Is it a coffin-- or a shroud? |
13389 | Is it a gallows these pourtrayed? |
13389 | Is it an abbreviation of"Dieu le sait?" |
13389 | Is tobacco the word in the original? |
13389 | It does not throw light on the question of why Dr. Dee left Manchester College? |
13389 | Now does the following MS. bear relation to that described as recopied by Servetus, from which Arnoullet printed? |
13389 | Now what is"proof,"--a substantive or adjective? |
13389 | Or a gay ring of shining fairies, Such as pursue their brisk vagaries In sylvan bower or haunted hall? |
13389 | Or imp from witch''s lap let fall? |
13389 | Quanto præstantius esset Numen aquæ, viridi si margine clauderet undas Herba, nec ingenuum violarent marmora tophum?" |
13389 | The Yakuti( and Tungusi?) |
13389 | The ghost- like image of a cloud? |
13389 | This Dr. Cleland proves to be a lie(?). |
13389 | Who taught them the presentation of the pipe to guests, a form so strictly observed by the Red Men of America,& c.? |
13389 | Who wrote Shakspeare''s Henry VIII.? |
13389 | [ Footnote 2: There is no positive notice of its introduction into Turkey, Persia, or Russia?] |
13389 | _ Rykelot_.--A magpie? |
13389 | _ Translation of the Philobiblon_.--Where can I procure a translation of Robert de Bury''s_ Philobiblon_? |
13389 | and might not this have been a deserted plantation? |
13389 | or are we to accept them as their opinions only on the authority of so bitter an opponent as Watson? |
13389 | or is it the first rough sketch? |
13389 | { 154}_ Achilles and the Tortoise_.--Where is the paradox of"Achilles and the Tortoise"to be found? |
21445 | _--Can you tell me where the scene of this play, a tragedy by Mary Leapor, is laid, and the names of the_ dramatis personæ_? 21445 Are there any genealogical records of them? 21445 At what place, and by what bishop, was he ordained, in 1661? 21445 By what authority have they been put forth? 21445 By whom, when, for whom, were they first made? 21445 Can any of your readers refer to any other_ trading_ vessel so old as this? 21445 Can any one throw any light on this? 21445 Can this letter be found in the State- Paper Office, or elsewhere? 21445 Can you explain the cause of this? 21445 Cromwell was executed July 1540; but do his arms appear in the 1540 impressions? 21445 Did M. Kreienberg die in this country, or can anything be ascertained of him or his wife? 21445 Do botanists know or conjecture anything about this tree? 21445 Does any copy still exist of one( which I have seen somewhere alluded to) published before Dean Durel''s editions? 21445 Does the name exist in any other place, as applied to a piece of land situated as the above- described piece? 21445 Have any of the sermons been published? 21445 How could death prey upon the king''s outward parts without visiting them? 21445 In the year 1667, certaine shepheards ask''d my councel whether they might venture their sheep any more in the Low- fields? 21445 Is anything known of this play and its authorship? 21445 Is there any information to be found collected by any writer on this subject? 21445 Is there any mention of him in the books of the East India Company? 21445 Is there any record of three brothers, Robert, Oliver, and Francis Shearman, coming to England in the army of William the Conqueror? 21445 Next follows DR. RIMBAULT, whom I understand to differ from me also, and who says( but where is the authority for the statement?) 21445 Query, At what time, and with whom did this very common and most unmeaning term in English correspondence have its origin? 21445 Query, Is there any and what authority for the statement? 21445 Was Robert Shearman, warden of the hospital of St. Cross in Winchester, of that family? 21445 Was Roger Shearman, who signed the Declaration{ 382} of American Independence, a member of same? 21445 Was he the Ken mentioned in Roger North''s_ Lives of the Norths_, as one of the court- rakes? 21445 Was he the author? 21445 What are their arms? 21445 What is the difference? 21445 What is the meaning or derivation of the term? 21445 What is the origin of the name? 21445 When did he die, and where was he buried? 21445 Where can anything be learned of him? 21445 Where was the Market House situate? 21445 Wood, under date of July 21, 1671? 21445 _ Edmund Burke._--Can any of your correspondents tell me when and where he was married? 21445 _ Jul._ Why not on Proteus as_ on_ all the rest? 21445 _ Plan of London._--Is there any good plan of London, showing its present extent? 21445 _ Shearman Family._--Is there a family named_ Shearman_ or_ Sherman_ in Yorkshire, or in the city of York? 21445 _ Version of a Proverb._--What, and where to be found, is the true version ofQui facit per alium, facit per se?" |
21445 | and, if so, what was the result as to the assertions there made? |
21445 | give any information as to Ellis Walker, who made a_ Poetical Paraphrase of the Enchiridion of Epictetus_? |
21445 | identify this"collection,"or furnish any particulars of Midgley not recorded by Brook, Calamy, or Hunter? |
21445 | or was it_ The Northern Lass_, by Richard Brome, first published in 1632? |
21445 | to draw MR. COLLIER''S attention to some passages in which the old corrector appears to me to have corrupted, rather than improved, the text? |
15824 | _ Thou_ advise a retreat, Michel? |
15824 | ''Why should I be in uniform?'' |
15824 | And why not? |
15824 | Bonaparte, turning quickly to him, said:''How is this? |
15824 | But what is an"attenuated"virus? |
15824 | Could the spectroscope be used in determining also the character of the materials in those orbs that we see shining in the depths of space? |
15824 | How could such an amazing historical result come into the world? |
15824 | How many cannon? |
15824 | How shall we name the asteroids? |
15824 | How then could the injured sufferers escape? |
15824 | How then shall man overcome the darkness? |
15824 | Is it in reality any more wonderful to use the electrical wave in the transmission of intelligible symbols than to use a wave of light? |
15824 | Of what kind are the fixed stars? |
15824 | Of what kind are the nebulæ? |
15824 | Of what kind of matter are the comets? |
15824 | One of the passengers said:"What place is this?" |
15824 | Or hear''st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? |
15824 | Or of Eternal coëternal beam, May I express thee unblamed? |
15824 | That they will come no one will question; but where is the daring prophet who will hazard a guess as to what they will be? |
15824 | The story goes that Hancock, recognizing his prisoner, said,"How are you, Stuart?" |
15824 | Those shapeless eyes which the bark of trees delineates on the trunks were gazing-- at what? |
15824 | To what purpose? |
15824 | Was it not time, men were asking, that the forces that were on the side of godliness united in opposition to evil? |
15824 | Was it still following the strategy of Gustavus Adolphus? |
15824 | Was it still following the tactics of Frederick II.? |
15824 | Was it, however, needful to provide for such extreme eventualities? |
15824 | Were not these phenomena sufficient to suggest that sound might be written in intelligible characters? |
15824 | What are meteoric displays but the residue of the primordial showers by which the world was formed? |
15824 | What could be the cause of this seeming disregard of mathematical laws? |
15824 | What kind of lantern shall he carry as he gropes? |
15824 | What then_ is_ the cathode ray? |
15824 | What was it? |
15824 | What, therefore, should be the fame of him who finds a new world in the depths of space? |
15824 | Who knows but some of these schools may become nurseries for Christians?" |
15824 | Why should Germany be an Empire and France a Republic? |
15824 | Why should it have been so easy and apparently natural for the old races to invent a visible form of speech- writing rather than an audible form? |
15824 | Why should it not be employed in consumption? |
15824 | Why should sight- writing have been invented thousands of years ago, and sound- writing postponed until the present day? |
15824 | Why should the ancients have fallen back on the eye rather than the ear as the sense to be instructed? |
22369 | ''s Mag._ for April, 1850, p. 359.? |
22369 | * They are quoted by Nicolas in the Scope and Grosvenor Rolls? |
22369 | A. S.( Bridgewater)._ Will our Correspondent repeat his Query respecting_ Loselerius Vilerius_? |
22369 | Also, at what period did the custom arise of using as Christian names words which are properly surnames? |
22369 | At what College of what University did Dr. Samuel Pratt, Dean of Rochester, receive his education, and by whom was he ordained? |
22369 | But what cause is there why a noble man should eyther despise the people? |
22369 | Can any of your correspondents throw a light upon this_ Wednesday''s_ Club, in Friday Street? |
22369 | Can any particulars be given of the abbess, monastery, and town mentioned? |
22369 | Can you say where it first made its appearance? |
22369 | Can you tell me anything about this old gentleman? |
22369 | Could the prayer referred to be transferred to"N.& Q.;"or where is the said Irish Prayer- Book to be found? |
22369 | Does MR. COLLIER''S"New Text,"or any other old copy, prove this? |
22369 | Has this K anything to do with Köster? |
22369 | Henry Bright, prebend of Worcester Cathedral, and instructor of Samuel Butler, author of_ Hudibras_? |
22369 | How is this signature accounted for? |
22369 | I conclude Lucas is the surname, and Whittonus indicates his locality; if so, what place? |
22369 | If light can thus deceive-- wherefore not life?" |
22369 | Is any other specimen of movable_ metal_ types known of so early a date? |
22369 | Mr. Wright''s Glossary refers to these last two instances as follows:"_ More_( A.-S.) 330, 331., the main or larger part, body(?)" |
22369 | Nor how yll gard[=e] of c[=o]tinuance, feare is? |
22369 | Or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect, stood reveal''d, That to such countless orbs thou mad''st us blind? |
22369 | Query, What family or families bore three battle- axes? |
22369 | Query: Can November 7, N. S., be the correct date? |
22369 | Was it a real club or fictitious? |
22369 | Was the library ever transferred to Fonthill or to Bath, or does it still remain at Lausanne? |
22369 | What Irish Common Prayer- Book is here meant? |
22369 | What became of the records of the Language? |
22369 | What is the meaning of_ blow- shoppe_? |
22369 | What vestiges of this catastrophe are now perceptible? |
22369 | What was a_ tyncen_? |
22369 | What? |
22369 | Whom did he marry, and what family had he? |
22369 | Why do we then shun death with anxious strife? |
22369 | _ Christian Names._--Can any of your correspondents inform me when it became a common practice to have more than one Christian name? |
22369 | _ Order of St. John of Jerusalem._--1. Who were the members of the British Language of St. John of Jerusalem, when Elizabeth took away their property? |
22369 | _ Townley MSS._--I request to know, where are the Townley MSS.? |
22369 | furnish me with materials or references from which I may gather information of these families of West and Millbourne? |
22369 | in discovering the name of a reverend person whose portrait I have recently met with in my parish? |
22369 | know they not, no tiranny maye bee trusty? |
22369 | of_ waselen_( A.-S.) to become dirty, dirty oneself?" |
22369 | often referred to in the_ History of the House of Yvery_ as then penes the Earl of Egmont; and also a folio of Pedigrees by Camden Russet? |
22369 | or hate them? |
22369 | or wrong them? |
22369 | to call this inscription"sotadic?" |
22369 | without being called to account? |
13712 | And deem''st thou me unknown too? 13712 Well,"said I, laughing,"but you surely do n''t think there are any now?" |
13712 | Why, Nanny,said I,"you surely do n''t believe in witches now- a- days?" |
13712 | ''Do n''t you, indeed?'' |
13712 | ''s reign? |
13712 | 3. Who is the fortunate possessor of the_ Lives and characters of the English dramatick poets_ with the marginal marks of Garrick? |
13712 | Are there any accounts of these expeditions? |
13712 | Can any of your readers give me information about this? |
13712 | Can any of your readers inform me whether this interesting work ever made its appearance? |
13712 | Can any of your readers say whether Dr. Percy had a copy of the sheets, and whether he had prefixed thereto any life of the Earl of Surrey? |
13712 | Can any of your readers supply the name of the"young lady"who translated the story of Phoebus and Daphne? |
13712 | Did the following critical remarks on Shakspere, by Edward Phillips, appear_ verbatim_ in the_ Thesaurus_ of J. Buchlerus, 1669? |
13712 | Do any ledgers or other account- books, of ancient dates, exist in the archives of the City Companies, or in the office of the City Chamberlain? |
13712 | From the Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian? |
13712 | Has Mr. Bolton Corney, if I may venture to name him, examined the work? |
13712 | How and when would_ Mosco_ have become_ Mosquito_? |
13712 | How old is it with us? |
13712 | If the name came from the synonymous insect, would it have been given by the Spaniards or the English? |
13712 | Is this peculiar to that county? |
13712 | It is, in fact,"das Neue"in the genitive case; the German phrase"Was giebt''s Neues?" |
13712 | Was Shaftesbury ever Chancellor of Cambridge? |
13712 | Was it a Spanish elongation of the name, or an English corruption? |
13712 | What are the contents of a work entitled,[ Old German script: Schaubune Englischer und Franßofischer Comædianten], printed before 1671? |
13712 | What is the correct blazon of the arms of_ Godin_; with crest and motto? |
13712 | What is the origin and derivation of the word"Trianon,"the name of the two palaces, Le Grand and Le Petit, at Versailles? |
13712 | What is the origin and exact meaning of the phrase"Sleeveless errand"? |
13712 | What was the bawn, which was equally indispensable to the grantee of 2000, 1500, or 1000 acres? |
13712 | When did the abacus, or the"tabel"referred to in my former letters, cease to be used as calculating instruments? |
13712 | When did the method of_ recording results_ in Roman numerals cease to be used in mercantile account- books? |
13712 | When in the household- books of royalty and nobility? |
13712 | When in the public offices of the Government? |
13712 | Will Dr. Kennedy, or any other strict verbal critic, sanction this use of the word"mutual?" |
13712 | _ Elizabeth and Isabel._--"A.C."inquires whether these names are not varied forms of the same name, and if so, what is the common origin of the two? |
13712 | _ Versicle and Response._--What is the meaning of the following versicle and its response, which occur in both Morning and Evening Prayer? |
13712 | and why was it applied to them? |
13712 | giving the exact sense of our"What is the news?" |
13712 | or did Sir Egerton Brydges ever print any account of Surrey amongst his numerous issues from the Lee or other presses? |
13712 | or who was the Lord Chamberlain who at that time was Chancellor of the university? |
13712 | { 426} How did the word_ mosquito_ come into our language? |
16193 | R.H.inquires, whether Antony Alsop was at Trinity College before he became a student of Christchurch? |
16193 | 14.; the whole being a remnant of the Saturnalia of the ancients?"] |
16193 | 75.? |
16193 | = What fish do you take?" |
16193 | By the first wave of population which broke through the passes of the Parapamisus? |
16193 | Can any of your correspondents inform me if any of these relics are still in existence, and, if so, where? |
16193 | Can any reader furnish the remainder, and state who is the author? |
16193 | Can you inform me how the very common expression_ French Leave_ originated? |
16193 | Can you tell me the meaning of this? |
16193 | Can"D.S.,"or any of your readers, throw further light on the subject? |
16193 | D''Almaine''s is two doors north of Sutton Street, and was built by Earl(?) |
16193 | Elizabeth gives birth to Elspeth, Eliza( Eloisa? |
16193 | Has it altogether the same character as the latter fruit? |
16193 | Has this passage been satisfactorily explained since Tyrwhitt''s time? |
16193 | How came the confusion? |
16193 | How came the name into Scotland? |
16193 | If there has been one, in what language, and where published? |
16193 | If we need go so far, why not fetch our muffins from Memphis, which is_ Môph_ in Hebrew? |
16193 | Is James derived from Giacomo? |
16193 | Is it because the people at Tickhill are famed for misery, as the neighbouring town of Blythe seems to have been so called from its jolly citizens? |
16193 | Is it connected with the use of the_ crimping_ irons in producing these delicacies? |
16193 | Is it there as the emblem of fecundity, as the pomegranate of Persia and Syria? |
16193 | Is this a general custom?--and if so, what is its origin and meaning? |
16193 | It seems to be from Jacques, which is the French for our James? |
16193 | Let it be remembered that the question here is not,"_ How_ dost thou take fish?" |
16193 | MR. THORPE calls the A.-S. dialogue a_ Gloss_; is it not rather an_ interlineary version_? |
16193 | Should not the designation of Marie F. be_ Spinster_ instead of Shipster? |
16193 | The fisherman is asked,"Quales pisces capias? |
16193 | Then-- was it carried into Hindostan_ viâ_ Cashmir? |
16193 | Tilney, the builder of Wanstead House? |
16193 | What are we to say of Jack for John? |
16193 | What does the"fir- cone"in the Ninevite sculptures mean? |
16193 | What was to be done? |
16193 | When? |
16193 | [ Footnote 3: Fleming; banishing? |
16193 | _ Derivation(?) |
16193 | _ Portugal_.--Can any of your geographical readers inform me if a Gazetteer of Portugal has been published within these twenty years? |
16193 | _ Tureen_--How and whence is the term"tureen"derived?--and when was it introduced? |
16193 | _ Vox et præterea nihil._--Whence come these oft- quoted words? |
16193 | shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?" |
16193 | the salmon of the second year? |
16193 | which had been put and_ answered before_, but"_ What_ fish dost thou take?" |
22138 | _--On what ground is the fine base song,The Owl is abroad,"attributed to Henry Purcell? |
22138 | ? |
22138 | And just as I was going out he called to me and asked me what I would have? |
22138 | And,_ à propos_, why should"notaries public,"with regard to the noun and adjective, continue to place the cart before the horse? |
22138 | Are the entire songs, of which the above lines form the commencements, known or recoverable? |
22138 | Are these words identical, and can their connexion be traced? |
22138 | By the way, is the provincial word"hag- gard"hay- yard? |
22138 | Can any one give me any information upon this question? |
22138 | Do any of your correspondents know of the existence or authorship of this little work? |
22138 | Have Sir W. Herschel''s contributions to the_ Philosophical Transactions_ ever been published in a separate form? |
22138 | I wish to know, can a_ Quo warranto_ issue to the said mayor for the assumption of this badge? |
22138 | If distinct, are the words now in use in the Mediterranean ports derived from the Greek or the Arabic? |
22138 | If so, is the music to which they were sung handed down? |
22138 | If so, what is"orch?" |
22138 | Is he known by any other name? |
22138 | Is it not really the property of John Christopher Smith, the friend of Handel? |
22138 | Is the last syllable"yard,"as in vineyard, rickyard? |
22138 | Is there any other authority for this statement? |
22138 | Is there any_ old_ authority for this charge against the Cardinal? |
22138 | Is this rumour any where else alluded to? |
22138 | Next, if the fact be known, who was the"gentleman very curious"who owned the collection? |
22138 | Query, Has the name of"Will o''the Wisp"any connexion with the supposed habit of appearing in this form? |
22138 | Query, Was the Strand ever known as_ Le Strand_, similarly to Adwick-_le- street_ in Yorkshire? |
22138 | Query, is any older edition known? |
22138 | Query,_ Of what_ is it a translation? |
22138 | So knocking at the door, Gammer Vangs, said I, is Sir John Vangs within? |
22138 | Then follow"Etwas newes, quelque chose de nouveau; Aliquid novi;"and"Was newes, quelles nouvelles;"or, more accurately,"Quid novi; quoi de nouveau?" |
22138 | This is the oldest English catalogue of the kind that I happen to have met with, and my first question upon it is, is there any older? |
22138 | What and who were the persons designated as tobacconists? |
22138 | What authority is there for this statement respecting the swans? |
22138 | What was the origin and significance of the usage to which allusion is here made? |
22138 | _ Derivation of Orchard._--What is the derivation of_ orchard_? |
22138 | _ Poor Pillgarlick._--Whence comes the expression,"Poor Pilgarlick,"and how should the words be spelt? |
22138 | _ Vineyards._--Besides those at Bury St. Edmonds and Halfield, are there any other pieces of land bearing this name? |
22138 | and if not, in whom does the power reside of correcting this abuse, if such it be? |
22138 | and if so, upon what foundation? |
22138 | and if so, when were they disused for their original purpose? |
22138 | and if so, where they can be obtained? |
22138 | died in Pontefract Castle, in Yorkshire, arisen? |
22138 | of Spain? |
23402 | Also, what Syriac Lexicon stands highest for value and accuracy? |
23402 | As Blomefield is silent on the subject, is anything more known respecting the biography of John Seguard? |
23402 | CONTROVERSY:-- Is Mesmerism true? |
23402 | Can a list be obtained of the contents of the Merton manuscript? |
23402 | Can any correspondent aid me in assigning it rightly? |
23402 | Can any of your ingenious readers solve me this? |
23402 | Can any of your readers elucidate this sign of the"Dog''s- head- in- the Pot?" |
23402 | Can any of your readers inform me of the meaning of"tu autem"in the first line? |
23402 | Can the present owner of this MS.( which is probably the same as the Langley copy) furnish a note of its contents? |
23402 | Catalogue_ he refers to? |
23402 | Could any of your correspondents give me information on this point? |
23402 | Did they originally form part of the epitaph, or are they the production of another and later author? |
23402 | E. D._ Porci solidi- pedes._--Can any of your readers inform me if any pigs with single hoofs are in existence in any county in England? |
23402 | G. F._ Knebsend or Nebsend, co. York._--Query, whereabouts in the county of York is this place? |
23402 | Have the Working Classes been benefited by Machinery? |
23402 | He called him unto Him, and said, Peter why, weepest thou? |
23402 | If so, at what period and for what time, and what is known of her personal history? |
23402 | In what manuscript of the British Museum is the poem on Henry V. contained? |
23402 | Is it too much to ask of your correspondent, who writes from Putney under my initials, that he will be so good as to change his signature? |
23402 | Is it where a cross once stood, and Tye a corruption of Dei? |
23402 | Is there any authority for this? |
23402 | J. N. C._ Moore''s Almanack._--Can any of your correspondents inform me as to the history of_ Moore''s Almanack_? |
23402 | Let me ask, through"NOTES AND QUERIES,"Dr. Rimbault, Mr. Chappell, or any readers, where are these verses to be found? |
23402 | May I, therefore, add one more Query? |
23402 | Query, Has this volume been in any other sale? |
23402 | The R. C. Hierarchy, ought it to be interdicted? |
23402 | Was Francis Moore a real personage, or merely a myth? |
23402 | Was Oliver Cromwell a first- rate General, a Great Statesman, and a Sincere Man? |
23402 | What became of the Langley MS., and where is it at present? |
23402 | What is the date of its first appearance? |
23402 | Who was the author? |
23402 | _ Deal, Dover, and Harwich._--Where do the following lines come from? |
23402 | _ Shylock._ On what_ compulsion_ must I? |
23402 | _ Syriac Scriptures and Lexicon._--What edition of the Peschito- Syriac version of the Old and New Testaments, respectively, is considered the best? |
23402 | _ What is a"Tye? |
23402 | for one chief justiciary? |
23402 | the authoress in question?). |
23402 | their great superiority, in point of Latinity, will be perceived, and this Query forthwith arises: Who was John Seward? |
13551 | )._--Is anything known of Thomas Volusemus( Wilson?) |
13551 | --Why is the small rain which falls in the morning, at some seasons of the year, called"the pride of the morning?" |
13551 | Are any of his coins known to numismatists? |
13551 | Are monosyllables passionless? |
13551 | Are there any earlier than the age of Alexander? |
13551 | Can any of your correspondents give me any information on the following points connected with"the Black Rood of Scotland?" |
13551 | Can any one furnish a solution of the two first lines? |
13551 | Can any one possessed of the requisite information give him hope of the acceptableness of such a publication? |
13551 | Did she get it in England or in Germany? |
13551 | Does the Cambridge University Library contain a copy of the first edition of Daniel''s translation? |
13551 | Has not the literary character, especially the philological attainments, of this noted malefactor been vastly over- rated? |
13551 | His residence in the birthplace of"NOTES AND QUERIES"makes me ask, if there be still persons living, who remember him as teacher, friend, or poet? |
13551 | If not, where did he get it? |
13551 | If they were not the same, what was the previous history of each, and which was the cross of St. Margaret? |
13551 | In the"Lament for Robert Neville,"called by Surtees"the very oldest rhyme of the North"we read--"Wel, qwa sal thir hornes blaw Haly rod thi day? |
13551 | Is it his own? |
13551 | Is it known what became of the"Holy Cross"or"Black Rood"at the dissolution of Durham Priory? |
13551 | It ends with a poetical epistle to Lunardi by"a gentleman well known in the literary world"( query, the same who is thus cited in our day?) |
13551 | There is no doubt that they were all manufactured between 1715 and 1740; but is there any means of arriving at a more precise date? |
13551 | Was Milton tame? |
13551 | Was Young dull? |
13551 | Was the"Black Rood of Scotland"the same as the"Holy Cross of Holyrood House?" |
13551 | What other instances are there of_ Wat_, as a name of the hare? |
13551 | What was its size and make? |
13551 | What was the history of this cross before it was taken into Scotland by St. Margaret, on the occasion of her marriage with Malcolm, king of Scotland? |
13551 | What_ matter_ where, if I be still the same, And what I should be; all but less than he Whom_ thunder_ hath made_ greater_? |
13551 | Which is the most correct edition, as to printing and orthography, of Daniel''s Irish New Testament? |
13551 | Will not all be set right by reading,"Quin age, et incolumi,"& c.? |
13551 | Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE MORGAN''S strictures? |
13551 | Will you make use of the above in any way in which you may think it of advantage to your readers? |
13551 | _ Egyptian MSS._--What is the age of the oldest MS. found in Egypt? |
13551 | _ Lord Kingsborough''s Antiquities of Mexico._--Has Lord Kingsborough''s splendid work on Mexican hieroglyphics ever been completed or not? |
13551 | _ Pope and Bishop Burgess._--To what passage in Pope''s writings does the conclusion of the following extract refer? |
13551 | _ Thomas Volusemus( or Wilson? |
13551 | p. 215. Who was the editor, and in what does the second edition differ from the first? |
13551 | says Mr. Gifford; and what critic will refuse to echo his exclamation? |
13551 | who edited the works of his father- in- law, Patrick Adamson, titular Archbishop of St. Andrew''s, which were published in London A.D. 1619? |
26767 | What do we then, but draw anew the model In fewer offices; or, at least, desist To build at all? 26767 _--Can any of your correspondents supply a correct list of the various editions of this popular work? |
26767 | _--Would you insert these lines in your paper, the author of which I seek to know, as well as the remaining verses? 26767 ):For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? |
26767 | 133.:"Hippomanes, carmenque loquar, coctumque venenum, Privignoque datum?" |
26767 | 1822. WHO WAS JUNIUS? |
26767 | 2ndly, If so, was it a mere custom, or was it ordered or authorised by any rubric or canon of our old English Church? |
26767 | 3., is taken from the fourteenth chapter of St. Luke''s Gospel? |
26767 | And is there any pedigree of them extant? |
26767 | Can any of your correspondents oblige me with some information concerning him? |
26767 | Can any of your correspondents produce another example? |
26767 | Can any of your correspondents state how it came there? |
26767 | Can any of your numerous readers throw any light on the subject? |
26767 | Can you inform me where I may find a copy of this prophecy? |
26767 | Does this idea prevail in England? |
26767 | I am desirous of knowing if this journal is in existence, and where? |
26767 | I have seen a similar statement elsewhere, and wish to ask, 1st, Were priests formerly buried with the ring? |
26767 | I inquired of a cottager residing on the spot what the thing meant? |
26767 | I would add a Query, Is this custom continued; and is it to be met with in any other place? |
26767 | Is anything known of this work at the present day? |
26767 | Is it long or short, admitting it to be long in the Latin tongue? |
26767 | Is not this"a case of rare succession in the annals of the law, and not easily matched?" |
26767 | Is there any Webb mentioned in history at the siege of Derry? |
26767 | Is there any foundation for this statement? |
26767 | See Nares_ in v._, who derives it from_ to hugger_, to lurk about; but query whether such a word can be shown to have existed? |
26767 | Walker, the defender of Derry, connected with the Webbs? |
26767 | Was it bequeathed by the bishop, or sold by his descendants? |
26767 | Was there ever such a vault, and how came it to be destroyed or lost sight of? |
26767 | What is to be said of the word[ Greek: Christianos]? |
26767 | While on the subject of quantities, let me ask, where is the authority for that of the name of the queen of the Ethiopians, Candace, to be found? |
26767 | _ Amcotts''Pedigree._--Can any of your correspondents supply me with a full pedigree of Amcotts of Astrop, co. Lincolnshire? |
26767 | _ Colonel Hyde Seymour._--Who was"Colonel Hyde Seymour?" |
26767 | _ Gresebrok in Yorkshire._--Can you or any of your correspondents give me any information as to what part of Yorkshire the manor of Gresebrok lies in? |
26767 | _ Hob or nob_ is explained by him to mean"Will you have a glass of wine or not?" |
26767 | _ Wardhouse, where was?_( Vol. |
26767 | and if so, how, and with what family? |
26767 | and if so, to what family of that name did he belong? |
26767 | and where is it to be found? |
26767 | and, should this be decided affirmatively, the farther question would arise, Which is the original? |
26767 | or can they account, from any other cause, for Richard Harpur receiving such a distinction? |
26767 | or may I not rather attribute it to the blunder of the sculptor? |
26767 | { 387} Can you refer me to some authentic proof of the fact that Napoleon was unable to spell correctly? |
26896 | ''How now?'' |
26896 | ).--In solving the Query propounded by F. R. A. as to"whether Bunyan was the author of the_ Visions_?" |
26896 | ).--The Querist asks,"Has the word Mazer any signification in itself?" |
26896 | ).--Your correspondent asks, Who was Salgado? |
26896 | Also whether it was published, and, if so, by whom? |
26896 | And who art thou, his flight pursuing? |
26896 | COULD SHAKESPEARE HAVE DESIGNATED CLEOPATRA"YOND RIBALD- RID NAG OF EGYPT?" |
26896 | Can any of your correspondents supply the words of this old ballad, and state the name of the composer of the music to it? |
26896 | Can any of your kind contributors supply a better derivation? |
26896 | Can any of your readers give an account of St. Pancras? |
26896 | If these do so, can I have feeling less, That am more apt to take and to express? |
26896 | J. F. M.[ Is not"_ Verse Lyon_"Puttenham''s translation of_ Leonine Verse_?] |
26896 | May it not have the same meaning as the lines in the"Marquis de Carabas"of Béranger:"Et tous vos tendrons, Subiront l''honneur Du droit du seigneur?" |
26896 | NOTES:-- Page Could Shakespeare have designated Cleopatra"Yond ribald- rid Nag of Egypt?" |
26896 | Perhaps some of your correspondents can tell us whether such separate vaults were customary? |
26896 | Query, Who was this Anthony Bridges, and did he leave issue? |
26896 | Query, Why? |
26896 | R.[ Has our correspondent looked at the_ Calendar of the Anglican Church_, lately published by Parker of Oxford? |
26896 | S. S. S._ General Pardons._--Has any example of a general pardon under the great seal been ever printed at length? |
26896 | SHALL WE RETAIN OUR COLONIES? |
26896 | Was this word ever introduced into English heraldry? |
26896 | Were they brother and sister? |
26896 | What form is that which scowls beside thee? |
26896 | What was the"Gloucester alarm?" |
26896 | Whether this may be any help to W. H. K., I know not, but I can not refrain from the Query-- What is the Saxon phrase alluded to? |
26896 | _ Eno._ How appears the fight? |
26896 | _ Eno._ What''s the passion? |
26896 | and if so, at what time they first assumed it? |
26896 | and where else is Verse Lyon alluded to? |
26896 | do words wear out so fast? |
26896 | fled from your colours?'' |
26896 | or was she ever known as Leonilla? |
26896 | or, if so employed, whether such use may not have arisen from the ordinary erroneous orthography? |
26896 | particularly any of those granted after the restoration of Charles II.? |
26896 | trowbled with vapours? |
26896 | who art thou so fast proceeding, Ne''er glancing back thine eyes of flame? |
26896 | who art thou, so swiftly flying? |
15427 | 1. Who was Pharamuse of Boulogne, father of Sybil de Tingry? |
15427 | 1705? |
15427 | And how is Waleran''s double appellation to be explained? |
15427 | And what is the earliest instance of the title? |
15427 | Are any of your correspondents aware of the existence of a copy, and the price at which it can be obtained? |
15427 | Are any references to him to be found in Sir H. Nicolas''_ Battle of Azincourt_, or elsewhere? |
15427 | Are the grounds of this strange suspicion known? |
15427 | Buy sheepe? |
15427 | Can any of your readers, acquainted with the Dacre and Fienes pedigrees, appropriate any of these coats? |
15427 | Can either of your readers kindly afford the name? |
15427 | Can this duty have come to be popularly attributed as part of the royal style and title? |
15427 | HEBER says,"Who has seen another copy?" |
15427 | Has it ever been printed? |
15427 | Have there been any English translations of the Talmud, or any complete section of it? |
15427 | I wish to know what other books she wrote, if any, and where her life may be found? |
15427 | Is there any place in the North of France bearing that name now? |
15427 | Is this a common beverage in the principality? |
15427 | May I beg the favour of you to insert this among your Notes? |
15427 | Now how are we to reconcile the two above- quoted documents? |
15427 | Now, neighbours, said the mall, how much meale is there in my sacke now? |
15427 | Query: Why have the men of_ Gotham_ been long famous for their extreme folly? |
15427 | The question is, who was this"unfortunate lady?" |
15427 | What I now wish to learn is, whether anything has since been discovered to elucidate further the pedigree of Lady Talbot? |
15427 | What are the most esteemed Continental and Latin translations? |
15427 | What are their proper names? |
15427 | What other authors use the term? |
15427 | What was the connexion{ 478} between Ingelram and Waleran? |
15427 | What was the_ sauenap_? |
15427 | When was this dedication added? |
15427 | When were they first used? |
15427 | Where is any information to be obtained of"The King''s Whisperer,[ Greek: engastrimythos], nomine Fanningus, who resided at Oxford in 1643?" |
15427 | Where is_ Tingry_, of which place he was lord? |
15427 | Which is the original? |
15427 | Which was the wisest of all these three persons, judge you?" |
15427 | Whither be yee going? |
15427 | _ Lady Godiva._--A close- fitting dress might suggest the idea of nudity; but was not the horse borrowed from the warrior Lady of Mercia Ethelfleda? |
15427 | _ Mock Beggar''s Hall._--What is the origin of this name as applied to some old mansions? |
15427 | _ The Adventures of Peter Wilkins._--Is the author of this delightful work of fiction known? |
15427 | _ The Marks_*,[ obelus],[ diesis],_& c._--What is the origin of the asterisk, obelus,& c., used for references to notes? |
15427 | _ Torn by Horses._--What is the last instance in the history of France of a culprit being torn by horses? |
15427 | are? |
15427 | inquires"by what Socinian writer"are these two hexameter verses used? |
15427 | said the other, and which way wilt thou bring them home? |
20364 | _--Who can explain the following, and point out its source? 20364 ).--Who was the author of this adage? 20364 ***** UNPUBLISHED EPIGRAM BY SIR W. SCOTT(?). 20364 3., the next beautiful passage:_ Post._ Still going? |
20364 | A fly on the chariot pole cried out,''What blue- bottle alive Did ever with such fury drive?'' |
20364 | And if not, what is the origin of the modern term"Hobble de Hoy"as a designation for a stripling? |
20364 | Are there no true- hearted Scotchmen left, who will redeem it from such desecration? |
20364 | As the author professes the poem to be"in the ancient English style,"are these words veritable ancient English? |
20364 | B. H. C._ Illuminations._--When were illuminations in cities first introduced? |
20364 | Can the"Jack and Gill"of our nursery tales be traced to an earlier date than Tusser''s time? |
20364 | Da paucis singulorum Sacramentorum signa et invisibilem gratiam?" |
20364 | How many,& c."Quot sunt Ecclesiæ Catholicæ Sacramenta? |
20364 | I fear his memory deceived him, or why should a man of his sound learning afterwards incline to vail bonnet to the dogmatist Warburton? |
20364 | If so, when did the custom commence, and where may instances be seen either on monuments or in illustrated works? |
20364 | If wrong, on what principle? |
20364 | Is anything more known of them, and their respective authors? |
20364 | Is it known whether there ever existed a personage so named, either as a legend or a myth? |
20364 | Is it, heraldically speaking, wrong to inscribe the motto upon a circle( not a garter) or ribbon round the shield? |
20364 | Is there any allusion to them in classic authors? |
20364 | May I therefore ask B. H. C. to be so good as to point out the particular"Old version of the Psalms"from which he has derived his quotation? |
20364 | Possesses he real property?'' |
20364 | Says t''other, perch''d upon the wheel,''Did ever any mortal fly Raise such a cloud of dust as I?''" |
20364 | Septem sunt in universum,"& c."Quis instituit Baptismum? |
20364 | The old expression of''What is he worth?'' |
20364 | What are the benefits,& c."Jam recense paucis quinam fructus dignam Eucharistæ sumptionem sequantur? |
20364 | What is required,& c."Quonam pacto dignè sumitur Eucharistia? |
20364 | What is the inward,& c."Quid efficit seu prodest Baptismus? |
20364 | What meanest thou,& c."Ecquur hæc ipsa-- et dicantur et sint Sacramenta? |
20364 | Whence? |
20364 | Whence? |
20364 | Who was the author of the maxim? |
20364 | Why then are infants,& c."Sed quomodo infantes possunt credere, ut qui nondum usum habeant rationis? |
20364 | Why was the Sacrament,& c."Quur vero sacram Eucharistiam Christus instituit? |
20364 | William Beloe, whether among his manuscripts there had been found any"Treatise on Emblems,"or any notices which had a bearing on the subject? |
20364 | _ Heraldic Queries._--Will some correspondent versed in heraldry answer me the following questions? |
20364 | _ Newx,& c._--Can any of your readers give me the_ unde derivatur_ of the word_ newx_, or_ noux_, or_ knoux_? |
20364 | and where is it to be found? |
20364 | and whether the author is known? |
20364 | in those days meant,''Has he land? |
20364 | of a_ Discourse of Forest Trees_, by John Evelyn? |
20364 | which is its correct form? |
26770 | Jurat? 26770 ( J. M.), whether Quarles was pensioned? 26770 * a.? 26770 ---- did St. Paul''s clock strike thirteen? 26770 ---- of Trummons, who was he? 26770 ---- onJurat? |
26770 | ---- on"Jurat? |
26770 | ---- was Hugh Peters on the stage? |
26770 | ----"Harry Parry, when will you marry?" |
26770 | ----, did she visit Bacon at Twickenham? |
26770 | ----, whether the queen can make a gentleman? |
26770 | Abeiles, what? |
26770 | Baldrocks, wooden, what? |
26770 | Bridges, Anthony, who was he? |
26770 | Carmichael( Lady Alice), what became of her? |
26770 | Chadwick( Sir Andrew), was he knighted by Queen Anne? |
26770 | Champak, what is it? |
26770 | Charles II., was he ever in Wales? |
26770 | Chloe, who was Chloe? |
26770 | Cross, engraved portrait by, on whom? |
26770 | Cuicfal in Flandria, where? |
26770 | Flecamore( Christopher), who was he? |
26770 | Gentleman, can the queen make one? |
26770 | Gloucester alarm, what? |
26770 | Hibbald( St.), who was he? |
26770 | Howard( Lord), was he a Papist? |
26770 | Jesuits, History of, the author? |
26770 | Joseph of Exeter, where is the MS. of his De Bello Antiocheno? |
26770 | Longueville MSS., where are they? |
26770 | Marsham( Sir John), was he knight or baronet? |
26770 | Mayor of London, is he a privy councillor? |
26770 | Northege family, where located? |
26770 | Paul''s( St.), did its clock ever strike thirteen? |
26770 | Pelaga, arches of, where? |
26770 | Portus Canum, where? |
26770 | Prol in Anglia, where? |
26770 | Quarles, was he pensioned? |
26770 | Rifles, the best, English or American? |
26770 | Sallustius, was he a lecturer? |
26770 | Sanctorum Septem Dormientium Historia, its author? |
26770 | Sathaniel, when noticed? |
26770 | Scoute- Generall, its author? |
26770 | Serius, where situated? |
26770 | Sittings or statutes, what? |
26770 | Stanedge Pole, where? |
26770 | Stick supplanting stop, how came it? |
26770 | Swift( Dean), was Stella his sister? |
26770 | Thanksgiving- book, what? |
26770 | Topical memory, where treated of? |
26770 | Tye, what is it? |
26770 | Wallace( William), where did he reside? |
21220 | _--Can you refer me to any grammar, or other work, containing a clear and definite rule for the distinctive use of these auxiliaries? 21220 Allow me to ask, by- the- bye, if the place, as spelt in your paper, should not be Langharne, or more correctly still, Llangharne? 21220 And does any modern family of the name of Fleming, or Le Fleming, claim descent from the above? 21220 Are Shannon and Ponsonby and Lanesborough still stout against Augmentation? 21220 Can any of your correspondents throw any light on this? 21220 Cur natum cædit Venus? 21220 Dominic._--Was St. Dominic, the founder of the Dominican order, a descendant of the noble family of the Guzmans? 21220 From what sources in the French or Italian isThe House of Fame"taken? |
21220 | Had Sir Martin Lister any issue by her? |
21220 | He has mislaid or lost his bow:-- And who retains the missing toy? |
21220 | Heard you the_ men_ from merry_ England_ sing? |
21220 | How like a top they spin, and twirl, and turn? |
21220 | How so? |
21220 | If Conway and he will take such usage, the Court will certainly let them keep their places; for where can it find better tools? |
21220 | Is there none of our existing societies within whose scope such an undertaking would fall, or might not different societies unite for the purpose? |
21220 | Laing asks in a note:"Is the touching for the King''s Evil... connected with this royal saint''s healing by the touch?" |
21220 | No date, circa annum 1770? |
21220 | Now I am addressing you, may I offer one or two hints which may be of service to beginners? |
21220 | Now, can you afford room for the means by which this may be remedied; as my wish to substitute glass for gutta percha remains? |
21220 | Saw you their jolly dance, their lusty spring? |
21220 | Tusco Flavia nata solo: Qui factum? |
21220 | Unde derivantur_ Gaffer_ and_ Gammer_? |
21220 | Was Shakspeare an Irishman? |
21220 | What was this table? |
21220 | Where is it to be found sculptured or figured? |
21220 | Wherefore does Venus beat her boy? |
21220 | Who did Sir Josias Bodley marry; where did he live after his employment in Ireland ceased, and where did he die? |
21220 | Who is the author S. N., and what other particulars are known respecting it? |
21220 | _ Annuellarius._--Can any of your numerous readers inform me what the meaning of the word_ annuellarius_ is? |
21220 | _ Beads._--When was the use of beads, for the purpose of counting prayers, first introduced into Europe? |
21220 | _ Derby Municipal Seal._--What is the origin and meaning of the"buck in the park,"on the seal now in use at the Town Hall, Derby? |
21220 | _ List of Bishops of Norwich._--Where can I find a list of the bishops of Norwich, with their coats of arms, from an early date? |
21220 | _ Sir John Fleming._--What was the coat of arms borne by Sir John Fleming, or Le Fleming, of St. George''s Castle, co. Glamorgan, A.D. 1100? |
21220 | and if such caustic condition exists, does it not cause a deposition of oxide of silver together with the iodide, thereby embrowning the paper? |
21220 | and which of the older dramatists have enrolled this character among their_ dramatis personæ_? |
21220 | and, if so, can their descendants be traced? |
21220 | arcum perdidit, arcum Nunc quis habet? |
21220 | or must the friends to the measure form a plan that they like themselves? |
21220 | vi., p. 58., 1st col., 16th line? |
13747 | Quid tibi vis aliud dicam? 13747 What is it, Mary?" |
13747 | ''s connection with the buccaneers, or that may support Bryan Edwards''s favourable opinion of the Jamaica buccaneers and of Sir Henry Morgan? |
13747 | ).--How could"SELEUCUS""conclude"that Goldsmith''s"Poor Beau Tibbs and Kitty his Wife,"should have had"a_ silver_ tureen"of expensive construction? |
13747 | ).--If this were a sauce or condiment, may not the colour have been produced by the juice of the Boletus, much used in Greece to the present day? |
13747 | ).--May not"Watewich"be Waterbeach? |
13747 | And now, to ask a question in turn, what is meant by"auctorite_ del Dibil_?" |
13747 | And the Lord said unto him,''Peter, why weepest thou?'' |
13747 | Any bibliographical works which contain hints for guidance in this matter? |
13747 | Any correspondents who can advise generally on the whole matter? |
13747 | Are there any catalogues of These s? |
13747 | But, Query, is there any thing extensive of which the accuracy can be depended upon? |
13747 | Can any of your readers state where a copy or copies of the following may be found? |
13747 | Can any of your readers supply the etymology, or state whether it is so called in any other part of England? |
13747 | Can any of your readers supply the remainder, or refer me to any work where they may be found? |
13747 | Can any of your readers tell me who Sir William Beeston was, and what or where his journal is? |
13747 | Do these papers still exist in the possession of{ 401} the Hastings family, and is there any chance of a further publication? |
13747 | Do you think that the Churchwardens''entries in Fuller can refer to a similar custom? |
13747 | Does the office still exist? |
13747 | Had they a salary, or was the office an honorary appointment? |
13747 | Has it been engraved? |
13747 | Has"H. EDWARDS"seen the_ History of St. Cross Hospital_, by Mr. Moody, published within the last six months? |
13747 | I shall add another Query:--Are they paper or parchment? |
13747 | I wish to know if Dr. Hancock, who also edited the volume, is still alive? |
13747 | Is this portrait a genuine one? |
13747 | Is this story confirmed by any contemporary writer? |
13747 | Is this the same person with Thomas Dekker the dramatist? |
13747 | M._ Apocrypha._--What editions of the Bible_ containing the Apocrypha_ are now on sale at the ordinary way? |
13747 | May not these figures be the private mark of the artist? |
13747 | Now, I would ask, what are the usual signs of the authorship? |
13747 | Of this, Beloe( the only authority within my reach) says, that only one copy is known to exist; can his statement be correct? |
13747 | Philatus( what objection is there to Latinising, in the usual way, the Greek termination os?) |
13747 | Since such was the injunction of Luther, how does it happen that this verse appears in the later editions of his Testament? |
13747 | Spence says:--"Does it not sound mean to talk of lopping a man? |
13747 | They used to meet periodically, was it for the transaction of business? |
13747 | What book is this? |
13747 | What is the rank of a prebendary of a cathedral or other church, whether as a layman or a clerk in orders? |
13747 | What was the nature of their duties? |
13747 | Where is the best account of prebends to be found? |
13747 | Who is F.H.? |
13747 | Why was this change made?" |
13747 | Would a vicar, being a prebendary, take precedence as such of a rector not being one? |
13747 | Would he kindly settle the question by stating whether the passages quoted by Weldon are to be found among them?] |
13747 | _ Deputy- Lieutenants of the Tower of London._--By whom were these officers appointed? |
13747 | _ Prebendaries._--When were prebendaries first appointed, and what the nature of their duties generally? |
13747 | and, if so, would let this querist have access to the other papers of Locke''s which he speaks of in the preface? |
13747 | if I suggest that it may mean-- Ægyptiaco bis, Italico semper invicto? |
13747 | if so, what business? |
13747 | of lopping away all his posterity? |
13747 | of the Complutensian Polyglot were at Alcala in 1821, when were they removed to Madrid, and in what library at Madrid are they now? |
13747 | or of trimming him with brazen sheers? |
13747 | published in London in 1821? |
13747 | there enumerated; and if so, why did Jebb suppress it in his edition of the_ Opus Majus_? |
20369 | _--Did Addison, Steele, or Swift write theChoice of Hercules"in the_ Tatler_? |
20369 | _--Where can I find the_ whole_ of the ballad beginning--To the Lords of Convention''twas Claverh''se that spoke;"and also the name of the author? |
20369 | ).--May I ask whether there is any precedent( I think there can be no excuse) for calling Shakspeare''s plays"our national Bible"? |
20369 | And what springtide and confluence of that nation have housed and familied themselves among us, these four years of the king''s reign? |
20369 | At what period and by whom was that part of North America called Canada? |
20369 | Can these have turned merchants, or induced others to follow them? |
20369 | Did Ben Jonson? |
20369 | Did De Wilde ever distinguish himself?" |
20369 | Did Luther write drinking- songs? |
20369 | Does not H. C. K.''s professional experience enable him to give a more certain opinion of ordinary men''s feelings than is expressed in"I fear not?" |
20369 | H.E.P.?" |
20369 | Has a similar transaction come before the notice of your correspondents? |
20369 | Head; and when died those of them who are no longer among us? |
20369 | If so, where are they to be met with? |
20369 | Let me conclude with this worthy man''s daughter of alliance:''Que t''ensemble donc lecteur?'' |
20369 | Life''s career so void of pain, As to wish its fitful fever New begun again?" |
20369 | Surely in the"inscription on a seal( 1420), in which the Earl of Suffolk is styled''Domin_e_[?] |
20369 | The little river St. Charles, which flows into the St. Lawrence on the northern side of the promontory, is called in the Indian language( Algonquin?) |
20369 | Treasons_, Preface, p. 28., 1681? |
20369 | V. M._ Table- moving._--Was not Bacon acquainted with this phenomenon? |
20369 | Was Dr. Hawkesworth, or, if not, who was, the author of"Religion the Foundation of Content,"an allegory in the_ Adventurer_? |
20369 | Was this ever published? |
20369 | What are the known war- shouts of other European or Eastern nations, ancient or modern? |
20369 | What others? |
20369 | What wouldst thou do, if thou couldst see the jester himself? |
20369 | Who was Peter Francius? |
20369 | Who was this Richard Candishe? |
20369 | Who wrote"Journal of a poor Vicar,""Story of Catherine of Russia,""Volney Becker,"and the"Soldier''s Wife,"in Chamber''s_ Miscellany_? |
20369 | Who, or how many, of the old English dramatists introduced Irishmen into their_ dramatis personæ_? |
20369 | Will Sir A. Alison, or any of his Oxford friends, be good enough to point out the author, and indicate where such a passage is really to be found? |
20369 | Wilt thou change fathers? |
20369 | Would a petition be rendered informal by any addition which would make it more comprehensible? |
20369 | _ Cel._ Thou hast not, cousin: Pr''ythee be cheerful: know''st thou not, the duke Hath banish''d me, his daughter? |
20369 | _ Cel.__ No hath not?_ Rosalind lacks, then, the love Which teacheth thee that thou and I_ are_ one. |
20369 | _ Collodion Negative._--Can you inform me how a collodion negative may be made? |
20369 | _ Kissing Hands at Court._--When was the kissing of hands at court first observed? |
20369 | _ Thy_ career so void of pain, As to wish''life''s fitful fever''New begun again?" |
20369 | _ will find an answer to his Query,"Was St. Patrick ever in Ireland?" |
20369 | and where are any notices of his works to be found? |
20369 | contemporaneous? |
20369 | first used by Englishmen, and what was the war- cry before its introduction? |
20369 | inform me where General Arnold is buried? |
20369 | oblige me with this information? |
20369 | or what is the earliest instance of their being used to represent numerals? |
20369 | whither wilt thou go? |
20369 | { 592} But what are we to say to the actual fact of the same legend being found in the valleys of Afghánistán? |
20322 | _--Could you inquire through your columns who the author of a book entitled_ The Country Parson''s Advice to his Parishioners_ is? 20322 _--Who was the author of an admirable work entitled_ The Temple of Truth_, published in 1806 by Mawman? |
20322 | ).--In what year was this person, about whose published_ Life_ J. S. B. inquires, Mayor of Norwich? |
20322 | ).--What were these privileges, and whence was the term derived? |
20322 | ); and if they were pure fiction, is it not likely that, living in London at the time when they appeared, he would have contradicted them? |
20322 | --an alteration certainly not at odds with the host''s ensuing question,"said I well?" |
20322 | 3., the same"clever"authority changes"cride- game( cride I ame), said I well?" |
20322 | A_ gird_, akin to, in keeping with, fitting, proper to the cardinal''s calling; an evangelical_ gird_ for an evangelical man: what more_ kindly_? |
20322 | All who know this period of our history, know Compton and Turner; but who was Bishop St. John? |
20322 | Are not some drawings, some statues, some coins, all monkish manuscripts, and some books,_ rarities_? |
20322 | But Query how this bird came to be called Turkey? |
20322 | But though spelt_ enough_, is not the word, in both places, really_ enow_? |
20322 | Can any of your correspondents oblige me by supplying particulars of other editions of the following Mormon works? |
20322 | Can any of your readers throw any light upon this tradition? |
20322 | Could''st thou not find a trisyllable to express some parts of nature for a collection of which that learned and worthy physician is eminent? |
20322 | Das Bildniss macht dich lachen: Was wurdst du thun siehst du jhn selber Possen machen? |
20322 | Dict._, s. v.]_ Satin._--What is the origin of the word_ satin_? |
20322 | Does this correspond with other persons''experience? |
20322 | Has St. Patrick''s Purgatory any existence at the present time? |
20322 | Here are you: and where are they? |
20322 | If so, where is the original to be seen? |
20322 | If there be, why is it not produced? |
20322 | If to the canonical epistle, to what part? |
20322 | In both quotations the word_ enough_ refers to_ numbers_? |
20322 | In reply to your correspondent J., I would ask if he has any photographic apparatus? |
20322 | Is it possible that he was thinking of St. Augustine? |
20322 | Is not this rather too severe and sweeping a character? |
20322 | Is this catalogue extant? |
20322 | May I ask whether this"last conquest of Ireland"has been noticed by palæographers in other instances? |
20322 | Query number of pages? |
20322 | Than he that_ dies and lives_ by bloody drops?" |
20322 | The cover of a book is there called the_ farroll_; what is the derivation of this word? |
20322 | The date is 1545:"Now the ambassador met in a secret part with Oneel(?) |
20322 | Was Ferdinand Mendez Pinto a real or imaginary character? |
20322 | What knowledge, what meaning is conveyed in the word_ rarities_? |
20322 | What was the secret object of the ambassador? |
20322 | Where is the original of the above to be found? |
20322 | Will J. D. S. be so good as to say where he found the"Campvere privileges"referred to? |
20322 | _ Book of Doctrine and Covenants_: First(?) |
20322 | _ Carrier Pigeons._--When were carrier pigeons first used in Europe? |
20322 | _ Dimidiation._--Is the practice of_ dimidiation_ approved of by modern heralds, and are examples of it common? |
20322 | _ Franklyn Household Book._--Can any reader inform me in whose keeping, the Household Book of Sir John Franklyn_ now_ is? |
20322 | _ Humbug._--When was this word introduced into the English language? |
20322 | _ James Thomson''s Will._--Did the author of the_ Seasons_ make a will? |
20322 | _ Pilm, Farroll._--What is the derivation of_ pilm_=dust, so frequently heard in Devon, and its derivatives,_ pilmy_, dusty: it_ pilmeth_? |
20322 | _ Turkey Cocks._--Why are Turkey cocks so called, seeing they were not imported from Turkey? |
20322 | and is there not, in fact, a distinction between the two words? |
20322 | asks if it"is not the general feeling, that man in advancing years would not like to begin life again?" |
20322 | how could''st thou be so silly as not to be particular in the rarities of Sloane, as in those of the other five persons? |
20322 | if so, the answer to his question"What extra apparatus is required to a first- rate microscope in order to obtain photographic microscopic pictures?" |
20322 | into"curds and cream, said I well?" |
15405 | How old are you? |
15405 | How then do you remember the path for 100 years? |
15405 | What wantst thou, that thou art in this sad taking? 15405 1631), after the list ofFaults escapled in print,"occur the words,"may with no less difficulty be amended_ then_ observed?" |
15405 | Beaton was elected to the Cardinalate in Dec. 1538; did he visit Rome after that? |
15405 | But was Ainsworth really the earliest mathematician of his district? |
15405 | But was Julin drowned at all? |
15405 | By what means can intelligence be procured respecting"Doctor Ulricus,"the author of_ Fraternitas Cleri_? |
15405 | Can any of your correspondents give an account of the subsequent career of Dr. Sermon? |
15405 | Can any of your readers favour me with notices of such a custom prevailing? |
15405 | Can any of your readers tell us whether the copies given to the two kings exist, and if so, who are the present possessors of them? |
15405 | DID THE EARLY CHURCH IN IRELAND ACKNOWLEDGE THE POPE''S SUPREMACY? |
15405 | Did Pinkerton engrave any portrait of Beaton? |
15405 | Dr. Timothy Thruscross, Thirscross, or Thurscross? |
15405 | Had St. Amand learnt ventriloquism during his missionary excursions? |
15405 | He says,--"You suppose now a man''s committed to prison because he can not pay his debts? |
15405 | In summer the place is picturesque and much sought, and then the exulting designation is"Chaggiford, and what d''ye think?" |
15405 | Is it known whether this_ Ephemeris_ is extant? |
15405 | Is this a cavelier''s song in ridicule of the Roundhead Colonel Hewson; and are the words to be found? |
15405 | Is this belief local? |
15405 | Or, was he merely the first that made any figure in print as a correspondent of the mathematical periodicals of that day? |
15405 | Perhaps_ Alsatia Illustrata_? |
15405 | Rose?" |
15405 | The eighth verse of the fifty- sixth Psalm,"My flight thou numberest: put my tears in thy bottle: stand they not in thy book?" |
15405 | This suggests a further Query: Is DR. RIMBAULT possessed of that pamphlet? |
15405 | This suggests the Query, Has it ever yet been recovered? |
15405 | Was the word_ then_ commonly used in the sense of_ than_; or is it a misprint? |
15405 | Well, the man resists, and disobeys; what follows? |
15405 | When was the term first applied to the species of blunder which goes by that name? |
15405 | Where can information be met with as to the authorship of the_ Dialogus super Libertate Ecclesiastica_, between Hugo, Cato, and Oliver? |
15405 | Who was the compiler or curator of the_ Viola Sanctorum_? |
15405 | _ A King._ What made him first remove hence his residing? |
15405 | _ Any._ What wouldst thou do if here thou mightst behold him? |
15405 | _ Ever._ But if he come not, what become of London? |
15405 | _ Faction._ Tell me wherein the strength of faction lies? |
15405 | _ Hold him._ But wouldst thou save him with they best endeavour? |
15405 | _ Irish Bull._--What is the exact definition of an Irish bull? |
15405 | _ Lament._ What terms wouldst give to gain his company? |
15405 | _ On Lies._ What didst though when the king left his parliament? |
15405 | _ Siding._ Did any here deny him satisfaction? |
15405 | and, if so, where? |
15405 | from which the work was taken? |
15405 | iii.? |
15405 | of that work? |
15405 | to give the name_ Elucidarium_ to the first part of the_ Mariale_ of Bernardinus de Bustis? |
23204 | ).--Is not D. O. M. the common abbreviation for"Deo Optimo Maximo?" |
23204 | Can any of your correspondents inform me where I can meet with a similar notitia of the sees in the Roman Catholic Church? |
23204 | Can any of your readers give me the true meaning? |
23204 | Can you or any of your readers furnish me with the title of the book and publisher''s name? |
23204 | Do we tack to the works of Pope the poems of Wycherly and Parnell? |
23204 | Does any note exist as to_ who_ copied these leaves, or_ when_, or_ where_? |
23204 | Does the whole consist of figures, or have some leaves an introduction, text, or corrections,& c.? |
23204 | Does"ignore"mean to"treat as non- existent;"and are there no other words in the language which express exactly the meaning conveyed by these two? |
23204 | II.--Does anything in this volume illustrate any of the above questions? |
23204 | In what possible way can the circumstance of the ladies_ wearing masks_ lessen the inconsistency pointed out by Steevens? |
23204 | Is any name of any former owner written on the book- back, title, or elsewhere; or is it known when it was purchased, or at what price? |
23204 | Is it quite complete at the end, or is anything missing after page 224.? |
23204 | Is it to be added to the works of Pope? |
23204 | Is that a sufficient reason for incorporating it with his works? |
23204 | Is the etymology of the word made up of"extra"and"ditio"put for"deditio,"a giving up or surrendering? |
23204 | Is the following a correct definition of"extradition,"viz.,"the surrender by a state, of a political refugee, at the request of a foreign power?" |
23204 | Is there any hope of this being soon accomplished? |
23204 | Is there any other authority for this statement? |
23204 | Is this account of the origin of Harlequins generally acquiesced in? |
23204 | Is this really the truth? |
23204 | J. C._ A Coggeshall Job._--"_Saffron Walden, God help me._"--Has the old saying of"A Coggeshall Job"occupied the attention of your readers? |
23204 | M. R._ The Royal Arms from William the Conqueror(?) |
23204 | Query, Who was the friar? |
23204 | Query, as to this conjecture? |
23204 | Rosaline has been immediately singled out by her former admirer--"Did I not dance with you in Brabant once?" |
23204 | The idea is similar to that contained in--"Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?" |
23204 | Was it not either Julius I. or II.? |
23204 | Will any one kindly inform me where this question may be found fully discussed; and where mention is made of the earliest known divisions of the law? |
23204 | Will he not unmask?_ REPLIES RECEIVED. |
23204 | _ Cor Linguæ._--May I ask who is the author of the following epigram, quoted by Coke on the trial of Garnet? |
23204 | _ Derivation of the Word Fib._--Can any of your readers suggest a proper derivation of this word? |
23204 | _ English Synonymes._--What are the books of best authority for the_ synonymes_ of the English language? |
23204 | _ Thomas May, the Author of the Supplement to Lucan._--Who was this Thomas May? |
23204 | and in what estate? |
23204 | and what grounds had he for his decision? |
23204 | and where is the account of his voyage to be found? |
23204 | come from? |
23204 | et de quoi sert la vie? |
23204 | or why is it deemed inapplicable to the purpose? |
23204 | to ask, what is the solution of D. O. M.? |
23204 | { 167}_ Christmas Day._--Which of the popes fixed dogmatically the 25th of December as the birthday of our Saviour? |
23204 | { 168} Does any library- mark, auction- number, or other identifying signature occur? |
42922 | Antipodes, what day at our? |
42922 | Hanging, has execution by hanging been survived? |
42922 | Lignites, what? |
42922 | Quid levius calamo? |
42922 | Rosehill( Lord), who was he? |
42922 | on"What is truth?" |
13558 | _--Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the business or calling or profession of a Shipster? 13558 _--Will you allow me to ask how persons of my name came to be called_ Polly_? |
13558 | ''s reign.--Who was he? |
13558 | 1794? |
13558 | Also, where may be found-- if such exist-- pedigrees of the same_ worthies_? |
13558 | And how like you this shepherd''s life, Master Touchstone? |
13558 | Are the two last lines in the_ Musarum Deliciæ_? |
13558 | Are we to read_ parkership_ or_ pokership_? |
13558 | Can any of your correspondents assign the_ probable_ causes which led to Dr. Dee''s resignation? |
13558 | Can any of your correspondents kindly direct me to the intended treatise of the Archbishop of Treves? |
13558 | Can any of your correspondents obligingly inform me to whom these not inelegant or unclassical lines are to be attributed? |
13558 | Can any of your numerous correspondents give me a note in answer to the above queries? |
13558 | Can your subscribers inform me who the writer was? |
13558 | Could any of your readers tell me if both volumes are by the same author? |
13558 | Could this have any thing to do with the proverb? |
13558 | Has any further light been thrown on this subject? |
13558 | If not, who was its author, and what is its literary history? |
13558 | If_ pokership_, what is its meaning? |
13558 | Is any thing known of Sir William Hamilton, or of the services he rendered to Queen Henrietta Maria? |
13558 | Is it likely that the note was addressed to Michael Drayton? |
13558 | Is"white Caredon"white cornelian? |
13558 | Of what family was Mr. Barry, the Secretary to the Equivalent Company, who died about 1738? |
13558 | Such_ French_ names as have_ De_ prefixed-- in fact, a_ Gazetteer_? |
13558 | Was Alsop at Trinity College and subsequently a student of Christ Church? |
13558 | Was this error acknowledged or corrected in any subsequent edition? |
13558 | Was this the book- stamp of Joseph Addison? |
13558 | Which of your readers can verify it? |
13558 | Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to correct a printer''s error in my query in the same number, where"trepon"appears instead of"jupon"? |
13558 | Who knows, therefore, whether in building the monastery alluded to by Camden, he may not have given it the name of The dwelling of the Rock? |
13558 | Whose_ Apothegems_[ qy., those of Demosthenes?] |
13558 | _ Cosmopoli._--Has_ Cosmopoli_ been ever appropriated to any known locality? |
13558 | _ Jew''s- Harp._--What is the origin of the term Jew''s- Harp, applied to a well- known musical toy? |
13558 | _ Name of Shylock._--When Mr. Knight says that_ Scialac_ was"the name of a Marionite( Maronite?) |
13558 | _ Praise undeserved._--Does any one know where the oft- quoted line,"Praise undeserved in censure in disguise,"is to be found? |
13558 | _ Sir G. Wyattville._--J.P. would be glad to be informed in what year Sir G. Wyattville was knighted? |
13558 | _ Table- Book._--Can any of your readers refer me to a museum containing a specimen of an ancient_ table- book_? |
13558 | _ Viridis Vallis._--Where was the monastery of"Viridis Vallis,"and what is its vernacular name? |
13558 | _ saddle_?)" |
13558 | are under consideration on folio 239., from which Mr. Rimbault quotes? |
13558 | from which the"Complutensian Polyglot"was compiled, involving, of course, the repudiation of the common story of the rocket maker of Alcala? |
13558 | { 215}_ Antony Alsop._--Will any of your correspondents kindly tell me who Antony Alsop was? |
23023 | _--What is the origin of this phrase? 23023 ).--Are two different portraits of each of these two persons to be found? 23023 --Can you inform me who is the author of_ Pætus and Arria, a Tragedy_, 8vo., 1809? 23023 --_History of Stratford- upon- Avon_, by R. B. Wheler( circa 1805? 23023 And they asked hym sayinge/ Master wh[=e] shall these thynges be? 23023 Are there any records showing that a Darell was ever in fact arraigned on a charge of murder, and the name of the judge who presided at the trial? 23023 Are these_ Sermons_ rare? 23023 As to SPERIEND''s Query, What could give rise to so absurd a story? 23023 Can any of your readers explain by whom this addition was made, and all about it? 23023 Can any of your readers inform me whether a portrait of Hobbes is now in the galleries at Florence, and, if so, by whom it was painted? 23023 Can you oblige me by stating where the above lines are to be found? 23023 Can you tell me whether this is likely to be W. Smyth, the late Professor of Modern History in that university, who died in June, 1849? 23023 Commonwealth, extant; and do any of his descendants exist? 23023 Did MR. SINGLETON never_ o''erleap_ himself, and be too late-- later than_ himself_ intended? 23023 Did a similar custom exist in the earlier ages? 23023 Did he never, in his younger days, amuse himself with a_ soprasalto_; or with what Donne calls avaulter''s sombersault?" |
23023 | Does not this mean the privilege of using a crane to raise their goods free of dues, municipal or fiscal? |
23023 | I was asking an old man, who had been absent from home, where he had been to? |
23023 | If not, when was it taken down or destroyed, and by whom or by whose authority? |
23023 | If so, must they substitute them for the arms of C., or bear them quarterly, and in which quarters? |
23023 | Is the date known of the death of the last Darell who possessed the estate, or that of Sir John Popham''s acquisition of it? |
23023 | Is the pyramid still remaining? |
23023 | Is this painter the same as John Wycke, who died in 1702, but who is not, I think, known as a portrait painter? |
23023 | M._ Shakspeare First Folio._--Is there any_ obtainable_ edition of Shakspeare which follows, or fully contains, the first folio? |
23023 | Query, Who was the author? |
23023 | Query,{ 220} Can the descendants of C. resume the arms of A.? |
23023 | S. G. C._ Weather Proverbs_.--Are these proverbs worth recording? |
23023 | Was there any relationship, and what, between this"cousin Wilson,"and the bishop''s son, Dr. Thomas Wilson? |
23023 | What is it? |
23023 | What is the original source of the story? |
23023 | What may be the value of that inference will appear in the progress of this inquiry, Who was Dr. Sidney Swinney? |
23023 | What was the_ manne_ about? |
23023 | Whence? |
23023 | Where may a copy of this be seen? |
23023 | Will armorial bearings? |
23023 | Will entail property go to a_ bastard_,_ legitimated before the Union_ under the great seal( by the law of Scotland)? |
23023 | Will titles and dignities descend? |
23023 | _ John Frewen_.--What is known of this divine? |
23023 | _ The Bargain Cup._--Can the old English custom of drinking together upon the completion of a bargain, be traced back farther than the Norman era? |
23023 | _ Unkid_.--Can any of your readers inform me as to the derivation of this word, or give any instance of its recent use? |
23023 | and had Holdsworth any farther connexion with Hampshire than that of having been educated at Winchester School? |
23023 | or at least what is the authority to which its circulation is mainly due? |
23023 | p. 29.:"Have you smoakt the Tattler yet? |
42793 | ---- Marvel( Andrew), was he poisoned? |
42793 | ---- Say what is Abstract, what Concrete? |
42793 | ---- Sir Walter Scott''s? |
42793 | ---- writings, were they ever burnt? |
42793 | 20., why not read in the lessons? |
42793 | 20., why omitted? |
42793 | Baptism: can a man baptize himself? |
42793 | Blow- shoppes, what? |
42793 | Cats-- are white cats deaf? |
42793 | Curtsey, why ladies curtsey? |
42793 | Marvell( Andrew), was he poisoned? |
42793 | Richardson or Murphy, a portrait? |
42793 | Smollett''s Strap, who was he? |
22339 | Quid Romæ faciam? |
22339 | To whom shall I this dauncing Poeme send, This suddaine, rash, halfe- capreol of my wit? 22339 Twelve dozen Martial,[2] whole and half,"says Evelyn:--were not_ whole_ Martial gloves, long? |
22339 | Who is the sculptor, say, and whence? 22339 Why did the artist form thee so? |
22339 | Why is a razor in thy hand? 22339 Why is thy head then bald behind? |
22339 | Why is thy step so high and light? 22339 ), in which Gerson''s name occurs, was assuredly anterior to the small black- letter and{ 87} anonymous editions, likewise without dates? 22339 Also Adam of St. Victor''sexquisite poem"on the Cross, referred to by Mr. Trench in his_ Sacred Latin Poetry_? |
22339 | And has an incontrovertible opinion been formed as to the paternity of this tract? |
22339 | And, I must add, what history was attached to it when in his possession? |
22339 | Arias Montanus did not execute until 1571? |
22339 | But query, can any authentic instance be produced of a cross between a dog and a wolf, which has produced a prolific animal? |
22339 | Can any one give the names of any of these travellers, and supply the blank thus left by the historian? |
22339 | Can any one say where this stone now is? |
22339 | Have we any evidence of the ceremony having been performed by any French monarchs? |
22339 | In what way can we detect the propounder of the_ Notabilis expositio super canonem misse_? |
22339 | Is there extant any collation of the various exemplars of the_ Alphabetum divini Amoris_? |
22339 | Is there not a transpositional misprint in the colophon of the old German_ Life of S. Dorothea_, the so- called patroness of Prussia? |
22339 | JOHN BUNYAN AND HIS PORTRAIT.--DID BUNYAN KNOW HOBBES? |
22339 | John''s Bridge Fair._--In what county in England was St. John''s Bridge Fair held in the year 1614, and in what town in the county? |
22339 | Ounoma dê tis?] |
22339 | Query, What is the state of the interior_ now_, as to pews,& c.? |
22339 | S. G._ Paternoster Tackling.--Dancing Trenchmore._--What is the origin and meaning of this term? |
22339 | Su de, tis? |
22339 | Taxopithen pros ti phalakra pelei?] |
22339 | The inquiry toward which I have been travelling is this, When did Henry Stephens first make use of the open Ratdoltian letter on dotted ground? |
22339 | The question arises, How was he misled? |
22339 | Ti de tarsous][ Greek: Possin echeis diphueis? |
22339 | Were hoops worn so early as the year 1651? |
22339 | What is he By name? |
22339 | What is_ plafery_? |
22339 | When and where Mr. Douce obtained it? |
22339 | Who art thou? |
22339 | Why hast thou hair upon thy brow? |
22339 | Why on each foot hast thou a wing? |
22339 | [ Greek: Cheiri de dexiterêi ti phereis xuron? |
22339 | [ Greek: Hê de komê, ti kat''opsin? |
22339 | [ Greek: Tipte d''ep''akra bebêkas? |
22339 | [ Greek: Tis, pothen ho plastês? |
22339 | [ Greek: Tounech''ho technitês se dieplasen? |
22339 | _ Lammer Beads._--Does any one know the meaning of"Lammer beads?" |
22339 | also of the phrase"Dancing Trenchmore?" |
22339 | of Bishop Burnet''s_ History of his own Time_, Lond., 1734? |
22339 | will you be quiet?'' |
22339 | { 88} Can any of your readers inform us what befel the families and descendants of William Malbanc, and Bigod de Loges? |
42794 | ), did he discover the Sandwich Islands? |
42794 | * Browne( Francis), did he marry? |
42794 | * Lyttelton( Thomas Lord), was he Junius? |
42794 | * What does not fade? |
42794 | ---- Edward II., where was he killed? |
42794 | ---- Wardhouse, where was it? |
42794 | ---- was Thomas Lord Lyttelton"Junius"? |
42794 | 572. albumenised process, 549. ammonio- nitrate, is it dangerous? |
42794 | Antipodes, what day at our Antipodes? |
42794 | Blue( True), who was he? |
42794 | Cash, is it an English word? |
42794 | Cats, are white ones deaf? |
42794 | Churches of England and Rome, which committed schism? |
42794 | Edward II., where was he killed? |
42794 | Junius''s Letters, was Thomas Lord Lyttelton their author? |
42794 | Mob, is it an English word? |
27004 | _--When was the lastTerræ filius"spoken at Oxford; and what was the origin of the name? |
27004 | _--Who was the author of_ Elijah''s Mantle_? 27004 1822. WHO WAS JUNIUS? 27004 And are there any grounds for ascribing it to Canning? 27004 And, after mentioning others, he adds:Quid de Valerio Chimentellio, homine omni literatura perpolita, dicam? |
27004 | Assuming this mountain to have been a volcano, are there any others in Great Britain? |
27004 | Can any of your antiquarian contributors say why the sees of Canterbury and York bore originally the same arms? |
27004 | Can any of your correspondents verify this anecdote, and supply a copy of the verses? |
27004 | Can not the lens be made fast in the middle of the box, provided the frames can be adjusted for different- sized pictures? |
27004 | Can this be proved? |
27004 | Can you refer me to the king''s letter authorising such collections to be made? |
27004 | Could he too soon escape this world of sin? |
27004 | H. P._ A Scrape._--What is the origin of the expression"Getting into a scrape?" |
27004 | Had it any relation to the struggle for precedence carried on for so many years between the two sees? |
27004 | If I were disposed to conclude with a Query, I might ask where Q. found that_ wheale_ ever meant_ whey_? |
27004 | If so, by whom is the ceremony performed? |
27004 | Is this pronunciation known to prevail anywhere at the present day? |
27004 | It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion? |
27004 | Or could eternal life too soon begin? |
27004 | Quid de Joanne Pricæo? |
27004 | Then cease his death too fondly to deplore, What could the longest life have added more?" |
27004 | Was there any family connexion? |
27004 | Were the_ Celtic tribes_ acquainted with it_ previously_ to the arrival of the Phoenicians upon our shores? |
27004 | Where was he secreted? |
27004 | _ Canonisation in the Greek Church._--Does the Greek Church ever now canonise, or add the names of the saints to the Calendar? |
27004 | _ Dictionary of English Phrases._--Is there in English any good dictionary of phrases similar to the excellent_ Frasologia Italiana_ of P. Daniele? |
27004 | _ Is not the cracking of the albumen the result of the climate of Malta?_ F.( Manchester). |
27004 | _ Life of Savigny._--Is there in French or English any life or memoir of Savigny? |
27004 | _ When_ and_ by whom_ was tin first discovered in our island? |
27004 | _ When_ did_ he_ live? |
27004 | kindly furnish the undersigned with certain Letters, which have recently{ 294} appeared in_ The Times_, on"The Defence of Hougomont?" |
27004 | page 290,"What were they? |
27004 | set me right, or give me any information likely to solve the difficulty? |
27004 | supply instances of the use of the divining- rod for finding water? |
29867 | ( D. F.) on"which are the shadows?" |
29867 | ), Shall we register our Deeds? |
29867 | ---- epigram on Burnet(? |
29867 | ---- was he cup- bearer to Charles I.? |
29867 | ---- was she dark or fair? |
29867 | ----"Which are the shadows?" |
29867 | ----"which are the shadows?" |
29867 | Bee- park, what? |
29867 | Berkeley( John Lord), was he bishop of Ely? |
29867 | Bilson( Arnold), who was his wife? |
29867 | Béocera Gent, were they Irish? |
29867 | Cat Island, why so called? |
29867 | Clergyman, can he marry himself? |
29867 | Diotrophes, was he bishop of Corinth? |
29867 | Drury( Robert), who was he? |
29867 | Exeter controversy, what? |
29867 | Gerrard( Sir Gilbert), when did he die? |
29867 | Hyta, was he a Spaniard or a Moor? |
29867 | John of Horsill, who was he? |
29867 | John of Padua, who was he? |
29867 | King Street theatre, where? |
29867 | Lancaster, Duchess of, is the queen so called? |
29867 | Luciferi, who was he? |
29867 | Paul( St.), did he quote heathen writers? |
29867 | Prideaux''s Doctrine of Conscience, its editor? |
29867 | R.),"Were Heretics ever burned at Rome?" |
29867 | Shadows, which are they? |
29867 | Spurs, did the Orientals wear them? |
29867 | Talbot( Peter), was he author of Blakloanæ Hæresis? |
29867 | Theoloneum, what? |
29867 | Walrus, is it found in the Baltic? |
29867 | Wyned waynescott, what? |
13925 | _ Tace is Latin for a candle._--Whence is this expression derived, and what is its meaning? |
13925 | ***** MAYORS.--WHAT IS THEIR CORRECT PREFIX? |
13925 | 32mo.? |
13925 | :-- 1. Who was the author of the anonymous life of the second Duke of Ormonde, published in one volume octavo, some years after his attainder? |
13925 | :--"My name is Ormond; have you not heard of me? |
13925 | And what eminent geographer, Dutch or English, lived during such period? |
13925 | Are any of your correspondents acquainted with another instance? |
13925 | Can Colchester now produce any information about them? |
13925 | Can any of your correspondents explain the meaning of"_ Trunck_ Breeches,""_ Barba Longa_,"and"_ Mercenary Preacher_?" |
13925 | Can any of your readers assist me in deciphering my own note? |
13925 | Can any of your readers give a reference where the account is to be met with? |
13925 | Can any of your readers give information about this Diary? |
13925 | Can any of your readers inform me where this letter now is? |
13925 | Could any of your correspondents inform me where I have read it? |
13925 | Does not this look very much like what we call"cabbaging?" |
13925 | I should like to know whose is the intermediate translation, and also what other translations have been made of that curious work? |
13925 | If so, what is its derivation? |
13925 | Is anything known of this journal? |
13925 | Is the etymological connection of the two names accidental? |
13925 | James Graves 380 Mayors-- What is their correct Prefix? |
13925 | The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in Barnes; but where is the_ Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to be found? |
13925 | Wandrille_.--Will"GASTROS"kindly allow me to ask him a question? |
13925 | Was the ballad, of which the above is a fragment, printed at the time; and if so, does it exist? |
13925 | What is the origin of the expression"to give a man horns,"for grossly dishonouring him? |
13925 | When, how, and where did this originate, and what does it signify? |
13925 | Who is the author of this line? |
13925 | Who was the compiler of the_ Speculum Exemplorum_, printed for the first time at Deventer, in 1481? |
13925 | Who, then, forged_ them_? |
13925 | Why is Moses represented in statues with horns? |
13925 | Will any of your readers who are familiar with the district favour me with an explanation? |
13925 | Will your correspondents complete the illustrations thus well begun? |
13925 | Winifreda._--Can any of your readers refer me to any history or recent discoveries relative to St. Winifreda? |
13925 | Yet how has he been treated by his biographers? |
13925 | _ A Chip in Porridge_.--What is the origin and exact force of this phrase? |
13925 | _ Beaver Hats._--On the subject of beaver hats, I would ask what was the price or value of a beaver hat in the time of Charles II.? |
13925 | _ Derivation of Sterling._--What is the derivation of_ Sterling_? |
13925 | _ Gray''s Alcaic Ode_.--Can any of your readers say whether Gray''s celebrated Latin ode is actually to be found entered at the Grande Chartreuse? |
13925 | _ Marylebone Gardens_.--In what year did Marylebone Gardens finally close? |
13925 | _ Portrait by Boonen._--Can any of your correspondents state the precise time when Boonen, said to be a pupil of Schalcken, flourished? |
13925 | _ Query_ the_ authority_ for this? |
13925 | _ Shrew_.--Is_ shrew_, as applied to the shrew- mouse, and as applied to a scolding woman, the same word? |
13925 | _ Temple Stanyan_.--Who was Temple Stanyan, concerning whom I find in an old note- book the following quaint entry? |
13925 | _ Why is an Earwig called a"Coach- bell? |
13925 | a coin originally stamped with a figure of that animal? |
13925 | and foisted_ them_--_which Malone had never seen_--into so prominent a place in the Dublin reprint of Malone''s work? |
13925 | and how did either of them come to be called the"Golden City?" |
13925 | hod? |
13925 | if not, in what other book is it? |
13925 | lind? |
13925 | when and where was his work published? |
20954 | ( But is not this an exception? |
20954 | ).--"Why does the sun, shining, on a fire, make it dull, and often put it out? |
20954 | ).--Has no person been appointed to fill that high office since the death of the Duc de Luynes, in 1621? |
20954 | ).--Is there such a thing; meaning, I presume, of the_ human body_? |
20954 | ):"Is there such a thing as spontaneous combustion?" |
20954 | And if so, where is the best place for finding an account of it? |
20954 | And is it not singular that a prior of a religious and military establishment should be qualified to sit as_ locum tenens_ of a judge in a law court? |
20954 | Are any of them engraved? |
20954 | Are any of them known, and where are they to be seen? |
20954 | Are there many other instances of this? |
20954 | Can any instances be given of white cats possessing the function of hearing in anything like perfection? |
20954 | Can any one read this confession without thinking of Tartuffe, who subjected himself to penance for killing a flea with too much anger?..." |
20954 | Can any person state who this_ Roger Outlawe_ was? |
20954 | Can you, or any of your correspondents, explain this curious allusion? |
20954 | Does MR. CROSSLEY ground his claim for Johnson merely upon a fancied resemblance in_ style_? |
20954 | Does a priest''s surplice differ from that worn by a lay vicar, or vicar choral? |
20954 | For Henry Duke of Gloucester, see p. 16.:"What doth Kingdomes happifie But a blesst Posteritie? |
20954 | Is it of Christian origin; or is it derived from the Jews, or from the Greeks or Romans? |
20954 | Is it to the emblem of the House of York, or the badge of the Pretender? |
20954 | Is not this curious warning worthy of preservation in your columns? |
20954 | J. W. S. R._ Tombstone in Churchyard._--Does any one know of a legible inscription older than 1601? |
20954 | May there not be some connexion with the Town Plough? |
20954 | My query is, Does this peculiarity obtain in any other portion of Scotland? |
20954 | No date, circa annum 1770? |
20954 | Philemon Mr. Jacobs? |
20954 | Query: Which reading is the correct one? |
20954 | Should I be wrong in asking correspondents to contribute towards a list of ladies holding the above honorable post? |
20954 | Some of your correspondents can, no doubt, inform us whether any analogous words to_ pearl_ and_ margarita_ exist in the Sanscrit? |
20954 | The apostrophe in the beginning must be understood as addressed to an ideal conception:"''And art thou nothing? |
20954 | To which of these opinions should the historical inquirer give his assent?" |
20954 | Was it always so? |
20954 | Were not_ Jack_ the Giant- killer,_ Jack_ and the Bean- stalk, and Little_ Jack_, the intimates of our earliest days? |
20954 | Were they mere portraits, or full- length? |
20954 | What is the origin of Plough Monday? |
20954 | What other sanction than custom is there for the use of bands? |
20954 | Where can a copy of it be seen? |
20954 | Where is there the slightest_ proof_ that Johnson wrote one line of it? |
20954 | Who were the other two? |
20954 | [?] |
20954 | _ Amusive._--Is this word peculiar to Thomson, or is it made use of by other poets? |
20954 | _ Do the Sun''s Rays put out the Fire?_( Vol. |
20954 | _ How can we forward a letter to this Correspondent?_ M. C._ The answer to Mr. Canning''s famous riddle is"Cares-- Caress. |
20954 | _ Lying by the Walls._--What is the origin of the phrase"Lying by the walls,"an euphemism for_ dead_? |
20954 | _ Ring, the Marriage._--When and how did the use of the ring, in the marriage ceremony, originate? |
20954 | assign the family names to these arms? |
20954 | favour me with a decision or authority on the following point? |
20954 | that the mysterious secret of the_ Masque de fer_ has ever been satisfactorily explained?" |
29318 | * a? |
29318 | And who embodied the somewhat contradictory maxim,--"Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas?" |
29318 | But who was the father of Malachi Blake himself? |
29318 | Can any of your readers explain this? |
29318 | Can any of your readers help me to the origin of the modern term_ sewell_? |
29318 | Can any of your readers throw light on this matter? |
29318 | Could any of your correspondents throw light on this question, or tell whether Lambert left any posterity? |
29318 | Do any of Milton''s biographers mention his connexion with this club? |
29318 | Do they occur any where in any author? |
29318 | Does the form of prayer compiled by Juxon, Sanderson, and Hammond exist? |
29318 | G. E. F._ Will this correspondent oblige us with another copy of his Query respecting the Knapp Family? |
29318 | He was probably a son or grandson of one of the admiral''s brothers-- but of which? |
29318 | In reply to your correspondent NEMO''S Query, whether any such personage as Pope Joan ever held the keys of St. Peter, and wore the tiara? |
29318 | Is it Cicero who says,"Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis rectè sentire?" |
29318 | J. N. C._ Sponge._--When was the sponge of commerce first known in England? |
29318 | May we not therefore likewise seek in the same language an interpretation of this( at least as far as I know) hitherto unexplained term? |
29318 | Query, What is the meaning of_ crambo_ here, and is it to be met with elsewhere with a similar meaning? |
29318 | Query, Who first designated the"Task"thus? |
29318 | What is implied in submitting to Rome? |
29318 | What is it that presses hardest upon the Church of England? |
29318 | Whence did Shakspeare quote the line? |
29318 | Where does it first occur? |
29318 | Will he oblige us with copies of them?_ E. H. Y. |
29318 | _ Colfabias._--Can any of your learned correspondents furnish the origin and meaning of this word? |
29318 | _ John Holywood the Mathematician._--Is the birthplace of this distinguished scholar known? |
29318 | _ Meaning of Mosaic._--What is the exact meaning and derivation of the word Mosaic as a term in art? |
29318 | _ Will our correspondent say where we may address a communication to him?_ VOLS. |
29318 | and if so, at what period, and for what time, and what is known of her personal history? |
15232 | Est- ce que, brûlant nuit et jour, Je remplis ce lieu de fumée, Et que le feu de mon amour En a fait une cheminée? |
15232 | Though they will not for a better Change a syllable or letter, Must the_ Printer''s_ spots and stains Still obscure THE POET''S Strains? 15232 ), that signatures were first introduced, anno 1476, by Zarotus, the printer, at Milan? 15232 ),a pair of_ twises_,"out of which he drew a little penknife? |
15232 | And then comes the climax--"eat a crocodile?" |
15232 | And why are these Questions invariably said to be 230 in number, when there are 275 chapters in the book? |
15232 | But may not both be combined? |
15232 | But, indeed, does not MR. COLLIER virtually admit that the text is inexplicable in his very attempt to explain it? |
15232 | Can any of your readers inform me whether Elizabeth had any issue by her second husband, Lord Yester Snawdoune? |
15232 | Can any of your readers produce another instance? |
15232 | Can authority for this be cited from the ancient Arabic writers? |
15232 | Can it be identified, or its etymology pointed out? |
15232 | Can you tell me by what name they called them? |
15232 | Does any other contemporary writer mention this circumstance? |
15232 | Does the above variation occur in any or many other copies of the edition of 1600? |
15232 | Has not_ the pause_ in Ferdinand''s labour been hitherto too much overlooked? |
15232 | I will conclude with asking, Is there any evidence to confirm the tradition of the Benedictines? |
15232 | If the second edition came out in 1748, what was the date of the first edition? |
15232 | If, then, the Collar of Esses was first given by this mighty duke, what would be_ his_ meaning in the device? |
15232 | In answer to the question,"How d''ye do?" |
15232 | In what place and year was_ Wilhelmi Summa Viciorum_ first printed? |
15232 | Is it not those delicious thoughts, most busy in the_ pauses_ of labour, making those pauses still more refreshing and renovating? |
15232 | Is it not unquestionable that Heroldt''s_ Promptuarium Exemplorum_ was published at least as early as his_ Sermones_? |
15232 | Is that the true date, or do editions vary? |
15232 | Is there any foundation for this report; and what is the real story? |
15232 | Is there still a law against the use of bells as a summons to divine services except in churches? |
15232 | May not this be the meaning of the name_ Long Friday_, which was almost invariably used by our Saxon forefathers for what we now call Good Friday? |
15232 | Query, Is such a practice common? |
15232 | Surely, The Great Friday, the Friday on which the great work of our redemption was completed, makes better sense? |
15232 | That it was published previously to the famous Mentz Bible of this date is altogether impossible; and was the figure 6 a misprint for 8? |
15232 | The idea of the passage appears to be that each of the acts should go beyond the last preceding in extravagance:--"Woo''t weep? |
15232 | The principal difficulty appears to consist in the prefix"Cold;"for why, it may be asked, should a bleak and"cold"situation be selected as a"harbour"? |
15232 | The reading is--"O superbe quid superbis? |
15232 | Tolerably well,"How isto?" |
15232 | Was Panormitan''s_ Lectura super primo Decretalium_ indubitably issued at Venice, prior to the 1st of April, 1473? |
15232 | Was not a_ loin_ of pork part of_ James_ the First''s proposed banquet for the devil? |
15232 | Was the old baronial name of Peche, Pecche, of Norman origin as in the Battle Roll? |
15232 | Was this_ then_ a new word coined by him, and has it been used by any other writer? |
15232 | What is it that has induced him to_ forget_ his task? |
15232 | What is the use of the conjunction"but"if not to connect the excuse for the act of forgetting with the act itself? |
15232 | When and where was the_ Liber de Laudibus gloriosissime Dei genitricis Marie semper Virginis_, by Albertus Magnus, first printed? |
15232 | Whence? |
15232 | Where was what is probably a copy of the second edition of the_ Catena Aurea_ of Aquinas printed? |
15232 | Which reading is followed in the second old edition? |
15232 | Woo''t drink up eisell?" |
15232 | Woo''t fast? |
15232 | Woo''t fight? |
15232 | Woo''t tear thyself? |
15232 | [ when will editors learn to specify the editions which they use?] |
15232 | and if so, does it contain in the colophon these lines by Zovenzonius, which I transcribe from a noble copy bearing this date? |
15232 | iv., the epithet applied to flight was_ drony_, and not_ droning_? |
15232 | or is there any published register of the assizes of that time? |
15232 | or should we attempt to subvert it into 9? |
15232 | there be letters thereon: unto what purport?" |
15232 | tract,_ Oracio querulosa contra Inuasores Sacerdotum?_ According to the Crevenna_ Catalogue_( i. |
15232 | volume of 179 pages of Latin and English poems, commencing with"Shunamitis Poema Stephani Duck Latine redditum?" |
27010 | When we survey yon circling orbs on high, Say, do they only grace the spangled sky? 27010 Why do you say that?" |
27010 | Why, sir,she asked,"what am I to say?" |
27010 | ),"Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor?" |
27010 | ).--Does not this phrase mean simply interference, either for good or evil? |
27010 | ).--May not the word_ pagoda_ be a corruption of the Sanscrit word"Bhagovata,"sacred? |
27010 | ).--Will you allow me one word on these two cases? |
27010 | 2., which Mr. Trench has adopted, the sanction of any version but that of Luther? |
27010 | Again, does any record exist of the latter event in any book of early registers belonging to the above church? |
27010 | Are any particulars known respecting him, and where shall I find the best account of the ancient court jesters? |
27010 | Can a_ stick_ be considered a_ spoke_ before it is put into its place, in the nave of the wheel at least? |
27010 | Can any of your readers confirm or refute this statement? |
27010 | Can these colonists and aborigines be traced to any of the nations of the lost tribes? |
27010 | Can you help me to remember where it is? |
27010 | Can you spell_ that_ with four letters? |
27010 | Could any of your correspondents translate this enigmatical line? |
27010 | Have they no influence, no function given To execute the awful will of Heaven? |
27010 | Is any other known? |
27010 | Is it his? |
27010 | Is it mentioned in Corry''s_ Lancashire_? |
27010 | Is it not more natural to suppose it to be the same word which the French have made_ fourreau_, a cover or sheath? |
27010 | Is there any monumental inscription in English, earlier than the above curious one, known to any of your correspondents? |
27010 | Is there no sympathy pervading all Between the planets and this earthly ball? |
27010 | Is this an unquestioned fact? |
27010 | May I venture to suggest a pun on the preterite of the verb_ to speak_? |
27010 | No link extended through the vast profound, Combining all above, below, around?" |
27010 | No tactile intercourse from pole to pole, Between the ambient and the human soul? |
27010 | Perhaps he means to ask why a French word should be used? |
27010 | Query, Was Sir Joshua by mistake_ baptized Joseph_? |
27010 | What is his reason for applying it to Cambridge alone? |
27010 | Who was Alphonso? |
27010 | William Rondall, Vicar of Blackhampton, Devonshire( 1548), who translated into English a portion of the writings of the learned Erasmus? |
27010 | _ Dictionary of Zingari._--Can you direct me to a glossary or dictionary of this language? |
27010 | _ Regium Donum._--What is the origin and history of the"Regium Donum?" |
27010 | _ Warville._--There being no_ w_ in the French language, whence did Brissot de Warville derive the latter word of his name? |
27010 | _ Who was the Author of"Jerningham"and"Doveton? |
27010 | _"When we survey,"& c._--Where are the following lines to be found? |
27010 | and if so, has anything like a satisfactory explanation of it been offered? |
27010 | give me a few examples to strengthen my supposition? |
27010 | or was the mistake made after baptism, in_ registering the name_? |
27010 | or were there two Herfasts? |
27010 | with the authority_ in extenso_ for the offering of this coronet? |
28476 | ).--Is not this what we term a garden engine? |
28476 | 610.? |
28476 | And if so, what is its history? |
28476 | Are there not numerous instances elsewhere in which this example might be copied with propriety? |
28476 | Can any of your correspondents throw a light upon the subject? |
28476 | Dr. Harwood of Lichfield, author of a History of that city, and other works, died? |
28476 | From all this, is it too much to conclude that_ ea- land_ is the same as_ eye- land_? |
28476 | Has it ever been engraved? |
28476 | Have any of your correspondents met with it? |
28476 | How can the expressions I have Italicised be reconciled with the creation of the Archiepiscopal See of Westminster? |
28476 | In what publication can the description of this fête, or fair, be found? |
28476 | Is anything farther to be met with on this curious subject? |
28476 | Is not the bell- tower at Hackney detached from the church? |
28476 | Is this piece one of rarity and value? |
28476 | Its origin is involved in obscurity: but may it not be a corruption of the Latin_ ambages_, or the singular ablative_ ambage_? |
28476 | May I ask if he is aware of the three very fine large paintings in the Church of St. Mary, Redcliffe, Bristol? |
28476 | May I ask the value of the following? |
28476 | May I inquire at what time, and under what circumstances, blue was substituted for the old favourite green? |
28476 | May not Bale( or_ Baal_, according to Pits) be suspected to have been the composer of the Bonnerian Preface? |
28476 | Query: Can it be from the Latin_ pluma_? |
28476 | The first settlers of Marshfield having been Englishmen, may I ask if this custom ever did, or does now, exist in the mother country? |
28476 | What is the origin of the word? |
28476 | What more natural term, then, to apply to a spot of land standing alone in the midst of an expanse of water than an_ eye_ of land? |
28476 | What was the nature of it? |
28476 | Where is this portrait? |
28476 | Who first thought of table- turning? |
28476 | With these examples, and many more like them, before us, why should we ignore an_ eye_ of land as unlikely to be the original of our word_ island_? |
28476 | _ Lord Byron._--What relation to the poet was the Lord Byron mentioned in the_ Apology for the Life of George Ann Bellamy_? |
28476 | _ Scotch Newspapers,& c._--What are the earliest publications of Scotland giving an account of the current events of that kingdom? |
28476 | and whence has it suddenly risen to celebrity? |
28476 | point out examples of such misapplication? |
8603 | But on what precise spot did it take place? |
8603 | Can any of your readers inform me where these"NOTES"of this"celebrated speech"are to be found? |
8603 | I wish to be informed to what"foolish rhime,"which had been printed in Oxford and London, it applies? |
8603 | Is any thing known of a little work of early date, called_ Henno rusticus_? |
8603 | Or of another, called_ Of the sige( signe?) |
8603 | That, to be sure, is his business; but the question for the public is,_ Would_ it be done at all? |
8603 | There is some trouble in it, to be sure; but in what good thing is there not? |
8603 | We were going to say( but it might sound vainglorious), where do things read so well as in notes? |
8603 | Why is this? |
8603 | of the end_? |
8603 | why seek to hid thyself?" |
27011 | Quid facies, facies Veneris si veneris ante? 27011 _--In what author may this passage be found? |
27011 | _--Will any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of_ Lettres Juives_? 27011 15., warrant it? 27011 1845.--Can any of your readers tell me where I can get any? 27011 By whom appointed? 27011 Can any of your correspondents give any account of it? 27011 Can any of your readers acquainted with Indian literature translate it? 27011 Can this be made out satisfactorily? 27011 Could any reader inform me on what day this review took place? 27011 Has this curious illustration of ancient domestic manners ever been published? 27011 Have they been examined at Doctors''Commons? 27011 I quote from hisChildhood,"one of his earliest productions by the way-- but what production of his was not early? |
27011 | In endeavouring to supplant idolatry in the Roman empire, were the Apostles and first preachers of Christianity merely"fighting their own shadow?" |
27011 | In regard to MR. BOASE''S first inquiry,"Who was Charles Chadwick, Esq.?" |
27011 | Is it_ lyke_ or_ litch_? |
27011 | Is not this a superb jumble? |
27011 | Is there any official record in reference to this compensation? |
27011 | May not the following be the true solution of the question? |
27011 | N. R._ City Bellmen._--When were city bellmen first established? |
27011 | Now is it meant_ ten drops_, or_ ten minims_? |
27011 | Now why should_ beginning one''s birthday at noon_ appear so absurd to Varro? |
27011 | Pray by whom was it painted, and where can find any notices respecting it? |
27011 | Quid enim? |
27011 | The Church-- What is it? |
27011 | They called out,''Count Grammont, have you forgot nothing at London?'' |
27011 | Upon what authority does this document rest? |
27011 | What and how were they paid? |
27011 | What have been their employment and duties down to the present day? |
27011 | What then? |
27011 | What were their duties? |
27011 | Where can I find any account or detail of it? |
27011 | Why had they not consulted the living Church of Hindooism, and shown it a little sympathy and respect with a view to getting enlightened? |
27011 | _ Emblems._--Can any of your readers inform me what are the emblematic meanings of the different precious stones, or of any of them? |
27011 | and who is M. Lamartinière? |
27011 | noctis fuerit natus, nonne pariter dies ejus natalis videri debebit, et partim Calendarum, et partim ejus dici qui sequetur?" |
27011 | or in what work I shall find them described? |
27011 | { 540} What is known of his general history; and is any member of his family now living? |
27011 | { 546} How then has H. N. explained the doctrine which they are to refute-- the meaning of the"cross and basilica"in India? |
20407 | Cum non sis qui fueris,& c. Whence? |
20407 | It hath been well said,''That it is impossible,''& c. By whom and where? |
20407 | It hath been well said,''That the arch flatterer,''& c. By whom, and where? |
20407 | Again, in p. 10.:"Wherefore_ this_ ghastly looking?" |
20407 | Are there now, or have there been at any former period, any forms of judicial oath in use among Christians, other than the forms above mentioned? |
20407 | At what period was the latter form adopted by the Continental Christians, in lieu of the more solemn oath on the Gospels? |
20407 | By whom? |
20407 | By whom? |
20407 | Can any of your correspondents give the derivation of_ jockey_? |
20407 | Can any of your correspondents inform me if such was the case, and where? |
20407 | Did the practice of swearing on the Gospels prevail in England before the Reformation? |
20407 | How were they taken before then? |
20407 | How, I would ask, can the phrase--"And sorrow wag,"be a misprint for"call sorrow joy?" |
20407 | If not, at what period was it introduced? |
20407 | If so, what meaning can be attached to the line--"And salt too little which may season give?" |
20407 | If that is not a metaphor from the kitchen, I know not what could be? |
20407 | If, then, we are to have a mere fanciful emendation, why not"bid sorrow wag?" |
20407 | In Halliwell''s_ Dictionary_,"hoisting the glove"is said to be practised at Lammas Fair, in Devonshire: but why? |
20407 | Is anything known of this mere at the present day, and is there any remnant of this old superstition? |
20407 | Is there any doubt that this is the same person; and if not, is there any account of when and on what terms he returned to England? |
20407 | Is there not reason to believe that many of them are of great antiquity? |
20407 | Now, this man was doubtless an honour to the"silent(?) |
20407 | Now, why"this lame and impotent conclusion?" |
20407 | Perhaps this is also the meaning in--"Shall, Antipholus, Even in the spring of love thy_ love- springs_ rot?" |
20407 | The longer catechism of that church, in answer to the question,"What force has the sign of the cross, used on this and other occasions?" |
20407 | The moral of this is common enough, but is the fable found elsewhere in a similar_ form_? |
20407 | Was the practice of raising the hand in use in Scotland before the Reformation? |
20407 | Were any churches in_ Westminster_, as distinguished from_ London_, destroyed in the Great Fire? |
20407 | What can be a more common expression than the"roof of the mouth?" |
20407 | What form of judicial oath was first sanctioned by the professors of Christianity as a body? |
20407 | What has become of the original picture? |
20407 | What is it? |
20407 | What is the book here meant, and by whom was it written? |
20407 | What jockey is not? |
20407 | What? |
20407 | When did the change of pronunciation take place? |
20407 | Whence? |
20407 | Where recorded? |
20407 | Where recorded? |
20407 | Where? |
20407 | Where? |
20407 | Where? |
20407 | Whilst upon this subject, let me ask whether there is any list of editions of the Bible that can be looked upon as in any way complete? |
20407 | Who was he? |
20407 | Who will venture to say, that the substitution of"_ thus ghastly_ looking"is not decidedly a change for the worse? |
20407 | Why may not historical documents have something of the same sort? |
20407 | Will some of your correspondents kindly supply the hiatus above referred to? |
20407 | _ Enough._--Was this word always pronounced as at present,_ enuf_? |
20407 | _ Nursery Rhymes._--Can you or any of your correspondents tell me where I shall find an account of the origin of our common nursery rhymes? |
20407 | _ Photographic Tent._--Can any of your readers inform me how, or where, to procure an_ effective tent_ for photographic operations out of doors? |
20407 | _ Q._ At what place were you first overtaken? |
20407 | _ The Vinegar Plant._--Is it indigenous or imported? |
20407 | e._ nothing but nonsense,"sheer buffoonery,""sheer malice,"& c. Why should Sly talk of being in debt for_ Warwickshire_ ale at Wincot? |
20407 | fifty- six? |
20407 | from Sir Richard Harley, 28 Edward I.: whose armorial bearings, according to one annalist, is mentioned as_ Or, bend cotized sable_? |
20407 | inform me whether these pictures( if more than one) are still in existence: if so, where they are, and whether they are to be seen? |
20407 | or, this ghastly appearance? |
20409 | Did not one of the Fathers, in great indignation, call poesy_ vinum dæmonum_? |
20409 | What are''Aristotle''s checks?'' |
20409 | * And what farther is to be learned of Mr. Papin, a Socinian, who jointed the Church of Rome about that period? |
20409 | + Who was Chief Justice in 1697? |
20409 | 12mo.? |
20409 | And shall we now be less wise than our fathers? |
20409 | And, if so, why the difference? |
20409 | Are they or the cardinal right, supposing him to be correctly reported? |
20409 | At what distance is the object presumed to be? |
20409 | By her general air, or her face? |
20409 | By whom were these very clever and amusing letters written? |
20409 | Can any of your readers explain the matter? |
20409 | Can any one inform me as to the year of his death, and whether he left a son? |
20409 | Can any one of your correspondents enlighten me as to the meaning of the word_ folowed_? |
20409 | Did Sir Walter confound the two bishops, or did he add the circumstance for the amusement of Hugh Littlejohn? |
20409 | Have more modern observers verified this curious fact? |
20409 | How came the Caithness people to speak such good Saxon? |
20409 | How is it that in our present calendar St. Alban''s day is not June 22, but June 17? |
20409 | I shall now be thankful to be told something about the said Dufflæus,--who and what he was,--when and where he lived? |
20409 | I would likewise be glad to know the origin of the name; and, if it be a corruption of Beauvoir, at what time, and for what reason, was it changed? |
20409 | Is it an expression derived from the Puritans? |
20409 | Is it not a case of mesmerism? |
20409 | Is this a superstition that can be traced in other countries than Germany? |
20409 | Is this right? |
20409 | J. K._ Lepel''s Regiment._--Can your correspondent MR. ARTHUR HAMILTON inform me what is the regiment known in 1707 as_ Lepel''s Regiment_? |
20409 | May I ask any of your contributors whether this MS. has ever been printed? |
20409 | May I ask him, and I have reason for so doing, on what authority he gives 1664 as the year of the birth of Antonius Stradivarius, in his last edition? |
20409 | On his back? |
20409 | On his head? |
20409 | Or, if I may put it into a doggerel rhyme:"About a donkeys taste why need we fret us? |
20409 | Query, If it is not in Aristotle, where is it to be found? |
20409 | Query, Who is the Father alluded to? |
20409 | Side by side with Cowper''s passionate address to his mother''s picture, how does it look? |
20409 | The allusion is to a couplet of Solon:"[ Greek: ex anemôn de thalassa tarassetai? |
20409 | The name of the_ Venerable_ Archdeacon who perpetrated this robbery? |
20409 | The precept adverted to is the verse of Epicharmus:"[ Greek: naphe kai memnas''apistein? |
20409 | Was he a member of the House of Commons, as the author of the Letter intimates that he himself was? |
20409 | Was it Chief Justice Treby? |
20409 | Was this the formula usually adopted on such occasions? |
20409 | Wer will mich wieder plagen? |
20409 | What authority is there for the latter story? |
20409 | What does it mean, and whence is it derived? |
20409 | What was the date of the sale? |
20409 | What were the rights and duties of these latter? |
20409 | When was the living the latter enjoyed"untouched and even unquestioned by another bishop?" |
20409 | Where is the following poem to be met with? |
20409 | Whether there are any legal means for recovering the missing works? |
20409 | Who is the preacher here referred to? |
20409 | Why must he say it_ three_ times? |
20409 | Will you explain the comparison implied in the words"as Homer''s Iliad in a nut?" |
20409 | _ Canker or Brier Rose._--Can any of your correspondents tell me why the brier or dog- rose was anciently called the_ canker_? |
20409 | _ Monogram of Parker Society._--What is the meaning of the monogram adopted by the Parker Society on all their publications? |
20409 | _ Passage in the First Part of Faust._--"_ Faust._ Es Klopft? |
20409 | _ Photography applied to Catalogues of Books._--May not photography be usefully applied to the making of catalogues of large libraries? |
20409 | _ Stereoscopic Queries._--Can any of your readers inform me what are the proper angles under which stereoscopic pictures should be taken? |
20409 | _ The Five Alls._--Can any of your readers give me an interpretation of a sign on an inn in Oxford, which bears this inscription? |
20409 | and, if so, where? |
20409 | whether or not it does exist? |
28405 | ( of Navarre) to the crown of France? |
28405 | ).--Is the following what SEMI- TONE wants? |
28405 | 1554(?)." |
28405 | 1702?) |
28405 | And what explanation can be offered of the account? |
28405 | Are any of these now in existence? |
28405 | But, as we must find some fault, where is the Index? |
28405 | Can any of your Devonian readers give additional particulars of his office or his duties? |
28405 | Can any of your learned correspondents state the result of the_ fracas_ between Mr. Browne and Sir J. Wallace? |
28405 | Can you give me the name of this drama( if it has any), and names of the_ dramatis personæ_? |
28405 | From what quarter is either of these more likely to be obtained than from"N.& Q.?" |
28405 | H. W. D._ Page._--What is the derivation of this word? |
28405 | Has this been traditional, or whence is Kilburne''s authority? |
28405 | I have to inquire, are these pictures left here to the knowledge of your readers? |
28405 | I proceed to the second extract.--Who wrote the_ Prologue to Julius Cæsar_? |
28405 | Is it not admitted on all hands to be"an heritage of the Lord?" |
28405 | Is it remarkable for rarity or merit? |
28405 | Is this_ Broad Almanack_ the original of the present_ Stationers''Almanack_? |
28405 | It is more than problematical whether the eminent translator, Mendelsohn, was influenced by{ 108} Luther''s_ error_(? |
28405 | Nicholas Cole Abbey._--There is a church in the city of London called St. Nicholas Cole Abbey: what is the origin of the name or derivation? |
28405 | To what master- hand are we to ascribe this twofold specimen of psychologic portraiture? |
28405 | To whom do you attribute the gift of children? |
28405 | Was this description of fish peculiar to the Yare? |
28405 | Was this in Darien? |
28405 | What are our ordinary histories of the Reformation from Burnet to Cobbett but so many caricatures? |
28405 | When was this_ Broad Almanack_ first issued? |
28405 | When were sheet almanacks, printed on one side of a sheet, first published? |
28405 | Why not adopt and abide by the simplicity of the calotype process as given in a late Number? |
28405 | _ If so_ with nitrate of potash, how? |
28405 | _ Origin of the Word Etiquette._--What is the original meaning of the word_ etiquette_? |
28405 | and how did it acquire that secondary meaning which it bears in English? |
28405 | and is there any record of its having been esteemed a delicacy in Elizabeth''s reign? |
28405 | did he, in short, find buyers as well as admirers? |
28405 | or in what way was he related to his predecessor? |
28405 | or, if not, did he return to Venice with those( no doubt) vividly pictured recollections of our localities under his arm? |
27005 | Two lines I met in Athalie; how else than according to the''Cobbler there was,''& c., can they be repeated? 27005 ).--Are not your correspondents on the wrong scent as regards the birthplace of Sir John Vanbrugh? 27005 ):_ Ant._ Eros, thou yet behold''st me? |
27005 | 1822. WHO WAS JUNIUS? |
27005 | 6. Who Sir Anthony Ashby was? |
27005 | A. H._ Vellum Cleaning._--Are there not preparations in use for cleaning the backs of old vellum- bound books without destroying the polish? |
27005 | And what other national churches have priests placed in a corresponding position? |
27005 | By the same Author, WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY? |
27005 | Can you, or any of your readers, inform me where this pamphlet is to be met with? |
27005 | Could you ascertain for me whether my grandfather left any family, and if any member is still alive? |
27005 | Gascoigne''s tomb? |
27005 | Had Bagford or Wanley the chief direction? |
27005 | Hamlet points to a changing Cumulus cloud, when he says to Polonius,"Do you see that cloud, that almost in shape like a camel?" |
27005 | How made, or where procurable? |
27005 | Is there any similar instance on record of a woman being a parish clerk? |
27005 | Is there on record the return made to this order; and where may it be consulted? |
27005 | Is this the case at present and if so, what is the direction of the clerk of the Company? |
27005 | J. F. M._ Dionysia in Boeotia._--Can any of your readers refer me to a passage in any ancient author in which this supposed town is mentioned? |
27005 | Query if it is not a copy of the very rare engraving by Loggan and Burghers? |
27005 | Surely, it can not be seriously asserted that the former will produce_ two_ vanishing points, and the latter only one? |
27005 | That it has its imperfections, we do not deny-- and what agency is{ 334} without them? |
27005 | The reason or account to be given of the place assigned to our admirals in the Act of Precedence? |
27005 | They said,''What harm will this little quantity do?'' |
27005 | Urban Vigors of Taunton? |
27005 | Was the saint deemed unworthy of the place which had been allotted to him? |
27005 | What can Nimrod tell us touching this proverbialised animal? |
27005 | Whether any foreigners are to be found in our list of English admirals? |
27005 | Whether any of the considerable families of our nobility or gentry have been raised by the sea? |
27005 | Who does not remember the{ 338} passages in_ Romeo and Juliet_? |
27005 | Y. S. M._ Early English MSS._--What is the earliest document, of any historical import to this country, now existing in MS.? |
27005 | Y. S. M._ Stipendiary Curates._--What is the earliest mention of stipendiary curates in our ecclesiastical establishment? |
27005 | [ Is the name Lovell, or Loisell? |
27005 | _ Balderdash._--What is the meaning and the etymology of"balderdash?" |
27005 | _ Ham._ Or like a whale? |
27005 | _ Huggins and Muggins._--Can any of your readers assign the origin of this jocular appellation? |
27005 | _ Lovell, Sculptor._--What is known of this artist? |
27005 | _ Our Lady of Rounceval._--Can you or any of your correspondents furnish me with particulars of our Lady of Rounceval? |
27005 | and from what date they have been so used? |
27005 | give any information about it? |
27005 | inform me why the flowers of the orange blossom are so universally used in the dress of a bride? |
27005 | p. 627.? |
29664 | _ Begging the Question._--Will any correspondent explain this phrase, and give its origin? |
29664 | ).--In reply to the Query of MR. SANSOM,"Whether Osborn de Crespon, the brother of the Duchess of Normandy, had a brother of the same name?" |
29664 | ).--The inquiry suggested in the first of the above references,"Whence, or when, originated the application of Abigail, as applied to a lady''s maid?" |
29664 | 2.,"He giveth His beloved sleep?" |
29664 | Again, MR. CROOKES considers the free iodine to be the cause of the colouring of the collodion; will he then kindly explain its_ modus operandi_? |
29664 | Are there none such in the British Museum, or in the State Paper Offices? |
29664 | But is not sleep a gain? |
29664 | But would England herself have abolished slavery had it not been for the impulse given to free principles by the American revolution? |
29664 | Can we forget the[ Greek: hupnou dôron] of Homer? |
29664 | Can you or any of your correspondents inform me what is the derivation of the word_ silo_? |
29664 | Could not some of your antiquarian correspondents in the west, MR. BOASE of Penzance for example, furnish such a list? |
29664 | Did this Francis Browne ever marry? |
29664 | Does the library still exist? |
29664 | G. H. R.***** WHAT DAY IS IT AT OUR ANTIPODES? |
29664 | Howard? |
29664 | Is the H a mistake for K, which would give a well- known Irish name? |
29664 | Is this an error of the author, or of translator? |
29664 | Joshua Brooks, who was for many years chaplain of the Collegiate Church, Manchester, and who died in 1821? |
29664 | Might it not be added to those already given for the other festivals of the Church,& c.? |
29664 | Moses Margoliouth,& c. 648 What Day is it at our Antipodes? |
29664 | Peter Allan was born at Selkirk(?) |
29664 | Quid est igitur_ Eva_ nisi_ heu ha_? |
29664 | Stylo ferreo, et plumbi laminâ, vel_ celte_ sculpantur in silice?] |
29664 | [ 1] or are they right, and was St. Stephen''s martyrdom in those times commemorated on a different day from what it now is? |
29664 | _ Advent Hymn._--Why is this hymn not included amongst those at the end of the Book of Common Prayer? |
29664 | _ Goldsmith''s"Haunch of Venison._"--What is the name in this poem beginning with H, which Goldsmith makes to rhyme with"beef?" |
29664 | _ Milton''s Correspondence._--Has any English translation of Milton''s_ Latin familiar Correspondence_ been published; and if so, when and by whom? |
29664 | _ When_, therefore, did such granaries exist in Spain,_ in what part_ of the country, and_ under what circumstances_? |
29664 | and if so, whom, and when, and where? |
29664 | and is there a printed catalogue of it? |
29664 | author of_ The Choice Spirits Museum_, 1765;_ Coley_=Colman, says Horace Walpole;_ H-- rth_=Hogarth? |
29664 | give the origin of the word? |
29664 | have many additions been made to it up to the present time? |
29664 | tell me where such a passage occurs? |
20410 | If no love is, O God, what feele I so? 20410 That upon the king( Query which?) |
20410 | Who could disbelieve it now? |
20410 | _--Where may be found some account of the author, object,& c. of this facetious production? 20410 Also, what are_ coronation flowers_, and_ sops in wine_? 20410 And do not these words, in the plural number, signify''Take ye, eat ye;''and not''Take thou, eat thou,''as you would suppose? |
20410 | And farther, if it be not too hopeless an inquiry to make, who his existing representatives( if any) may be? |
20410 | And if love is, what thing and which is he? |
20410 | Be not these the words of Christ,''Accipite, manducate?'' |
20410 | Can any of your Cambrian readers inform me the origin of this anniversary? |
20410 | Can any of your readers confirm the above, and add any similar"weather rules?" |
20410 | Can any one explain an allusion contained in these three lines of the epistle? |
20410 | Can any one inform me when this learned justice lived; or rather, for it concerns me more, when he died? |
20410 | From whence is it derived, and when was it first used in English to mean a boat- race? |
20410 | How cometh it to pass that ye will not now do so?" |
20410 | I shall be glad to have some further account of such William Williams, or references to where to find such? |
20410 | I should be very glad indeed to know whether these Sermons have appeared in print; and if so, when and where published? |
20410 | If it has, is there any engraving of the picture extant or on sale? |
20410 | If love be good, from whence cometh my wo?" |
20410 | If not now, was it more customary in mediæval times, and when did it cease? |
20410 | If so, where, and to whom? |
20410 | In_ Measure for Measure_:"_ Duke._ Who call''d here of late? |
20410 | Is it needful to state, that the original editions have, as they ought to have, a note of interrogation at"Baker?" |
20410 | Is there no monumental memorial of this Treasurer Ken, or his family, in any of the London churches? |
20410 | Is this passage the origin of the above ca nt phrases? |
20410 | On what authority( for none is cited) does this statement rest? |
20410 | Other side of what? |
20410 | Por?" |
20410 | Query, How many have been discovered since the great historian''s day? |
20410 | Then_ Martin_ said:"Dost thou not know one Master Chamberlain? |
20410 | Was either of those sons named Richard; and was any of them, and which, married? |
20410 | Was there a coin- collector of that name living about 1740? |
20410 | Was this the way a fool was supposed to show that his head was turned? |
20410 | What are_ coket_ and_ cler- mantyn_? |
20410 | What can be said more plainly?" |
20410 | What may this be? |
20410 | What was the origin of this custom? |
20410 | Whence is it derived? |
20410 | Where''s he that made it? |
20410 | Why what is that then, that is in question between my lord and you?" |
20410 | Will you permit me to make a few observations in reply to the Queries of MR. H. H. BREEN on this subject? |
20410 | Y. S. M. asks"Who was Lord Cliff?" |
20410 | Your correspondent asks"what form of Judicial oath was first sanctioned by Christians as a body?" |
20410 | _ Christopherson._ Good lord,_ no doth_? |
20410 | _ Cosins.__ No will_ you? |
20410 | _ Fort.__ No does?_""Old Fortunatus,"_ Old English Plays_, vol. |
20410 | _ Hubert.__ No had_( my Lord), why, did you not provoke me?" |
20410 | _ London.__ No will?_ Why, take away the first syllable, and it soundeth Arius." |
20410 | _ Lord Keeper.__ No did?_ Yes, and on the first question ye began willingly. |
20410 | _ No do ye?_ quod I." |
20410 | _ Philpot.__ No did_, master doctor? |
20410 | _ Regatta._--What is the etymology of the word_ regatta_? |
20410 | and can"L. Newton"be a mistake for Long Sutton, in Hants? |
20410 | but"yea can?" |
20410 | inform me the meaning of this? |
20410 | or may it be Long Newton, in the hundred of Malmesbury? |
20410 | p. 140., by Dilke: who alters"No does?" |
20410 | verify the_ last portion_ of Pennant''s statement? |
27007 | Does he love, and yet forsake me, To admire a nymph more fair? 27007 My Essay on Roads, quoth MacAdam, lies there, The result of a life''s lucubration; But does not the title page look rather bare? |
27007 | When Adam delved, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? |
27007 | _--To whom does this saying ing originally belong? 27007 _--Upon what occasion, and by what authority was the motto"Semper eadem"used as the royal motto in the reign of Elizabeth? |
27007 | _--What is the etymology of our noun and verb_ coin_ and_ to coin_? 27007 ).--Were there two editions of the_ Vulgar Errors_ published in the same year, 1646? 27007 : but how is it the learned Vicar of Southwick printed only_ nine_ copies? 27007 Can any of your correspondents inform me of the meaning of this motto, and the language in which it is expressed; and also what the crest is? 27007 Can any of your ecclesiological correspondents furnish me with the date of the earliest known example? 27007 Can any of your readers give me any other instances of children being called_ imps_? 27007 Can any of your readers give me assistance in finding these_ Memorials_, or this letter to Archbishop Parker, or a copy of it? 27007 Can any of your readers inform CAUCASUS of the reason of this difference, and of the authority for it, and which is the correct mode? 27007 Can it arise from any vague reminiscence of the practical rule of the Church of England on the subject, which has been so long ignored? 27007 Could any of your correspondents favour us with the time- bill of that coach, detailing the length of the several stages, and the time of performance? 27007 Did Caspar paint more than one portrait of Hobbes? 27007 Has this command been regularly fulfilled on the creation of each K. C. B.? 27007 How is this? 27007 Is it not an electrical phenomenon? 27007 Is there any authority for the statement? 27007 Is there any obituary or biographical notice of him in existence? 27007 Mr. Buckle''s photographs all contain_ clouds_? 27007 Query, Is this the origin of our own doxologies? 27007 Shall I never see him more? 27007 Was he thinking of the sacred_ Nine_?] 27007 What is the inference as to the age of this relic from the mark referred to? 27007 When was this word first imported, and by whom? 27007 Whence comes it originally? 27007 Where can I find such particulars? 27007 Whether any cotemporary, or other writer besides the Icelandic historian, has recorded this eclipse? 27007 Witness ye groves and falls of water, Echos repeat the vows he swore: Can he forget me? 27007 _ Clouds in Photographs._--I wish one of your photographic correspondents would inform me, how_ clouds_ can be put into photographs taken on paper? 27007 _ Conger- eel_ is entirely used by shore- folk)? 27007 _ Danish and Swedish Ballads._--What are the best and most recent collections of ancient Danish and Swedish ballad poetry? 27007 _ Epigram on MacAdam._--Who was the author of the following epigram? 27007 _Now the fierce bear,"& c._--Can any of your readers inform me who is the author of the following lines? |
27007 | and also tell me wherefore the name was given them? |
27007 | and how long it continued in use? |
27007 | and is the artist who painted such known? |
27007 | and that the name has been given from the circumstance of one end of a crow- bar being curved for the purpose of making it more efficient as lever? |
27007 | say if anything is known about the latter, who is represented as being baptized by the Evangelist? |
27007 | will he neglect me? |
27007 | word_ cro_, a curve? |
23027 | What form is that, that scowls beside thee? 23027 ).--Why may not the word have the same meaning as it has now? 23027 ):Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are Gods?" |
23027 | 1546? |
23027 | ? |
23027 | ? G. |
23027 | A Query of some interest still remains-- In what author do we first find the compound word? |
23027 | A. R._ Sonnet( query by Milton? |
23027 | By what mysterious species of arithmetic can it be demonstrated that"nearly_ seventy_ years"elapsed between 1498 and 1557? |
23027 | Can any characteristic anecdote be related of him, suitable for giving_ point_ to a sketch of his life for foreign readers? |
23027 | Can any of your correspondents inform me if such was the fact, and from what source they derive their information? |
23027 | Can any of your readers give me an instance from any one of our standard classical authors of a verb active"to decease"? |
23027 | Can any of your readers give me further particulars of Mr. Standfast, or tell me where to find them? |
23027 | Can any of your readers inform me who now possesses this medal, and where it is to be found? |
23027 | Can any of your readers refer me to any book where such a fact is mentioned? |
23027 | Can any of your readers( among whom I trust there are many retired West India planters) give the etymology of this word? |
23027 | Can you or any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of them? |
23027 | Can you, or any of your kind correspondents, favour me with an account of it? |
23027 | Did not Theodorus Lector, early in the sixth century, reduce into a harmony the compositions of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret? |
23027 | Does any one now feel inclined to vindicate for Inchofer, Scioppius, Bariac, or Contarini, the authorship of the_ Monarchia Solipsorum_? |
23027 | Had Humphrey Mosley any presentiment of the deathless fame of Milton? |
23027 | Has any later edition appeared? |
23027 | Has he remained incognito? |
23027 | Has not Cotelier furnished us with an"_ Epitome_,"compiled by Metaphrastes from Clementine counterfeits, concerning the life of S. Peter? |
23027 | Have we here no specimens of abbreviation; no allusion in the prologue to"omissis quæ videbantur superflua?" |
23027 | How many sacks hast thou stole?" |
23027 | I lately heard it applied, in conversation, to the Jesuits, but I think it is of some antiquity:--"Jurat? |
23027 | If this be so, how comes it to pass that not only the general histories are silent as to the event, but that even the newspapers omit it? |
23027 | In what year was the work first published? |
23027 | Is it an offshoot from the Reformation? |
23027 | Is it certain that Joshua''s words are absolutely at variance and irreconcileable with the present state of astronomical knowledge? |
23027 | Is it not true that extracted portions of these Constitutions are found in some old MS. collections of Canons? |
23027 | Is not Mr. Cureton undoubtedly in error with respect to the year 1495? |
23027 | Is there any instance of a recess of this kind on the south side, and an Easter sepulchre on the north, in the same church? |
23027 | May we not class this story of her majesty''s{ 152} predilection for the hundred merry tales among the"black relations of the Jesuits?" |
23027 | My Query is, Can any of your correspondents inform me where this collection can be met with? |
23027 | My Query is, What were they afraid of? |
23027 | Taylor, of Norwich, writes to Southey, asking,--"Can you tell me who wrote the_ History of the Sevarambians_? |
23027 | This, I think, satisfactorily answers the original question,"Whence comes the expression?" |
23027 | To commence with the West,--is not Mr. Cureton acquainted with the manner in which Rufinus dealt with the_ History_ of Eusebius? |
23027 | W. Adams._--When did Mr. Adams, the accomplished author of the_ Sacred Allegories_, die? |
23027 | When and by whom were they compiled? |
23027 | Whence and when did the aversion to, and contempt for, a pun arise? |
23027 | Why should they not have been intended for the holy sepulchre at Easter? |
23027 | Will any of your contributors be so obliging as to inform me where the form of prayer spoken of as_ customary_ is to be found? |
23027 | _ Abbot Eustacius and Angodus de Lindsei._--Can any of your learned readers inform me in what reign an Abbot_ Eustacius_ flourished? |
23027 | _ Meaning of Cefn._--What is the meaning of the Welsh word"Cefn"used as prefix? |
23027 | _ Withers''Devil at Sarum_.--Where is Withers''_ Devil at Sarum_, mentioned in Hudibras, to be met with? |
23027 | _"Jurat? |
23027 | and where can we meet with any account of them? |
23027 | crede minus: non jurat? |
23027 | crede minus:"Epigram._--Can any of your learned readers inform me by whom the following epigram was written? |
23027 | credere noli: Jurat, non jurat? |
23027 | ii., p. 439., recalled to my recollection a"Note"made several years back; but the"Query"was, where to find that Note? |
23027 | of rouge or some such paint for the face,& c.,_ the mark left by the pressure of two fingers of a small hand was distinctly visible_(?)." |
23027 | what authority do they possess? |
23027 | who art thou so fast proceeding, Ne''er glancing back thine eyes of flame? |
27003 | What needeth this, when he hath got the worst of the cause, to defend himself like a_ pinece with a stink_? 27003 _--What is the meaning of the phrase,"I put a spoke in his wheel?" |
27003 | 1822. WHO WAS JUNIUS? |
27003 | Accept or reject this doggerel translation:"Is it hurrah? |
27003 | Also, the date of erection of the church? |
27003 | And where may any pedigree of the Osborne family,_ previous to Edward_, be seen? |
27003 | And why? |
27003 | But was Yarmouth ever called_ nova Gernemutha_? |
27003 | Can any correspondent tell me when and why this was placed in the church; and also the inscriptions which appear thereon? |
27003 | Can any more satisfactory locality be assigned it? |
27003 | Can any of your correspondents explain the origin of this superstition, or favour me with any farther notices respecting it? |
27003 | Can any of your correspondents refer me to the circumstance in question? |
27003 | Can any of your readers furnish an explanation? |
27003 | Can any of your readers inform me at what place in Yorkshire her father resided, and where the marriage with Mallet in 1742 took place? |
27003 | Can any of your readers state where it is to be found? |
27003 | Can any of your readers suggest any other or closer analogy between the name and device? |
27003 | Can it have reference to the staple? |
27003 | Can you, or any of your subscribers, inform me whereabouts in the town it is situated? |
27003 | Do the figures merely determine the size of the picture to be taken? |
27003 | Does not this almost come up to Lord Castlereagh''s famous metaphor? |
27003 | Have any similar excavations been found in England? |
27003 | How is one to be guided in their use and application to practice? |
27003 | I would ask, if"gob,"used also in Devonshire for the stone of any fruit which contains a kernel, is not a cognate word? |
27003 | Is it hurrah? |
27003 | Is the song of"The Ivy Green"in_ Pickwick_ sufficient to justify this appellation? |
27003 | Is this the_ customary_ and proper mode of using the phrase; and, if so, how can putting a spoke to a wheel impede its motion? |
27003 | Is this way of dividing the arms a blunder of the painter''s, or can any of your readers point out a similar instance? |
27003 | Is''t hoera? |
27003 | Let us take, for example, what may be considered in its way as one of the most incomprehensible lines in Shakspeare--"Will you go,_ An- heires_?" |
27003 | May I take leave to ask, are the above- mentioned books in existence, and where are they to be found? |
27003 | Running down with the vowels from_ a_, we get at once an apparently plausible suggestion,"Will you go_ on here_?" |
27003 | Scott? |
27003 | The Dutch seem to have adopted it from the Russians,_ poeta invito_, as we see in the following verses of Staring van den Willenborg:"Is''t hoera? |
27003 | The following is singular:"Quid est veritas? |
27003 | To what passage in Virgil does Johnson here refer, and what is the point intended to be conveyed? |
27003 | Was Sir Philip connected at all with Dr. Smith, or was he descended from Arthur Warwick, author of_ Spare Minutes_? |
27003 | Was he of a Scotch family, and are any of his descendants now living? |
27003 | Wat drommel kan''t u schelen? |
27003 | What does that concern you, pray? |
27003 | What reference have these nicely graduated points to the distance of an object from the instrument? |
27003 | Where did she die, and what family did Mallet leave by his two wives? |
27003 | Which is correct; and what is the authority? |
27003 | Will C. endeavour to explain it in any other way? |
27003 | Would rare Ben have uttered such a wish ignorantly and without cause? |
27003 | _ Derivation of Celt._--What is the proper derivation of the word_ celt_, as applied to certain weapons of antiquity? |
27003 | _ Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle._--What were the family arms of Dr. John Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, who died October 29, 1734? |
27003 | _"Solamen miseris,"& c._--Please to state in what author is the following line? |
27003 | or what was the office alluded to? |
28311 | Hath God himself any where declared this to be only an explication of the first commandment? 28311 How could I be mistaken? |
28311 | A. D._ Court Dress_--When was the present court dress first established as the recognised costume for state ceremonials? |
28311 | And whether, wherever it is, it is open to inspection? |
28311 | But the emphatic question which common sense will ask is this: Why should Junius go to Mr. Cox''s printing- office to correct his proofs? |
28311 | But what authority has ÆGROTUS for asserting that Junius corrected proofs at all? |
28311 | But''Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?'' |
28311 | Can any of your numerous readers inform me in whose possession the above now is? |
28311 | Can any of your readers explain_ why_ such a_ coruscation of joy_ upon a wedding day should forebode evil? |
28311 | Can you enlighten me on the subject? |
28311 | Dost thou think, Claudio, If I would yield him my virginity, Thou might''st be freed?" |
28311 | E. S. T. T._ Redwing''s Nest_.--I trust you will excuse my asking, if any of your correspondents have found the nest of the redwing? |
28311 | Has the egg of the redwing been ever seen in this situation before? |
28311 | Have the prophets or Christ and His apostles ever done it? |
28311 | How is this to be accounted for, if true? |
28311 | How then can any man''s conscience be safe in this matter? |
28311 | In his judgment he says,--"... Then what ground is there for saying that the_ status_ of slavery is now recognised by the law of England?... |
28311 | Is the conjecture right? |
28311 | M.''? |
28311 | May I ask where the authority for this statement is to be found? |
28311 | Oldmixon, in his_ British Empire in America_, mentions a Sir John Marsham of Barbados; was he a knight or baronet, and when did he die? |
28311 | Query, Whether pen_s_ive was ever written or printed pen_z_ive in Shakspeare''s time? |
28311 | Question,''Does the villein pass to the grantee as a villein in gross, or as a villein appendant to that acre?'' |
28311 | T."_ If this fair flower_,"& c.--Would you kindly find a place for the lines which follow? |
28311 | The question is, what was the word actually written, or intended, by Shakspeare? |
28311 | What I want to know is, of whom is this story told? |
28311 | What was the name, and whose daughter was the lady to whom William Penn( the son of William Penn and Miss Springett) was married? |
28311 | Where, I might ask, is the authority for{ 412} this story? |
28311 | Who is responsible for it? |
28311 | _ A Note on Dress._--Dress is mutable, who denies it? |
28311 | _ Dieu et mon Droit._--When was this first adopted as the motto of our sovereigns? |
28311 | _ Earth thrown upon the Coffin_.--Is there anything known respecting the origin of the ceremony of throwing earth upon the coffin at funerals? |
28311 | _ William Penn_.--Will MR. HEPWORTH DIXON, or some of your correspondents, be so good as to send a reply to this Query? |
28311 | and if there are extant any orders of the Earl Marshal upon the subject, where are they printed? |
28311 | gentleman''s pen dipped in gold when he wrote this puff direct?] |
28311 | or whether any other instances are on record of its so doing? |
30133 | Quare homines sternutant? 30133 This that followeth they call the''White Pater- noster:''"White Pater- noster, Saint Peter''s brother, What hast i''th''t''one hand? |
30133 | And also, when was this first allowed? |
30133 | And has it ever been printed? |
30133 | And where are they, the victims? |
30133 | But first and chief-- and as such claims inspire-- Our Patron Brothers, who doth not admire? |
30133 | Can any of your readers, whose Greek is less faded than mine, refer me to the epigram? |
30133 | Can you inform me if it is authentic? |
30133 | Did they derive this notion, as they did their tin, from Celtic Britain? |
30133 | Does this list exist in any of our record offices? |
30133 | E. A. G._ History of the Nonjurors._--What are the best authorities for the history of the Nonjurors and their sufferings? |
30133 | G. S. S._ Martyn the Regicide._--Was Martyn the regicide married or not? |
30133 | George Sewell, Rector of Byfleet, Surrey, Was he a brother of Lieut.-Col. Sewell of the Surrey Light Dragoons? |
30133 | Give him a drink-- for why? |
30133 | I conclude with a Query, Does_ Wurm_ in modern German ever mean a serpent? |
30133 | I support my dissent, however, by the following lines from Shakspeare:"Who''scapes the lurking serpent''s mortal sting? |
30133 | If married, is it known whether he had children? |
30133 | Is this the first notice of a German tree in England? |
30133 | MR. INGLEBY quotes Boole''s_ Mathematical(?) |
30133 | Query whether from some such idea of the beneficial effect of sneezing, arose the practice of calling for the divine blessing on the sneezer? |
30133 | Sir John Mason, second husband to Lady Mason, died in 1566. Who then was"this honour,"her third? |
30133 | Sir Thomas Sewell marry a second wife? |
30133 | The giant amazed, asked, could that child eat such hard bread? |
30133 | What better trade can be? |
30133 | What hast i''th''t''other hand? |
30133 | Whence came their adopted motto:"Cætera quis nescit?" |
30133 | Whence did the Assyrians derive this veneration for a tree bearing acorns? |
30133 | Will you kindly give me a list of the works where I may be likely to find an account of this original church? |
30133 | _ Prince Memnon''s Sister._--Who was Prince Memnon''s sister, alluded to by Milton in_ Il Penseroso_? |
30133 | _ Translations from Æschylus._--Whose translation of the tragedies of Æschylus is that which accompanies Flaxman''s compositions from the same? |
30133 | and if any of his children settled in Ireland, and became possessed of property in that country? |
30133 | for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne?" |
30133 | or"How do you do?" |
30133 | who do you think? |
30133 | { 620}"Where are they now who wrought this fiendish wrong? |
30133 | { 627} Bradford:"Who lives here? |
28477 | _ Rock of Ages._--Who is the author of the hymn beginning"Rock of Ages?" |
28477 | _ The full Moon brings fine Weather._--When did this saying originate, and have we any proof of its correctness? |
28477 | _--Can you inform me where the scene of the following drama is laid, and the names of the_ dramatis personæ_? 28477 ''Do you retain Gibbon''s library?'' 28477 ).--Will your contributors J. D. S. and J. L. oblige me with references to the works in which these privileges are mentioned? 28477 1.? 28477 Ah, do you not hear A humming and purring All about and about? 28477 And will any of your readers be kind enough to give such explanation? 28477 By whom has this_ conceit_ been_ whispered thorow the world_? 28477 Can any of your legal friends tell me what this is, and where I may find it treated of? 28477 Can the distinction between these be exactly explained by any corresponding annual payments for land according to present custom? 28477 Did you ever travel alone among mountains?'' 28477 How far would it be desirable to unite for the purpose of collecting MS. fragments, and early printed leaves? 28477 Is the fact stated elsewhere? 28477 Is the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert descended from one of Sir Walter''s half- brothers? 28477 Is this work known? 28477 The What- d''ye- call- it? 28477 There is no author so universal as Shakspeare, and would that be the case if he was not thoroughly understood? 28477 Was he related to the_ Castles and Abbeys_ Nash? 28477 What I wish to know is, Whether these are exceptional cases or not? 28477 What was the nature of it? 28477 Where was Wardhouse, and what was the custom there? 28477 Where? 28477 Who is the author? 28477 _ Military Music._--Was military music ever played at night in the time of King Charles I.? 28477 and in what musty tomes is that_ tradition_ concealed, which speaks concerning it? 28477 be so good as to explain to me the reference in the second line of the verse? 28477 for a reference to the authentic history, where a corroboration of Mr. Dickens''statement is to be found? 28477 inform me what Mr. Nash this was, and what became of him? 28477 say between whom, and when, this duel took place? 28477 to be found? 27614 _--Can any of your readers explain how and when_ miser_ came to get the meaning of an avaricious hoarding man? |
27614 | _--Is there any good evidence in support of the commonly received opinion that the words to Handel''s_ Acis and Galatea_ were written by Gay? 27614 & c.).--The lines on Woman are, I presume, an altered version of those of Barret( Mrs. Barrett Browning? 27614 ).--Does KARLEOLENSIS know whether John Waugh, son of Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle, was married, and to whom? 27614 ***** DO YOU BRUISE YOUR OATS YET? 27614 At a time when the question ofWhat is to be done with our vagrant children?" |
27614 | Do you remember whether either of them be printed by Grafton, the King''s Printer? |
27614 | For what services, or under what circumstances, the barony was created? |
27614 | Have they ever been included in any collective edition of his works? |
27614 | He is author of the distich on courtezans:''Quid facies, facies Veneris cum veneris ante? |
27614 | If so, is he known and addressed as_ Lord_ Fairfax, or how? |
27614 | If so, who were the_ first settlers_ in England; and also in what county are they most numerous? |
27614 | Is any other instance known of the use of this motto? |
27614 | Is it not probable that_ Avernus_, if not corrupted from[ Greek: aornos], is related to_ iffrin_, the Irish_ inferi_? |
27614 | Is the present peer a citizen or subject of the United States? |
27614 | Is there no portrait or engraving of Braddock in existence? |
27614 | May I make a small enquiry, after the mention of so great a name as Guttenberg? |
27614 | May this operation be performed by the glass rod, without floating at all? |
27614 | Of course one does not attach any weight to De Foe''s saying that he knew Dr. Beaumont"personally,"but does anybody know anything of him? |
27614 | S. E. G._ Pickard Family._--Is the_ Pickard_, or_ Picard_, family, a branch of which is located in Yorkshire, of Norman origin? |
27614 | The question is, now, does the day on which a man attains his majority commence at six o''clock A.M., or at midnight? |
27614 | The question still remains, when and on what occasion it was discontinued; and when the purple, and when the crimson, were introduced? |
27614 | Were the_ Galli_, priests of Cybele, so called as being connected with fire- worship? |
27614 | What is the derivation of this? |
27614 | When did the family cease to possess land or other property in Scotland, if they ever held any? |
27614 | Where are the_ éclaircissements_? |
27614 | Where can I find any details of the remainder of his history? |
27614 | _ Farrant''s Anthem._--From what source did Farrant take the words of his well- known anthem,"Lord, for thy tender mercies''sake?" |
27614 | _ General Braddock._--Can any of your readers furnish me with information relative to this officer? |
27614 | _ Motto on old Damask._--Can your correspondents furnish an explanation of the motto herewith sent? |
27614 | _ Saltcellar._--Can any of your readers gainsay that in saltcellar the cellar is a mere corruption of_ salière_? |
27614 | _ We have a letter for this Correspondent; where shall it be sent?_ EIRIONNACH. |
27614 | and is the name at all connected with the Celtic_ gal_, a flame? |
27614 | say what precise animal is meant by it, or give any derivation or reference for the term? |
27614 | to conceal himself in the"Royal Oak,"after the battle of Worcester), and specify the exact terms of the grant? |
27614 | to furnish information respecting grammars, classics, and other works which have been written for the various public schools? |
27614 | { 10} Who is its author, and in what poem does it occur? |
32506 | ''s, while at Oxford it is confined to the doctorate? |
32506 | ).--UNEDA inquires the origin of this erroneous mode of expression? |
32506 | Does this praise of the English school of painting show a correct appreciation of its claims to distinction? |
32506 | I understand the question to be, does any English family bear simply three fleurs- de- lys, in chief, fess- ways-- without any additional charge? |
32506 | If not preferable in all cases, in what cases they are preferable? |
32506 | If yes, why they are not universally adopted, and whether they are more expensive then the common sort? |
32506 | Is it an old name, or was it first given some three or four generations back to a foundling, picked up near the town of Atherston? |
32506 | Page Where are the Wills to be deposited? |
32506 | Query, Was he a cadet of the ancient family of De Rous; and if so, what was his descent? |
32506 | What I wish to ask is, Where was this half fee of S. Sanxon? |
32506 | What is the origin of the custom? |
32506 | What will H. C. K. say to this subject? |
32506 | Whether it had any connexion with Sanson sur Rille? |
32506 | Whether, in all cases, artesian wells are preferable? |
32506 | Why should not our great London papers more frequently gratify their readers with articles from the pens of their Continental brotherhood? |
32506 | Will this help to show its proper meaning? |
32506 | [ Greek: Pollai men thnêtois Glôttai, mia d''Athanatoisin]*****{ 215} WHERE ARE THE WILLS TO BE DEPOSITED? |
32506 | _ Amontillado Sherry._--What is the real meaning of this epithet? |
32506 | _ Atherstone Family._--Can any of your readers oblige me with information concerning the Atherstone family? |
32506 | _ Norman Towers in London._--Can you inform me it there is any other church in the city of London with a Norman tower, besides Allhallows, Mark Lane? |
32506 | _ Papyrus._--Where, or of whom, can a specimen of Papyrus be obtained? |
32506 | _ Pronunciation of Foreign Names._--How shall we pronounce Sinope, Citate, and many other words which are now becoming familiar to our eyes? |
32506 | _ Utri credemus?_ S. Z. |
32506 | and does it extend to other counties? |
32506 | of those who have reached a very advanced age, were people of humble origin, may we not now refer to those of noble birth? |
27009 | _--Of what date is the earliest printed copy of these Chronicles? 27009 ).--The following lines are to be seen on a tombstone in Virginia:My name, my country, what are they to thee? |
27009 | 1640. Who is the author of this interesting little work? |
27009 | ; how many has Southampton? |
27009 | And to this the great philosopher adds:"Hence the adage(? |
27009 | But would this work advance the cause of forgery, and tend to invest it with the quality of truth? |
27009 | Can a shore wash? |
27009 | Can any of your readers learned in ancient lore explain the custom and the meaning of the couplet, well as its origin? |
27009 | Did it publish any annual_ reports_, or issue any book or tract, besides an edition of the New Testament in 1815? |
27009 | Does it now at all prevail in that county? |
27009 | Does it, as Lieber says, originally belong to the election of bishops by the people? |
27009 | F. M._ Ash- trees attract Lightning._--Is it true that ash- trees are more attractive to lightning than any others? |
27009 | How far back, then, can the dictum in these very words be traced? |
27009 | How long did it continue? |
27009 | How long is it since the ladies of our civic dignitaries relinquished the distinction here given to one of their order? |
27009 | Is any biographical notice extant of the"David Laurie"mentioned by Watt? |
27009 | Is anything known of such a treatise on"circulable wealth,"& c., as that which I have named? |
27009 | Is the tradition that a king-- supposed to be either the first or second Charles-- ever slept there true? |
27009 | Is this edition rare? |
27009 | LAURIE(?) |
27009 | May I substitute for"Lepel''s"regiment,"Pepper''s"regiment? |
27009 | Of whom does he speak? |
27009 | Or was it of Crusade origin? |
27009 | Perhaps I far surpassed all other men: Perhaps I fell behind them all-- what then? |
27009 | The bishop is prescribing Expectation as a remedy for Crosses, and says,"Is it not credible what a fore- resolved mind can do-- can suffer? |
27009 | The city of Lyons has a magnificent public library of 100,000 vols., open to all; how many has her rival Manchester? |
27009 | Was it ever in such peril? |
27009 | What I wish to inquire is, firstly, who was Charles Chadwick, Esq.? |
27009 | What is this symbolical of? |
27009 | What other, if any district in the north or south, will show like or greater longevity? |
27009 | What was the cup- case? |
27009 | What whether high, or low, my pedigree? |
27009 | Where can I meet with a full description of it? |
27009 | Where can the fullest account of it be found? |
27009 | Where is this line to be found, as applied to the spirits of the storm? |
27009 | While on this subject allow me to ask, Can a dolphin waft? |
27009 | Why was it dissolved? |
27009 | Will some of your readers give information respecting the above words in Italic? |
27009 | Will some of your readers kindly tell me in what edition of the Prayer Book the"Prayers at the Healing"are last met with? |
27009 | Would such a composition afford any proof of the disputed point-- the authenticity of the_ Zend_? |
27009 | Would this be the"lady, a prudent woman,"who"had the princess Elizabeth committed to her government"( vide Fuller''s_ Worthies_, Rutlandshire)? |
27009 | _ Burton''s Death._--Did Burton, author of_ Anatomy of Melancholy_, commit suicide? |
27009 | _ Hampden''s Death._--Was the great patriot Hampden actually slain by the enemy on Chalgrove Field? |
27009 | and the reason, because the surface of the ground around is drier than round other trees? |
27009 | and, if so, was it preserved? |
27009 | inform me if attributable to the extraordinary wetness of the season? |
27009 | or was his death, as some have asserted,{ 496} caused by the bursting of his own pistol, owing to its having been incautiously overcharged? |
38386 | ''s illegitimate son, the Duke of Berwick? |
38386 | A friend suggests, could the game have come from the Crusades? |
38386 | Avec cette hypothèse, la devise signifierait:''La fortune a rendu une personne très- malheureuse?'' |
38386 | B. asks at the end of his Note,"Why a_ coruscation of joy_, upon a wedding day, should forebode evil?" |
38386 | Can any of your antiquarian readers give me the origin of this name? |
38386 | Can any of your correspondents direct me to it? |
38386 | Could any of your readers, acquainted with Sir Kenelm Digby''s works, give his explanation of this stanza? |
38386 | For how should Man think that he may not do If Nature did not fail and punish too? |
38386 | If not, the coincidence is remarkable: has it been noticed before? |
38386 | If there be more such books than one,_ which_ of them is the best and most accessible? |
38386 | In what respect is the"cunning"of the"livery of hell"shown, if"the damnedst body"be not invested in"guards"of the most opposite character? |
38386 | Is it the mark or majesty of power To make offences that it may forgive? |
38386 | Is there any truth in the idea? |
38386 | John Paget, of Amsterdam._--Of what family was John Paget, pastor of the Reformed English church at Amsterdam for thirty years? |
38386 | Shall I be there by midnight? |
38386 | Singer''s_ suggestion of accentuating the first syllable, which must then be short, and the word pronounced_ pressis_? |
38386 | Tell me, my soul, can this be death? |
38386 | What shall I think when cruel death appears, That may extenuate my fears? |
38386 | _ Visiting Cards._--When did these social conveniencies first come into use? |
38386 | and if so, can any of your correspondents give me any information as to his descent,& c.? |
38386 | and"Whether any other instances are on record of its so doing?" |
38386 | from Flatman? |
38386 | where is thy sting?" |
38386 | where is thy victory? |
27008 | Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.--Whence? |
27008 | Why dost thou laugh? 27008 _--Are there any historical reasons for deriving the word_ chemistry_ from_ Chemi_, the name of Egypt, as is done by Bunsen and others? |
27008 | A. D._ Captain Jan Dimmeson._--Can any one give me some information about him? |
27008 | And was not there a great number of people that would not swear, and suffered great persecution, as read the_ Book of Martyrs_ but to Bonner''s days? |
27008 | Another portrait(?) |
27008 | Are such books as Beckett, Jackson and others, to be examined? |
27008 | Are the various readings suggested in periodicals to be given? |
27008 | Are they all_ oaks_? |
27008 | But how does this accord with the following place in Beaumont and Fletcher? |
27008 | Can any one point out the source? |
27008 | Can any positive and practical rules be furnished, likely to render such an undertaking useful and successful? |
27008 | Can this be explained? |
27008 | Did the father of Sir John Vanbrugh carry on that business at Chester during any period of his residence there? |
27008 | F. M._ Greek and Roman Fortification._--Where can I obtain an account of Greek and Roman fortification? |
27008 | Has he any historical evidence for Luther''s breaking a single image? |
27008 | He says:"Did not the Pope, when he had got up over the churches, give forth both oath and curse, with bell,{ 472} book, and candle? |
27008 | How is it possible to carry out his wish farther with any advantage? |
27008 | If not, are_ any_ conjectural emendations of the last and present centuries to be given? |
27008 | If so, then what is the state of the act or statute which bears upon that particular privilege? |
27008 | Is there a botanical affinity between these trees? |
27008 | Is this common? |
27008 | L._ What Day is it at our Antipodes?_( Vol. |
27008 | Moreover, how is the above translation reconciled with the very superlative[ Greek: oligoston]? |
27008 | This armilla(?) |
27008 | Was the_ tree of life_, as described in the Bible, an_ oak_? |
27008 | What copies are to be taken for texts, and how many copies of each are to be collated? |
27008 | What could have led your correspondent J. G. FITCH to use so peculiarly inappropriate a synonym for Martin Luther as"the great Iconoclast?" |
27008 | What inference should be drawn from this coincidence for or against the reality of the"spiritual dictation?" |
27008 | What is known concerning him? |
27008 | What mare''s nest hast thou found?" |
27008 | When did the change take place, and who thought of giving all the power to a woman? |
27008 | When was the word_ came_ introduced into our language? |
27008 | Where is the line to be drawn? |
27008 | Which is the more satisfactory etymology, and upon what authority does it rest? |
27008 | Who was Mr. Robert Denison of Nottingham, who took a very active part in politics at the commencement of the French Revolution? |
27008 | Why? |
27008 | _ Birthplace of King Edward V._--Can you give me any information as to the exact birthplace of this monarch? |
27008 | _ Bishop Kennett''s MS. Diary._--Where is Bishop Kennett''s MS. Diary, from which his often- cited description of Dean Swift is taken, to be found? |
27008 | _ Burning for Witchcraft._--When and where was the last person burned to death for witchcraft in England? |
27008 | _ Father Matthew''s Chickens._--Can any of your correspondents explain why grouse in Scotland are sometimes called"Father Matthew''s chickens?" |
27008 | _ Rousseau and Boileau._--Are there any full and complete English translations of Rousseau''s_ Confessions_ and Boileau''s_ Satires_? |
27008 | _ Stereoscopic Articles._--I can not agree to my opponent''s assumed amendment(?) |
27008 | _ The Small City Companies._--Where does the fullest information appear respecting their early condition,& c.? |
27008 | and can it be accounted for? |
27008 | and where is such collection at the present time to met with? |
27008 | be seen or met with? |
27008 | before the Lord of Oxford married her? |
27008 | inform me how the Denisons of Denbies, near Dorking, in Surrey, and the Denisons of Ossington, in Nottinghamshire, were related? |
41999 | ''s daughter with the Count of Holland? |
41999 | ***** DO YOU BRUISE YOUR OATS YET? |
41999 | 16. reads thus:"What consent to the temple of God with_ mawmetis_?" |
41999 | And if the former, state where the original MS. is preserved; and if_ printed_, the particulars of the edition? |
41999 | And, if so, what were the Christian names of the children( Fleetwood)? |
41999 | But query whether, in any instance, in a horizontal line? |
41999 | C. H. D."_ All Holyday at Peckham._"--Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the origin of the phrase"All holyday at Peckham? |
41999 | Can any of your correspondents trace the words in the writings of Scaliger? |
41999 | Can any of your readers favour me by stating the nature of the above office? |
41999 | Can any one give the origin of this term, and say when first it was introduced? |
41999 | Existe- t- il une preuve plus forte de l''amour de l''homme pour le merveilleux, que l''accueil fait de nos jours aux tables tournantes? |
41999 | III.? |
41999 | If not, how can one obtain access to the questions which have been asked during the last forty or fifty years? |
41999 | Is there authority for this statement as regards suffragan bishops? |
41999 | May I ask if Mr. Hunt_ ever_ attempts anything practically, or is it to the_ theory of photography_ alone that he directs his attention? |
41999 | Was he Warden of the Fleet? |
41999 | Was he dispossessed? |
41999 | What is this? |
41999 | What were his connexions by birth and by marriage? |
41999 | Would your correspondents call it the_''Ebrew_ language, because a Gael calls it, as he must do,_ Eabrach_? |
41999 | _ General Stokes._--Can any of your readers give me any information respecting the parentage of General Stokes? |
41999 | _ Skin- flint._--Is the word_ skin- flint_, a miserly or niggardly person, of English or foreign derivation? |
41999 | _ Tilly, an Officer of the Courts at Westminster._--What office did one Tilly hold in one of the Courts at Westminster, circa 8 William III.? |
41999 | and if so, why? |
41999 | and if there be a biographical account of the author to be met with? |
41999 | and where is the earliest instance of the term to be met with? |
41999 | degree? |
41999 | give a more particular account of this custom? |
41999 | inform me if there be such a work? |
41999 | tell me who possesses this? |
26898 | _--Can any of your correspondents favour me with a reference to the above motto? 26898 (?) 26898 ); can any one inform me who was that lady''s father, and if there is any pedigree known of the family? 26898 ***** WHAT WAS THE COUNTRY OF THE ANGLES? 26898 ------Quid si breves fiant longi? |
26898 | Are there any other instances in which the dog is mentioned as assisting the Bellman in his nocturnal guardianship? |
26898 | As to the"Lincoln- heath where should''un?" |
26898 | But still the question remains-- Has it any, and what signification? |
26898 | Can any of your correspondents help me to it? |
26898 | Can any of your correspondents state whether anything has been done lately with the Herculaneum MSS.? |
26898 | Can any of your correspondents tell me where the original manuscript is to be found, and whether it was ever printed? |
26898 | Can any of your readers explain the initials, M., C. B., and N., and give us the authors of the_ remaining_ numbers? |
26898 | Can any of your readers inform me the meaning of"_ Christ- Crosse A_"here mentioned? |
26898 | Can any of your readers tell me if they be so? |
26898 | Can any, and if so what, authority be shown for this statement? |
26898 | Can this have suggested to Lord Byron the idea of describing"Alp the renegade"as fighting with"the white arm bare,"in the_ Siege of Corinth_? |
26898 | Can you inform me where I can find more about the Bellman, his bell and his dog; and, especially, his songs? |
26898 | Ditto-- of"Spick and span new?" |
26898 | Does it allude to some alphabet then in use? |
26898 | Does not this sound as if the history has been read out to an assembly? |
26898 | Eliz., who married a daughter of Sir William Devereux? |
26898 | From what is the word derived? |
26898 | I asked her what in the world she intended to do with them? |
26898 | I have heard one solution of it, but wish to ascertain whether there is any other? |
26898 | I shall feel obliged if any of your readers will inform me whether the late laureate was the author of them or not? |
26898 | If not what became of the manuscript? |
26898 | Is this usually done now? |
26898 | Is"Bellman"a name given to dogs in modern times? |
26898 | London, 1777? |
26898 | Of the DATE when Schmidt published his_ Antiquitates Neomagensis_, and WHERE: also in what libraries it is to be found? |
26898 | Query the use and nature of Baldrock? |
26898 | Quid si carmen claudo pede? |
26898 | Quid si graves sint acuti? |
26898 | Quid si noctem sensi diem? |
26898 | Quid si placidè, plenè, planè, FREGI FRONTEM PRISCIANI? |
26898 | Quid si sedem muto sede? |
26898 | Quid si veprem esse viam? |
26898 | Si accentus fiant muti? |
26898 | Si vocales sint dipthongi? |
26898 | Was it ever published? |
26898 | Was the dog the usual aide- de- camp of the Bellman? |
26898 | Were hopyards often attached to monasteries? |
26898 | What are the circumstances here alluded to? |
26898 | What country was inhabited by the Angles before they occupied Britain? |
26898 | What is the name derived from? |
26898 | What is the origin of the phrase"Apple- pie order?" |
26898 | Where can I find"The Bellman''s Songs?" |
26898 | Which is the true reading in the following lines by Fitzpatrick on Fox? |
26898 | Who was the first to suggest the transfusion of blood? |
26898 | Why has this production so completely disappeared? |
26898 | _ Mind your P''s and Q''s._--What is the origin of this phrase? |
26898 | _ Villenage._--Can any of your readers inform me at what period villenage became extinct in this kingdom? |
26898 | and if not, why is it omitted to be done? |
26898 | and what book is meant by a Thanksgiving- book? |
26898 | iii., p. 125., would ask an old inhabitant of his parish which is the_ backside_ of their church, and why it is so called? |
42795 | _ Can MR. BEDE produce anything to match the following sample of the_ crater_, to be found in our most polished English poet? 42795 _ Pylades and Corinna._"--Can anybody tell who was the author? |
42795 | (_ Athenæ._) Who was the Lady Baker''s first husband? |
42795 | --Quoi? |
42795 | 23, 24.? |
42795 | A doctor begins by inquiring,"''Is his Honor sic? |
42795 | Are any of your readers acquainted with a similar subject? |
42795 | Can any of your readers furnish me with the means of authenticating this supposition? |
42795 | Can any of your readers tell me where I shall find these books? |
42795 | Cheese is now eaten with apple puddings and pies; but is there any nook in England where they still grate it over plum pudding? |
42795 | Could it be De Foe? |
42795 | Have not some of them been exhibited in Pall Mall? |
42795 | How shall the photographer decide between them? |
42795 | Is there any tradition to this effect? |
42795 | May I recommend to H. HENDERSON the use of gutta percha, instead of glass, for that purpose? |
42795 | No date, circa annum 1770? |
42795 | Que dirait de ceci notre bon La Fontaine? |
42795 | Was Jeremy Taylor in any way connected with Lord Hatton by marriage? |
42795 | Was she a Roman Catholic previous to her second marriage? |
42795 | Where in Swift''s works is the"Latin- English effusion of the Dean''s"to be met with? |
42795 | Where shall I find the particulars of this grant recorded? |
42795 | Who is right? |
42795 | Who was George Gifford? |
42795 | [ 2] or is it composed for him by the writer of the article? |
42795 | _ Answer to"What is Prudery? |
42795 | _"Her face was like the milky way,"& c._--Where is the subjoined quotation taken from, and what is the context? |
42795 | said Mr. Walscott,''does he carry his Irish accent into his writings, and yet think to conceal himself?'' |
28214 | What has become,Weckerlin feelingly exclaims,"of my_ Myrta_, that dear poem, composed of so many sonnets and stanzas?" |
28214 | _ Go to Bath._--What is the origin of this saying? |
28214 | _ Selah._--What is the meaning of the word_ Selah_, which occurs so often in the Psalms? |
28214 | ), that suggested Tony Lumpkin''s convivial ballad in praise of"The Three Jolly Pigeons?" |
28214 | A former correspondent, J. G. F., doubted whether they were not composed by Andrew Marvell? |
28214 | And when was this slavery abolished in England? |
28214 | Are there any collections of similes drawn from plants and flowers? |
28214 | But whence comes the fresh air for the occupants? |
28214 | But would you know when this_ at length_ is to take place? |
28214 | Can any of your readers tell me where this_ Livre des Acconts pour Chevalier Jean Francklyn en son_[ sic]_ Maison au Wilsden_ now is? |
28214 | Can this{ 423} be satisfactorily ascertained? |
28214 | From what shall we derive the names of Longman, Greathead, Littlejohn, and Tallboy? |
28214 | Had it been his own composition, would he not have claimed the authorship, and incorporated the hymn amongst his sacred songs? |
28214 | Have we any instance on record of the execution of a malefactor in front of the Royal Exchange? |
28214 | If not, will they ever be? |
28214 | In what edition of the_ Evidences_ does S. M. find either the chapter he speaks of, or this hymn? |
28214 | Is the derivation of each the same, and, if it be, what is the affinity? |
28214 | Is there any corroboration of this? |
28214 | It is desired to know if Mary married, and if so, to whom? |
28214 | It may have originated with some dealer in_ lignites_; but plain dealers would like to be informed what_ lignites_ are? |
28214 | May not the derivation of the name be from_ long fallow_, of the same family as Fallows, Fellowes, Fallowfield, and Langmead, which are not uncommon? |
28214 | P. S.--Query, What is the meaning, in the foregoing, of the expression"at the next execution- day"? |
28214 | Quoted at the end of the Preface to Liddell and Scott''s_ Lexicon_? |
28214 | Should it be read or not? |
28214 | Todd''s_ Johnson_ gives authorities, but may they not be errors of the press? |
28214 | Unde? |
28214 | Were these ever published? |
28214 | What are giggs and scourgesticks? |
28214 | What are jumballs? |
28214 | What does this mean? |
28214 | What does this refer to? |
28214 | Which is right, and how can we account for the contradiction? |
28214 | Who and what was Mr. Atkynson? |
28214 | Who and what was Sir Charles Morrison? |
28214 | Who introduced them? |
28214 | Who was Lord Rosehill? |
28214 | Who were they? |
28214 | Why should W. P. STORER suppose that the name of Longfellow originated otherwise than in the lengthy proportions of an ancestor? |
28214 | Will the Emperor of Russia be deprived of his ill- deserved honours, or what is the course now pursued? |
28214 | _ Armorial._--Can the younger son of a peer use the supporters to his family arms? |
28214 | _ Cabbages._--When were cabbages first cultivated in England? |
28214 | _ The Long Parliament._--Where is a list of it, including its various changes, to be seen? |
28214 | _ Varnish for old Books._--Can any of your readers oblige me with a good receipt for varnishing the bindings of old books? |
28214 | and, if not, did the hangman come from Newgate, after"doing duty"there, and burn the book at the Exchange? |
42780 | How? |
42780 | _--Can any of your correspondents give me any information as to the date, authorship, or value of a MS. that has lately fallen into my hands? 42780 --Crois- tu nous fléchir par tes larmes? 42780 19.? 42780 But can MR. BREEN, or any other of your correspondents, speak to this still more curious Query, whether or no she had African blood in her veins? 42780 Can any of your correspondents explain the origin and meaning of this feast? 42780 Can any of your readers inform me in whose possession this work now is? 42780 Can any one tell me what has become of these MSS., and where they are now to be found if they still exist? 42780 Can you inform me how the Scrimgeours were deprived of this honour? 42780 Evans._--Who was Dr. Evans, author of the_ Sketch of Christian Denominations_? 42780 If so, in what newspaper or periodical? 42780 James Bransby? 42780 Of whom was this said, and by whom? 42780 Query the meaning of the initials after the name? 42780 Query, What was a_ gag- tooth_? 42780 This was written A.D. 1657: what is the case referred to? 42780 Was a list of these clergymen ever published? 42780 What is May- butter, or the origin of the saying? 42780 What is the explanation of these names? 42780 What is the tradition of Seth''s Pillars? 42780 What is to be done? 42780 What kind of drink is_ whit_? 42780 What other nations besides the English have ever docked their horses''tails; and where is any account to be found of their reasons for so doing? 42780 What were the exact words of the declaration? 42780 When and how did it take place? 42780 Who shall depict the scene while these words were being uttered? 42780 Would it be found to have reference to some passage in the book referred to in the note? 42780 Would you know the reason why? 42780 and to_ us_? |
42780 | chuckled the old Crocodile;"dost thee scent the fox?" |
42780 | inform me whence the following verse is taken? |
42780 | or is the tune to which it was sung known? |
42780 | to his own death, can be obtained; also, of his ministers of state, personal attendants,& c.? |
42780 | { 621} Is this the work published at New York in 1840? |
23205 | If I should swear by Jove I loved you dearly, would you believe my oath when I loved you ill? 23205 ).--Has any one of these three copies a separate leaf, entitledAd Bibliopegos?" |
23205 | ).--Is it ever found now on_ other_ trees? |
23205 | ).--May not"Rab Surdam"be the ignorant stone- cutter''s version of"resurgam?" |
23205 | ).--Will JONATHAN OLDBUCK, JUN., oblige me by describing the family coat- armour borne by the Cottons mentioned in his Note? |
23205 | 1. Who was the Edmund Prideaux, his countryman, that regularly established the Post- office? |
23205 | April, 1510? |
23205 | Are any other examples known? |
23205 | Are my dates correct? |
23205 | But why are they not older? |
23205 | But why were they called_ Cracowe_ pikes? |
23205 | Can any of your correspondents put me in the way of procuring the good honest letter- paper which I want? |
23205 | Can any one explain the meaning of it? |
23205 | Can our correspondent N. D. throw any further light upon this certainly curious and interesting case? |
23205 | Could this be the Richard alluded to? |
23205 | G. P. P._ William Tell Legend._--Could any of your readers tell me the true origin of the William Tell apple story? |
23205 | Had the expression in Italics been used before by any one? |
23205 | Has any life of Edmund Prideaux as Attorney- General been published, or is any account of him to be found in any work? |
23205 | Have later observations shown that it was Browne himself who was in error? |
23205 | How were letters circulated before his time? |
23205 | I wish to ascertain if this assumption be correct; and, if correct, when and how the families of Morse and Ireton became connected? |
23205 | If so, might they not fairly be applied to for a contribution to the proposed restoration of his tomb? |
23205 | In Simler''s Gesnerian_ Bibliotheca_ SIMON HESS( let me reiterate the question, Who was he?) |
23205 | In the 56th Letter, addressed to the Duke of Grafton, Junius asks:"Is the union of_ Blifil_ and_ Black George_ no longer a romance?" |
23205 | In what edition of the Salisbury Missal did the amusing errors in the"Ordo Sponsalium"first occur; and how long were they continued? |
23205 | Is the Cross- bill considered in any country as a sacred bird? |
23205 | Is there any document which has a stronger conjectural claim? |
23205 | Is there any valid reason for not dating the publication of some of Gerson''s treatises at Cologne earlier than the year 1470? |
23205 | Is this a subject from the legend of some saint, or from one of the popular romances of the middle ages? |
23205 | J. M. Traherne? |
23205 | Mogunt._, 1607, 4to., p. 74. b. deprived of its force and stringency? |
23205 | Must I confess? |
23205 | Now the connexion is certain: could one of your readers supply me with the wanting links? |
23205 | Patriarcharum_ be found? |
23205 | R. W. C._ Sir George Buc''s Treatise on the Stage._--What has become of this MS.? |
23205 | Shall we view_ nick_ as allied to the E._ v._ signifying''to touch luckily''?" |
23205 | The following version differs from that given by them:--"Nievie, nievie, nick, neck, Whilk han will thou tak? |
23205 | The present Lord Effingham has recently declared that by blood he was( had always been?) |
23205 | The verb_ to strain_ is susceptible of two essentially different interpretations; and the question is as to which of the two is here intended? |
23205 | This was he who shot at a pennie on his son''s head, and made ready another arrow to have slain the Duke Remgrave(? |
23205 | Thomas of Trunnions._--Who was this saint, and why is he frequently mentioned in connexion with onions? |
23205 | W. H. P._ Tomb of Chaucer._--Are any of the existing English families descended from the poet Chaucer? |
23205 | Was Edmund Prideaux the Attorney- General, the inventor of the Post- office, as he states; if not, who was? |
23205 | What Anglo- Saxon scholar has not studied"_ Divers Ancient Monuments_,"revived in 1638? |
23205 | What is the earliest record on evidence of the Cross- bill being known in England? |
23205 | What is the meaning of the word"strained?" |
23205 | What part of that story is here referred to? |
23205 | What''s in the name, that I could choose it? |
23205 | When was this system of misnomers introduced? |
23205 | Wherein do the ordinary_ Hymni et Sequentiæ_ differ from those according to the use of Sarum? |
23205 | Who was the father of the above Commodore? |
23205 | Whose is the oldest_ Expositio_ commonly attached to both? |
23205 | Will this do? |
23205 | _ Auriga._--How comes the Latin word AURIGA to mean"a charioteer?" |
23205 | _ Bert._ How have I sworn? |
23205 | _ Did St. Paul''s Clock strike Thirteen?_( Vol. |
23205 | and Scioppius''s parting recommendation--"Quid jam reliquum est tibi, nisi ut nomen commutes et ex Scalifero fias Furcifer?" |
23205 | and respecting it did Badius, in 1502, accomplish much beyond a revision and an amendment of the style? |
23205 | and was it ever so used in architectural decoration, illumination, or any other works of sacred art? |
23205 | happen to connect Menradus Moltherus with the_ editio princeps_ of 1483? |
23205 | what can I, the man with a_ borrowed name_ and borrowed learning, say in reply to the first Query of the busy anchorite? |
31398 | Baptized, and so made sure To win their blest abode; What could we pray for more? 31398 _ What is Truth?_"--Bacon begins his"Essay of Truth"( which is dated 1625) with these words:"What is truth? |
31398 | _--Is there not a literal Latin_ prose_ translation of Dante, somewhat rhythmical? 31398 ).--What is death but a sleep? 31398 And in what form, MS. or printed? 31398 And such is our seeking mostwhat, seldom or never seriously, but some question that comes cross our brain for the present, some_ quid est veritas_? 31398 And who is this bitterest enemy of the orthodox Russia? 31398 Can any of your correspondents say in what work the following analogous passage occurs, and who is the author of it? 31398 Can any of your readers give references to such passages in Monkish sermons? 31398 Ethel,after Mr. Clive''s famous mustachios made their appearance, rallied him,"and"asked him if he was( were?) |
31398 | From whence are these lines taken? |
31398 | Has not Stillingfleet cited it in the_ Origines_? |
31398 | If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life?''" |
31398 | If so, where is its_ corpus_? |
31398 | If_ light_ can thus deceive, wherefore not_ life_?" |
31398 | In his Journal, October 16[ 1838? |
31398 | In reply to J. M. I beg to ask who ever before heard that consonants"cracked and cracked, and ground and exploded?" |
31398 | Is anything known concerning it? |
31398 | Is it not, therefore, high time for Prussia to arouse herself from her lethargy, in order to undertake the support contracted for by treaty? |
31398 | Now my Query is, what did Dr. Johnson do, hold on or let go? |
31398 | Or who could find, Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood reveal''d, That to such endless orbs thou mad''st us blind? |
31398 | Query, who was this Mr. White, and what work did he publish? |
31398 | S. asks, is this eclipse mentioned by any other writer? |
31398 | The Query is as to the prose? |
31398 | Then the stanza runs thus:"Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee; Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, where are they? |
31398 | Was he descended from Crewkerne of Chilhay, Dorset? |
31398 | Was it presented by Dr. Radcliffe, or does it date its origin from the happy reign of Queen Mary? |
31398 | Was the younger Ralph''s wife, Mary, daughter of Alveray Copley of Batley? |
31398 | What truth is there in this story? |
31398 | When was this custom instituted, and to what circumstance are we to attribute its origin? |
31398 | Where and when did it appear? |
31398 | Who could have thought what darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun? |
31398 | Who presented to the chapel of this College the splendid eagle, as a lectern, which forms one of its chief ornaments? |
31398 | Why do we then shun death, with anxious strife? |
31398 | Why to shun death this anxious strife? |
31398 | Will the Editor of"N.& Q.,"or any of his correspondents, kindly inform me of the true circumstances from which the following legend has sprung? |
31398 | _ Custom at University College, Oxford._--What is the origin of the following custom observed at this college? |
31398 | _ Has not our Correspondent received a note we inclosed to him respecting_ The Circle of the Seasons? |
31398 | _ Heralds''College._--Are the books in the Heralds''College open to the public on payment of reasonable fees? |
31398 | and how could the writer in Chambers''s_ Repository_ possibly know that the drunken Welshman cursed and swore in_ consonants_? |
31398 | going into the army? |
31398 | i.? |
31398 | supply traditional proof of clergymen appearing thus apparelled in ordinary life? |
15641 | How canst thou be useful to the sight? 15641 ''Woo''t weep? 15641 ),--Quis prohibet Salve atque Vale brevitate parata Scribere? |
15641 | ).--May I be permitted to correct an error in a communication from one of your correspondents? |
15641 | 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? |
15641 | After all, the question occurs: What has become of the bodies said to have been preserved? |
15641 | And lastly, whether any of your correspondents have seen the thing in print before? |
15641 | And they sayde: Is nott this Jesus the sonne of Joseph, whose father, and mother we knowe? |
15641 | And what was the origin of its peculiar form? |
15641 | And whether, when fairly stated, it is any thing more than the enunciation of a deep moral principle? |
15641 | Another work which I can not refrain from noticing, called by one of the reviewers"A valuable contribution to our stock of ballad literature"? |
15641 | Ay, exactly so; drink up what? |
15641 | Can any of your correspondents give an account of this work? |
15641 | Can any of your correspondents inform me of any similar instance of longevity being recorded in monkish chronicles? |
15641 | Can any of your readers give me any information as to this lady? |
15641 | Can any_ internal_ evidence be gathered from the writings of Henry Chettle, as to his family, origin, and birthplace? |
15641 | Does anything of the kind still linger in the East? |
15641 | Good reason and good skyll,_ They may garlyck pyll_, Cary sackes to the myll, Or pescoddes they may shyll, Or elles go rost a stone?" |
15641 | He wishes to know whether there is"a right and a wrong in the matter, apart from anything which men call taste?" |
15641 | History throws{ 52} little light upon their origin[ the ballads, I suppose? |
15641 | How sayeth be then, I am come downe from heaue[5]? |
15641 | How ys yt then thatt he sayeth, I came doune from heven? |
15641 | Humble- dum,& c. I have e''ne great minde of thee, Tweedle,& c."Who shall this marriage make? |
15641 | Humble- dum,& c. Our Lord, which is the Rat, Tweedle,& c."What shall we have to our supper? |
15641 | If so, did she die in the lifetime of her husband? |
15641 | If so, did she leave issue? |
15641 | If we read"drink up wormwood,"what does it imply? |
15641 | My Query to the above is this: Why is the church of Daresbury called the White Chapel of England, and how did the name originate? |
15641 | On what authority is this latter statement made, and if it was traditional when Chauncy wrote, was the foundation of the tradition good? |
15641 | Query, When did pews come into general use? |
15641 | Query, Who was the author of them? |
15641 | Secondly, if_ peeled_ be taken as the equivalent to_ pilled_, why is peeled garlick a more perfect type of misery than any other peeled root or fruit? |
15641 | Secondly, is there any internal evidence of style that the ballad is by his hand? |
15641 | Shakspeare says--"Woul''t drink up esile? |
15641 | That being so, why are we to conclude that each feat of daring is to be a tame possibility, save only the last-- the crowning extravagance? |
15641 | Then drink no more, then let that die That would the drunkard kill, for why Shall all things live by rule but I, Thou man of morals, tell me why?" |
15641 | Thirdly, if_ pillage_ is an essential ingredient in the true meaning of the term"pilled garlick,"what has the stolen garlick to do with wretchedness? |
15641 | Thirdly, is there any clue as to who the fair and cruel Lucy may have been? |
15641 | Tweedle,& c."Then came out the dusty Mouse, Humble- dum,& c. I am Lady of this house, Tweedle,& c."Hast thou any minde of me? |
15641 | Tweedle,& c."When he came to the merry mill pin, Humble- dum,& c. Lady Mouse, beene you within? |
15641 | Was it ever completed: and if so, where to be procured? |
15641 | Was it sold on the death of the Bishop of Lichfield, or bequeathed to any public institution? |
15641 | Was the King lord of the fee? |
15641 | Was the pheasant ever considered a_ royal_ bird? |
15641 | Were William de Warburton and Ingelram de Monceaux relatives of the_ half_ blood of Juliana? |
15641 | What are the earliest notices of the usage of swearing by swans and pheasants? |
15641 | What is the taper not endued with light?" |
15641 | Why not a feat equally of mere verbiage and rant? |
15641 | Why not a river? |
15641 | Why not also the one preceding? |
15641 | Wie spricht er denn: Ich bin vom himmel gekommen? |
15641 | Will P. have the goodness to mention the source from which he obtained his statement? |
15641 | Will he kindly assist archæological inquirers, by informing us whereabouts it stood? |
15641 | Will no_ astronomer_ among your readers direct his attention to this subject? |
15641 | Will you be kind enough to allow your periodical to be the vehicle of this invitation? |
15641 | Williams was born, became a baronet, and died? |
15641 | Woo''t drink up eisell?'' |
15641 | Would it not be worth while to search the Heralds''Visitations for the county of Dorset, the Will- office, and the Inquisitions"post mortem?" |
15641 | _ Andrea Ferrara._--Will any kind friend inform me where any history is to be found of"Andrea Ferrara,"the sword cutler? |
15641 | _ Did Bunyan know Hobbes?_( Vol. |
15641 | _ Obeism._--Can any of your readers give me some information about_ obeism_? |
15641 | _ Probabilism._--Will any one inform me by whom the doctrine of Probabilism was first propounded as a system? |
15641 | _ The Episcopal Mitre._--When first was the episcopal mitre used? |
15641 | _ Was Colonel Hewson a Cobbler?_( Vol. |
15641 | _ Why come ye not to Courte?_ 103- 109. |
15641 | _ the Great_, an epithet which I had previously considered to be confined to Gregory I.? |
15641 | and then comes the climax--''eat a crocodile?'' |
15641 | doost thou command me to be shut out?" |
15641 | how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? |
15641 | i. p. 126.? |
15641 | must I lose_ that_ too? |
15641 | or did it find its way into the possession of the Duke of Sussex, who was curious in biblical matters, and was a correspondent of Dr. Butler? |
15641 | woo''t fast? |
15641 | woo''t fight? |
15641 | woo''t tear thyself? |
15641 | { 55} 42 Und sprachen; Ist dieser nicht Jesus, Joseph''s sohn, dess vater und mutter wir kennen? |
27605 | And to what work, either anonymous or otherwise, did Bona refer in his expression"Auctor Antiquitatum Liturgicarum?" |
27605 | And why does Sir A. Alison, in the volume of his_ History_ just published, speak of the children of Catherine of Arragon? |
27605 | Are these letters known, and have they ever been published or referred to? |
27605 | B. borne out by any good authority, either in manuscript or print? |
27605 | Bellamont the poet enters, and tells his servant,"Sirrah, I''ll speak with none:"on which the servant asks,"Not a player?" |
27605 | But perhaps the custom, of which Mr. O''Keefe speaks, was common to other ancient towns? |
27605 | DR. MANSELL recommends, as a test for the iodized paper, a_ strong_ solution of bichloride of mercury; may we ask_ how strong_? |
27605 | Did it not take place in Lincoln''s Inn Fields? |
27605 | Does Edelingk''s engraving state in whose possession it was then? |
27605 | Does this picture exist? |
27605 | Had such a notion any foundation in the law of England at any time? |
27605 | How can Bona''s error be corrected? |
27605 | How can this also be explained? |
27605 | How can this be verified? |
27605 | In which of his books does John Bale, Bishop of Ossory, speaking of the monks of Bangor, term them"Apostolicals?" |
27605 | Is H. P. prepared with evidence to prove it? |
27605 | Is anything known of this"privately printed"volume? |
27605 | Is it considered by competent judges of"exceeding merit?" |
27605 | Is there any certain way of telling the right side of Canson paper, negative and positive? |
27605 | Is this the right or the wrong side? |
27605 | Is_ awkward_, in this sense, the same word that treated by H. C. K.? |
27605 | Query, Are the drawings purporting to be by Captain John Eyre, drawings of the period at which they are dated?] |
27605 | Query, Is there historical proof of this statement of"honest Tom?" |
27605 | Query, Was this person''s name Inman from his residence, as usual at that period? |
27605 | Query, Which was the"Dominus"of the king''s letter? |
27605 | The Count de Grammont said one day to the Marshal, What arms shall we use this year?" |
27605 | Was he not expelled from the University of Oxford? |
27605 | Where can I find any account of a painter named St. Denis? |
27605 | Where else? |
27605 | Where is this picture? |
27605 | Where may I see the engraving? |
27605 | Whether perturbations which| are not moved by outward occasions| rise of humour or not: and| how? |
27605 | Who was Llewellyn Clifford? |
27605 | Who was Owen Gam? |
27605 | Will DR. MAITLAND be so good as to enlighten me on this point? |
27605 | Will some chemical reader kindly refer me to it? |
27605 | Would our correspondent permit us to submit his collection to the editor of Pepys, who would no doubt be gratified with a sight of it? |
27605 | _ Elstob, Elizabeth._--Can any of your numerous correspondents state where that celebrated Saxon linguist, Mrs. Elizabeth Elstob, was buried? |
27605 | _ Hunter of Polmood in Tweed- dale._--Where can the pedigree of the Hunters of Polmood, in Peebleshire, be seen? |
27605 | _ Our Correspondent_ MR. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY_ wishes to address a letter to_ A BORDERER;_ how will it reach him?_ FRANCIS BEAUFORT. |
27605 | _ Sunday._--When and where does Sunday begin or end? |
27605 | and especially the gloss on_ De Consecrat., Distinct._ 4. c. 4., where he says that even in his time( 1250?) |
27605 | and likewise inform us that Locke was expelled from Cambridge? |
27605 | and will he likewise say whether the iodizing solution which he recommends for Turner''s paper, is suitable also to Whatman''s? |
27605 | at the sale of the Duke of Sussex''s library._ CLERICUS RUSTICUS_ asks"Whence the term''Mare''s nest,''and when first used? |
27605 | in Quinque Libros Decretalium_) apply the term nullatenenses to titular and utopian bishops? |
27605 | or is there extant_ in operibus Athanasii_ a letter of his to some other person, containing the expressions to which Bona refers? |
27605 | the custom still prevailed in some places of giving the eucharist to babes? |
32495 | Baptized, and so made sure, To win their blest abode,-- What shall we pray for more? 32495 You wormes( my rivals), whiles she was alive, How many thousands were there that did strive To have your freedome? |
32495 | _--Can any of your readers inform me who is in possession of the papers of the late Mr. Clarkson, the historian of Richmond, in Yorkshire? 32495 A. S._ Irish Brigade._--Can any of your correspondents furnish any account of what were calledThe Capitulations of the Irish Brigades?" |
32495 | Also, is there any history of the brigades published? |
32495 | And when the River Spirit asks concerning the fair Margaret, who had mingled her tears with his stream:"What shall be the maiden''s fate? |
32495 | And who was the author of these odd memoirs of the Swedish Queen? |
32495 | Can Ireland claim this worthy? |
32495 | Can any information be afforded on that head? |
32495 | Can any of your correspondents inform me where these lines first appear? |
32495 | Can any of your readers enlighten me on the subject? |
32495 | Can any of your readers furnish a list of the different editions of_ Olaus Magnus_? |
32495 | Can you tell me when the self- striking clock was invented, and by whom? |
32495 | Does the expression refer to any established use of such chairs by the wearers of"red hats?" |
32495 | Each ladye sprung from seat with speed, Vaulted each marshal from his steed;''And who art thou,''they cried,''Who hast this battle fought and won?'' |
32495 | Foucault''s pendulum experiment been as yet clearly enunciated? |
32495 | H. C. K._ Etymology of Balsall._--Will you allow me to ask some of your readers to give me the etymology of_ Balsall_? |
32495 | Had Chaucer attended the opening of the Exhibition as"_ Our own Reporter_,"could his description have been more exact? |
32495 | He had two sons; what became of Thomas, the_ elder_? |
32495 | How far does the statement in this passage involve the idea of a_ bodily_ resurrection? |
32495 | Is there any English translation of Jornandes''_ Histoire Générale des Goths_? |
32495 | Is there any English translation of Olaus Magnus? |
32495 | Is there any precedent prior to the foundation of our National Debt? |
32495 | Is there any translation of_ Norwegian_ ballads? |
32495 | To whom should I apply on the subject? |
32495 | Was there ever an Egilbertus, or Engilbertus, Archbishop of Treves? |
32495 | What is the best method of reaching Iceland? |
32495 | What should I make longer tale? |
32495 | When was the name of_ Poet''s Corner_ first attached to the south transept of Westminster Abbey? |
32495 | Who shall be the maiden''s mate?" |
32495 | Who was he( if anybody), and what is his history? |
32495 | _ Mont- de- Piété._-Can any of your readers furnish information as to the connexion between these words and the thing which they are used to denote? |
32495 | and also who mentions their having been repeated immediately before her execution? |
32495 | and what_ really good_ books have been published on that country within the last twenty years? |
32495 | for theyr sakes forbeare, Unseemely holes in her soft skin to wear, But if you must( as what worme can abstaine?) |
32495 | on what authority they are ascribed to Mary Queen of Scots? |
32495 | or is it intended merely to convey a general idea of the sumptuousness and splendour of their style of living? |
13736 | _--Can you inform me of the author''s name who says,--They speak the tongue that Shakspeare spoke, The faith and morals hold that Milton held,"& c.? |
13736 | ''s question--"Is there any list extant of persons who were honoured with that badge?" |
13736 | ''s question--"Who are the persons_ now_ privileged to wear these collars?" |
13736 | ''s second Query,"Is it now extant, and where?" |
13736 | --Can any of your readers inform me where the following lines are to be found? |
13736 | A.C."_ Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest?_"--Whence comes the sentence--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?" |
13736 | A.C."_ Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest?_"--Whence comes the sentence--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest?" |
13736 | A.C._ Gradely._--What is the meaning, origin, and usage of this word? |
13736 | Are the divisions into palms or digits given; and, if so, are they accurate subdivisions? |
13736 | Are there, MR. HICKSON, no irregularities in the formation of a language? |
13736 | Are these all he wrote? |
13736 | Are they all singular nouns and imported from other languages? |
13736 | But why should this day be distinguished as sacred beyond all other Sundays in the year? |
13736 | Does MR. HICKSON really"very much doubt whether our word_ news_ contains the idea of_ new_ at all?" |
13736 | Does he say that_ die Güter_, the German for_ goods_ or_ possessions_, is singular? |
13736 | Does he then separate_ health_ from_ heal_ and_ hale_, because we speak of"bad health"and"ill health"? |
13736 | Has any of your readers met with, or heard of the second short line, appendant and appurtenant to the first? |
13736 | Has it been engraved? |
13736 | Has_ La Chiave del Gabinetto del Signor Borri_( by Joseph Francis Borri, the Rosicrucian) ever been translated into English? |
13736 | He inquires,"Was the book ever extant in MS. or print? |
13736 | I make the same Query as to_ Le Compte de Gabalis_, which the Abbé de Rillan founded on Borri''s work? |
13736 | If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von Sickingen, as Kugler supposes? |
13736 | If it is Whit Sunday, why do we say Easter Day, and not Easter Sunday? |
13736 | If this is the name of a sword cutler, who was he, and when and where did he live? |
13736 | If this meets the eye of one who is acquainted with it, will he kindly direct me whither I may find notices of it and its literature? |
13736 | In the_ Histoire de Foulques Fitz- warin_, Fouque asks"Quei fust_ la noyse_ qe fust devaunt le roi en la sale?" |
13736 | In what book are these printed? |
13736 | In what other works of the sixteenth, or early in the seventeenth century is this foot of palms and digits to be found, figured in length? |
13736 | Is it scarce, or worth nothing? |
13736 | Is she not akin to Tom Thumb, Jack the Giant- killer, Doctor Rat, and a host of others of the same type? |
13736 | Is this really so? |
13736 | Room- paper, when was it introduced? |
13736 | The last editor, Croker, adds,--"Johnson''s phrase has become so proverbial, that it may seem rather late to ask what it means-- why''_ paved_?'' |
13736 | To what family do the following arms belong? |
13736 | What are their titles? |
13736 | What is its size, date, and extent?" |
13736 | What is that of the motto,"Oderpi du pariver?" |
13736 | What is the exact date of their introduction? |
13736 | What is the meaning of this proverb? |
13736 | What the several lengths of the foot, half foot, or palm, within the twentieth of an inch? |
13736 | What then has it got to do with_ neues_? |
13736 | When did they come into general use, and when were rushes,& c., last used? |
13736 | Whether the portrait is in existence? |
13736 | Whether there is any mention of Parsons in contemporary, or other works? |
13736 | Why do we say Whitsun- Tide? |
13736 | Why does MR. HICKSON compel us to treat goods as singular, and make us go back to the Gothic? |
13736 | Why does our Prayer Book say Monday and Tuesday in Whitsun- week( just as before, Monday and Tuesday in Easter- week)? |
13736 | Why may not goods be a plural noun formed from the adjective_ good_, exactly as the Romans formed_ bona_ and the Germans have formed_ Güter_? |
13736 | Why may we not form a plural noun_ news_ from_ new_, to express the same idea which in Latin is expressed by_ nova_, and in French by_ les nouvelles_? |
13736 | Why may we not have a plural noun_ riches_, as the Romans had_ divitæ_, and the Germans have_ die Reichthumer_? |
13736 | Why too must riches be singular, and be the French word_ richesse_ imported into our language? |
13736 | Why"_ sanatory_ laws?" |
13736 | Will he allow nothing for the caprice of idiom? |
13736 | Will the Editor of"NOTES AND QUERIES"now allow me to modify this suggestion? |
13736 | _ Billingsgate._--May I again solicit a reference to any_ early_ drawing of Belins gate? |
13736 | _ Blackguard._--When did this word Come into use, and from what? |
13736 | _ Bonny Dundee-- Graham of Claverhouse._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the origin of the term"Bonny Dundee?" |
13736 | _ Boozy Grass._--What is the derivation of"boozy grass,"which an outgoing tenant claims for his cattle? |
13736 | _ Genealogical Queries._--Can any of your genealogical readers oblige me with replies to the following Queries? |
13736 | _ Hats worn by Females._--Were not the hats worn by the_ females_, as represented on the Myddelton Brass, peculiar to Wales? |
13736 | _ Translations._--What English translations have appeared of the famous_ Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_? |
13736 | _ Unicorn in the Royal Arms._--When and why was the fabulous animal called the unicorn first used as a supporter for the royal arms of England? |
13736 | _ Which_ Sir Philip Courtenay, of Powderham, was the father of Margaret Courtenay, who, in the fifteenth century, married Sir Robert Carey, Knt.? |
13736 | _ Who are Roland and Oliver_? |
13736 | and was it applied to the early settlers of New England? |
13736 | and what if_ riches_ be irregularly formed from the adjective_ rich_? |
13736 | and who was her mother? |
13736 | give his authority for the"report"to which he refers? |
13736 | if so, where? |
13736 | stars and stripes? |
13736 | which with regard to the context can only be fairly translated by"What is going on in{ 138} the King''s hall?" |
30594 | Why doe the rude vulgar so hastily post in a madnesse To gaze at trifles, and toyes not worthy the viewing? 30594 _ The Whole Duty of Man._"--Of what nature is the testimony that this book was written by Dorothy Coventry,"the good Lady Pakington?" |
30594 | _--_Helter- skelter._--What can be the origin of this saying? 30594 ( commonly called Prince Charles Edward Stuart)? 30594 ).--Can this curiously sounding name be an archaic form of Mackarness, a name, I think, still borne by living persons? 30594 ).--Is this the passage referred to by Doctor Johnson? 30594 1734? 30594 And again, when one has black spots, what is the best means of lessening their intensity, if not of wholly removing them? 30594 And when Sir Charles Cotterell, the translator of_ Cassandra?_ Where were they both buried? 30594 And when Sir Charles Cotterell, the translator of_ Cassandra?_ Where were they both buried? 30594 And where can they be met with entire? 30594 Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might best become learned? 30594 But what is the origin of the term_ gale_ as thus applied? 30594 Can anything be more reasonable than to suppose that the former was called_ sincerum mel_, just as we call it virgin honey? 30594 Can history in this instance be wrong? 30594 F. Hodgson, late Provost of Eton,& c., of the_ Atys_ of Catllus? 30594 H. W._ Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancashire._--When did the family of Chadderton become extinct? 30594 Had Edmund Chadderton, son and heir of George Chadderton by Jane Warren of Poynton, any descendants? 30594 Has this passage ever challenged the attention of any of your numerous readers, or can the common saying fairly be referred to it? 30594 Henry IV.? 30594 Henry, Lord Stanhope, also other sons? 30594 Is the circumstance of the desecration of her tomb mentioned by any other writer? 30594 P. M._ The Mother of William the Conqueror._--Can you or any of your correspondents say which is right? 30594 Query, Did any cadet of his family accompany him to that country? 30594 So strange an idea must have had some peculiar origin.--Can you or your readers say what it is? 30594 To the army and the navy, When he conquer''d Scinde? 30594 Was William of Wykeham of the Family of Swalcliffe? 30594 Was it the Earl of Chesterfield, half- brother of Charles Henry van den Kerckhove, or Charles{ 564} Stanhope his nephew, who took the name of Wotton? 30594 Was the title borne by any one before the time of Lionel, son of Edward III.? 30594 Which Lord Stanhope died childless? 30594 Wolverhampton Collegiate Church; adjoining one of south pillars of nave( in use?) 30594 _ Arms of Geneva._--Will any of your correspondents oblige me with a technical blazon of the arms of the town of Geneva? 30594 _ But from what source did the boy obtain them?_Permit me to repeat this Query? |
30594 | _ But from what source did the boy obtain them?_"Permit me to repeat this Query? |
30594 | _ Clarence._--Whence the name of this dukedom? |
30594 | _ Gentile Names of the Jews._--Are the Jews known to each other by their Gentile names of Rothschild, Montefiore, Davis,& c.? |
30594 | _"Firm was their faith,"& c._--Who was the writer of those beautiful lines, of which the following, the only verse I remember, is a portion? |
30594 | and if so, how did the mistake arise? |
30594 | and if so, what were their names and the dates of their respective births, marriages, and deaths? |
30594 | or are these only their_ nommes de guerre_, assumed and abandoned at will on change of country? |
30594 | p._ to signify_ sine prole_? |
31359 | Quid plumâ lævius? 31359 _ Oriel._"--I should be glad if any of your correspondents could inform me of the origin of the term_ oriel_, as applied to a window? |
31359 | _ Peckwater._--Why is the quadrangle at Christ Church, in Oxford, called"Peckwater?" |
31359 | _ Rutabaga._--What is the etymology of the word_ rutabaga_? |
31359 | ( having no arms of their own)_ legally_ use the arms, quarterings, crest, and motto of A., without a license from the Heralds''College? |
31359 | 1640(?) |
31359 | 9.:"Know ye not that{ 392} the unrighteous_ shall inherit_ the kingdom of God?" |
31359 | Again, did he not, at his death, leave two large volumes for publication, entitled_ Recollections of my Past Life_? |
31359 | Can any of your correspondents quote a passage or two from old English authors, wherein its obsolete sense is preserved? |
31359 | Can any of your correspondents tell me the origin of the phrase; and whether it is in use in other localities? |
31359 | Can any of your readers furnish me with the name and history of this French heroine? |
31359 | Can any other instances be given? |
31359 | Can you explain the meaning of the motto on the title- page--"[ Greek: Gnoien d'', hôs dê dêron egô polemoio pepaumai]"? |
31359 | Could Colonel Dominick have been his relative? |
31359 | Has there been a relationship ever proved between the founder of the Methodists and the victor of Waterloo? |
31359 | He seems, from a footnote, to be in difficulty about the word_ cassie._ May I suggest to him that it is a corruption of"causeway?" |
31359 | How is it made and used? |
31359 | Is Milton''s_ History_ a work of any merit or authority? |
31359 | Is it at this time a common name anywhere? |
31359 | Is the word spelt according to Milton''s form by any other writers? |
31359 | Is there any little work on book- binding? |
31359 | J. C."_ Poeta nascitur, non fit._"--Can any of your correspondents inform me who is the author of the well- known saying--"Poeta nascitur, non fit"? |
31359 | Or can any of your readers assist in determining the species? |
31359 | Quid muliere? |
31359 | Quid pulvere? |
31359 | Quid vento? |
31359 | Simmons._--Will you permit me to ask for a little information respecting B. Simmons? |
31359 | To what other periodicals did he contribute? |
31359 | Was it buried at Leicester? |
31359 | Was it the_ Bee_? |
31359 | What manner of man was he; young or old, married or single? |
31359 | What work, accessible to ordinary readers, supplies the best compendium of what is known on this subject? |
31359 | Where are these? |
31359 | Will he serve as a key, to disclose the origin of these marvellous stories and captivating absurdities? |
31359 | _ Richard III._--What became of the body after the battle of Bosworth Field? |
31359 | _ Who wants a Guinea?_|Ditto|150l. |
31359 | and how do they polish the leather afterwards? |
31359 | say on what occasion Tooke maintained this strange doctrine, or where his Lordship obtained his information that Tooke did maintain it? |
42783 | _ See where the startled wild fowl._--Where are the following lines to be found? |
42783 | ).--ADSUM asks:"What is the derivation of the term_-itis_, used principally in medical words, and these signifying, inflammation?" |
42783 | ).--In reply to ARAM''S Query:"Where do these lines come from?" |
42783 | And where can the whole of the ballad be found? |
42783 | And, if so, when was such custom disused? |
42783 | Can any of your correspondents furnish rules for transposing these six- line staves into the five- line staves of modern notations? |
42783 | Can gratitude outpant the silent breath, Or a friend''s sorrow pierce the glooms of death? |
42783 | Can you, or any of your correspondents, say_ who_ this interesting_ Countess of Southampton_ was? |
42783 | Do they refer to the rising under the Duke of Monmouth? |
42783 | Does passion still the formless mind control? |
42783 | First, Though the crown''s representative had no jurisdiction, had he not a right to enter, and sit on cases foreign to the borough? |
42783 | G. B. W._ Ascension- day._--Was"Ascension- day"ever kept a close holiday the same as Good Friday and Christmas- day? |
42783 | I wish to know if this note is worth anything, and if the statement contained in it is true? |
42783 | If so, in what sense it can be understood? |
42783 | In addition to these particulars, which are so nicely told that I would not venture to alter them, as Orsino asks Viola,"What was her history?" |
42783 | Instantly the whole company gained the road beside him, and after a moment''s consultation they simultaneously cried out,"Where is my horse? |
42783 | Is the writer known? |
42783 | May I also take the liberty of asking how soon we may expect the appearance of SIR JAMES TENNENT''S book on the history,& c. of Ceylon? |
42783 | Secondly, What are the earliest instances of county quarter sessions sitting in independent boroughs? |
42783 | W. B. R. Philadelphia, U. S._ Immoral Works._--What ought to be done with works of this class? |
42783 | What does this precisely mean; or why and when was it adopted? |
42783 | What is the best work on English Suffragan bishops? |
42783 | What is the rule at the Museum? |
42783 | What, then, are we to do with it? |
42783 | Whose coat is this? |
42783 | Why are the_ commas_ or marks of quotation, if such they be, then inserted? |
42783 | Will you permit me to inquire, whether this term has been applied to the prison of castles in England? |
42783 | _ Ceylon._--I should be much obliged to SIR JAMES TENNENT, if he would kindly inform me where the best map of Ceylon is to be got? |
42783 | _ Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Belgium_.--I want some work on this subject: can any one tell me of one? |
42783 | _ Plum- pudding._--Can any of your readers inform me of the origin of the following custom, and whether the ceremony is still continued? |
42783 | _ Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543._--Is there any detailed account of this prelate extant? |
42783 | if not, whether_ teeming_ is not probably the correct word? |
42783 | the reign of George I.? |
42783 | { 58} Has pride a portion in the parted soul? |
28474 | Theosophic Letters, or Epistles of the Man from God enlightened in Grace, Jacob Behmen, of Old Seidenburgh, wherein everywhere[ are?] 28474 _ Marry come up!_"--What is the origin of this expression, found in the old novelists? |
28474 | ),"The letter was found in a copy of Junius belonging to[ Query, which_ had_ belonged to?] |
28474 | 3.? |
28474 | And also point out authorities bearing upon the customs of Celtic agricultural tenancy? |
28474 | And this may lead to the farther Query, whether dimidiation was originally or universally resorted to in the case of coheiresses? |
28474 | Are any of them worth translating at the present day? |
28474 | B. R. correct in stating this parody to have been the composition of Dr. Maginn? |
28474 | By whom and when first discovered? |
28474 | By whom has it been seen? |
28474 | Can any of your correspondents give some account of the nature and merits of these books? |
28474 | Can there be question that to it Ken is indebted for some of the thoughts and expressions in two of his own hymns? |
28474 | Can you, or any of your readers, inform me whether this is likely to be published, and when and at what price? |
28474 | DID CAPTAIN COOK FIRST DISCOVER THE SANDWICH ISLANDS? |
28474 | Does not Shakspeare here use_ secure_ as a verb, in the sense"to make careless?" |
28474 | Have any of your correspondents letters of that date with a like post- mark? |
28474 | If so, how did it gain its present form? |
28474 | In reply to the question,"What are the_ Knockers_?" |
28474 | Is the probability of this being the case supported by any, and what instances? |
28474 | Is there any other instance of such restoration? |
28474 | Is there any work on Cornish folk lore which alludes to this superstition respecting the Jews? |
28474 | Now, was an_ Ultagh_ an Irish usurer or money- lender? |
28474 | Now, what are the precise words of this rubric? |
28474 | Or does the legend merely owe its existence to the circular form of the stone? |
28474 | T. Park,& c. He had[ Query, it is presumed?] |
28474 | That rude/ soon(?) |
28474 | The difference is important; but where is the copy containing this letter? |
28474 | There is a place called by this name in the vicinity of Harwich? |
28474 | What is the origin of this peculiarity of judicial costume, what are the earliest examples of it, and what its etymology? |
28474 | What was the peculiarity of his practice? |
28474 | When and where first printed? |
28474 | When shall we see this desirable lexicon? |
28474 | Where can I find a copious and accurate account of the battle, or perhaps I should rather say skirmish, of Villers en Couché? |
28474 | Where did Barker find the story recorded? |
28474 | Will any antiquary versed in Celtic customs explain whether this claim of possession grew out of any Celtic usage of tenancy? |
28474 | Will any of your correspondents oblige me with the derivation of this remarkable word? |
28474 | Will he have the kindness to furnish a reference to the version of the story in which Sir Thomas Ailesbury is said to have married the tubwoman? |
28474 | Will you allow me to ask if a similar expression is not used by Bishop Horsley in some one of his Charges? |
28474 | [ Query, How then known to be cotemporary?] |
28474 | _ Dissimulate._--Where is the earliest use of this word to be found? |
28474 | _ Dover Court._--What is the origin of the expression of a"_ Dover Court_, where all are talkers and none are hearers?" |
28474 | _ Porter._--In what book is the word_ porter_, meaning the malt liquor so called, first found? |
28474 | _ Sir Heister Ryley._--Who was the author of the_ Visions of Sir Heister Ryley_, and whence did it derive its name? |
28474 | and if there be any ready means of rendering the silver it contains again available for photographic use? |
28474 | and, if so, can they tell us_ where_ posted? |
28474 | in which it is to be dissolved? |
28474 | p. 142. Who was the earl whose universality of genius is described above by this"laudator temporis acti?" |
30595 | Hate and debate Rome through the world hath spread, Yet Roma, amor is, if backward read; Then is it strange, Rome hate should foster? 30595 _ Ancient hallowed Dee._"--What is the historical, traditional, or legendary allusion in this epithet, bestowed by Milton on the river Dee? |
30595 | ).--Could this have been Dr. William Butler, of eccentric memory, born at Ipswich about 1535, and buried in St. Mary''s Church, Cambridge, 1618? |
30595 | 223... and_ eyes of sapphire blue_?] |
30595 | Also, if it be now much used? |
30595 | By the common people as well as others? |
30595 | Can any of your correspondents furnish me with a similar case? |
30595 | Can any of your readers give me any account of this George Alsop, his preferment, if any, and the time of his death? |
30595 | Can this be the lady buried at Wappenham? |
30595 | Can this statement be confirmed in 1853? |
30595 | Can your correspondents say from whence derived? |
30595 | Does Col. Johnes notice this inaccuracy in the edition generally procurable? |
30595 | Does not this rather favour Dr. Paley''s explanation? |
30595 | From what source did he originally obtain the appellation"Myrtle Bee,"as applied to this bird? |
30595 | In what volume of the_ Athenæum_ is the accusation against Paley made? |
30595 | Is it not strange also that Mr. Oakley and his"compiler"decline giving any information respecting these books? |
30595 | Is it such, or is it merely an act of reverence to the book? |
30595 | Is not this sufficient? |
30595 | Is the use of"receipt"for"recipe"to be admitted into the English language? |
30595 | L. M._--What is the meaning of the abbreviation B. L. M. in Italian epistolary correspondence? |
30595 | Or could the last- mentioned John Boteler, who died in 1514, have had another wife besides the three mentioned in Clutterbuck? |
30595 | Query, When were fire- irons first used? |
30595 | Was it generally known in the neighbourhood he mentions, and by whom was it known? |
30595 | Were these letters ever published, under what title, and when? |
30595 | What is the title of the Dutch work supposed to be pirated? |
30595 | What was its size compared with the Golden- crested Wren? |
30595 | What were the dates of his birth and death? |
30595 | What, then, if we have hitherto mistaken the sense, and, instead of blue, should have said sea- green? |
30595 | Whence is it taken, and who is its author? |
30595 | Who was"True Blue?" |
30595 | Will any of your readers inform me whence the passage is taken? |
30595 | Yet what could have been the incidents of a life that required the fiction to be carried even to the grave? |
30595 | _ Charge of Plagiarism against Paley._--Has any reply been made to the accusation against Paley, brought forward some years ago in_ The Athenæum_? |
30595 | _ General Fraser._--Have there been any_ Life_ or_ Memoirs_ ever published of General Fraser, who fell in Burgoyne''s most disastrous campaign? |
30595 | _ Gurney''s Short- hand._--Can any of your correspondents inform me if there have been any alterations in this system of short- hand since 1802? |
30595 | _ Weber''s_"_ Cecilia._"--Can you inform me whether a work by Gottfried Weber, entitled_ Cecilia_, is to be had in English or in French? |
30595 | _ What is the Origin of"Getting into a Scrape? |
30595 | and how would a letter from the inquirer reach a descendant of the family, who could furnish farther information on the subject? |
30595 | and whether the Russians should be considered idolaters or not? |
30595 | by Glover._--Can MR. BOLTON CORNEY, or MR. R. SIMS, inform me whether the Lansdowne MS. 205. is in Glover''s handwriting? |
30595 | contained a curious tale of a cat: will you insert as a pendent the following one of a dog? |
30595 | did any of them leave their native country? |
30595 | oblige P. C. S. S. by informing him where this MS. now exists, and whether the whole, or any portion of it, has been published? |
30595 | what were the names of his parents, his brothers, and his children? |
30595 | { 590}_ Spurious Don Quixote._--What English and French versions are there of the spurious continuation of_ Don Quixote_ by Avellaneda? |
42039 | And what do you both believe? |
42039 | And what does the Church believe? |
42039 | ).--Has not J. G. misquoted? |
42039 | 1.:"I have been harsh To large confessors, and have hotly ask''d them If they had mothers? |
42039 | A. C._ Clapper Gate._--Steps, with a gate above, into Bushy Park are so called; what is the meaning? |
42039 | A. C._ Jemmy._--When and why was sheep''s head baptized with the name"Jemmy?" |
42039 | Also, the game of_ Cleek_; can it be a misprint of"Check?" |
42039 | Also,_ Longtriloo_; is this an abbreviation of"Long three card loo?" |
42039 | And what would you more?" |
42039 | But the tree? |
42039 | By this may we judge that_ caul_ and_ cowl_ are cognate? |
42039 | Can any one give me the meaning of the last two lines? |
42039 | Does it apply to the entire sheep, or to the head only? |
42039 | Has the question of this real or pretended massacre been raised, or proved beyond doubt? |
42039 | He says,"the demonstrative pronoun_ that_, refers to_ the commission_ which the Duke holds in his hand;"but is this the language we in England use? |
42039 | Here is the passage:"Who might be your mother, That you insult, exult, and all at once, Over the wretched?" |
42039 | How long, and within what limits, did this fashion flourish? |
42039 | I would here suggest another Query: Was Sir Richard, or his son Henry, created Lord Montague? |
42039 | Is anything known further of the above Sir Richard Poole, Knight, or of his"progeny"? |
42039 | Is there any other notice of this female solitary? |
42039 | Merian, or his daughter, of Frankfort? |
42039 | Ondée(?). |
42039 | Query, What does it all mean? |
42039 | Rosalind in effect says,"who might your mother be that you should be so unfeeling?" |
42039 | The entire of the conversation may be represented thus:"What do you believe?" |
42039 | The volume is 12mo., and dedicated to William[ Laud? |
42039 | What copies of this book are known to be extant? |
42039 | What is the date of the MS. in question, with any further particulars of its history? |
42039 | What is"Pope St. Hugo''s Day,"and whether it was in any way connected with the election of the boy bishop in other places as well as Eton? |
42039 | What other examples are there of_ exterior_ stoups? |
42039 | What particulars are known about the life, religion,& c. of the author? |
42039 | What resemblance has this to a statement, that all bodies gravitate to the centre of the world, or, as explained by Cicero, the earth? |
42039 | Would a translation of the whole, or selected parts, be useful at the present time, when attention is being called to the subject? |
42039 | _ Biblical Criticism_--Christianity, Chronology of the Kings of Israel, Demoniacal Possession, Hyssop, Is Biblical Criticism unfavourable to Piety? |
42039 | _ Royal Arms in Churches._--What is the origin of the common practice of putting up the royal arms in churches? |
42039 | _ Twittens._--Are not the narrow passages in Brighton so called? |
42039 | and what is the meaning? |
42039 | asked"Is not the battle itself( of Waterloo) a myth?" |
42039 | or information as to what other authors have treated on the subject of the Diaconate? |
42818 | _ Dilamgabendi._--What is the precise meaning of the word_ Dilamgabendi_; is it of ancient British origin, or to what language does it belong? |
42818 | _ To pass the pikes._--What is the origin of this phrase? |
42818 | ''What doth forbid that one may smile, And also tell the truth the while?'' |
42818 | 1. added, no parallel text being indicated to any of the other ten? |
42818 | 1823? |
42818 | 276) Is it quite certain that"no animal can live in the alimentary canal but the parasites which belong to that part of the animal economy?" |
42818 | Are they still in their hands, though inaccessible? |
42818 | Can any information be obtained as to the_ when_ and the_ how_ they passed out of their possession? |
42818 | Can any of your correspondents assist in assigning these initials and arms to their respective owners? |
42818 | Can any of your readers refer me to a pedigree, or other particulars, of Sir Thomas Button''s family? |
42818 | Do these belong to any Bishop of Norwich? |
42818 | Do you think the collodion is too new, or the ether not good? |
42818 | From whence is derived the prefix_ Cum_? |
42818 | Fuller, in his_ Worthies_, co. Suffolk, speaking of him, says, that he,"following the counsel of the poet,''Ridentem dicere verum, Quis vetat?'' |
42818 | Has this always so stood? |
42818 | He then asked them whether they belonged to his party, and then they asked him which was his party? |
42818 | If not, what collodion is best suited for it? |
42818 | Is Mr. Crooke''s process for preserving the sensitiveness of collodion applicable to all collodions? |
42818 | Is this pamphlet still in existence? |
42818 | It commences thus:"Whence comes the wavering light which falls On Langdale''s lonely Chapel- walls? |
42818 | Might not catalogues of these be printed, as well as the more historically valuable and curious of the papers themselves? |
42818 | Or, above all, can any clue be found to their subsequent history and present resting- place? |
42818 | Query, What is known of the history and authorship of this poem? |
42818 | Up to that date, can it be ascertained that the papers remained in the keeping of the Corporation? |
42818 | What are the facts? |
42818 | What, then, becomes of the expired carbon? |
42818 | Who was Mr. Plumley, and what did he write? |
42818 | Will you kindly permit me to renew it? |
42818 | _ Fountains._--Will some kind reader obligingly state the names of any works that give representations or descriptions of foreign fountains? |
42818 | _ Pope and John Dennis._--What is the authority for the universal assumption that Pope wrote_ The Narrative of Dr. Robert Norris_? |
42818 | _ Theodore de la Guard._--I have a tract by him with the title of_ The simple Cobler of Aggawam, in America_, London, 1647. Who was he? |
42818 | and where can I find any account of him or his work? |
42818 | and who was the original proprietor of the seal? |
27006 | I own I like not Johnson''s turgid style, That gives an inch th''importance of a mile,& c.& c. And"What does not fade? |
27006 | _ Johnson''s turgid style_--"_What does not fade_?" |
27006 | --Can any of your readers tell me where to find the following lines? |
27006 | 1822. WHO WAS JUNIUS? |
27006 | 6.,& c.( See_ Obadiah_ v. 3.:"Who shall bring me down to the ground?") |
27006 | A second he took, she departed,--what then? |
27006 | And how happens it that the Welsh and English take the book in the hand in the different manners I have described? |
27006 | Are all the versions from one original, distributed by the wandering minstrels, and in course of time adapted to new localities and dialects? |
27006 | Can any of your readers explain it? |
27006 | Can any of your readers refer to the foundation for this statement? |
27006 | Can any of your readers"locate it,"as we say in the backwoods of America? |
27006 | Can any one inform me of his authority for this statement? |
27006 | Can one of your contributors bring forward any authority to confirm or disprove this conjecture? |
27006 | Did he take any degree at Cambridge, and to what college or hall did he belong? |
27006 | Did this family( which is now supposed to be extinct) claim descent from Endymion Porter, the loyal and devoted adherent of King Charles the Martyr? |
27006 | From whence and at what period was the shot fired? |
27006 | G. R. M._ The Claymore._--What is the original weapon to which belongs the name of claymore(_ claidh mhor_)? |
27006 | H._ Theobald le Botiller._--What Theobald le Botiller did Rose de Vernon marry? |
27006 | Have these memoirs been printed? |
27006 | Hoc quoque quis dubitet? |
27006 | How could it then be the 29th of Sept. when the news of its defeat reached her majesty? |
27006 | How has this singular difference arisen? |
27006 | How then did Ben Jonson make it begin, as clearly A. E. B. shows he does, at six o''clock( meaning probably a certain sunrise)? |
27006 | I can scarcely credit its antiquity; but what other meaning can I understand from the episode he{ 363} relates? |
27006 | If any one calls the compositions in question"trash,"I can not better answer than in palindrome,_ Trash? |
27006 | If these swords be exclusively Scottish, may they not be relics of the unhappy defeat at Worcester? |
27006 | Is it known where it is now preserved? |
27006 | Is it the two- handed sword, or the basket- hilted two- edged sword_ now_ bearing the appellation? |
27006 | Is not the use of sel d''or subject to the objection that the pictures with which it is used are liable to fade in time? |
27006 | Is the latter kind of sword peculiar to Scotland? |
27006 | John Lord Scudamore, Viscount Sligo in Ireland,"in the library of P. Howard, Esq., at Corby Castle? |
27006 | Lord Ball? |
27006 | Must there not be some records in the University which will yield this information? |
27006 | Now whence this curious similarity in the vernacular ideology of districts so remote? |
27006 | Quis enim hoc negat? |
27006 | Should the positives be printed out very strongly? |
27006 | So Niobe boasts:"Felix sum, quis enim hoc neget? |
27006 | The question is, did he write the passage as it stands in the first folio, which I have copied above? |
27006 | Was your correspondent led to think so from the fact of the martyr having been originally a bishop of the Isle of Man? |
27006 | What is considered to be the English measurement of the Roman_ juger_, and the authorities for such measurement? |
27006 | What is the measurement of the Anglo- Saxon_ hyde_, and the authorities for such measurement? |
27006 | When then did the practice of kissing the book originate? |
27006 | While I am upon the matter, I would farther ask this mysterious_ Ampers and_,"who gave thee that name?" |
27006 | Who will_ live_ hereafter, if he be a doer of_ evil_? |
27006 | Whom should we_ repel_ sooner than the_ leper_? |
27006 | Why does not some one write a Minstrelsy of the Midland Counties? |
27006 | Why should_ et_ be called"_ et_ by itself?" |
27006 | Will any herald advise me how to proceed farther in tracing it? |
27006 | _ We have received a_ Pedigree of the Reynolds Family_ for this Correspondent; where shall it be sent_? |
27006 | _ rude day''s_? |
27006 | amm.,_ without the albumen_, be found to answer for ordinary positive paper( say Canson''s, Turner''s, or Whatman''s)? |
27006 | and how long should they remain in the_ saturated_ bath of hypo.? |
27006 | and may this also be applied with a brush? |
27006 | and, if so, whence came the original, from England or Scotland? |
27006 | and, in that case, may it be applied with a brush? |
27006 | answer for paper so prepared? |
27006 | i. p. 299., calls her Catherine; which is correct? |
27006 | inform me whether more than two numbers of_ The Brazen Head_ were ever published? |
27006 | inform me who he was? |
27006 | of Sept. 10? |
27538 | _--Would you kindly inform me where the expression is to be found:I would not do such or such a thing for a wilderness of monkeys?" |
27538 | ( By the Reverend Thomas Earle, afterwards Vicar of Malmesbury?) |
27538 | ( ¤Sar¤), a leader, commander, or prince? |
27538 | ).--Has the statement made by GULIELMUS, as to the origin of the name of Synge, ever appeared in print before? |
27538 | 248.--What name are these composite initials meant to represent? |
27538 | 7.:"What think you? |
27538 | :_"_ Victorian._ How is that young and_ green- eyed_ Gaditana That you both wot of? |
27538 | And if Man''s be, on what authority is it probably founded? |
27538 | And if so, where? |
27538 | At what time was it built? |
27538 | C. P. G._ Oasis._--Can any correspondent inform me of the correct quantity of the second syllable of this word? |
27538 | Can any of your numerous readers furnish an account of it? |
27538 | Can any of your readers inform me what_ Fleur des Saints_ was? |
27538 | Can any one restore the defective parts? |
27538 | Can you point me to any work where this hint has been carried out? |
27538 | Does the history of the art, either among the Greeks or the Romans, furnish any well authenticated instance of this practice? |
27538 | Has the glove been associated with this fair from its commencement? |
27538 | I shall be glad to know who Mr. Caldecott was or is? |
27538 | I should be glad to know her maiden name, and whether he left any surviving family? |
27538 | If so, what were its contents? |
27538 | If used, what was their form? |
27538 | Is there any more to be found in favour of"_ green eyes_?" |
27538 | Is this incident of the bullet mentioned in any of the cotemporary accounts of the battle? |
27538 | Pray is this the_ morrow_ of St. Michael, as commonly supposed? |
27538 | Query, Has this reading been adopted by our skilled Shakspearian critics? |
27538 | Query, Is this the proper mode of interpretation, or is there a misprint? |
27538 | Query, What arms did she bear? |
27538 | Richard Synge, preacher at the Savoy in 1715? |
27538 | Say, shall we have the_ State_ illuminated In honour of the Swede?" |
27538 | Should we read_ Saneco_=Sarah Nelson Coleridge? |
27538 | The modern slang,"Do you see anything_ green_ in my eye?" |
27538 | To what saint consecrated? |
27538 | Was he George Synge, the grandfather of George Synge, Bishop of Cloyne, born 1594? |
27538 | Was it a book? |
27538 | Was this_ small_ beginning the origin of our innumerable reviews? |
27538 | Were they used in England before the Reformation? |
27538 | What is the cause of this?" |
27538 | What, then, is the meaning of"Hurrah,"and in whet language? |
27538 | Which of these statements is the true one? |
27538 | _ Ballina Castle._--Where can I see a view of Ballina Castle, in the county of Mayo? |
27538 | _ Crosses on Stoles._--When were the three crosses now usually embroidered on priests''stoles in the Roman Catholic Church introduced? |
27538 | _ Hotchpot._--Will you kindly tell me what is the derivation of the local term_ hotchpot_, and when it was first used? |
27538 | _ Reynolds''Portrait of Barretti._--Can any of your correspondents inform me where the portrait of Barretti, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, now is? |
27538 | _ Splitting Paper._--Could any of your readers give the receipt for splitting paper, say a bank- note? |
27538 | _ The Devil on Two Sticks in England._--Who is the author of a work, entitled as under? |
27538 | _ Worm in Books._--Can you or any of your numerous correspondents suggest a remedy for the worm in old books and MSS.? |
27538 | _ bare- skin_), or rather_ bare- fellow_? |
27538 | _"Salus Populi,"& c._--What is the origin of the saying,"Salus populi suprema lex?" |
27538 | and from what cause was it allowed to fall into its present ruinous and desecrated condition? |
27538 | and if not, how far back can its use be traced? |
27538 | and what is the best historical and descriptive account of that county, or of the town of Castlebar, or other places in the county? |
27538 | and whether the edition appeared under the auspices of any society or sect of Christians? |
27538 | or of any necessity having arisen for enforcing the payment of tithes or offerings by ecclesiastical censures during that period? |
27538 | refer me to any book or record from which I can obtain this information? |
27538 | tell from what family this Martyr sprang, and what their armorial bearings are? |
27538 | three or four times: now, I to_ comfort_ him,"& c. Does this look as though he were in the happy state of mind your correspondents imagine? |
27538 | { 409}_ Marlborough at Blenheim._--Extract from a MS. sermon preached at Bitton( in Gloucestershire?) |
34195 | If all our vessels ran''a, If none but had a crack''a; If Spanish apes eat all the grapes, How should we do for sack''a? 34195 If all the world were sand''o, Oh then what should we lack''o; If as they say there were no clay, How should we take tobacco? |
34195 | If all things were eternall, And nothing their end bringing; If this should be, then how should we Here make an end of singing? |
34195 | If fryers had no bald pates, Nor nuns had no dark cloysters; If all the seas were beans and pease, How should we do for oysters? 34195 If there had been no projects, Nor none that did great wrongs; If fiddlers shall turne players all, How should we doe for songs? |
34195 | _--Can any of your readers explain the following extract from the Council of Ancyra, A.D. 314? 34195 _--Who was the author of this short poem, to be found in all the earlier collection of poetry for the use of schools? |
34195 | ''And pray, Mr. Macklin,''said Pope,''do players in general take such pains?'' |
34195 | 1852? |
34195 | 4., in which he replies at some length, and not unamusingly, to the Query,"Why are sneezers saluted?" |
34195 | And if it is, what is the amount of that compensation? |
34195 | And if so, is there any representative, and where, at the present day? |
34195 | Any particulars regarding his history? |
34195 | But, Query, are not the_ printed_ sermons of these divines merely outlines, to be filled up by the preacher_ extempore_? |
34195 | Can you inform me of the names of these_ first_ members of that Heraldic body? |
34195 | Deo displiceat? |
34195 | Did the scholars of Italy know more of what was done by Englishmen in Sicily in Brydone''s day than they do at present? |
34195 | Did this"monstrous man"leave any descendants? |
34195 | Do the Jews at present, in any country, practise polygamy? |
34195 | Does any such_ wappenschau_ occur in England on such occasions now? |
34195 | Has this view of our literature been taken, and exhibited in all its aspects, by any English writer and if so, by whom? |
34195 | How are the dates reconciled? |
34195 | How does this stand? |
34195 | How many marquisses were there, and were any of them men of any note in their day and generation? |
34195 | I would farther ask why twenty- one was the number fixed for a royal salute? |
34195 | If not, when and why was that practice discontinued among them? |
34195 | In whose possession are they now? |
34195 | Is it merely nominal? |
34195 | Is there any religious sect which forbids polygamy, besides the Christians( and the Jews, if the Jews do forbid it)? |
34195 | Is there such an order in existence? |
34195 | J. Cawley was a son of the regicide? |
34195 | John Pocklington._--Can any of your correspondents oblige me with information respecting the family, or the armorial bearings of Dr. John Pocklington? |
34195 | On what ground has polygamy become forbidden among Christians? |
34195 | Query, What is Dorset? |
34195 | Reprinted in 1796 and 1800? |
34195 | Was Polygamy permitted among the early Christians? |
34195 | What could be done with the Spanish chesnut? |
34195 | What is meant by"vanitatem observare?" |
34195 | When and where did he die? |
34195 | When and why was Lochwood, the family residence, abandoned? |
34195 | _ Carronade._--What is the derivation of the term_ carronade_, applied to pieces of ordnance shorter and thicker in the chamber than usual? |
34195 | _ Halcyon Days._--What is the derivation of"halcyon days?" |
34195 | _ Irish Legislation._--I have met with the following statement: is it to be received as true? |
34195 | _ Original Words of old Scotch Airs._--Can any one tell me where the original words of many fine old Scotch airs are to be found? |
34195 | _ Soomarokoff''s_"_ Demetrius._"--Who translated the following drama from the Russian? |
34195 | _ Teddy the Tiler._--Who was Teddy the Tiler? |
34195 | and is there any likelihood of the folk story being true? |
42820 | ).--A question has been asked:"Does a dignity or office, such as rector of Haccombe, exist in the Anglican Church?" |
42820 | ).--In the_ Philosophical Transactions_( 1835?) |
42820 | 126.--"If there be any well- authenticated instance of a woman having had more than twenty- five children?" |
42820 | After what fashion would she have resisted these things thirty years ago?" |
42820 | Are the names of that council anywhere published? |
42820 | Are the_ Anthologia_ and the_ Florilegium_ quoted in any works previous to Forster''s time? |
42820 | As this will doubtless be known to some of your readers, may I ask the name of the author, and the occasion of its publication? |
42820 | B. C. asks,"Will any one say it was through ignorance{ 576} that he( Swift) did not sound the_ g_ in dressing?" |
42820 | Before we go any farther I would ask,_ is_ Dr. Forster the author of this book? |
42820 | Besides, what does the"S"stand for, after you get the"PAX?" |
42820 | Brave as the officers and men may be, what success or what renown can be gained in such an unequal conflict? |
42820 | But what can the British army do against such a host as the Russian autocrat has around him? |
42820 | C. H._ Sacheverell''s and Charles Lamb''s Residences in the Temple._--In which house in Crown Office Row, Temple, was Charles Lamb born? |
42820 | Can any of your correspondents furnish authority for such tradition? |
42820 | Can any of your readers give me an account of him? |
42820 | Can any one say whether it has anywhere been retained in our own Church? |
42820 | Did this council continue to exist till the appointment( I think in 1670) of the Council of Trade, of which Lord Sandwich was made president? |
42820 | Has the subject of salaries of offices( including fees) in these times ever been accurately investigated? |
42820 | Is not Sir Adam the correct name? |
42820 | Is there any other information extant as to the first introduction of cabbages into England? |
42820 | May not the use of this sort of_ mantel_ have caused the part of the fireplace from which it hangs to be called the mantel- piece? |
42820 | Must we not conclude that Bishop Hall drew his newly- coined word thence? |
42820 | Now, two questions arise hereon: first, what has become of the original painting from which this print was taken? |
42820 | Of what family was he? |
42820 | The Queries I now propose are: Who was the compiler of the_ Circle of the Seasons_? |
42820 | Was this the case with all offices? |
42820 | What is it? |
42820 | What were the emoluments of the lord chancellor, chancellor of the exchequer, and president of the council, in the reign of Charles? |
42820 | When and how did the practice originate, and when and how fall into disuse? |
42820 | Whither should fowl flock in a hard frost, but to the barn- door? |
42820 | Why does Mr. Carruthers leave out the third? |
42820 | Witty, I admit, but that"touch of the same"( blue_ facings_?) |
42820 | _ Canne''s Bible._--What is the value of a good copy of Canne''s Bible, printed at Edinburgh by John Kincaid, 1756? |
42820 | _ Sale of Offices and Salaries in the Seventeenth Century._--Has the subject of the sale of offices in former times ever been investigated? |
42820 | _ Ætna._--To whom can the following passage refer? |
42820 | and secondly, where is the line engraving of the picture now in the National Gallery? |
42820 | and which were the chambers occupied by Dr. Sacheverell, also in the Temple, at the time of the riots caused by his admirers? |
42788 | ''Say what is_ Abstract_, what_ Concrete_? 42788 Pray, Sir, can you tell me whether there is any doubt of what kind of wood our Lord''s cross was made? |
42788 | ''How so? |
42788 | ).--Are not many, or most of the so- called_ eagles_ on lecterns in churches,_ pelicans_? |
42788 | ).--Is St. Ives by any possibility connected with St. Jue''s, St. Jew''s, or St. Jude''s? |
42788 | ):"Amor,_ sinistram_ ut ante,_ Dextram sternuit approbationem?_"P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A. |
42788 | A fairy missing another in the sack, called out( the story was told in broad Lancashire dialect)"Dick( dignified name for a fairy), where art thou?" |
42788 | A. D. asks, in reference to a certain epitaph,"has it really a local habitation, and where?" |
42788 | Allow me to add a Query: What ancient authors allude to this old specimen of Folk Lore? |
42788 | And, as a further favour, finish the hexameter in this epigram? |
42788 | Are not these rhymes older than Bentley? |
42788 | By Beaumarchais:"Connaissez- vous rien de plus sot Que Merlin, Bazire, et Chabot? |
42788 | Can any of your correspondents give any account of them, and where they are to be found? |
42788 | Can any of your numerous readers inform me where this picture is placed, or say in what manner the heads are grouped? |
42788 | Can any of your readers inform me of the date of the last instance in England, and where it is stated? |
42788 | Can any reader supply a copy? |
42788 | Could he inform me what has now become of that picture, and also whether it was rated among that celebrated artist''s best works or not? |
42788 | I should be glad to know if the petitions, of which they are drafts, or rather copies, were presented, and_ when_? |
42788 | If I am here displaying ignorance, I ask, What is the legend of St. Ives? |
42788 | Is it authentic? |
42788 | May I ask if he has any other documents or information which would throw light on the origin and history of the Rowley poems? |
42788 | My Query is, Whether this is a common superstition? |
42788 | Nam et signa ipsa, et cantabra, et vexilla castrorum, quid aliud quam inauratæ cruces sunt et ornatæ? |
42788 | P. C. S. S. A correspondent signing himself VANDYKE asks,"Why is Sir Kenelm Digby represented, I believe always, with a sunflower by his side?" |
42788 | Query, Can any one verify this statement? |
42788 | Say, who can wonder? |
42788 | Two stanzas run thus:"George B----[1] has turn''d a saint, they say: But who believes the tale? |
42788 | Was it ever the fashion to pronounce these different terminations alike; or does any other author of repute of that date use such rhymes? |
42788 | What authority is there for this? |
42788 | What is known of this old oak at the present time? |
42788 | What is the orthodox mode of conducting this kind of divination? |
42788 | Where did Fuller read this story? |
42788 | Which of all these derivations is correct? |
42788 | _ Chaplain._ Quid est Charitas? |
42788 | _ Chaplain._ Quid est Spes? |
42788 | _ Rosa Mystica._--Where is information to be found on the subject of the_ Rosa Mystica_; and what is the date of its institution? |
42788 | _ Segantiorum Portus._--Has there been any locality yet found for this port, mentioned by Ptolemy in his_ History of Britain_? |
42788 | and if true, inform me of the title of this latter work; and whether it is to be found in any library in this country, and where? |
42788 | inform me if this famous old tree is still alive? |
42788 | inform me of the correct meaning of the word"assassin?" |
42788 | kindly enlighten me on the subject? |
42002 | _--Does any one know a book called_ Behemoth, an Epitome of the Civil Wars from 1640 to 1660_? 42002 _--From what author is the phrase"Deus ex machinâ"taken? |
42002 | ( 1.)? |
42002 | ( iii.)? |
42002 | ).--In answer to your correspondent MR. PEACOCK, as to whether a monument was usually erected over the burial- place of the heart,& c.? |
42002 | ***** WAS SHAKSPEARE DESCENDED FROM A LANDED PROPRIETOR? |
42002 | A reference to any reports or papers of them would oblige D. L._ Cui Bono._--What is the true rendering of the Latin phrase_ Cui Bono_? |
42002 | Also, whether collodion portraits come within his patent, as it was understood it could only apply to the_ paper process_? |
42002 | Are there many copies of this edition, or may I congratulate myself upon possessing_ the_ one ordered by Junius? |
42002 | B. would also be glad to know_ where_ Towgood of St. Neot''s_ positive_ paper can be procured, and the price? |
42002 | Being asked''Who should be the next emperor?'' |
42002 | But can nothing be done to rescue from destruction the precious analytical treasures of Euler, now entombed in the archives of St. Petersburgh? |
42002 | Can any of your correspondents give other early quotations from the_ De Imitatione_? |
42002 | Can any of your correspondents refer me to a description of Alva? |
42002 | He also inquires what is meant, in a deed of grant of the time of Queen Elizabeth, by a grant of"decimas calchanti,"& c.? |
42002 | In what year did he die? |
42002 | Is not this a fresh invention? |
42002 | Is not this the action alluded to by Shakspeare and other writers, as"biting the thumb?" |
42002 | It is to be remarked that the copy I have met with is styled_ privileged_? |
42002 | Most text- books say it means"For what good?" |
42002 | Oxford? |
42002 | Perhaps the word_ subarration_ may suggest to R. C. a clue, by which he can mend his extract? |
42002 | T. P. L._ Reverend Robert Hall._--Who was Robert Hall, a preacher of some celebrity in the time of James II.? |
42002 | What age was he when his picture, now in Hampton Court, was painted by Gainsborough? |
42002 | What is the origin of this erroneous mode of expression? |
42002 | _ Lords''Descents._--Is a MS. collection of Lords''Descents, by Thomas Maisterson, Esq., made about the year 1705, now extant? |
42002 | _ Personal Descriptions._--Is Sir Walter Scott''s description of Saladin taken from any ancient writer, or is it a fancy sketch? |
42002 | _ Statne nominis umbra?_ An answer is not needed to this Query. |
42002 | _ The Scotch Grievance._--Can the demand of Scotchmen, with respect to the usage of the royal arms, be justified by the laws of Heraldry? |
42002 | _ The Stock Horn._--Can any of your readers or friends tell me where I can see a specimen of the musical instrument called the"Stock Horn?" |
42002 | _ Wheelbarrows._--Who invented the wheelbarrow? |
42002 | and if so, where may engravings of them be found? |
42002 | and what was its original application? |
42002 | inquires the origin of the sign- boards of the"Blue Bell"and the"Blue Anchor?" |
42002 | or,"What use was it?" |
42002 | to the English throne, on which the royal arms are found with Scotland in the first quarter and England in the second? |
42002 | when Prince of Wales? |
28475 | (?) |
28475 | (?) |
28475 | ), from any other author? |
28475 | A. C._ Snail Gardens._--What are the continental enclosures called snail gardens? |
28475 | And are there any other letters employed as numerical than the M, D, C, L, V, and I? |
28475 | And what are the other curious carvings? |
28475 | Besides the editing of these MSS., who is so well qualified as Dr. Green to give us a good biography of Coleridge? |
28475 | But, perhaps, the authenticity of the_ Poems_ may at once be boldly denied? |
28475 | Can any of your correspondents contribute other examples? |
28475 | Can any of your correspondents inform me why so called? |
28475 | Can he give me any more communication concerning them? |
28475 | Can it be that_ iris_, not the pupil, is taken to represent an apple? |
28475 | Can the present representative of the family of Roberts give any farther information respecting Thomas Lord Lyttelton''s manuscripts? |
28475 | Did he do so? |
28475 | Does he think cyanide of potassium would do as well as the iodide, to redissolve the iodide of silver, iodide of potassium being at present so dear? |
28475 | Does not this look much like the_ suppressio veri_ which follows close on the footsteps of the_ assertio falsi_? |
28475 | For whom? |
28475 | From what event or occasion? |
28475 | Has any light been thrown on the Anglo- Saxon term? |
28475 | How can it be addressed to him?_ W. W.( Malta)_ has our best thanks for his letter of the 25th of June. |
28475 | I now ask MR. COLLIER, on what authority were these emendations adopted? |
28475 | I would ask, therefore, Why carved? |
28475 | In what publication or in what form did the executors of Thomas Lord Lyttelton disown the_ Letters_ and_ Poems_? |
28475 | Is it known who was the editor of the_ Poems_ published in 1780? |
28475 | Is the print of old Jacob Bobart, by W. Richardson,_ valuable_? |
28475 | Is there any collection extant? |
28475 | Is there any pedigree of the family? |
28475 | Is there anything in this, or is it fortuitous? |
28475 | Is this the case? |
28475 | J. Craig._"The Query I would more particularly ask is( presuming the accuracy of the assertions), What is the prophecy so wonderfully fulfilled? |
28475 | Lastly, Is any letter known to exist in the public journals of the years 1770, 1771, under the signature of ARUSPEX? |
28475 | Query, How is this made out? |
28475 | The duke, somewhat surprised, asked what that meant? |
28475 | The important Query therefore at once arises,_ what became of these manuscripts, and were they destroyed or preserved_? |
28475 | Theobald says,''But why_ shoes_, in the name of propriety? |
28475 | There is a portrait of Jacob Bobart the younger in_ Oxford Almanack_ for 1719; can I procure it? |
28475 | WAS THOMAS LORD LYTTELTON THE AUTHOR OF JUNIUS''S LETTERS? |
28475 | Whence did Mr. Teale get these lines? |
28475 | Where can I pick up a print of him by Loggan del., Burghers sculp.? |
28475 | Why called"Tom Thumb''s House?" |
28475 | Why does he prohibit_ washed_ ether? |
28475 | _ A Scale of Vowel Sounds._--Can any correspondent tell me if such scale has anywhere been agreed on for scientific purposes? |
28475 | _ George Wood of Chester._--Of what family was George Wood, Esq., Justice of Chester in the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1558? |
28475 | explain the meaning of the following inscription? |
28475 | or may not the word be a corruption of_ Maghrabee_, which is, I think, a foreign name given to this wandering race? |
28475 | tell me where I can see Hupfeld,_ Von der Natur und den Arten der Sprachlaute_, which is quoted by several German authors? |
31690 | _ The Village Lawyer._--Can you inform me who is the author of that very popular farce,_ The Village Lawyer_? |
31690 | (?) |
31690 | Are these names vernacular in any of the modern Indian languages? |
31690 | Bryant says it was called by the natives_ Damasec_ and_ Damakir_, the latter meaning the city( Caer?) |
31690 | Can any of your correspondents north of the Tweed, or elsewhere, give the correct source? |
31690 | Can it have once been Adama, or Dama- asca? |
31690 | Could one of your correspondents oblige me with a correct pedigree of this Mary Leigh; she is sometimes called"Mabel?" |
31690 | Here I repeat the question, is the word vernacular, or only adopted? |
31690 | How has Mr. Green discharged the duties of this solemn trust? |
31690 | I have somewhere heard it said that the 28th( an English regiment) were once armed with swords, whence their name of"The Slashers?" |
31690 | I should also like to know the origin of the custom of wearing undress_ white_ shell jackets, which are now worn by the Highlanders? |
31690 | Is it an established fact, that the translators revised their work in 1613? |
31690 | Is this the real origin of the name? |
31690 | John Dixon, holding forth against this custom once, in a sermon at Kelso, says:''Sirs, do you know what hagmane signifies? |
31690 | Kyle- aska? |
31690 | Language, Cree? |
31690 | Locke(?). |
31690 | May I ask is there any list of the chaplains of King Charles I.? |
31690 | May I forward another instance of its being in early use, although not altogether in its modern acceptation? |
31690 | P. C. S. S. is very desirous to know where a list of these instruments can be consulted? |
31690 | Query, Are these two vernacular? |
31690 | Query, Tungouse- asca? |
31690 | See Dr. Jelf''s note,_ in loc.__ Dedeful_, operative? |
31690 | So may I say unto you[ Dr. Cole], that make so much of Gerson, Driedo, Royard, and Tapper: Have the learned men of your side none other doctors? |
31690 | Were the American nations originally of one tongue? |
31690 | What book that could interest more than Cranmer''s Great Bible of 1539, from whence our familiar Prayer- Book version of the Psalms is taken? |
31690 | What connexion was there between Edmund Brown and Anthony Brown of Tolthorp? |
31690 | What grander volume for simplicity and elegance of language, for true Anglo- Saxon idiom, than our present venerated translation? |
31690 | What is the small quarto of 1613 I have mentioned? |
31690 | When shall we get a good structureless paper? |
31690 | Which is right? |
31690 | Whom did he marry, and when? |
31690 | Wrington to her niece Frances Watkins Samuel or John?) |
31690 | Y. S. M._ Inn Signs._--As the subject of inns is being discussed, can any of your readers tell the origin of"The Green Man and Still?" |
31690 | Yeoman.| daughter of(?). |
31690 | _ Athens._--What is the origin of the term"violet- crowned city,"as applied to Athens? |
31690 | _ Bluck_,...(?) |
31690 | _ Enforcement_, effort? |
31690 | _ How can we forward a letter to this Correspondent?_ ENQUIRER. |
31690 | _ James Miller._--Who was Miller, mentioned by Warburton as a writer of farces about 1735? |
31690 | _ Sir Hugh Myddelton._--Where was Sir Hugh Myddleton buried? |
31690 | and has a monument been erected to his memory? |
31690 | and if not, what is? |
31690 | and, if so, what is their real meaning? |
31690 | or upon what other proof or authority these graves are so assigned to the Anglo- Saxons? |
31690 | said he;''have the women of these countries none other children?'' |
31690 | tell anything about the season? |
31690 | | baptized August 29, 1632. Who was he?) |
42821 | ).--I can not but express my surprise at the learned(?) |
42821 | ).--INQUIRER asks"Why the freedom of Edinburgh was conferred upon him?" |
42821 | ).--Is not_ mawkin_ merely a corruption for_ mannikin_? |
42821 | 1819. Who is"the poet?" |
42821 | And if there was, what arms did they bear? |
42821 | Can any of your correspondents explain the expression,"a worse face under a cork upon a bottle?" |
42821 | Can any one inform me whether the air is ancient or modern? |
42821 | Did this piece contain any account of his researches in libraries alluded to? |
42821 | Do the words admit two meanings? |
42821 | Do they not move, Hyperion- like, on high? |
42821 | How are we to reconcile these statements? |
42821 | How did the word acquire the meaning given to it in such a sentence? |
42821 | If so, has it ever been published? |
42821 | If then the mediæval effigies are alive, how can the costume be reconciled with their position? |
42821 | If there was such a family, was it in any way connected with any of the early proprietors of Belvoir Castle? |
42821 | Is anything known of a family of the name of Harryes or Harris of Orton, and what were their arms? |
42821 | Is anything known of such a person? |
42821 | Is this ceremony at all connected with the symbolism I have noticed? |
42821 | On the 1st JULY will be published, WHAT THINK YE OF CHRIST? |
42821 | That the pupil of Coleridge, and the author of_ Vital Dynamics_, will worthily acquit himself in this great field, who can question? |
42821 | The SECOND will be published on the 1st of AUGUST, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? |
42821 | The earliest extant at the present day? |
42821 | To which of J. H. Parker''s_ Parochial Tales_ does CHEVERELLS allude? |
42821 | Was he a naturalist too? |
42821 | Was there ever a family of the name of De Beauveir, De Beauvoir, or Beaver, of Tarwell, in Nottinghamshire? |
42821 | Were they not likewise sons of heaven and earth?" |
42821 | What but pre- Angeloism? |
42821 | What is the symbolism of this position? |
42821 | When and where did this occur, and what was the result? |
42821 | Where do their clothes come from? |
42821 | Where?] |
42821 | Why then should this poor choice be denied? |
42821 | Why, then, should a sculptor be now"cabin''d, cribb''d, confined, bound in,"by such inflexible conditions? |
42821 | Y. S. M._ Army Lists for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries._--Where are they to be found? |
42821 | _ Grammar School of St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester._--Can you give me the name of the master of the Grammar School of St. Mary de Crypt in 1728? |
42821 | _ Parochial Registers._--When and where were parochial registers first established? |
42821 | _ Quakers''Calendar._--What month would the Quakers mean by"12th month,"a century and a half since? |
42005 | Does the_ Man in the Moon_ look big, And wear a huger periwig; Show in his gait, or face, more tricks Than our own native lunatics? |
42005 | Foot it featly here and there And let the rest the burden bear? |
42005 | Was it a dream? 42005 _ The Lounger''s Common- place Book._"--Who was the editor of this work? |
42005 | ''Who made that wond''rous animal a Soph?'' |
42005 | ''_ Captain._ What are you about, Dick? |
42005 | ( either horologists or others) say when he lived? |
42005 | An Alumni Ædis Christi_ re- verâ_ fiant Canonici? |
42005 | An Procuratorum pedissequi recte nominentur Bull- dogs? |
42005 | By the way, how comes_ burden_ to be used in the sense of"chorus or refrain?" |
42005 | Can any of your numerous readers inform me if this stone could possibly be the tombstone of Thurstan, Archbishop of York? |
42005 | Can you say where the quotation is from?] |
42005 | De Academicorum in Venerabili domo Convocationis sedentium podicibus igneo quodam vapore calefaciendis:''Placetne vobis Magistri?'' |
42005 | Does such an office, or rather dignity, exist in any other case in the Anglican Church? |
42005 | H._ Edward Brerewood._--Is there any authenticated portrait extant of this learned mathematician? |
42005 | I then said to a gunner who was alleviating a gun,''Which of those columns do you mean to make run?'' |
42005 | In Chambers''_ Scottish Songs_, Edinburgh, 1829, p. 273. is a piece beginning--"And was you e''er in Crail toun? |
42005 | In fact, what is the origin of the numerous small freeholds into which our ancient manors are broken up? |
42005 | Is it a genuine narrative; and if so, where can I find a key to the initials? |
42005 | Is it the_ bourdon_, or big drone? |
42005 | Is_ Fresick_ a contracted form of_ Freswick_? |
42005 | Nummi ad ornandam faciem occidentalem Collegii Lincolniensis erogati unde comparati fuerint? |
42005 | Or did the said Elizabeth marry twice? |
42005 | Query, Can the above singular statement be verified? |
42005 | Quæstiones duæ: An Alumni Ædis Christi_ jure_ fiant Canonici? |
42005 | Respondetur serenissimæ Archiducissæ de Oldenburg quærenti:''What do the Fellows of All- Souls do?'' |
42005 | This passage surely does not imply that she_ died_ at Paris? |
42005 | What is the meaning of the terms_ obs_ and_ sols_? |
42005 | When did the practice of alienating lands by a piecemeal partition and sale commence? |
42005 | Which is correct? |
42005 | Would any of your correspondents kindly give me particulars of this monument, pedigree, and arms? |
42005 | _ Captain._ Thomas, what are you doing? |
42005 | _ Igo and ago_; And saw ye there clerk Fishington? |
42005 | _ Lamenther._--Who was the writer of the_ Life of Lamenther, written by herself_, published by subscription in 1771? |
42005 | _ Longfellow._--Could you inform me whether the name"Longfellow"may still be traced in any parts of England? |
42005 | _ Puto pro Chalcanthum, Vitriol, L._"Will this tally with the circumstances of the case? |
42005 | _ Quince._ Is all our company complete?'' |
42005 | _ The Gentleman''s Calling._--Can any one tell me who was the author of this book? |
42005 | and did a subinfeudatory lord possess the power of alienation? |
42005 | and if so, has it some reference to a settlement of the Frisians( anciently Fresians) on this coast? |
42005 | and, in that case, which was the first husband? |
42005 | fit, pessima,"in its present form? |
42005 | is probably thinking of Burns''lines"Written in a wrapper, inclosing a letter to Captain Grose,"& c.:"Ken ye aught o''Captain Grose? |
42005 | is"A Christmas Carol in honour of Maga, sung by the Contributors,"which begins thus--"When Kit North is dead, What will Maga do, Sir? |
42005 | or did they hear Float from those golden cells A sound, as of some psaltery near, Or soft and silvery bells? |
42005 | { 180}***** DO CONJUNCTIONS JOIN PROPOSITIONS ONLY? |
28194 | Quid levius calamo? 28194 What is lighter than a feather? |
28194 | _--Can you inform me who were the writers in the_ Lyra Apostolica_ who assumed the letters[ alpha],[ beta],[ gamma],[ delta],[ epsilon],[ zeta]? 28194 _--Is this word, which signifies here"a scarecrow,"merely a Norfolk pronunciation of_ mocking_? |
28194 | _--Was Sir John Bolle, of Thorpe Hall, near Louth, the hero of the_ Spanish Lady''s Love_? 28194 _--Was Weyland Wood in Norfolk the scene of the"Children in the Wood?" |
28194 | _--What is the origin of_ goloshes_, as the name of water- proof shoes? 28194 _--Will you kindly allow me to avail myself of your columns to correct an error in my translation of"Ingulph,"in Bohn''s_ Antiquarian Library_? |
28194 | A member of this Society having been met in mourning when one of the reigning family had died, was asked by one of the members how it so happened? |
28194 | Also, What connexion there is between this word and the Latin for it, which is seen on the college plate, in the words"In usum Portionistarum?" |
28194 | And can you inform me where an account of the circumstances attending this persecution( if there ever was such an one) can be found? |
28194 | And did it not, in times gone by, possess a royal residence? |
28194 | Are there any memoranda of Plowden''s six years''residence as Governor of New Albion( I have some of his residence in Virginia)? |
28194 | Balls; besides Sir John Laurence, Sir Bowyer{ 302} Worstley, Barrett,& c.? |
28194 | But has it any connexion with the tribe of North American Indians, the Goloshes? |
28194 | Can I get more definite facts about the misconduct of Francis? |
28194 | Can the date of the grant to Danby be ascertained? |
28194 | Can you give me any additional facts,_ dates_ especially, of events and births, deaths,& c.? |
28194 | Did the charter ever pass the_ Great Seal_? |
28194 | Does any one know of a like punishment being awarded in olden times, when the tender mercies of the law were cruel and arbitrary? |
28194 | Has it been used exclusively as a state prison? |
28194 | He is said to have served five years in Ireland: in what capacity? |
28194 | If so, where( in what localities), and what capacity? |
28194 | Is not the nursery term something more than a mere coincidence? |
28194 | Is the_ Latin_ original of the character in existence? |
28194 | On what authority? |
28194 | Query, Would he then be other than"Primus inter pares?" |
28194 | Quid meretrice? |
28194 | Quid pulvere? |
28194 | Quid vento? |
28194 | The Planets; Are they Inhabited Globes? |
28194 | There is an omission in the bounds given in the paper referred to: can I get an extract from the original entry of limits? |
28194 | Was it acted in a booth, or in a permanent theatre? |
28194 | Was there ever a theatre on Kennington Common? |
28194 | Were they of the same family with Sandford, Baron Mount Sandford? |
28194 | What I should wish to know is, who was this Odevaere, and where is his description of it to be found? |
28194 | What are( or rather_ were_, for I suppose they do not now exist) these_ privilegia_,_ immunitates_, and_ jura_? |
28194 | What is lighter than the wind? |
28194 | What is the evidence that he was in America from 1620 to 1630? |
28194 | What than womankind is lighter? |
28194 | When and where was Sir Edmund born? |
28194 | When did he arrive to attend to his property, and when was he imprisoned in the Fleet? |
28194 | Where did these parties"die, in America,"in 1634? |
28194 | Who was Beauchamp Plantagenet, the author of the tract on_ New Albion_, published in 1648? |
28194 | Who were Robert Evelin, Captain Young, and Master Miles, mentioned in that tract? |
28194 | Will some one of your numerous correspondents give me a little account of"the bothy system?" |
28194 | Would it be valid, if only passed under the private seal? |
28194 | Would some of your readers who study natural history be good enough to give me another instance? |
28194 | _ Chadderton of Nuthurst, co. Lancaster._--What crest did this family bear, and when did the family become extinct? |
28194 | _ Flasks for Wine- bottles._--When, and under what circumstances, did the common use of flasks in this country, for holding wine, go out? |
28194 | _ Mantelpiece: Mantelshelf: Mantelboard: Mantell and Brace._--What is the origin of this word, and whence came the thing? |
28194 | _ Quakers executed in North America._--Were there not several Quakers hanged in North America on account of their religious opinions? |
28194 | _ Spielberg, when built?_--When and by whom was the prison of Spielberg, in Moravia, built? |
28194 | _ Will this Correspondent let us see the papers respecting_ John Henderson? |
28194 | _ oblige me by lending me a copy of Sander''s_ History of Shenstone? |
28194 | i. e. an imitation of a man-- composed of coat, hat,& c. hung upon a cross bar of wood? |
28194 | may be able to inform me what were the arms, crest, and motto of the Cornwalls of London? |
28194 | referred to, and by whom the collections were made? |
31378 | _ Isle of Beauty._--Who was the author of"Isle of Beauty?" |
31378 | _ The Shipwrecked Lovers._--Can you give me any account of the following tragedy, where the scene of it is laid,& c.? |
31378 | ), and at p. 44. that_ The Duenna_ was brought out on the 21st of November, 1755( 1775?). |
31378 | 5%, 10%,& c.? |
31378 | Alhou Rinha? |
31378 | And farther, if not the latest, does not etiquette forbid such practice now? |
31378 | And if so, what was the language of such proclamation? |
31378 | Are these the only two instances of judges,_ qui olim fuere_, practising at the bar? |
31378 | Can any of your readers inform me why the freedom of Edinburgh was conferred upon him? |
31378 | Can any one inform me of any early printed authority for that story? |
31378 | Did any of them leave a son called James, born about 1690 or 1700? |
31378 | Did this ever take place at the coronation of English monarchs whose succession was not disputed? |
31378 | Edmund Lodge, the predecessor of Dawes in the Mastership of Queen Elizabeth''s Grammar School at Newcastle- upon- Tyne? |
31378 | HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED? |
31378 | Had the_ costume_, so usual in the portraits by Vandyke, become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of Windebanke''s letter? |
31378 | How was he related to Colonel Owen Rowe? |
31378 | I shall be much obliged if any correspondent can find out anything farther about the said"youth in Scotland?" |
31378 | If not, are they the latest? |
31378 | If your readers can give no information, who can? |
31378 | In 1846 I printed a little pamphlet with the following title:"Who was_ Jack Wilson_, the Singer of Shakspeare''s Stage? |
31378 | In the_ Life_ by G. G. S. are two glaring slips of the pen or of the press; at p. 8. it is said that Sheridan was born in the year 1771( 1751? |
31378 | Mr. Thoms''version of"Shakspeare''s Rime"was inserted( probably by our worthy Editor himself?) |
31378 | My first Query is, therefore, Have any manors been created in England since the passing of that statute? |
31378 | Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg for enlightenment? |
31378 | P. C. S. S._ Hiel the Bethelite._--What is the meaning of the 34th verse of the 16th chapter of the 1st Book of Kings? |
31378 | Query, a like instance? |
31378 | Query, in_ what_ modern editions is this imitation found? |
31378 | Query, is this true? |
31378 | Query, whose? |
31378 | The Duke replied,''Do you think I have been so long a pupil of Dr. Burnet''s without learning to be a hypocrite?''" |
31378 | The anecdote sounds well, and I am therefore curious to know who the governors and what the provinces? |
31378 | Then come to my pack, While I cry, What d''ye lack, What d''ye buy? |
31378 | This custom is still kept up, and there is always hard riding to reach the stone before the sun rises on Martinmas Day? |
31378 | V."Madam, come see what you lack? |
31378 | Was this sister called Grace? |
31378 | What are seamen''s tickets? |
31378 | What is the meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not find in any other writing of the period? |
31378 | What route did he take from the first to the second- named town, and what was the object of his visit? |
31378 | When did the phrase originate? |
31378 | Where have I seen it printed as follows, in_ six_ lines; and whence came the other four? |
31378 | Which of these two contradictory accounts is true? |
31378 | Who does not know, or, knowing, does not admire, his''Valse Elegante?'' |
31378 | Why does Mr. Carruthers leave out the_ third_? |
31378 | Why is it so designated? |
31378 | Will some kind correspondent inform me and others interested in the subject, where the information is to be found? |
31378 | _ Bruce, Robert._--Can you tell me the name of the author of the following little work? |
31378 | _ Edmund Lodge._--Can you give me the date of the death of Edmund Lodge, the herald? |
31378 | _ Proclamation for making Mustard._--Did Queen Elizabeth issue a proclamation for"the right of making mustard?" |
31378 | _ William Warner._--Where can any account be found of Warner the poet, the author of_ Albion''s England_? |
31378 | and to what particular use was it generally applied? |
31378 | be the publisher of any curious old wills, which might interest the general reader? |
30813 | :Has any bishop of the Western Church held the title of patriarch, besides the Patriarch of Venice? |
30813 | *****_ Wafers._--When and where were wafers invented? |
30813 | 7., which called forth the following remarks from Bishop Sandford? |
30813 | According to Elphinstone, the"Caufirs of Caubul"( Siah- posh?) |
30813 | Also, if any other plate of the Three Hats public- house, Islington, exists than that in the_ Gentleman''s Magazine_? |
30813 | And if in the affirmative, of what strength should it be? |
30813 | And if so, what is the origin of the custom? |
30813 | And in what consisted this exhibition? |
30813 | And what peculiar authority or privileges has he?" |
30813 | Are they not two distinct persons? |
30813 | Can any of our readers throw light upon this matter? |
30813 | Can any of your readers and correspondents, versed in"legendary lore,"reconcile the two different tales of which"Roland the Brave"is the hero? |
30813 | Can any of your readers give me an authority, from an old author, for the use of this or any similar verb? |
30813 | Can any of your readers tell me who these parties were, or any particulars about them? |
30813 | Can the passage be an interpolation of Lord Berners? |
30813 | Can you inform me whether this be the fact? |
30813 | Have these documents been examined? |
30813 | If so, what are they? |
30813 | Is not Dr. Forbes in error in ascribing the Ritter''s fate to Roland? |
30813 | Is the origin of Mark, a very common Jewish name, to be sought in the Celtic_ merch_, a horse? |
30813 | J. R. R._ Fawell Arms and Crest._--Could any correspondent tell me the_ correct_ arms and crest of Fawell? |
30813 | May I ask whether the words[ Greek: ho ermêneutai Petros] are to be considered as the words of St. John, or of his transcribers? |
30813 | May we not trace here both the article and the name? |
30813 | Or is Mrs. Hemans wrong in her version of the story? |
30813 | Or should the impressed sheet be entirely immersed in the developing fluid in place of being floated? |
30813 | Was this Ritter Toggenburg, the hero of Schiller''s ballad, the nephew of Charlemagne, Roland, who fell at Roncesvalles? |
30813 | What authority is there for this statement? |
30813 | What did the busy insect seek there? |
30813 | What is the fact? |
30813 | What is the title of his book? |
30813 | Who can doubt it? |
30813 | Why so rash has she ta''en the veil In yon Nonnenwerder''s cloister pale? |
30813 | Will any of your correspondents favour your other readers with some farther information on this subject? |
30813 | Would a real adherent of the Papal Church again express himself in the following_ unimpassioned_ manner? |
30813 | Would any_ real_ adherent of Rome so express himself? |
30813 | Would immersion, instead of floating on the gallo- nitrate solution, remedy the evil? |
30813 | Would you know how first he met her? |
30813 | _ Aristotle._--Where does Aristotle say that a judge is a living law, as the Law itself is a dumb judge? |
30813 | _ Celtic in Devon._--When was the Celtic language obsolete in the South Hams of Devon? |
30813 | _ Value of Money in the Seventeenth Century._--What are the data for comparing the value of money in the seventeenth century with its present value? |
30813 | and where may I find a copy? |
30813 | favour me with its etymology or meaning? |
30813 | in 1640, in 1660, in 1680, be considered equivalent to now? |
30813 | in his possession a Linnæan medal? |
30813 | inform me whether these customs have prevailed, or still prevail, in other counties? |
30813 | ix., p. 310., respecting the mounting of photographs? |
42003 | What conquests now will Britain boast, Or where display her banners? 42003 _ I could not love thee, dear, so much._"--Where are the following lines to be found? |
42003 | * Who is able to st[=a]de before me? |
42003 | * Who is able to stande before me? |
42003 | * Who is able to stande before me? |
42003 | * Who is able to stande before me? |
42003 | * Who is hable to stand before me? |
42003 | * Who is hable to stande before me? |
42003 | * who is able to stande before me? |
42003 | ------"Si deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt, Sic tibi pricipus( bus?) |
42003 | ------"Tempora( e?) |
42003 | A gang of robbers( the swell- mob of that day?) |
42003 | Are these last two lines in the_ Musarum Deliciæ_? |
42003 | Can any of your philological friends call to mind a similar version? |
42003 | Can any of your readers give an account of this ancient order? |
42003 | Can any of your sporting or antiquarian correspondents give me any authority for the former, and any information about the latter? |
42003 | Can you afford me any information on these points? |
42003 | How did this sign become so popular and which marquis was it whose popularity gained him immortality; and when lived he? |
42003 | I meant,"Is this the first notice of a German- tree- in- England?" |
42003 | Is it not rather the Latin form of_ Gaoithil_( pronounced_ Gael_ or_ Gaul_), the generic appellation of our Erse population? |
42003 | Is this custom observed in other places? |
42003 | On the title- page,"John Threlkeld''s Book:""Hujus in dominum cupius( as?) |
42003 | Or++ who hath geu[=e] me anything afore hande, that I maye rewarde him agayne? |
42003 | Or++ who hath geue me any thing aforehande, that I maye rewarde hym agayne? |
42003 | Or++ who hath geuen me any thyng afore h[=a]de, y^e I maye rewarde him agayne? |
42003 | Or++ who hath geuen me any thynge aforehande, that I maye rewarde him agayne? |
42003 | Or++ who hath gyuen me any thyng afore hande, that I maye rewarde hym agayne? |
42003 | Or++ who hathe gyuen me anye thynge afore hande, that I maye rewarde hym agayne? |
42003 | Query, Does any such book exist; and if so, where? |
42003 | Thirdly, Whether the Scotch believe that stone to have come from Ireland; and whether that belief in the owner of it being king existed in Scotland? |
42003 | What prelate was the chaplain to the Order? |
42003 | When I said,"Is this the first notice of a German tree in England?" |
42003 | When was that Order created? |
42003 | Where did he get his degree? |
42003 | Where did he live? |
42003 | Who was the first knight? |
42003 | Who was the last knight? |
42003 | Who were his chief dupes? |
42003 | Why is it not revived again? |
42003 | Why was it dissolved? |
42003 | Will E. C. H. be so kind as to inform me on this point? |
42003 | _ Hypocrisy,& c._--Can you inform me with whom originated the following saying:"Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue"? |
42003 | _ Vin''autem, Lector, aliquid penitius de hoc Corsilio rescire?_ adisis[_ sic_]_ P. |
42003 | and not"Is this the first notice- in- England of a German- tree?" |
42003 | and( if there is to be a change of position) why do the congregation_ stand_, and not_ kneel_, the usual posture of prayer in the Church of England? |
42003 | felici multa( i?) |
42003 | or are these four lines to be found anywhere in conjunction? |
42003 | or whether, as the legend runs, a similar kind of stone is found in the Arabian plains? |
42003 | what is the context? |
30641 | [ Greek: Pistis],_ unde deriv._--Scapula and Hederic both give[ Greek: peithô] as the root; but by what process is[ Greek: pistis] so obtained? |
30641 | ''And dar''st thou, minion,''quoth the queen,''thus article to me?'' |
30641 | ''So far, forsooth, as in me lay, I did,''quoth she,''withstand; But what may not so great a king by means or force command?'' |
30641 | 3. Who can forget the suggestion by Walter Scott, of"Drink, weary traveller, drink and_ pay_,"as a motto for the public- house at Flodden? |
30641 | Am I right in suspecting that this is equivalent to the expression,"Tell that to the marines,"so well known in our day? |
30641 | And also with any information concerning the births and deaths of the same? |
30641 | Are churchwardens compelled to place them over the chancel arch, or in any part of the building over which their jurisdiction extends? |
30641 | Are there any books published on the subject, and where are they to be had? |
30641 | Are they Inhabited Globes? |
30641 | Are they Inhabited Globes? |
30641 | Are they Inhabited Globes? |
30641 | By what chemical process may hay be converted into bread? |
30641 | Can any of your correspondents inform me in what language it is used in the Eastern Churches? |
30641 | Can any of your readers confirm or contradict this tradition? |
30641 | Can any one correct the following list of editions of the_ Anatomy of Melancholy_? |
30641 | Can anybody suggest another solution of the meaning of this expression? |
30641 | Can it be the same as"pitië?" |
30641 | Did she survive her husband and marry a second time; and, if so, what was his name? |
30641 | Does such a custom exist anywhere else, and what is the origin of it? |
30641 | G. I. S._ Fleas and Bugs._--Has the following explanation of an old saying ever been brought forward, and is it satisfactory? |
30641 | Has it any particular name? |
30641 | How could such an inscription have got into such a place? |
30641 | I am farther desirous of knowing if, in pursuance of his plan, Mr. Wallace_ dramatised_ any more of the Stuarts? |
30641 | Is the geological formation of the present block very difficult to ascertain? |
30641 | Is there any published record of the origin and progress of the Manchester Unity? |
30641 | Is this a fact? |
30641 | It is admitted that the Gospel is not very explicit respecting polygamy; and why so? |
30641 | K._ Albany Wallace._--Can any of your correspondents, familiar with the drama, tell me who this gentleman was? |
30641 | Pourquoi cette souffrance en le lisant? |
30641 | STYLITES says,"On what ground has polygamy become forbidden among Christians? |
30641 | The Planets; Are they Inhabited Globes? |
30641 | This circumstance leads us to inquire at what period, and with what English monarch, the custom of sending duplicate letters originated? |
30641 | What gave rise to the title of Odd Fellows? |
30641 | What objection is there to taking[ Greek: histêmi] as the root? |
30641 | Where; when; by whom? |
30641 | Which of these three accounts am I to believe? |
30641 | While on this subject, may I inquire the reason why the O''Briens quarter with their own arms the bearing of three piles meeting in a point? |
30641 | York, who lived about A.D. 1600 and 1640? |
30641 | [ 2] Who was the father of Simon de Gaunt, Bishop of Salisbury in 1300? |
30641 | _ Apropos_ of proverbial domestic entomology, is there more than lies on the surface in the elegant simile"As snug as a bug in a rug?" |
30641 | _ Barristers''Gowns._--What is the meaning of the lapel, or piece which hangs from the back of the barristers''gown? |
30641 | _ College Battel._--What is the derivation of a word peculiar to the universities,_ battels_: is it connected with_ batten?_ S. A. |
30641 | _ De Gurney Pedigree._--Can any of your readers inform me whether the following pedigree is correct, so far as it goes? |
30641 | _ Odd Fellows._--What is the origin of Odd Fellowship? |
30641 | _ Precedence._--Supposing an earl''s daughter marries a commoner, do her children by him take precedence as the earl''s grandchildren? |
30641 | _ Roman Roads in England._--Whose is the best treatise on the Roman roads in England? |
30641 | _ Royal Arms in Churches._--When were the Royal Arms first put up in churches? |
30641 | _ Snush._--When did this name cease to be used for_ snuff?_ I think I have met with it as late as the reign of Queen Anne. |
30641 | _"La Rochefoucauld._"Pourquoi La Rochefoucauld m''inspire- t- il une répugnance invincible? |
30641 | to which we have just referred? |
42782 | ''Behold the ring,''the shepherd cry''d;''Will Jenny be my charming bride? |
42782 | ''My dad and mammy''s fast asleep, My brother''s up, and with the sheep; And will you still your promise keep, Which I have heard you swear? |
42782 | ''s queen, Jane Seymour''s claim to a royal lineage? |
42782 | ).--Where are the descendants of this worthy family( Daubuz)? |
42782 | Also, where a copy of any description can be seen of the painted window in the said church? |
42782 | Also,_ where_ this very superior line:"Life is like a game of tables, the chances are not in our power, but the playing is?" |
42782 | And do we not know that Magdalene College is always called_ Maudlin_, and that_ Madeleine_ is the French orthography? |
42782 | And is it supposed that our present mode of pronouncing some words is taken from their spelling in books? |
42782 | And will you ever constant prove?'' |
42782 | And_ where_, in Campbell, is"A world without a sun?" |
42782 | Can any of your readers throw a further light upon this summary proceeding, as to the time, the book, or the parties? |
42782 | Can any one give me a reference to them? |
42782 | Can it have been done extensively in the ordinary words of the language? |
42782 | Chapman, the translator of Homer? |
42782 | Did he belong to the great French house of that name? |
42782 | For instance, how was the name of Wales supposed to have been pronounced four hundred years ago, or the name Walter? |
42782 | G. H._ La Bruyère._--What is known concerning the family of Jean de la Bruyère, author of_ Les Caractères_? |
42782 | Has any other MS. been discovered? |
42782 | Has it been elsewhere printed? |
42782 | Has it been translated into English, or has any English author noticed it? |
42782 | How comes it, then, that we write it with an_ o_ instead of an_ e_? |
42782 | How could two such different sounds as_ U_ and_ V_ now represent, come by the old printers both to be denoted by_ V_? |
42782 | Is there any rule known by which their pronunciation can be determined? |
42782 | May not such"play- ers"of pilgrimages have been called, in the vernacular of the times,_ play- sters_? |
42782 | Perhaps some of your readers may have met with the word in this sense? |
42782 | Query, what is the allusion here? |
42782 | The object of the present inquiry is to ascertain whether the same name, and thus spelled, is similarly applied in any families of Great Britain? |
42782 | There is described in the_ Thomas Catalogue_, p. 22. lot 236., an unpublished(?) |
42782 | What were his arms? |
42782 | Who would not, thinks the gentle reader, be a Raphael, a Rubens, or a Claude, when the metamorphosis may be effected for twelve postage- stamps? |
42782 | _ Can Bishops vacate their Sees?_( Vol. |
42782 | _ Fleshier of Otley._--What are the arms of Fleshier of Otley, Yorkshire? |
42782 | _ Martha Blount._--Is there any engraved portrait of this lady? |
42782 | _ Niágara, or Niagára?_( Vol. |
42782 | _ This_ I have seen quoted as from Jeremy Taylor, but_ where_? |
42782 | also the way for a stranger to go about it, who wants to spend as little money and time in the matter as is possible? |
42782 | and can any of your numerous correspondents give me reasonable hope of finding portraits of Mrs. Rackett and other connexions of Pope? |
42782 | be good enough to inform the undersigned where he can obtain, by purchase or by loan, the perusal of any part or parts of the above- mentioned work? |
42782 | very closely resembling our vernacular pronunciation? |
42782 | what wilt thou be When time hath sow''d a grizzle upon thee?" |
42782 | who are the authors of the undermentioned books, in his possession? |
42782 | { 41} May I ask you or some of your readers to give me an interpretation of the inscriptions? |
42786 | _ The Percy Anecdotes._--Who were the compilers of this excellent collection, published about thirty years ago? |
42786 | ''Do n''t you remember?'' |
42786 | ( sive Hippolyti?) |
42786 | A. G. W._ Newspapers._--Which is the oldest newspaper, town or country, daily or weekly, now published? |
42786 | Also, who the Gelkses were, and whether the family is represented now; and, if so, of what county they are? |
42786 | And if not, can give any other explanation of the term? |
42786 | Can any information be furnished from any custom- house in England as to the Sea Otter, Captain Niles? |
42786 | Can any meaning be given to the word? |
42786 | Can any of your correspondents explain this custom? |
42786 | Does it refer to_ these two chances_? |
42786 | From what source did Franklin derive this information? |
42786 | G. R._ York Mint._--Can any of your correspondents inform me of the names of the officers of the local mint at York, instituted about 1696? |
42786 | I would therefore wish to know from any of your correspondents whether this arises from taking away the size, or injuring the fibres of the paper? |
42786 | If so, will any of your readers be kind enough to direct me to any work which contains engraved outlines of such crania? |
42786 | In re- sizing, what is the kind of size and degree of strength generally made use of, and mode of application? |
42786 | Is anything more known of John Searson, and of his other valuable productions, either in Ireland or America? |
42786 | Is her existence ignored in the Hyde pedigree? |
42786 | Is it absolutely necessary for the preservation of the picture, that the size should be wholly removed from the paper? |
42786 | Is the full pedigree of this family anywhere to be had? |
42786 | Is the glossy appearance, observed in finished photographs, attained solely by use of the burnisher? |
42786 | Is this a tradition peculiar to this locality? |
42786 | May it not, however, be just possible that Tennyson did not mean_ anything_? |
42786 | Meanwhile, may I beg the forbearance of your more learned correspondents? |
42786 | PHILOSOPHUMENA ORIGENIS? |
42786 | Pray what is meant by"God''s marks?" |
42786 | Query, Are they still in existence? |
42786 | Query, Is it anywhere recorded that so widespread a rainfall has been previously noticed? |
42786 | Query, What was his Christian name? |
42786 | Query, Where is the first? |
42786 | Shall it be forwarded, or left at our Publisher''s?_ SHAKSPEARE. |
42786 | Should the hot iron, used for improvement of tone, be applied previous to the picture being re- sized, or as a finishing operation? |
42786 | W. H."_ Solid Men of Boston._"--Where are the verses to be found of which the following were part? |
42786 | What can this mean? |
42786 | What is albumenized paper? |
42786 | _ A nunting Table._--What is it? |
42786 | _ Hutter''s Polyglott._--Can any one inform me whether the following work was ever completed, or give me any particulars respecting it? |
42786 | and, if so, whether a paper prepared with starch, instead of size, would be better? |
42786 | inform me where the ballad is to be found, or if MS., give me a copy? |
42786 | used, I believe, by some in printing; and the mode of its preparation? |
42786 | with information hereon? |
42004 | ).--Is the Guide to the above by J. H. Dixon published? |
42004 | ).--What is the hand projecting under chancel arch, Brighton old church? |
42004 | ***** WAS SHAKSPEARE DESCENDED FROM A LANDED PROPRIETOR? |
42004 | A. C._ Egger Moths._--What is the derivation of the word"egger,"as applied to several species of moths? |
42004 | According to Freund,"Cui bono fuit= Zu welchem Zwecke, or Wozu war es gut?" |
42004 | Also, in what church, and in what year, did Lady Elizabeth Robinson, otherwise known as Betty of the Boith, serve the office of churchwarden? |
42004 | And what is the German or the Italian expression? |
42004 | C. Y._--Can you give me any information respecting the famous B. C. Y. row, as it was called, which occurred about fifty years ago? |
42004 | Can any of your correspondents, familiar with Scottish typographical curiosities, tell me who was the author, or authors, of these?] |
42004 | Can any one give some account of this curious instrument? |
42004 | Can you tell me what it is, or where it is to be found? |
42004 | Could this be the place of which his imagination had formed so fair a vision? |
42004 | Is there no chance, amid all these reprints, of our seeing Heywood, Crashaw, Southwell, Habington, Daniel, or Drummond of Hawthornden? |
42004 | Is this the book he wants? |
42004 | Is this the case? |
42004 | Is_ enfans perdus_ the idiomatic French equivalent, or is it only dictionary- French? |
42004 | J. Scott 153 Blackguard 153"Wurm,"in Modern German-- Passage in Schiller''s"Wallenstein"154 Was Shakspeare descended from a Landed Proprietor? |
42004 | Lardner''s_ Museum of_{ 163}_ Science and Art_, besides a farther portion of the inquiry,"The Planets, are they inhabited Worlds?" |
42004 | Literally, or more freely rendered, Who will be the gainer by it? |
42004 | May it not have been written by him? |
42004 | That is, To what purpose? |
42004 | The correct rendering of this phrase is undoubtedly that given by F. NEWMAN,"For the benefit of whom?" |
42004 | The syntax of this common phrase, with the ellipses supplied, is,"Cui homini fuerit bono negotio?" |
42004 | These lines suggest the Query, Is this term for the alphabet still in use? |
42004 | This curious production was"Printed at Elguze? |
42004 | Thus,_ e.g._:"The question''_ cui bono_,''to what practical end and advantage do your researches tend? |
42004 | To what person will it be an advantage? |
42004 | Verelst? |
42004 | Was William of Wykeham of the Family of Swalcliffe? |
42004 | What being is there nigh? |
42004 | What is meant by this? |
42004 | Who answers me? |
42004 | _ Bon._ After so many bright exploits be forced to restitution? |
42004 | _ Bon._ Knowest thou whether London will henceforth continue to resist? |
42004 | _ Bon._ Restitution of what I''ve got by true heroic feats and martial address? |
42004 | _ Bon._ What should I then be, that I think myself immortal? |
42004 | _ Bon._ What will be the fate of so much toil and trouble? |
42004 | _ Bon._ What will become of my people, already too unhappy? |
42004 | _ Bon._ What? |
42004 | _ Bon._ Whether Vienna and other Courts will oppose me always? |
42004 | _ Foreign Universities._--Is there any history of the University of Bologna? |
42004 | _ Not caring a Fig for anything._--What is the origin of this expression? |
42004 | _ Where shall we address a letter to this Correspondent?_ OXFORD JEU D''ESPRIT. |
42004 | and, if so, in what parts of the country? |
42004 | but it is generally used in such a manner as to make it indifferent whether that, or the corrupted signification"For what good?" |
42004 | now lie? |
42004 | or where can be found any account of the foundation and constitution of the foreign universities in general? |
42004 | or, For_ whose_ good? |
42004 | should I, like a coward vile, to compound be reduced? |
42004 | supply information respecting inn and other signs; or refer to any printed books, or accessible MSS., relating to the subject? |
42004 | to the English throne, on which the royal arms are found, with Scotland in the first quarter, and England in the second?" |
42004 | what must I expect after so many reverses? |
42037 | ''s death by the hand of Sir Walter Tyrrell rest? |
42037 | (_ Burton._) Does this stone exist? |
42037 | Are there any other well- authenticated instances of a similar usage? |
42037 | Birth, commanding position, intellect, learning, literary genius? |
42037 | But what has Dalrymple or Mr. Croker to say in answer to a question about Sydney''s way of life when abroad? |
42037 | But, it will be said, whence comes the full circle? |
42037 | Can any correspondent inform me the meaning of"Spy Wednesday,"it being a term I have never yet heard so applied? |
42037 | Can any one inform me where I can obtain a sight of this tract? |
42037 | Can either of your correspondents state whether Mr. Passemer''s work is known to be in existence? |
42037 | Everywhere the male is called"Jack,"and the female"Jenny;"are these also derived from the Hindoostanee? |
42037 | Has this derivation been suggested? |
42037 | How has this deviation from their text crept into an edition emanating from a University press? |
42037 | Is St. Wilfrid''s either of these? |
42037 | Is anything known of a collection of surnames made by Mr. Cole, the antiquary, in the last century? |
42037 | Is anything known of this affair, or is there any means of discovering the names of the colonial governors of that age? |
42037 | Is not that a trace of the old intercourse? |
42037 | Is there any view of it extant, and where is it to be seen? |
42037 | Is there any work exclusively upon them? |
42037 | May I suggest an origin for the crossed C? |
42037 | Or can any one suggest a better? |
42037 | Query, If ejected 1662? |
42037 | She declared, in her last hours, that_ he was the cause of her death_? |
42037 | The feeling which predominates in all his devotional papers, is that of gratitude; do we not find it also strikingly developed in his hymns? |
42037 | Tickell, in his exquisite elegy, so worthy of its subject, when asking,"What new employments please the unbody''d mind?" |
42037 | Was any religious edifice standing on this spot at that period? |
42037 | Were not the very hymns which we are speaking of in Tickell''s mind? |
42037 | What book gives any rational account of the origin of the Scottish clans, and their distinctive or family names? |
42037 | What is the best compendious gazetteer or topographical dictionary of Normandy extant? |
42037 | What is the etymology of the word_ devil_? |
42037 | What is the real meaning of_ worth_, which forms the final syllable of so many surnames? |
42037 | What makes a man illustrious? |
42037 | When was the old Market Cross, at Bury St. Edmunds, taken down? |
42037 | Which is correct of these two authorities? |
42037 | Who are these_ two_ sons? |
42037 | William Rufus would be one of them; but who is the other? |
42037 | _ A Row on the River Thames._--Plusieurs bateliers de Londres qui menèrent le Roy esbatre à_ Ride- Ride_[ Redriff_ alias_ Rotherhithe?] |
42037 | _ Market Crosses._--Have these interesting crosses occupied the attention of any one? |
42037 | _ Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph._--To what family belonged John Owen, Bishop of St. Asaph, mentioned in Winkle''s_ Cathedrals_ with so much honour? |
42037 | _ Romances._--Tassin, pour 1_ Romans de Renart_[ a burlesque poem, by Perrot de Saint Cloot or Saint- Cloud?] |
42037 | _ The Surname Bywater._--Can any of your correspondents furnish me with particulars relating to the surname"_ Bywater_?" |
42037 | _ Will our Correspondent specify the communications to which he refers? |
42037 | and can farther information about this rock be afforded? |
42037 | and can they also favour me with the loan of the pamphlet for a month? |
42037 | v., p. 436., in_ All''s Well that ends Well_,_ infinite cunning_ for"insuite comming,"of the folio 1623, is to be met with? |
28478 | Who knows but my availing myself of the means to do the prince my master a service, may come back to me in the shape of some advancement? |
28478 | _--Is there any prospect of Mr. Adamson continuing his_ Lusitania Illustrata_? 28478 ***** WAS COOK THE DISCOVERER OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS? 28478 108 Was Cook the Discoverer of the Sandwich Islands? 28478 According to the literal meaning, it would seem that the Laird of Brodie was something less than a gentleman? 28478 Also, in what respect Limerick was formerly superior to Dublin? 28478 And how does MR. COLLIER explain this misprint? 28478 And when did he live? 28478 And when they were gone he said,What did you see me eat, Elly?" |
28478 | And whichever it is, what is the reason for its being so? |
28478 | Archdeacon Wrangham says:"Duncombe(?) |
28478 | Besides, what can he mean by speaking of a sloth"the size of a large bear?" |
28478 | But who then was the decapitated man? |
28478 | Can any of your correspondents add to the above names, or throw a light upon their origin? |
28478 | Can any of your correspondents favour me with a copy of it? |
28478 | Can any of your correspondents inform me where the virtuous and patriotic William Lord Russell was buried? |
28478 | Can any of your readers give any information about it? |
28478 | Can any of your readers inform me who this Lady Durham was? |
28478 | Can he speak? |
28478 | Company''s ship"Degrave,"whose wreck upon Madagascar I take to be an undoubted fact? |
28478 | G._ Shape of Coffins._--It would be interesting to ascertain in what localities any peculiar form of coffin is used? |
28478 | Has any such letter been published, and, if so, what is the opinion of its genuineness? |
28478 | If to the_ East_ it would have been more intelligible; but why to the West? |
28478 | Is Mr. Bateman''s MS. in a hand indicating so early a date? |
28478 | Is it a known badge of the Savoy family? |
28478 | Is not this a mistake? |
28478 | Is there any authentic memoir of this delightful poetess? |
28478 | Is there any other engraved portrait of her in existence beside the one annexed to the several editions of her poems? |
28478 | J. D._ Where is the sentence of which you ask an explanation to be found? |
28478 | Know man from man? |
28478 | Mr. Palmer, minister of the Temple Church, and who was afterwards Dean of Gashel; or had Sir Joshua any other nephew? |
28478 | My object in writing the above is for the purpose of asking what publication the_ Spendthrift_ really was, and where it can be purchased or seen? |
28478 | Now who was William Billyng? |
28478 | One of Bishop Patrick''s granddaughters, Penelope, married Edward Weston, Under- Secretary of State, of Corkenhatch( Herts?). |
28478 | Penelope Jephson was daughter of Sir Cornelius(?) |
28478 | Query, Who was he, and are there any descendants of this marriage? |
28478 | Then why not a good deed_ turn back_ to reward the doer? |
28478 | What can be more natural? |
28478 | What has become of the letter from M. de St. Mars, said to have been discovered some years ago, confirming this last hypothesis? |
28478 | What herald can say this without bastardising the second Earl of Northumberland? |
28478 | What is this problem? |
28478 | What possible reason can there be for converting"force and knowledge,"in p. 506., to"sense and knowledge?" |
28478 | What so probable as this recognition, in a small provision for a man in his old age, whose misfortunes commenced while in their service? |
28478 | What was the name of Sir Walter''s eldest son, and whom did he marry? |
28478 | When did her husband Mr. Tighe die? |
28478 | Whence this line? |
28478 | Whence? |
28478 | Whom did Sir Walter Heveningham marry? |
28478 | _ French Abbés._--What was the precise ecclesiastical and social_ status_ of a French Abbé before the Revolution? |
28478 | and is there any evidence, besides what this passage may afford, in favour of Dr. Johnson''s assertion, that Newton_ set out_ as an infidel? |
28478 | and was the statue by Flaxman? |
28478 | as"the Mayor Bromicham?" |
28478 | dispute his own estate?" |
28478 | hear? |
28478 | that it is stated"by all ancient heralds"that this lady died without issue? |
42787 | The thynge_ yttes_(_ ytte is?_) moste bee_ yttes_ owne defense. |
42787 | _ Mater ait natæ._--Where can the following lines, thus"Englished by Hakewill,"be found? |
42787 | _--Can any of your contributors inform me of any bibliographical notice of Bishop Patrick''s_ Parable of a Pilgrim_? 42787 :When Good Friday falls in a Lady''s lap, To England will happen some mishap,"or to whom the prophecy( I hope a false one) may be attributed? |
42787 | Alphonso Horne Tooke? |
42787 | And why? |
42787 | Are these fables wholly modern or not? |
42787 | Boscardo James Boswell, Esq.? |
42787 | But what is the meaning of_ libera_, in the first verse? |
42787 | Can any of your correspondents explain them? |
42787 | Can any of your readers kindly inform me in what the celebrity of this animal consists, that Mr. Jessie takes for granted is so well known? |
42787 | Can no earlier authority be given for it than that of_ The World_ in 1753? |
42787 | Did Cardinal Bentivoglio visit England in person, or how did he collect his information? |
42787 | Does the writer of the MS. corrections occasionally give reasons in support of the changes proposed? |
42787 | Has it ever been printed? |
42787 | I have often heard the phrase familiarly in my youthful days; may I ask of you to inform me of its origin? |
42787 | I think there were but one or two more: but who were they? |
42787 | If in honour of an officer commanding the corps, was the name changed when that officer died or removed to another regiment; or what was the rule? |
42787 | Is it derived from the Latin_ rogare_? |
42787 | Is it nearly equivalent to_ inobservata_, and does it denote the absence of the prying curiosity of men? |
42787 | Is it possible it may have been removed to England, and still to be found in one of the public collections? |
42787 | Is the distinction one which obtains generally; and what is the earliest mention of curtseys in any writer on English affairs? |
42787 | It may serve to probe the matter of_ age_ to ask, Who was"the old Spanish author"alluded to? |
42787 | Malvolio Payne Knight or Townley? |
42787 | May I ask likewise, if it is known who was the author of this not very refined or elegant composition? |
42787 | Now, what is the rule for ascertaining the_ numbers_ of these, and other old regiments, in the British army at the present day? |
42787 | Pontevallo Duke of Bridgewater? |
42787 | Query, For fairies, read witches?) |
42787 | Query, Was this collect to be repeated from December 25 to March 24? |
42787 | Was it according to the length of time it had been embodied? |
42787 | What is the explanation of this phenomenon? |
42787 | What is the guide now, in identifying a_ named_ with a_ numbered_ regiment? |
42787 | What was the origin of giving British regiments the_ name_ of a certain officer, instead of_ numbering_ them as at present? |
42787 | What was the rule or principle laid down in giving any regiment a certain_ number_? |
42787 | Who can doubt after that? |
42787 | Will some of your bibliographical correspondents inform me if my surmise is correct? |
42787 | _ Curtseys and Bows._--Why do ladies curtsey instead of bow? |
42787 | _ Daughters of St. Mark._--How many were adopted as daughters of the Republic of St. Mark? |
42787 | _ Egg- shells._"Always poke a hole through your eggshell before you throw it away."--Why? |
42787 | _ Harvest Spider._"The_ harvest- man_ has got four things on its back,--the scythe, the rake, the sickle, and[ Query the fourth?] |
42787 | _ How can a letter be addressed to this Correspondent?_ J. O.,_ who inquired respecting_ Johanna Southcote. |
42787 | _ How can we forward a letter to him?_ MOUSEY. |
42787 | _ Kentish Fire._--What is the origin of the term"Kentish fire,"signifying energetic applause? |
42787 | _ Mediæval Parchment._--In what way did mediæval illuminators prepare their parchment? |
42787 | _ Rosary._--What is the origin of the term_ rosary_? |
42787 | _ When_ did the present mode of_ numbering_ regiments begin; and by whom was it introduced? |
42787 | and if so, what has become of Hone''s MSS., and the large collection he made on the subject of parody? |
42787 | changed into an[ Greek: epithesis cheiros]? |
42787 | say which Campbell is the author, and when and where the hymn was first printed? |
42001 | ), made the note before? |
42001 | ).--What does the"old English Homily"mean by"a womanne who was the secunde personne of the Trinetee?" |
42001 | And when did it cease to exercise corporate rights, and why? |
42001 | Can any of your correspondents say when or where? |
42001 | Can any of your readers assist me in this matter? |
42001 | Can any of your readers explain? |
42001 | Did he take us for a Lavater or a Spurzheim? |
42001 | Does not the_ high blood_ of the"city merchant"of the present clay, of the"gentleman"of the Stock Exchange, curdle at the thought? |
42001 | Echo, thou that mock''st a voice? |
42001 | He was going to his church; would we accompany him? |
42001 | How can I find out his pedigree? |
42001 | Is the solution first poured on the paper, and then equally diffused over it with the rod? |
42001 | J. G. F._ Does"Wurm,"in modern German, ever mean Serpent?_( Vol. |
42001 | May I append a Query to my reply? |
42001 | Philip Morant? |
42001 | The Planets: Are they Inhabited Worlds? |
42001 | The following Subjects will form Early Numbers of the Work: The Planets: are they Inhabited Globes? |
42001 | To whom does this refer, and what are the particulars? |
42001 | Was_ The Nightingale_ published with a frontispiece? |
42001 | We came away, shall we say better in mind? |
42001 | We found it then there, Sir; will you make the Note? |
42001 | Well, we were then asked by the worthy Incumbent,"Would you not like to see my head?" |
42001 | What church preferment did he hold, where did he die, and where was he buried? |
42001 | What is the origin of this name having been given to the said clump of trees? |
42001 | When Byron wrote his opening line to_ The Bride of Abydos_, he did not probably think of Göthe''s"Könnst du das Land wo die Citronen blühen?" |
42001 | When was the English soldier first dressed in red? |
42001 | Whether it is a fact that the Bourbons turned out the imperial furniture from Fontainebleau and other palaces after their return? |
42001 | Who has not heard, for instance, of the"Boy of Hilton?" |
42001 | Who was this"ingenious man"? |
42001 | _ Berkhampstead Records._--Where are the records of the now extinct corporation of Great Berkhampstead, co. Herts, incorporated 1618? |
42001 | _ Echo._ Ill.{ 52}_ Gl._ Will''t hurt me if I drink too much? |
42001 | _ Gl._ But is''t a thing which profit brings? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Dost thou condemn then what I do? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Dost thou no gluttons virtuous know? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Is''t this which brings infirmities? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Is''t this which dulls the sharpest wit? |
42001 | _ Gl._ May I not, Echo, eat my fill? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Shall I therein finde ease and pleasure? |
42001 | _ Gl._ To minde or bodie? |
42001 | _ Gl._ What? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Whither will''t bring my soul? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Who''s that which giveth me the lie? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Will it make me vigorous until death? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Will it my life on earth prolong? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Will''t bring me to eternall blisse? |
42001 | _ Gl._ Wouldst have me temperate till I die? |
42001 | _ Lysons''MSS._--Is the present repository of the MS. notes, used by Messrs. Lysons in editing their great work, the_ Magna Britannia_, known? |
42001 | _ Portrait of Plowden._--Is any portrait of Edmund Plowden the lawyer known to exist? |
42001 | _ The Alibenistic Order of Freemasons._--Can any of your readers, masonic or otherwise, inform me what is meant by this order of Freemasons? |
42001 | and if so, where? |
42001 | and was the author of such scandalous letter ever discovered and prosecuted? |
42001 | canst tell? |
42001 | or to both? |
42791 | The Footman won the Lady''s heart; And who can wonder? 42791 _ A Screw._"--Why should a broken- down horse be called"a screw?" |
42791 | ).--Will J. F. F. allow me the favour of his address, to enable me to transmit to him some papers relating to the Gookins? |
42791 | 1092- 1153.)? |
42791 | And, if so, when did the family become extinct? |
42791 | Can any of your readers assist me upon these points, either through your journal, or addressed to me at Stoke Newington? |
42791 | Could any of your numerous correspondents furnish me with the author''s name? |
42791 | Did a similar use of the instrument prevail in other places about the same period? |
42791 | Did they leave descendants? |
42791 | I shall be much obliged to any of your readers who can inform me where this journal, or any other, of the proceedings of the Assembly can be procured? |
42791 | Is it because he has"a screw loose,"or because a force equivalent to the screw- propeller must be applied to make him go? |
42791 | Is neither the place nor month known? |
42791 | Is this pronunciation of the word_ put_ an Irishism? |
42791 | Lowell being nothing more nor less than a snare, may not"Peace, gentle lowbell,"mean"Peace, gentle ensnarer?" |
42791 | May not this also serve to explain what is considered as a puzzling term in Beaumont and Fletcher? |
42791 | Might not_ Stephen_ and_ Robert_ be brothers? |
42791 | Nathaniel Gilbert mentioned by Mrs. Flannigan? |
42791 | Need I offer an apology for introducing a_ third_ inscription? |
42791 | Query, What were the"capellæ de nervis de Pampilon depictæ?" |
42791 | The meaning is plainly: Will he go farther on? |
42791 | Was it this Robert de Turneham whose wife was Joanna Fossard, who, about the year 1200, founded the Priory of Grosmont, near Whitby, in Yorkshire? |
42791 | Was salt a scarce article in the midland counties in those days? |
42791 | What is the_ rationale_ of the chemical action upon the hyposulphite of soda? |
42791 | What were these privileges, and whence was the term_ campvere_ derived? |
42791 | When and where was the first salt- mine established in England? |
42791 | Where is this painting now to be found, or is any engraving from it known? |
42791 | Where was he buried? |
42791 | Who first made the blunder of changing the_ u_ into_ n_? |
42791 | Why should the king except the then most illustrious states, which, as being republics, were the more truly inheritors of the Roman grandeur?" |
42791 | Will he travel_ higher_, or return again into France?" |
42791 | _ Campvere, Privileges of._--May I ask the kind assistance of any of your readers on the following subject? |
42791 | _ Conway Family._--Is it true that Sir William Konias( founder of the Conway family) was Lord High Constable of England under William the Conqueror? |
42791 | _ Frescheville Family._--In what work may be found the tradition, that the heir of the family of the House of Frescheville never dies in his bed? |
42791 | _ Hibernicis Hibernior._--Whence, and what the proper form of this proverbial expression? |
42791 | _ How can we address a letter to this Correspondent?_ A. C. W._ The_ yolk_ of an Egg is the_ yelk,_ or yellow of the egg. |
42791 | _ Poisons._--What are supposed to have been the_ poisons_ used for bouquets, gloves,& c., in the time of Catherine de Medici, and her friend René? |
42791 | _ The Witch Countess of Morton._--Can any one give me any information about a Countess of Morton who was called"The Witch?" |
42791 | _ i.e._ where is his epitaph( which is given in Heber''s_ Life Of Jeremy Taylor_) to be seen? |
42791 | and his male descendants, or any references to such account? |
42791 | inform me of the latest period at which this instrument of punishment for scolds is recorded to have been used{ 261} in England? |
42791 | refer me to any notice of this club, which existed about a century back in the city of London? |
42791 | vi., p. 151., I beg to ask where and when he was born? |
42791 | vi., p. 434.? |
42791 | whether an Englishman or American? |
42791 | { 262} John Thornholme, of Gowthorpe, near York, to whom arms were granted Sept. 11, 1563, was probably not of the same family? |
42785 | ''What will you do for me, brave boys? 42785 Turnham Green, 16th June[ 1781?]. |
42785 | Also, inform me whether there has been any family of that name? |
42785 | Also, where is the first mention of Banbury cakes? |
42785 | And have they substituted nitrate of zinc for glacial acetic acid, as recommended in a French work, with any success? |
42785 | And now, what think you of noticing this matter in regard to truth, and the fair fame of the honest bookseller?" |
42785 | Are there any genealogical records concerning them? |
42785 | Can any of your correspondents supply the remainder of the prayer; or tell me where it is to be found, or who was the author? |
42785 | Can any of your readers tell us who was"Bognie;"what was his"carriage,"and what the connexion between it and"decks?" |
42785 | Can any reader of your valuable Notes give any further explanation of the word, or of its origin at Bury? |
42785 | Can your correspondent refer me to the play in which there is some sneer that"the housemaid is cousin to an Irish peer?" |
42785 | Have any of your readers substituted iodide of ammonium for iodide of potassium, in preparing paper, collodion,& c., and with what success? |
42785 | How long will the plate retain its sensitiveness after exciting? |
42785 | How may they be forwarded?_ ROSA,_ who asks about_ Men of Kent and Kentish Men,_ is referred to our_ 5th Vol., p. 322. |
42785 | I beg to add a parallel from Burns:"What is life, when wanting love? |
42785 | I wish to ask whether it may be dried quickly by the fire, or must it be dried spontaneously by suspension,& c.? |
42785 | In conclusion, what is the average time with single achromatic lens, six or seven inch focus, to allow to get a good picture? |
42785 | Is the plate( while roasting, according to the process of Messrs. Thompson and Ross) nearly perpendicular in the process? |
42785 | Is there any record of a member of this family settling in Ireland, county of Kilkenny, about the middle of the seventeenth century; his name,& c.? |
42785 | May I give a short specimen of one of his letters filled up? |
42785 | May the same sensitive bath be used for a number of plates without renewing, in the same way as silver bath for collodion? |
42785 | Pray, to what is allusion made? |
42785 | Query, In what year was this act passed, and has the permission then granted ever been annulled? |
42785 | The first question then is this, Were they printed before or after the 13th of April, when Wotton''s letter was written? |
42785 | Thence arises another discussion; were they Pope''s or Hill''s? |
42785 | What are their arms? |
42785 | Where is also the ancient( and formerly very extensive) parish of Crostin? |
42785 | Will any of your botanical readers give me the proper name of the plant? |
42785 | Will any of your readers be good enough to inform me which of those gentlemen was the real_ Simon Pure_, and what induced the alteration of name,& c.? |
42785 | Will photographers who are chemists turn their attention to obtain sensitive dry glass plates? |
42785 | Will the iodized albumen, for giving the film, keep; and how long? |
42785 | _ Epitaph_ in Tynemouth churchyard:"Wha lies here? |
42785 | _ Grindle._--What is the true meaning of this word, and are any other parts of the kingdom called thus? |
42785 | _ Shearman Family._--Is there a family named either Shearman or Spearman in Yorkshire or in Wales? |
42785 | _ Whimsical Bequest._--Is the following cutting from the_ Ipswich Journal_ of January 8th, 1853, worth preserving in your pages? |
42785 | and also of the"Giant Arum,"which the same people call the king or chief of plants? |
42785 | furnish me with any particulars of this family; whether they bore arms, and what they were? |
42785 | is that thou? |
42785 | taken off and_ immediately_ blotted? |
42785 | this luminary glows no more till 1808, when he had''on the line''(?) |
42038 | _ Love me, love my Dog._--Whence comes this proverb? |
42038 | _ Squire Vernon''s Fox Chase._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to a copy of the ballad called"Squire Vernon''s Fox Chase?" |
42038 | _ Stunt with false care._--Where are the following lines, quoted by Charles Villiers in one of his corn- law speeches, to be found? |
42038 | ; and can any one inform me for what purpose or with what intention the book was written? |
42038 | A. H. L., who asks"if there are any representations of St. Christopher in painted glass; and if so, where?" |
42038 | Also, if ancient or modern history records any such wonderful attributes in reference to a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter? |
42038 | Are the lawyers so attractive that the devotions of the fair sex would be interrupted? |
42038 | Are there any other instances of ladies of the same rank being styled Baronet about this time? |
42038 | Are there traces of any scandals confirming this suspicion? |
42038 | Besides, not to mention other incongruities, how would it fit a man, growing in years, to be company for a pack of young clerks? |
42038 | Can any of your correspondents favour me with the following particulars:--Is the tankard still in existence, and has it been ever engraved? |
42038 | Can any of your correspondents give the names of the other ten? |
42038 | Can any of your readers enlighten my darkness on the above, or on any other seventh of a seventh? |
42038 | Can any of your readers inform me from what source Brand derived this idea? |
42038 | Could any one have supposed that a poet, and a writer on poetical literature, should be ignorant of the best known poetical name of the last century? |
42038 | Did Louis intend a pun between_ Bastide_ and_ Bastille_? |
42038 | Does Coleridge mean that the inferior animals may have language? |
42038 | Does Coleridge mean to tell us that bees and ants have the same faculty( understanding) as dogs and elephants? |
42038 | Does Coleridge, then, mean us to understand him as saying, that many of the brutes can reflect, abstract, and generalise? |
42038 | E. A. H. L._ Custom of Women wearing Masks in the Theatre._--When did this custom originate? |
42038 | Has not some part of it, the beard or otherwise, been spun and wove? |
42038 | Has this collection been dispersed? |
42038 | Have there been any brasses taken away( of which the_ matrices_ have been also removed); and if so, in whose possession are they at the present time? |
42038 | If so, in what work? |
42038 | Irregular as the practice would be, have not other irregularities equally glaring-- baptisms, for instance-- too often taken place in drawing- rooms? |
42038 | Is 1769 a_ lapsus_ for 1679? |
42038 | Is it not the same fish from which what is called mother- of- pearl is taken? |
42038 | Is the_ Nacar_ the true name, or only local; and, if so, what is the scientific appellation? |
42038 | Is there any reason to believe that there is any connexion between_ frebord_ and free- warren? |
42038 | Is there any record in the college books to show in what year, and upon what occasion, it was presented? |
42038 | Is there no mistake in the date of the affidavit quoted by Mr. Taylor? |
42038 | Is this so? |
42038 | R. S._ The Death Watch._--Has there appeared in any of your former Numbers a Note upon the popular, but now exploded"death watch?" |
42038 | The quotations I have produced on the question, Which are_ the Three Estates of the Realm_? |
42038 | Was Sir John Mason, who died Treasurer of the Chamber,& c., 21st April, 1566, Chancellor of_ the Duchy of Lancaster_? |
42038 | Was not Mrs. Van Butchell, to whom MR. GATTY refers, to be seen some years ago in her glass case in the College of Surgeons? |
42038 | Where was buried Anne Palmer, alias Fitzroy, Countess of Sussex? |
42038 | Who is the author of the above lines? |
42038 | Who, of your many able correspondents, will assist me in unravelling this complicated tissue? |
42038 | Why, how now, Browne; what''s the matter? |
42038 | _ Brass of Abbot Kirton; Matrices._--When was the brass of Abbot Kirton, in Westminster Abbey, removed? |
42038 | _ Can Bishops vacate their Sees?_( Vol. |
42038 | _ Milton''s(?) |
42038 | account for the very prevalent misuse of the word_ restive_ or_ restiff_? |
42038 | and is there any account or tradition of a similar impostor in any other county of England? |
42038 | and where was she buried? |
42038 | encourage me to believe in the genuineness of this relic? |
42038 | or where is it now? |
42038 | states, that George III., when Dr. Markham inquired"how his Majesty would wish to have the princes treated?" |
42038 | { 539}_ Winchester College._--Who wrote the account of Winchester College in Ackermann''s_ History of the Public Schools_? |
42792 | What, so soon returned? |
42792 | What,''Solve senescentem?'' |
42792 | ).--Is this Query put in reference to the individual or the race? |
42792 | 277.)? |
42792 | And also in what work I can find any detailed account of such act of manumission? |
42792 | And to this last word Tyrwhit, in his Glossary, gives"rend?" |
42792 | Are there any literary remains of the bishop to be met with anywhere? |
42792 | C. S._ Ink._--From the following lines by Whitehead, which I find in my note- book, I am induced to ask who was the inventor of ink? |
42792 | Can any of your correspondents account for it on philosophical principles, or disprove it experimentally? |
42792 | Did a branch of the family settle in Staffordshire, and where? |
42792 | Did they issue any medals? |
42792 | Do any lodges of this society still exist? |
42792 | Do they, or did they, wear any badges? |
42792 | Dr. Bill''s only daughter and heiress, Mary Bill, was married to Sir Francis Samwell: had she any family, and did they assume the name of Bill? |
42792 | How long ought the iodized paper to keep good? |
42792 | How many varieties were there, and of what sizes? |
42792 | I do n''t know if any of your readers have made the same discovery: if so, can they explain the cause? |
42792 | If so, his lineage from that house? |
42792 | If{ 283} so, is it not a solitary instance of such a construction in our language? |
42792 | Is not the case of the cards analogous to this? |
42792 | Is spring water fit for washing the iodized paper; if it contains either sulphate or bicarbonate of lime or muriate of soda? |
42792 | It commences thus:"Whence comes the wavering light which falls On Langdale''s lonely chapel- walls? |
42792 | L. L._ Spontaneous Combustion._--Is there such a thing as spontaneous combustion? |
42792 | M."_ The wee brown Hen._"--Can any of your correspondents oblige me with a copy of the old Jacobin song, the"Wee brown Hen?" |
42792 | May not glad praise our lips employ, And, though on earth, half heaven be found? |
42792 | Might not the sudden fall of the barometer before storms be from a cause similar in some degree to this? |
42792 | O tu casurus, rem non mersurus acuto Telo, sis- ne, tenet? |
42792 | Query, Is he correct? |
42792 | Query: Who was this"ingenious writer?" |
42792 | To loving, glowing hearts in joy, Shall not our_ hearths_ and homes abound? |
42792 | W. M. R. E._ How can we address a letter to this Correspondent?_ DAVID BROWN. |
42792 | Was Single- speech Hamilton a member of the ducal family of Hamilton? |
42792 | Was it not so? |
42792 | What is the correct version of this prophecy, and where may it be found? |
42792 | What paper does he use for positives, and what for negatives? |
42792 | What place is meant by"Here?" |
42792 | Where can this manuscript be found? |
42792 | Who was the harlot, and what the epigram? |
42792 | Who was the second, who has attained such notoriety in connexion with Nelson''s name; and when and where were they married? |
42792 | Who wore them, officers only, or all members? |
42792 | Why was the unusual course taken of actually excluding the succession of the issue, who naturally should have been the recipients of the honour? |
42792 | _ Raleigh''s History._--What is the story of Raleigh''s burning the second volume of his History? |
42792 | _ Sir William Hamilton._--Who was the first wife of Sir W. Hamilton, the celebrated ambassador, and when did he marry her? |
42792 | throw any light upon the origin of the following lines? |
42006 | Some Christians[ Russians?] 42006 _--At what date was this poem, by Herbert, written? |
42006 | _--Can any one tell me the name of the writer of a book with the title I have here given? 42006 _--I wish to know if there be a book published entitled"Merryweather''s Weather Prognostication?" |
42006 | À la Saint- Loup[ May 28? 42006 ).--Would R. W. D. state his reasons for rendering these lettersDatur omnibus mori?" |
42006 | ***** DO CONJUNCTIONS JOIN PROPOSITIONS ONLY? |
42006 | 13? |
42006 | 23? |
42006 | Am I to understand from this sentence that this word was an original adaptation of Coleridge''s? |
42006 | But who ever yet discovered, in the anatomy of any corporation, either bowels or a heart?" |
42006 | Can any of your correspondents say whence the word is derived? |
42006 | Can any of your correspondents tell me if it has been engraved, and where? |
42006 | Can any of your readers acquainted with that language inform me whether there is a larger proportion of consonants in Welsh than in English? |
42006 | Can any of your readers give me the desired information? |
42006 | Can any of your readers supply particulars of, or references to, other similar portraitures, especially of any still in existence? |
42006 | Can you refer me to any published, or otherwise accessible, list of the officers who fought_ against_ Charles I., whether by sea or land? |
42006 | Does not such an affirmation require the word_ every_ to clear it from ambiguity? |
42006 | E. O. P._ Sack._--What wine was this? |
42006 | Grisnak for Molun-- Query this? |
42006 | H. W.***** HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED? |
42006 | Has not your correspondent G. BOOLE fallen into an inaccuracy whilst contending about the accuracy of another''s logic? |
42006 | Has old"Button Cap"( for that is his name) been inspecting the arms lately? |
42006 | How, or where? |
42006 | I replied;"I suppose you mean some overgrown common snake-- perhaps a female full of eggs?" |
42006 | If not, when was it first introduced, and by whom? |
42006 | If so, when and why was the name changed? |
42006 | Is any date assigned to the ceasing of the practice of using the wooden tally and nick- stick? |
42006 | Is it still existing and known to the wine trade by any other name? |
42006 | Is not this a more probable origin of the word than the_ pettivogueur_ of our etymologists? |
42006 | Is there any printed list of officers at the time of the Restoration? |
42006 | Is this name formed in jest? |
42006 | N._ De La Fond._--Can any of your readers explain the following inscription on an engraving by P. Lombart of De La Fond, and its application? |
42006 | Or must we say"Every tree is either endogen or exogen?" |
42006 | Query, With the desire of meeting the Judge, face to face, when He cometh? |
42006 | S. N._ Waugh of Cumberland._--Can you inform a Waugh, the family arms of Waugh of Cumberland; to whom they were first granted, and why? |
42006 | Was this the first occasion of the familiar use of this word? |
42006 | What is the legend connected with him? |
42006 | Why was it so called? |
42006 | Will it be cleared of ambiguity by saying,"Every tree is endogen or exogen?" |
42006 | Would he be kind enough to say where I may find any notice of Christopher Hervie? |
42006 | Would your correspondent oblige me with a copy of the epitaph to which he alludes? |
42006 | _ Scottish Female Dress._--When did ladies cease to use hair- powder, face- patches, hoops, and high- heeled shoes? |
42006 | _ What Day is it at our Antipodes?_( Vol. |
42006 | _ When and where does Sunday begin or end?_( Vol. |
42006 | assist us in this? |
42006 | by H. L. Mansel,& c. 279 Has Execution by Hanging been survived? |
42006 | was? |
42006 | { 274}_ Yew- tree at Crowhurst._--Could any of your readers inform me of the age of the yew- tree in Crowhurst Churchyard, Sussex? |
42819 | _ Forgive, blest Shade._--Where were the lines, commencing"Forgive, blest shade,"first{ 543} published? |
42819 | _ Peter Wilkins._--Who wrote this book? |
42819 | _ Q._ Unde derivatur_ volo_? 42819 ).--Your correspondent J. P. may hear of something to his advantage by visiting the church of Santa Prassede( Saint Praxedes? 42819 After this, who will say that the eighteenth century was not a romantic age? |
42819 | Also the_ Epistle of Barnabas_, and the_ Spurious Gospels_? |
42819 | And this leads me to the question, Who was the colonel against whom this caricature was directed? |
42819 | Are there any ledges for birds to alight on, or any peculiar openings by which they might enter the tower? |
42819 | Are there any thermometers constructed for the purpose? |
42819 | But the action is declared to be"utterly impossible, because,"& c. Why beg the question in this way? |
42819 | But why are large military map- sellers so much dearer with us than on the Continent? |
42819 | But why inflict this history upon you? |
42819 | Can this MS. now be found? |
42819 | Can this really be the object of the peculiar masonry, what is the date of the tower, and can a similar instance be adduced? |
42819 | Can you give me the names of the authors? |
42819 | Can you inform me whether these poems are likely to have been written by Miss Clara Reeve, authoress of_ The Old English Baron_, and other novels? |
42819 | Did a son of Reynell of Malston by an heir of Mathew take that name? |
42819 | Duet by STEPHEN GLOVER, Author of"What are the Wild Waves Saying?" |
42819 | Et per manus domini Johannis de Hothom pro negociis domini Walteri de la Haye centum solid? |
42819 | Have similar cases to the above ever occurred in this country? |
42819 | He asks,"How has Mr. Green discharged the duties of his solemn trust? |
42819 | How is the proper temperature at which the cotton is to be immersed to be arrived at? |
42819 | I am anxious also to know the names of any authors who have published books respecting the life, reign, or times of King William III.? |
42819 | If there are English translations of these works? |
42819 | Is it known whether this curious custom prevails elsewhere? |
42819 | Is it printed too dark? |
42819 | Is not this the very paragraph which has been supplied to you as an original? |
42819 | Is there any better plan than the above? |
42819 | Mirabeau, Talleyrand, and Fouché? |
42819 | N.B.--What is the nominative to poor_ dederat_? |
42819 | Now begins the curious lore of the volume:"_ Q._ Unde derivatur_ sum_? |
42819 | Sanson( De Worcester?) |
42819 | Those who would investigate the subject fully must consult such passages in the classics as this from Lucan[ Lucretius? |
42819 | What copies are to be taken as the groundworks of reference; and whose copy of the first folio is to be the standard one? |
42819 | What is the origin of the phrase? |
42819 | Would deaf and dumb persons in England be eligible as members of the order? |
42819 | [ 5] What is known of the family? |
42819 | _ Q._ Declara hoc, et quomodo? |
42819 | _ Q._ Quare_ sum_ potius terminatur in_ m_ quam in_ n_? |
42819 | _ Q._ Unde derivatur_ edo_? |
42819 | _ Q._ Unde derivatur_ fero_? |
42819 | _ The Barmecides''Feast._--Can you tell me where the story of the Barmecides and their famed banquets is to be found? |
42819 | and also if there is any collection of the fierce philippics of Mirabeau? |
42819 | and what is supposed to be the origin of it? |
42819 | and when was it published? |
42819 | explain its meaning and origin, and supply instances and illustrations of its use elsewhere? |
42819 | furnish an account of the services rendered by John Ogden, Esq., to King Charles I. of England? |
42819 | which is not in Shakspeare''s_ Richard III._? |
42779 | _ Then comes the reckoning_,& c.--Who is the author of the following well- known couplet? |
42779 | ''How so?'' |
42779 | And also, where can I find or obtain such a book as the_ History of Aberystwith, or Blaina Gwent?_ C. W. Bradford. |
42779 | And has any of your correspondents read them, so as to be able to explain the nature of his language and teaching concerning the Escubierto? |
42779 | Are these scenes facts or fictions? |
42779 | Augustine''s Six Treatises on Music._--Dupin mentions St. Augustine''s_ Six Treatises on Music_: do these exist in print? |
42779 | Brewster, at the Crane, in St. Paul''s Church- yard, 1661?" |
42779 | But it will be asked how, after so apparently distinct and explicit an avowal, can it be doubted that he was the author of the pamphlet in question? |
42779 | Can any of your readers furnish one? |
42779 | Can any of your readers supply me with any particulars of her family? |
42779 | Can any one inform me whether this Mary Horton ever_ married_, when she_ died_, and where she was buried? |
42779 | Can you give me a reference for this, either in Byron or any other of our poets? |
42779 | Does MR. HICKSON seriously mean to say that Shakspeare''s language is to be scanned by our present ideas of correctness? |
42779 | Had he forgotten that"the Adversary"is often technically used for the_ Devil_? |
42779 | I am anxious to ascertain whether the original MS. is now in existence; and, if not, in what collection a_ copy_ of the poem is preserved? |
42779 | If_ afriti_ is"blessed"in Zend, and"a devil"in Arabic, I again ask whether the allusion be to the literary remains of Arabic polytheism, or to Islam? |
42779 | In England there are several families of this name: are any of them descended from this source? |
42779 | Is the bold sweep of the Master''s hand to be measured by the graduation of modern convention? |
42779 | Is the document a papal bull? |
42779 | Is there any corroborative evidence that such a register existed? |
42779 | Is there any other account of this chest, or of its having been opened, as it was evidently reserved for some great necessity? |
42779 | Is there any other explanation of the print? |
42779 | It is worthy of remark, that the Welsh language has only the_ simple_ sound,_ not_ the_ diphthongal_? |
42779 | Let me ask whether it was a matter of fact, that they"buried him darkly at dead of night"? |
42779 | Michael_? |
42779 | My Query is, ought not this sound to be transferred from the_ simple vowels_ under the_ true diphthongs_? |
42779 | Shall worth, like his, unnotic''d pass away But with the pageant of a short- liv''d day? |
42779 | T. D. P._ The Escubierto._--Where can the effusions of the Capateiro da Bandarra be seen in England? |
42779 | The meaning( if any) of the subscription to the piece printed at page 435.? |
42779 | The preface is signed T. C. Whence is the motto:[ Greek: Pollai men thnêtois Glôttai, mia d''Athanatoisin?] |
42779 | There is so much similarity in the two cases, that I now would ask whether your readers can throw any light on the subject? |
42779 | There was formerly a family of the name of Merriman residing in Ireland: does it now exist? |
42779 | To MR. HICKSON''S question,"Is this the language we in England use?" |
42779 | What is the origin of the expression"Martin- drunk?" |
42779 | What is the precise date of the author''s death? |
42779 | What was Tonson''s offence? |
42779 | When did the laying of foundation stones first become a ceremony? |
42779 | When the Duke says,"_ There_ is our commission:"why not,"_ Here_ is our commission"? |
42779 | Where else may it be met with? |
42779 | Which Bach was the composer? |
42779 | With,& c. He made him a violl to play thereupon, With,& c."What did he doe with her fingers so small? |
42779 | With,& c. He made him peggs to his violl withal; With,& c."What did he doe with her nose- ridge? |
42779 | With,& c. He made him strings to his violl thereto; With,& c."What did he doe with her eyes so bright? |
42779 | With,& c. Unto his violl he made him a bridge, With,& c."What did he doe with her veynes so blew? |
42779 | With,& c. Unto the violl it spake enough; With,& c."What did he doe with her two shinnes? |
42779 | With,& c. Upon his violl he played at first sight: With,& c.{ 592}"What did he doe with her tongue so rough? |
42779 | _ Bagster''s English Version._--Who edited Bagster''s English version of the_ Polyglott Bible_? |
42779 | _ Mary Faun._--Can any of your subscribers give me any account of the ancestry of Mary Faun said to have married Thomas Charlton, Esq.? |
42779 | _ Order of the Cockle._--What sort of Order was this? |
42779 | _ Whether this is such a time or no?_( London, printed for J. Baker and T. Warner, at the Black Boy, in Paternoster Row, 1716, pp. |
42779 | if so, in what edition are they to be found? |
42779 | or could you, Mr. Editor, spare room for the whole? |
42779 | pages? |
45849 | And what is that? |
45849 | How high? |
45849 | How high? |
45849 | What can he be about? 45849 ''Bout Butter Nut and Beach, A whole week I could preach; But what the plague''s the use of that? 45849 --''Doth Mr. Rushworth know it?'' 45849 A few years ago, a Chinese father said to his wife,What shall we do with our young son? |
45849 | Affecting an air of surprise, I expressed myself at the instant as being one very anxious to know what a_ seventh_ son could do? |
45849 | And how do they treat a head when they get it? |
45849 | And what were some of the normal results of such appalling statistics? |
45849 | Are we not light- hearted in the sunshine, and depressed in a heavy atmosphere? |
45849 | Are you not a pretty circumcised little scoundrel to impose upon us in this manner?" |
45849 | Ben Jonson also in the_ Fox_, has,--"Were you enamoured on his copper rings, His saffron jewel, with the loadstone in''t?" |
45849 | Can the press enjoy greater liberty? |
45849 | Did you ever observe such a singular knot-- so regular, too, in its formation? |
45849 | Did you ever witness such a sight in your life? |
45849 | How little could Scott foresee the sudden failure of male issue? |
45849 | IMPUDENCE OR CANDOUR, WHICH IS IT? |
45849 | Now, taking these legends for as much as they are worth, and no more; what do they prove? |
45849 | Some suppose it to proceed from the swim- bladder; but if that be the drum, what is the drumstick that beats upon it? |
45849 | The son then asked,"Who is Mafuie, that I should be afraid of him?" |
45849 | This fusel oil distilled with sulphuric acid and acetate of potass, gives the oil of pears(?). |
45849 | We need not speak of the plane- trees of Plato-- Shakspeare''s mulberry- tree-- Pope''s willow-- Byron''s elm? |
45849 | What tho''I am a London dame, And lofty looks I bear, a? |
45849 | What tho''I to assemblies go, And at the Opera''s shine, a? |
45849 | What tho''my cloaths are rich brocades? |
45849 | What would be thought now- a- days of judges who went to a public ball room on commission day, and played at whist in their robes? |
45849 | When she had finished eating, the Lord of Fayel said--"Lady, was the meat you eat good?" |
45849 | Whence is this extraordinary power? |
45849 | Which is it? |
45849 | Why describe Cicero at his Tusculum-- Evelyn at Wotton-- Pitt at Ham Common-- Walpole at Houghton-- Grenville at Dropmere? |
45849 | Why dwell on Bacon''s"little tufts of thyme,"or Fox''s geraniums? |
45849 | Why should not these animals experience the same atmospheric influences as man? |
45849 | said the astonished_ Lord Townley_,"my_ Prince_, is it you? |
45849 | then, why didst thou make so free with my pocket? |
42781 | ).--"Have the modern phonographists ever owned their debt of gratitude to their predecessors in the phonetic art?" |
42781 | ).--In reply to the following Query,"Who was the greatest general, and why and wherefore did the Duke of Wellington give the palm to Hannibal?" |
42781 | ).--Perhaps you will think the following rhymes upon places worth insertion:"I stood upon Eyemouth Fort, And guess ye what I saw? |
42781 | --_Is the Church of Rome Babylon?_ p. 58.: London, 1851. |
42781 | A. C.{ 13}_ Smith._--Of what family was---- Smith, confessor of Katherine of Braganza, buried in York Minster? |
42781 | And who was the noted ringleader of schism? |
42781 | And why does[ Greek: ho Amnos] here become[ Greek: to Arnion]? |
42781 | By whom is the observation? |
42781 | Can any of your antiquarian readers throw any light on the subject to whom this device originally belonged? |
42781 | Could the place be other than Tangiers, destroyed in 1684? |
42781 | Did he give away that which is still wanting in the Bodleian library? |
42781 | Folio 2.--1617(?). |
42781 | G. H._ Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter._--Is any pedigree extant of the family of Hugh Oldham? |
42781 | Has not the following song something to do with the expression"Martin drunk"? |
42781 | I do not insist upon the correction in the fourth line of_ lack_ for_ crack_, yet what can be meant by_ cracking a duty_? |
42781 | I see a goose ring a hog, And a snayle that did bite a dog; Thou hast well drunken, man, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a goose ring a hog, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a hare chase a hound, Twenty mile above the ground; Thou hast well drunken, man, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a hare chase a hound, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a man in the moone, Clowting of St. Peter''s shoone; Thou hast well drunken, man, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a man in the moone; Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a mouse catch the cat, And the cheese to eate the rat; Thou hast well drunken, man, Who''s the foole now?" |
42781 | I see a mouse catch the cat, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a sheepe shering corne, And a cuckold blow his horne; Thou hast well drunken, man, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I see a sheepe shering corne, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | I shall feel obliged to any of your correspondents who can inform me what constituted a_ loak hen_? |
42781 | If the latter, would he not have been so described? |
42781 | In 1658 he was admitted to the Palm Academy("Palmen- orden"), choosing the name_ Der Erwacsene_( the adult? |
42781 | In other words, why make it a plural term? |
42781 | Is it not fit that such carelessness should be exposed? |
42781 | Is this fact recorded in any Life of Locke; or how may it be ascertained? |
42781 | It would not be uninteresting to learn, at the same time, at what period_ pearl_ came into general use as an English word? |
42781 | Martin said to his man, Fill thou the cup, and I the can; Thou hast well drunken, man, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | My first question will be, therefore, who was the earliest writer of this description? |
42781 | O Martin said to his man, Who''s the foole now? |
42781 | Pray, can you or any of your readers explain the cause of this omission? |
42781 | Query: Was the word_ union_ generally received in England instead of_ pearl_ in Burton''s time, and when did it give place to it? |
42781 | R._ means Robert Randolph, master of arts, and student of Christchurch-- a younger brother of Thomas Randolph, and the editor of his poems? |
42781 | R._? |
42781 | Stebbing Shaw''s Staffordshire MSS., and the MS. notes of Dr. Thomas Harwood used in his two editions{ 14} of Erdeswick''s_ Staffordshire_? |
42781 | The castle stood nearly midway between two other adjoining towns or villæ, also bearing plural names: Potternæ= arum[ Posternæ?] |
42781 | Was it Hackett? |
42781 | What arms did he adopt? |
42781 | What? |
42781 | Where can information be obtained as to a Judge Smith, supposed to have been of the same family? |
42781 | Where do these lines come from? |
42781 | Where does he praise Bacon? |
42781 | Where is a_ genuine_ copy of Mr. Theobald''s letter to be found? |
42781 | Where is this to be found? |
42781 | Where recorded? |
42781 | Where? |
42781 | Who is here alluded to? |
42781 | _ Can a Man baptize himself?_( Vol. |
42781 | _ The Bourbons._--What was the origin of the Bourbon family? |
42781 | and what are the arms on his tomb? |
42781 | assist me in obtaining a copy of this work? |
42781 | come to be the next heir to the throne on the extinction of the line of Valois? |
42781 | tablet, is described as gent., likely to have been in 1684( aged twenty- seven) a private, a non- commissioned, or commissioned officer? |
42784 | Cogita quamdiu,& c. Whence is this? |
42784 | He was reputed,& c. Who? |
42784 | It was said of Ulysses,& c. By whom? |
42784 | Pompa magis,& c. Does Bacon quote this from memory, referring to"Tolle istam pompam, sub quâ lates, et stultos territas"? |
42784 | The precept,''Optimum elige,''& c.Whence? |
42784 | Trajecteasem:ought this to be applied to"Utrecht"or"Maestricht,"or either? |
42784 | Vere magnum habere,& c. Whence is this? |
42784 | You shall read in_ some_ of the friars''books,& c. Where? |
42784 | _ Very like a Whale._--What is the origin of this expression? |
42784 | (?) |
42784 | (?) |
42784 | (?) |
42784 | (?) |
42784 | (?) |
42784 | ).--Capgrave, quoting John of Tynemouth(? |
42784 | ).--Has not MR. WARDE, in his second quotation, copied the word wrongly--"pork- pisee"for pork-_pesse_? |
42784 | 11 C.:"[ Greek: to gar pseudesthai douloprepes k.t.l.]"? |
42784 | And is either of these two words ever used alone? |
42784 | But, to come to W. C. T.''s immediate question,"When did the use of these blest rings by our sovereigns cease?" |
42784 | By whom, and where? |
42784 | Could you or any of your correspondents tell me what the line is? |
42784 | H. E._ who asks who, what, and when_ Captain Cuttle_ was? |
42784 | If so, who was the last baronet, and in what year? |
42784 | In what respect are those alluded to by Dr. Wiseman entitled to the unenviable distinction which he claims for them? |
42784 | Is the baronetcy extinct? |
42784 | Is there any authentic record of this circumstance? |
42784 | Is there any means of corroborating this incident? |
42784 | May not this be the identical MS. alluded to? |
42784 | Might I ask if there is any writer, ancient or modern, who has recorded that Malta was not the burial- place of Hannibal? |
42784 | Nichols adds a_ query_ after his name; whether he were of the Bishop of Exeter''s family? |
42784 | Of whom, and where? |
42784 | Query 1. Who is the"rex"here mentioned? |
42784 | Query:_ Fulcard''s_ life of the saint, or the life by some other person: John of Tynemouth to wit? |
42784 | The context shows that_ cloth_ could not have been intended, for who ever heard of a table or altar made of cloth? |
42784 | Wanstead House,"were not, in fact, his first tilt in that arena of which he was the champion at the hour of his{ 90} death? |
42784 | We all know why Friday was made a fast; but why should Wednesday be sacred? |
42784 | What does he mean? |
42784 | What is the origin of"nob?" |
42784 | What is the proverb? |
42784 | What was Lord Poulett''s precise meaning? |
42784 | Whence is this? |
42784 | Where? |
42784 | Whereabouts? |
42784 | Whether in the two following years he appeared at all in the ring; and, if not, why not? |
42784 | Who, and where? |
42784 | Will he oblige me by stating who published this pamphlet, or where it may be obtained? |
42784 | Will you, or any of your readers, kindly refer me to any published account of the frauds alluded to in this passage? |
42784 | William Croker, Rector of Wolfrey( Wolfardisworthy?) |
42784 | _ 2._:"_ Hamlet._ Do you see yonder cloud, that is almost in shape of a camel? |
42784 | _ Chaplains to Noblemen._--Under what statute, if any, do noblemen appoint their chaplains? |
42784 | _ Did the Carians use Heraldic Devices?_( Vol. |
42784 | _ Hamlet._ Or like a whale? |
42784 | _ Heraldic Query._--To what families do the following bearings belong? |
42784 | _ Sir Kenelm Digby._--Why is Sir Kenelm Digby represented, I believe always, with a sun- flower by his side? |
42784 | _ The broken Astragalus._--Where was the broken astragalus, given by the host to his guest, first used as the symbol of hospitality? |
42784 | _ Wednesday a Litany Day._--Why is Wednesday made a Litany day by the Church? |
42784 | also mention"Ursula, sister of Sir William Walrond of Bradfield, Devon, who married first, William Jennings of_ Plymouth_( query, the sheriff? |
42784 | and is there any registry of such appointments in any archiepiscopal or episcopal registry? |
42784 | seems only to have meant, Will you have warm or cold beer? |
42784 | supply me with the words deficient in the following lines, and inform me from what author they are quoted? |
42784 | this luminary glows no more till 1808, when he had"on the line"(?) |
42789 | _ Omen._ And what shall he gaine that gets the victorie in lying? 42789 ( Query, Who were these people?) 42789 ( Query, Whose crest or badge?) 42789 ( Query, Whose emblem or badge?) 42789 20.--Why does the Church order this verse to be omitted in the reading of the lessons? 42789 ; did the latterfavour"his father or his mother in physiognomy? |
42789 | And what are the arms belonging to it, if there are any? |
42789 | And what is the derivation of_ marguillier_? |
42789 | But sorrow from the human heart, And mists of care, will they depart?" |
42789 | Can Norway be a misprint for Norfolk? |
42789 | Can any of your correspondents furnish me with the names to the following coats of arms? |
42789 | Can any of your correspondents give the etymology of the word, or other instances of its use? |
42789 | Can any of your readers inform me of the origin and meaning of this word? |
42789 | Can any of your readers inform me of this? |
42789 | Can any of your readers tell me where they are to be found? |
42789 | Can it be a blunder, in the original document, for_ beneficiatii_? |
42789 | Can this change of vowels have taken place in this word, and"meals"signify"moles,"from the shelf of sand projecting like a mole? |
42789 | Could you not acquaint me with the length, breadth, and height of the picture, and with the painter''s name? |
42789 | Does it signify saddler, or, as has been suggested to me, esquire? |
42789 | Either Coleridge did or did not cancel the lines mentioned; if he did, can any of your readers inform me in which of his works this fact is mentioned? |
42789 | H. B. C. U. U. C._ Thomas Ceeley._--Who was Thomas Ceeley, who defended Lyme Regis so gallantly with the famous Blake, the former being governor? |
42789 | H._ Lord Lyon King- at- Arms, Scotland._--Where is there an account of the origin of this office, and of the different possessors of it? |
42789 | Has any subsequent discovery been made in the same locality respecting, or any additional light thrown upon, the one of which mention is herein made? |
42789 | Have any of your correspondents ever met with, in similar representations, the instruments I have described as maces in shields 2. and 10.? |
42789 | How is the bath of nitrate of silver prepared, and the mode of applying it to the paper? |
42789 | How is the picture developed? |
42789 | If either of the latter, for how long a time; and what then? |
42789 | Is it because the passage assumes the fact that Samuel himself appeared to Saul-- a statement open to discussion? |
42789 | Is it really intended to say that"scandal"reported Lord North to be the son of an illustrious lady of the royal family? |
42789 | Is not the phrase a corruption of beaten to a mammock, to a piece, to a scrap, to a fragment? |
42789 | Is the family from which she sprung now represented; and if they bear arms, what are they? |
42789 | Is the paper, when removed from the water, to be partially dried with blotting- paper, and used in its damp state? |
42789 | Is there any family of this name( D''Arc), and if so, where? |
42789 | Is there any proof that it has not been used ever since the Reformation? |
42789 | Is this MS. in their possession, and is it a piece of historic value? |
42789 | MR. FORBES asks,"Is the tune of the_ galliard_ known?" |
42789 | My object is to ascertain, if possible, if this portion of statue has been preserved? |
42789 | Or shall we let him_ in_, And see if we can get him_ out_ again?" |
42789 | Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door And keep him_ out_? |
42789 | Should the dishes be kept in the dark constantly? |
42789 | Should the paper be brushed with, floated on, or immersed in the solution? |
42789 | The other, a broadside, headed by a woodcut with_ three_ wherries, entitled"First Oars to L-- m-- th, or who strives for Preferment?" |
42789 | Was he any relation to the Gowrie family? |
42789 | Was his_ Topographicall Dictionarie_( mentioned, as prepared for the press, in the_ Perambulation_) ever published, and what other works by him exist? |
42789 | Was this statue cast for a St. Peter, or is it an ancient statue that had been found in the Tiber; or the ancient statue of Jupiter Capitolinus? |
42789 | Was this statue cast from the metal of the Capitoline Jove? |
42789 | What are the facts of this case, and where may the best account of this extermination of the natives be found? |
42789 | What authority is there for believing it to have been cast in the pontificate of St. Leo? |
42789 | What does this word mean? |
42789 | What is known of Lambarde, or Lambert, as Gervase Markham calls him? |
42789 | What is the probable time of exposure in the camera? |
42789 | Where shall it be sent?_ H. E. P. T.( Woolwich). |
42789 | Will some one of your readers favour me with an explanation of the meaning of this insinuation? |
42789 | _ Beaten to a Mummy._--Whence comes this expression? |
42789 | _ Contested Elections._--What book gives an accurate account of all the contested elections since the Restoration, and prior to the Reform Bill? |
42789 | _ Joan d''Arc._--Did Joan d''Arc( the Maid of Orleans) bear any heraldic insignia; and if so, what? |
42789 | _ Tenent and Tenet._--When did the use of tene_n_t( for opinion, dogma,& c.) give place to tenet? |
42789 | _ Tuebeuf._--Where is it? |
42789 | _ What Numbers are wanted?_ EARLDOM OF OXFORD. |
42789 | and Patrick Ruthven, the son of{ 206} the Earl of Gowrie, in their flight into England in August 1600), and what became of him? |
42789 | and a lion? |
42789 | and, finally, how fixed? |
42789 | and, if so, was the practice a general one, or were they merely for religious_ exercises_? |
42789 | give any additional information on this rather curious point? |
42789 | or can any correspondent suggest a better etymology? |
42789 | or will it keep, and how long? |
42789 | represent the Guelphs or the Saxe- Gotha family? |
42789 | vii., p. 140. and why the_ soda_ is used for_ negatives_ and the_ allum_ for_ positives_, both being produced on_ iodized paper_? |
42789 | would inform me where the old Scottish song,"Jenny''s Bawbee,"is to be found? |
42789 | { 210} SIGMA inquires why"this ancestor of Sir Walter''s was called Old Satchels?" |
20190 | By whom was Magna Charta exacted from King John at Runnymede? |
20190 | From what king,etc., etc.? |
20190 | From whom was,etc., etc.? |
20190 | Has she bought a shawl? |
20190 | How did the Assyian come down? |
20190 | Is Mother Day particular about the sort of shawl she will buy? |
20190 | Like what animal did? |
20190 | WHAT constitutes a state? 20190 What, is there no bribing death?" |
20190 | When? |
20190 | Where are you going? |
20190 | Where was Magna Charta,etc., etc.? |
20190 | Where? |
20190 | Which Mrs. Day will buy a shawl? |
20190 | Which side of the fence do you want to be on? |
20190 | Who came down? |
20190 | Who will buy any shawl? |
20190 | Who? |
20190 | Why? |
20190 | ------------------------- ARE YOU TOO FAT? |
20190 | ------------------------- Is Your Stomach Wrong? |
20190 | ------------------------- What is SALIODIN? |
20190 | A comma is used to set off a short quotation informally introduced; as, Who said,"The good die young"? |
20190 | An interrogation point(?) |
20190 | Art thou a mourner? |
20190 | Art thou a sinner? |
20190 | B. L. CASCADE"Have you read of the wonderful cures made by the Internal Bath? |
20190 | Both inn convenient Why do dentists make good politicians? |
20190 | Burns, Cuts, Sprains, Bruises? |
20190 | But to reach Alpha Centauri it would take three years; and as this is the nearest of the stars, what time must it take to get to the others? |
20190 | COLDS IN THE HEAD? |
20190 | Catarrh, Fever Blisters? |
20190 | Do you know it cures constipation and prevents and cures appendicitis? |
20190 | Do you know that an occasional Internal Bath is a better preventive of illness and preserver of health than any other single means? |
20190 | Do you know that it goes to the root of all disease and eradicates the cause? |
20190 | Do you know that it makes beautiful complexions? |
20190 | Dost reel from righteous retribution''s blow? |
20190 | Dost thou behold thy lost youth all aghast? |
20190 | Draw What does a dentist do? |
20190 | Finally, what is this statue of Justice but the image of law? |
20190 | Frost Bites, Soft Corns? |
20190 | God made man Frail as a bubble; God made Love, Love made trouble; God made the vine; Was it a sin That man made wine To drown trouble in? |
20190 | Grover Cleveland died on June 24, 1908, of debility, aged 71. WHO IS THE AUTHOR? |
20190 | HAVE YOU CANCER, Tumors, Ulcers, Abscesses, Fever Sores, Goitre, Catarrh, Salt- Rheum, Rheumatism, Piles, Eczema, Scald Head, or Scrofula in any form? |
20190 | HEALTH AND BEAUTY WOULD YOU BE BEAUTIFUL? |
20190 | How can you be sure of finding these four properties in an antiseptic? |
20190 | How can you take one from nineteen and leave twenty? |
20190 | If the alphabet were invited out to dine what time would U, V, W, X, Y and Z go? |
20190 | If, however, they are used, it is unnecessary to add the word to, because that is implied--"Whither are you going?" |
20190 | In which month do ladies talk least? |
20190 | Instead of"Because why?" |
20190 | Instead of"Oh, dear, what will I do?" |
20190 | Instead of"What may your name be?" |
20190 | Instead of"Who learns you music?" |
20190 | Instead of"Whom do you think him to be?" |
20190 | Instead of"Will I give you some more tea?" |
20190 | Instead of"Will you enter in?" |
20190 | Instead of"Will you set down?" |
20190 | MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM? |
20190 | Now what is to be understood by this sentence: Was the rain over? |
20190 | OMEGA NOVELTY COMPANY, Milwaukee, Wis.------------------------- Test It Yourself-- FREE A real Hair Restorative? |
20190 | Of whom did you procure them? |
20190 | On an appeal from the chair''s decision,"Shall the decision be sustained as the ruling of the house?" |
20190 | On motion for orders of the day,"Will the house now proceed to the orders of the day?" |
20190 | On motion for previous question, the form to be observed is,"Shall the main question be now put?" |
20190 | On motion to strike out the words,"Shall the words stand part of the motion?" |
20190 | Price$ 1.00------------------------- NEW KIND SALTED PEANUTS Did you ever try them? |
20190 | Regular, irregular and defective? |
20190 | SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS------------------------- Nervous? |
20190 | Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side in the cause of mankind whether our creeds agree? |
20190 | Sore Head, Sore Nose, Sore Throat? |
20190 | Sore Joints, Sore Feet? |
20190 | Sore Lips, Sore Face, Sore Chest? |
20190 | Sore Muscles, Sore Back, Neuralgia? |
20190 | Suffer with Constipation, Sluggish Liver, Dyspepsia, Feel Bad All Over? |
20190 | Swellings and Inflammations? |
20190 | THE JETUM CO. CHICAGO------------------------- You''ll try It wo n''t You? |
20190 | The Citizens''Wholesale Supply Co. Department C.- Columbus, Ohio------------------------- Have You Piles? |
20190 | Then they really paid themselves for fighting? |
20190 | Thus,"What was exacted by the barons from King John at Runnymede?" |
20190 | To say,"Where are you going to?" |
20190 | To whom do you speak? |
20190 | WHAT IS MORE DESIRABLE THAN A CLEAR, HEALTHY SKIN? |
20190 | WHAT''S IN A NAME? |
20190 | What could be better than a Pure Wine? |
20190 | What do you weigh with? |
20190 | What does the mental picture of scales suggest? |
20190 | What interest did they have in being ruled by him? |
20190 | What is that which a train can not move without, and yet is not the least use to it? |
20190 | What is that which is always invisible and never out of sight? |
20190 | What is the weight of the moon? |
20190 | What occupation is the sun? |
20190 | What sea would make the best bed- room? |
20190 | What thing is that which is lengthened by being cut at both ends? |
20190 | What two letters make a county in Massachusetts? |
20190 | What word makes you sick if you leave out one of its letters? |
20190 | What word of ten letters can be spelled with five? |
20190 | What would be the effect of green upon a complexion deficient in red? |
20190 | When an objection is raised to considering questions,"Shall the question be considered?" |
20190 | When asked"Who is there?" |
20190 | When is a man over head and ears in debt? |
20190 | When you wish to distinguish between two or more persons, say:"Which is the happy man?" |
20190 | Where did the king get the money to pay them? |
20190 | Which is the left side of a plum pudding? |
20190 | Who do men say that I am? |
20190 | Who fought for King George in 1776? |
20190 | Who gave it to you? |
20190 | Who said so? |
20190 | Who was he? |
20190 | Why Paris like the letter F? |
20190 | Why are deep sighs like long stockings? |
20190 | Why are fixed stars like pen, ink and paper? |
20190 | Why are your eyes like stage horses? |
20190 | Why are your teeth like verbs? |
20190 | Why do we all go to bed? |
20190 | Why is Ireland likely to become rich? |
20190 | Why is a Jew in a fever like a diamond? |
20190 | Why is a bee- hive like a spectator? |
20190 | Why is a cook like a barber? |
20190 | Why is a good saloon like a bad one? |
20190 | Why is a good story like a church bell? |
20190 | Why is a madman like two men? |
20190 | Why is a man led astray like one governed by a girl? |
20190 | Why is a man who runs in debt like a clock? |
20190 | Why is a peach- stone like a regiment? |
20190 | Why is a race at a circus like a big conflagration? |
20190 | Why is a room full of married folks like an empty room? |
20190 | Why is a theological student like a merchant? |
20190 | Why is a waiter like a race horse? |
20190 | Why is an island like the letter T? |
20190 | Why is the Hudson River like a shoe? |
20190 | Why is the letter D like a sailor? |
20190 | Why is the wick of a candle like Athens? |
20190 | Why not try it? |
20190 | Why should red- headed men be chosen for soldiers? |
20190 | Why, then, did they risk their lives for him? |
20190 | not who--"Which of those ladies to you admire?" |
20190 | or the market? |
20190 | say"Oh, dear, what shall I do?" |
20190 | say"Shall I give you some more tea?" |
20190 | say"What is your name?" |
20190 | say"Who teaches you music?" |
20190 | say"Why?" |
20190 | say"Will you enter?" |
20190 | say"Will you sit down?" |
20190 | say,"Who do you think him to be?" |
42790 | _ Coming home to men''s business._--Where does the phrase"coming home to men''s business and bosoms"first occur? |
42790 | _ Strike, but hear me._--On what occasion, and by whom, were these words first used? |
42790 | _--What is the derivation of the word_ Cobb_? 42790 & c.) Will you accept a French elucidation of the etymon of this word, which has sorely puzzled your correspondents? 42790 ''Eight hundred old plays thou declar''st thou hast read[2]; How could''st thou the public so cozen? 42790 ''If all thou hast dug, how could Farmer, my Tib, Or Stevens, find gold in the mine? 42790 ''Is this,''quoth the poet,''the thing that rebell''d, And dar''d even Pope to the fight? 42790 ), which is used to remove tan and freckles from the sunburnt? 42790 ),St. John''s Bloom,""Ruddes"? |
42790 | ).--Will it assist the inquiry to say that there was a family of Foulgers at Norwich? |
42790 | 1679? |
42790 | Also whether John Gibbes of Fenton, father of the above- named Thomas Gibbes, who married the heiress of William May or Mey, had any other issue? |
42790 | Also, what is the arms, crest, and motto of that family? |
42790 | Also, when did the later term"rabbit"supersede the old name_ cony_? |
42790 | Are these descendants of that family? |
42790 | Bland was,_ whom_ he married, and_ which_ Carleton is meant? |
42790 | Can any of your correspondents give a further account of Captain d''Auvergne? |
42790 | Can any of your correspondents inform me whether the above fact is mentioned in any other account of the place, and if so, where? |
42790 | Can any of your readers inform me whether this statement is correct? |
42790 | Can any one inform me for what disease this nauseous remedy was prescribed, and whether it be now excluded from the pharmacopoeia? |
42790 | Derivation and meaning? |
42790 | Does he anywhere state this himself? |
42790 | Have these terms any signification? |
42790 | I suppose the troubles consequent upon the French Revolution would prevent his accession to the duchy, even if he survived the hereditary prince? |
42790 | If in honour of an officer commanding the corps, was the name changed when that officer died or removed to another regiment, or what was the rule? |
42790 | If not, what is the evidence in favour of such statement? |
42790 | If so, can you give me any history of them, or say where same may be found? |
42790 | Is the author known? |
42790 | Is the hermitage still in existence? |
42790 | Is there a legend in connexion with this name; and in what county is this saxifrage so called? |
42790 | Is this plant used in any of our village pharmacopoeias as a remedy for palsy; and if so, how? |
42790 | It is probable but few of the above names will be now found; or, if found, it will be only in those districts where the march of intellect(?) |
42790 | Jacques?" |
42790 | Meaning? |
42790 | Meaning? |
42790 | My object is to inquire if any custom at all analogous to it is known to have existed elsewhere, and, if so, what is the supposed origin of it? |
42790 | Now, what is the rule for ascertaining the numbers of these and other old regiments in the British army at the present day? |
42790 | P. P._ Olney._--Can any correspondent state what is the signification of this name? |
42790 | Query: What is the derivation of the family name"Cobham?" |
42790 | Query: When did that introduction take place? |
42790 | Secondly, Would not a slight soaking in plain water after the acidulated bath be of advantage? |
42790 | The names and sentiments are of course fictitious; is anything known of their origin? |
42790 | Thirdly, Is it better to dry the paper again before rendering it sensitive? |
42790 | To all the latter the same Query will apply, What is the origin of the name? |
42790 | Was it according to the length of time it had been embodied? |
42790 | Was it not first used by the learned men of Germany as a repository for the complimentary tributes of their foreign visitors? |
42790 | Was it used in medicine? |
42790 | Was this plant originally a native of the Low Countries? |
42790 | What are they? |
42790 | What is the origin of these names? |
42790 | What was the name of the eccentric, and what is known of his hermit life? |
42790 | What was the origin of giving British regiments the name of certain officers, instead of numbering them as at present? |
42790 | What was the origin of these two names? |
42790 | What was the rule or principle laid down in giving any regiment a certain number? |
42790 | When did the present mode of numbering regiments begin, and by whom was it introduced? |
42790 | When did_ Smith_ and_ Ellis_ die? |
42790 | Where can I find the remaining verses? |
42790 | Where is the earliest_ specimen_ of an English_ album_, according to the modern form and use of the scrapbook so called? |
42790 | Where is to be found the best account of anchorites, real and fictitious? |
42790 | Who was the proprietor of the said hermitage; and did he ever succeed in getting his toy tenanted? |
42790 | Who were the_ consecrators_ of Giffard, Ellis, and Smith? |
42790 | Who were they? |
42790 | Will any one inform me which of the above are Anglo- Saxon words? |
42790 | Will some one, better versed than myself in the language of German metaphysics, tell me whether I am right, and, if not, set me so? |
42790 | _ Chenapodium Bonus Henricus_,"Mercury Goose- foot,""Good King Henry"? |
42790 | _ Chrysanthemum segetum_,"Wild Marigold,""Goules,""Goulans"( Query remains of its old name gold? |
42790 | _ Could the article proposed be divided into two papers?_ MR. CROOKES. |
42790 | _ Euphorbia cyparissius_,"Cypress Spurge,""Welcome to our House"? |
42790 | _ Euphorbia helioscopia_,"Sun Spurge,""Churn- staff"? |
42790 | _ Linum catharticum_,"Purge Flax,""Mill Mountain"? |
42790 | _ Sedum acre_,"Biting Stone- crop,""Jack of the Buttery,""Pricket,""Bird''s Bread"? |
42790 | _ Spergula arvensis_,"Spurrey Yarr"( Scotch)? |
42790 | _ Ste._ How now shall this be compass''d? |
42790 | _"Eugenia,"by Hayes and Carr._--Can any of your readers give me any account of the following play, as to where the scene of it is laid,& c.? |
42790 | and what is the etymology of_ rabbit_? |
42790 | and what was the see in Italy to which the latter was nominated? |
42790 | edition of the_ Seasons_, 1730( was not this the first collected edition of that poem? |
14091 | But I must wash? |
14091 | Do you often do that? |
14091 | Among the other songs of Work the following are best known:"Kingdom Coming,"or"Say, Darkey, Hab You Seen de Massa?" |
14091 | Are mineral veins aqueous or igneous in origin? |
14091 | But the question with every man, and especially if he is the head of a family, is, Can he afford it? |
14091 | Can a horse trot faster in harness, or under saddle? |
14091 | Can any effectual provision be made by the State against"hard times"? |
14091 | Can democratic forms of government be made universal? |
14091 | Do our methods of government promote centralization? |
14091 | Do the benefits of the signal service justify its costs? |
14091 | Do you notice a drawn look about your eyes and a general streakiness in the cheeks? |
14091 | Doctors, are you content? |
14091 | Does civilization promote the happiness of the world? |
14091 | Does home life promote the growth of selfishness? |
14091 | Does the study of physical science militate against religious belief? |
14091 | Dogwood-- Am I indifferent to you? |
14091 | Every cradle asks us''whence,''and every coffin''whither?'' |
14091 | HOW TO BE HANDSOME Where is the woman who would not be beautiful? |
14091 | Has Spanish influence been helpful or harmful to Mexico as a people? |
14091 | Has any State a right to secede? |
14091 | Has our Government a right to disfranchise the polygamists of Utah? |
14091 | Has the experiment of universal suffrage proven a success? |
14091 | How shall our teeth be preserved? |
14091 | How shall they be kept clean? |
14091 | How the Kind of White Metal is Made That is Used in the Manufacture of Cheap Table Ware.--How same can be hardened and still retain its color? |
14091 | In a hundred years will republics be as numerous as monarchies? |
14091 | Is Saxon blood deteriorating? |
14091 | Is agriculture the noblest occupation? |
14091 | Is an income- tax commendable? |
14091 | Is an untarnished reputation of more importance to a woman than to a man? |
14091 | Is assassination ever justifiable? |
14091 | Is dancing, as usually conducted, compatible with a high standard of morality? |
14091 | Is genius hereditary? |
14091 | Is history or philosophy the better exercise for the mind? |
14091 | Is honesty always the best policy? |
14091 | Is it advisable longer to attempt to maintain both a gold and silver standard of coinage? |
14091 | Is it politic to place restrictions upon the immigration of the Chinese to the United States? |
14091 | Is it probable that any language will ever become universal? |
14091 | Is it probable that any planet, except the earth, is inhabited? |
14091 | Is it the duty of the State to encourage art and literature as much as science? |
14091 | Is labor entitled to more remuneration than it receives? |
14091 | Is legal punishment for crime as severe as it should be? |
14091 | Is life insurance a benefit? |
14091 | Is life more desirable now than in ancient Rome? |
14091 | Is life worth living? |
14091 | Is suicide cowardice? |
14091 | Is the doctrine of"State rights"to be commended? |
14091 | Is the occasional destruction of large numbers of people, by war and disaster, a benefit to the world? |
14091 | Is the production of great works of literature favored by the conditions of modern civilized life? |
14091 | Is the prohibitory liquor law preferable to a system of high license? |
14091 | Is the pursuit of politics an honorable avocation? |
14091 | Is the study of ancient or modern history the more important to the student? |
14091 | Is the study of current politics a duty? |
14091 | Is the theory of evolution tenable? |
14091 | Is the"Monroe doctrine"to be commended and upheld? |
14091 | Is there any improvement in the quality of the literature of to- day over that of last century? |
14091 | Is"socialism"treason? |
14091 | Ought the national banking system to be abolished? |
14091 | Ought we to be surprised that the gums and teeth against which these decomposing or putrefying masses lie should become subjects of disease? |
14091 | Should American railroad companies be allowed to sell their bonds in other countries? |
14091 | Should Arctic expeditions be encouraged? |
14091 | Should Ireland and Scotland be independent nations? |
14091 | Should Latin be taught in the public schools? |
14091 | Should Sumner''s civil rights bill be made constitutional by an amendment? |
14091 | Should a right to vote in any part of the United States depend upon a property qualification? |
14091 | Should aliens be allowed to acquire property in this country? |
14091 | Should aliens be allowed to own real estate in this country? |
14091 | Should all laws for the collection of debt be abolished? |
14091 | Should any limit be placed by the constitution of a State upon its ability to contract indebtedness? |
14091 | Should book- keeping be taught in the public schools? |
14091 | Should capital punishment be abolished? |
14091 | Should cremation be substituted for burial? |
14091 | Should internal revenue taxation be abolished? |
14091 | Should land subsidies be granted to railroads by the government? |
14091 | Should men and women receive the same amount of wages for the same kind of work? |
14091 | Should restrictions be placed upon the amount of property inheritable? |
14091 | Should the State prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors? |
14091 | Should the art of war be taught more widely than at present in the United States? |
14091 | Should the co- education of the sexes be encouraged? |
14091 | Should the continuance of militia organizations by the several States be encouraged? |
14091 | Should the contract labor system in public prisons be forbidden? |
14091 | Should the education of the young be compulsory? |
14091 | Should the electoral college be continued? |
14091 | Should the formation of monopolies be prevented by the State? |
14091 | Should the formation of trade unions be encouraged? |
14091 | Should the government establish a national system of telegraph? |
14091 | Should the government interfere to stop the spread of contagious diseases among cattle? |
14091 | Should the government lease to stockgrowers any portion of the public domain? |
14091 | Should the government prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors? |
14091 | Should the grand jury system of making indictments be continued? |
14091 | Should the guillotine be substituted for the gallows? |
14091 | Should the jury system be continued? |
14091 | Should the languages of alien nations be taught in the public schools? |
14091 | Should the law interfere against the growth of class distinctions in society? |
14091 | Should the law place a limit upon the hours of daily labor for workingmen? |
14091 | Should the military or the interior department have charge over the Indians in the United States? |
14091 | Should the pooling system among American railroads be abolished by law? |
14091 | Should the railroads be under the direct control of the government? |
14091 | Should the rate of taxation be graduated to a ratio with the amount of property taxed? |
14091 | Should the theater be encouraged? |
14091 | Should the volume of greenback money be increased? |
14091 | Should the volume of national bank circulation be increased? |
14091 | Should the"Spoils System"be continued in American politics? |
14091 | Should there be a censor for the public press? |
14091 | Should usury laws be abolished? |
14091 | Should women be given the right of suffrage in the United States? |
14091 | Should"landlordism"in Ireland be supplanted by home rule? |
14091 | That is, can he afford to live up his wages as fast as he earns them, without laying up anything for the future? |
14091 | The Largest Buildings in the World.--Where is the largest building in the world situated? |
14091 | Was Bryant or Longfellow the greater poet? |
14091 | Was Caesar or Hannibal the more able general? |
14091 | Was England justifiable in interfering between Egypt and the Soudan rebels? |
14091 | Was Grant or Lee the greater general? |
14091 | Was Rome justifiable in annihilating Carthage as a nation? |
14091 | Was slavery the cause of the American civil war? |
14091 | Was the purchase of Alaska by this government wise? |
14091 | What cost 10 pounds butter at 25c per pound? |
14091 | What cost 12- 2/3 pounds of butter at 18- 3/4c per pound? |
14091 | What cost 18 dozen eggs at 16- 2/3c per dozen? |
14091 | What cost 5- 1/3 yards at 18c a yard? |
14091 | When did you leave Newark?" |
14091 | Which can man the more easily do without, electricity or petroleum? |
14091 | Which can support the greater population in proportion to area, our Northern or Southern States? |
14091 | Which can to- day wield the greater influence, the orator or the writer? |
14091 | Which could man best do without, steam or horse power? |
14091 | Which could mankind dispense with at least inconvenience, wood or coal? |
14091 | Which gives rise to more objectionable idioms and localisms of language, New England or the West? |
14091 | Which has been of greater benefit to mankind, geology or chemistry? |
14091 | Which has been the greater curse to man, war or drunkenness? |
14091 | Which has left the more permanent impress upon mankind, Greece or Rome? |
14091 | Which has the greater resources, Pennsylvania or Texas? |
14091 | Which is more desirable as the chief business of a city-- commerce or manufactures? |
14091 | Which is more desirable as the chief business of a city-- transportation by water or by rail? |
14091 | Which is of greater benefit at the present day, books or newspapers? |
14091 | Which is of more benefit to his race, the inventor or the explorer? |
14091 | Which is of more importance, the primary or the high school? |
14091 | Which is of the greater importance, the college or the university? |
14091 | Which is of the more benefit to society, journalism or the law? |
14091 | Which is the better for this nation, high or low import tariffs? |
14091 | Which is the greater nation, Germany or France? |
14091 | Which is the more desirable as an occupation, medicine or law? |
14091 | Which is the more important as a branch of education, mineralogy or astronomy? |
14091 | Which is the more important as a continent, Africa or South America? |
14091 | Which is the more important to the student, physical science or mathematics? |
14091 | Which is the stronger military power, England or the United States? |
14091 | Which should be the more encouraged, novelists or dramatists? |
14091 | Which should be the more highly remunerated, skilled labor or the work of professional men? |
14091 | Which was the greater general, Napoleon or Wellington? |
14091 | Which was the greater genius, Mohammed or Buddha? |
14091 | Which was the greater thinker, Emerson or Bacon? |
14091 | Which was the more able leader, Pizarro or Cortez? |
14091 | Which was the more influential congressman, Blaine or Garfield? |
14091 | Which will predominate in five hundred years, the Saxon or Latin races? |
14091 | Why should we fear that which will come to all that is? |
14091 | Why?" |
14091 | Will a time ever come when the population of the earth will be limited by the earth''s capacity of food production? |
14091 | Will coal always constitute the main source of artificial heat? |
14091 | Will the African and Caucasian races ever be amalgamated in the United States? |
14091 | Will the population of Chicago ever exceed that of New York? |
14091 | Will the population of St. Louis ever exceed that of Chicago? |
14091 | Will the tide of emigration ever turn eastward instead of westward? |
14091 | Would a rebellion in Russia be justifiable? |
14091 | Would mankind be the loser if the earth should cease to produce gold and silver? |
41983 | How did I come? 41983 How did you come?" |
41983 | What signifies philosophy that does not apply to some use? 41983 Whence do the wasps derive it?" |
41983 | Who is there? |
41983 | ( say they) the heavens are open; if you enter not now, when will you enter? |
41983 | ------------Whence, but through an infinite, Almighty God, supremely wise and just? |
41983 | A rock(_ waoke_?) |
41983 | Among other things, he disputes whether or no the Anthropophagi act contrary to nature? |
41983 | And this leads to the consideration of a question proposed by Aristotle,--Why are the upper parts of the sea salter and warmer than the lower? |
41983 | And we may ask of this, as well as the former hypothesis,--what need of them, when the work may be done without them? |
41983 | And who can follow Nature''s pencil here? |
41983 | And why does a slighter degree of the nightmare sometimes seize people who sleep in an erect situation in a chair? |
41983 | And why? |
41983 | Another question sometimes agitated is, what kind of wood is meant by gopher wood? |
41983 | As we entered the church- yard, the respectful"How do you do?" |
41983 | But can putrefaction create an organic substance? |
41983 | But is it not also apparent, that in all their works they propose to themselves certain ends? |
41983 | But it may be asked, how is it produced? |
41983 | But why should they at all change their habitations? |
41983 | But, after all, what are those parts in the fungi casually observed by naturalists, and which they have taken for the parts of fructification? |
41983 | Can an extorted oath compel me to observe secrecy on a thing so incredible, but which ought to be left on record to posterity?" |
41983 | Can your majesty desire to see such another sight?" |
41983 | Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? |
41983 | Expressing some doubt of this to the landlord''s question,"Do you not know that he is blind?" |
41983 | Had not Aaron, the high priest of the Hebrews, a ring on his finger, whereof the diamond, by its virtue, operated prodigious things? |
41983 | Her father then asked why she would not make some signs when she wanted to drink? |
41983 | How can we conceive that fire, in certain circumstances, can exercise so powerful an action on the human body as to produce this effect? |
41983 | How was their frame to such perfection brought? |
41983 | I asked Idris if ever he had before seen such a sight? |
41983 | If a Chinese is asked how he finds himself in health? |
41983 | If it be asked, whether these imperfect creatures have all distinct souls while lurking yet in their parent? |
41983 | In the Athenian Oracle, a lady desires to know whether fleas have stings, or whether they only suck or bite, when they draw blood from the body? |
41983 | In the course of his journey, the Mask was one day heard to ask his keeper, whether the king had any design on his life? |
41983 | In the last place, he demanded of them,''What name they desired should be put upon the bell?'' |
41983 | Is it to be wondered at, then, that they hold the alarm- bird in the highest veneration? |
41983 | Is this, in reality, a picture of the human mind, with all its boasted attributes, its delicacies, its refinements, its civilized superiority? |
41983 | King James I. when a man was presented to him who could eat a whole sheep at one meal, asked,"What work could he do more than another man?" |
41983 | M. de St. Mars was alarmed at the sight; and asked the man with great anxiety, whether he could read, and whether any one else had seen the plate? |
41983 | My servants asked this man whether he could pipe these snakes out of their holes, and catch them? |
41983 | Now, in this case, how was the number to be ascertained? |
41983 | Or, when contending winds around you blow, Do you ne''er wish the cause of them to know?" |
41983 | Say, what the various bones so wisely wrought? |
41983 | Shall we soon be like him? |
41983 | Soon as the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear: Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? |
41983 | Steals my senses, shuts my sight? |
41983 | The only question, therefore, is, by what means this air comes to be extricated, and to take up more room than it naturally does in the fluid? |
41983 | To which she answered,--why should she, when she had no desire? |
41983 | Upon being asked, whether she would submit to the church the truth of her pretended visions, revelations, and intercourse with departed saints? |
41983 | Upon what hypothesis can we account for a degree of foresight and penetration such as this? |
41983 | We shall now make a few observations on THE TIDES:-- Say, why should the collected main Itself within itself contain? |
41983 | What good man will ever come again under my roof, if I let my floor be stained with a good man''s blood?" |
41983 | What is this absorbs me quite? |
41983 | What then becomes of it? |
41983 | What was he to do? |
41983 | What youthful bride can equal her array? |
41983 | What, and did the Bank refuse payment, Sir?" |
41983 | When he wrote so much of what came to him as gifts, was it not to rouse more to give? |
41983 | When it was demanded, why she carried in her hand that standard at the unction and coronation of Charles at Rheims? |
41983 | When she was asked, why she put her trust in her standard, which had been consecrated by magical incantations? |
41983 | When the wicked cease from troubling, will the good cease from doing good? |
41983 | Where now the throng That press''d the beach, and, hasty to depart, Look''d to the sea for safety? |
41983 | Who can with her for easy pleasure vie? |
41983 | Who has furnished him with his painted wings? |
41983 | Who has given to him the faculty of inhabiting the ethereal regions? |
41983 | Who has raised him above the earth? |
41983 | Who has taught them not to mistake the time, but to calculate so exactly, that the eggs are not laid before the nest is finished? |
41983 | Who is able to number the different species of animals which people the seas? |
41983 | Why should its num''rous waters stay In comely discipline and fair array, Till winds and tides exert their high commands? |
41983 | Why to its caverns should it sometimes cree And with delighted silence sleep On the lov''d bosom of its parent deep? |
41983 | Will no morning break over the tomb? |
41983 | Will you permit once more our group to try To raise your laughter, or to make you cry? |
41983 | Would any one ever have imagined, that the wings of butterflies were furnished with feathers? |
41983 | and why is the land there dry and full of crevices? |
41983 | he exclaimed,"What do you mean by that?" |
41983 | on horseback?" |
41983 | or who can determine their form, structure, size, and properties? |
41983 | what finite can explore? |
41983 | where is thy sting? |
41983 | where is thy victory? |
41983 | who could conceive such knavery to exist? |
41983 | why is there commonly no kind of herb in the places where this species of fungus grows? |
16728 | A copy of the Holy Scriptures, which made its appearance between the years 1450 and 1452. Who introduced Printing into England? |
16728 | Are Navigation and Commerce inseparably connected with each other? |
16728 | Are all bodies equally combustible? |
16728 | Are all the species of ornamental building confined to those nations already mentioned? |
16728 | Are not its uses very extensive? |
16728 | Are not the savages very dexterous in the management of them? |
16728 | Are the last- mentioned sorts properly called Gums? |
16728 | Are there any other Metals besides those already mentioned? |
16728 | Are there any other kinds of this earth besides the common white chalk? |
16728 | Are there different sorts of this Stone? |
16728 | Are there many Volcanoes? |
16728 | Are there no other kind of Instruments besides those already described? |
16728 | Are there not different sorts of this material? |
16728 | Are there other plants or trees which produce Gum, besides those already mentioned? |
16728 | Are there several kinds of attraction? |
16728 | Are they a modern invention? |
16728 | At what place was Glass first made? |
16728 | Before the invention of Earthenware, what supplied its place to the early inhabitants of the world? |
16728 | But is not a pound of gold as heavy as a pound of lead? |
16728 | But why do iron steamers float-- iron being heavier than water? |
16728 | By what nations was the art of painting practised with great success? |
16728 | By what other name has Chemistry been known? |
16728 | By what_ means_ do Chemists effect a change in the qualities or states of natural bodies? |
16728 | By whom was it built? |
16728 | By whom was it destroyed, and when? |
16728 | By whom was it invented? |
16728 | By whom was it revived? |
16728 | By whom was it revived? |
16728 | By whom was the Steam Engine first applied to the purposes of Navigation? |
16728 | By whom was the Tower of Babel erected, and why? |
16728 | By whom was the phonograph invented? |
16728 | By whom were the heavenly bodies first divided into Constellations or groups? |
16728 | Can more than one message be sent at the same time on the same wire? |
16728 | Can we explain by this what we call floating? |
16728 | Can you show the same by another instrument? |
16728 | Can you specify these effects? |
16728 | Can you tell me some magnetic effects of the current? |
16728 | Coral, particularly the beautiful red sort, is likewise made into various ornaments, as necklaces,& c. Of what is our Lime composed? |
16728 | Cyrus H. McCormick, inventor of the mowing machine, born at Walnut Grove, Virginia, in 1809. Who was the inventor of the Sewing Machine? |
16728 | Did it always continue thus? |
16728 | Did not Alexandria undergo the same fate as Tyre and Carthage? |
16728 | Did not Astronomy from this time make great progress? |
16728 | Did not Carthage afterwards become as flourishing as the parent city of Tyre? |
16728 | Did not the Barbarians, after a while, turn their attention to Navigation and Commerce? |
16728 | Did the Romans possess any distinguished Poets? |
16728 | Did the citizens of Constantinople confine their trade to the Islands of the Archipelago, and the adjacent coast of Asia? |
16728 | Did this manufacture continue to be confined to the Greeks and Venetians? |
16728 | Do the terms Coal and Charcoal signify the same substance? |
16728 | Do they grow on bushes like our Currants? |
16728 | Do they leave their canoes in the water on their return from a voyage? |
16728 | Do we experience this attraction upon our earth? |
16728 | Do you know any application of those magnets? |
16728 | Do you know some other properties of air? |
16728 | Do you know something about the nature of Light? |
16728 | Does Nature decompose Water in any of her operations? |
16728 | Does Rock Salt undergo any preparation before it is used? |
16728 | Does it not require a great deal of moisture? |
16728 | Does it not undergo some change during the year? |
16728 | Does not the Pearl Oyster produce a substance called Mother- of- Pearl? |
16728 | Does the insect change its color when it is dead? |
16728 | Does weaving differ according to the material used? |
16728 | For what are they used? |
16728 | For what is Barley generally used? |
16728 | For what is Bombazine used? |
16728 | For what is Millet used? |
16728 | For what is Starch used? |
16728 | For what is Vitriol used? |
16728 | For what is Zinc used? |
16728 | For what is it used? |
16728 | For what is it used? |
16728 | For what is this Rock used? |
16728 | For what was it formerly used? |
16728 | For what was this city particularly celebrated? |
16728 | From what cause is the Water deprived of its caloric? |
16728 | From what countries are Dates brought? |
16728 | From what countries is the Cochineal brought? |
16728 | From what country is it supposed that the invention of silk knitted stockings originally came? |
16728 | From what country was the Cherry Tree first brought? |
16728 | From what does the vapor originate? |
16728 | From what is Coal supposed to have originated? |
16728 | From what is Silk produced? |
16728 | From what is the word Arsenic derived? |
16728 | From what is the word Parchment taken? |
16728 | From what nation was the knowledge of their use in medicine obtained? |
16728 | From what part is the Dye obtained? |
16728 | From what part of the fish is it prepared? |
16728 | From what place did it take its name? |
16728 | From what vegetables is Starch obtained? |
16728 | From whence did it take its name? |
16728 | Had not Venice a formidable rival in a neighboring republic? |
16728 | Has Indigo been long known? |
16728 | Have not the various nations among whom this useful art has been cultivated, adopted different ways of arranging their written characters? |
16728 | Have the terms Money and Coin the same signification? |
16728 | Have we any notice of this art among the Hebrews? |
16728 | He died on board his own ship in the West Indies, 1595. Who was Sir Walter Raleigh? |
16728 | How are the Olives eaten? |
16728 | How are the legislative powers, granted to the government, vested? |
16728 | How are these Stones wrought? |
16728 | How are they caught? |
16728 | How are they divided? |
16728 | How are they prepared, and for what are they used? |
16728 | How can you ascertain that air has weight? |
16728 | How do the savages guide them? |
16728 | How do these Coral Rocks become Islands? |
16728 | How do they get the Oysters which contain them? |
16728 | How do they make it into a drink? |
16728 | How do you know that attraction exists through the whole universe? |
16728 | How is Manna gathered? |
16728 | How is engraving on copper, steel,& c., performed? |
16728 | How is it cultivated? |
16728 | How is it made into Calico,& c.? |
16728 | How is it prepared for use? |
16728 | How is it prepared? |
16728 | How is it prepared? |
16728 | How is it procured? |
16728 | How is it produced? |
16728 | How is the Bread- Fruit eaten? |
16728 | How is the Butter extracted? |
16728 | How is the Caoutchouc obtained from the Tree? |
16728 | How is the Cinnamon Tree cultivated? |
16728 | How is the Cotton separated from the seed? |
16728 | How is the Hermetic seal formed? |
16728 | How is the Leather prepared? |
16728 | How is the Oil drawn from the Olive? |
16728 | How is the bark procured? |
16728 | How is the second kind of attraction, or that between the particles of bodies, subdivided? |
16728 | How is the state of Solidity in bodies accounted for? |
16728 | How is the white powdered arsenic prepared? |
16728 | How is this fruit eaten? |
16728 | How long has the use of Hemp and Flax been known? |
16728 | How long have Bricks been in use for building? |
16728 | How may the Gulf Stream be distinguished? |
16728 | How often does this tree cast its circle of leaves? |
16728 | How often does this tree produce nuts? |
16728 | How often is this operation repeated? |
16728 | How rapidly does the electric current travel through the wires? |
16728 | How, and from what part of the tree is it taken? |
16728 | In how many divisions may musical instruments be arranged? |
16728 | In how many states do we find Water? |
16728 | In what countries are they found? |
16728 | In what countries is Indigo cultivated? |
16728 | In what countries is Marble found? |
16728 | In what countries is Salt generally found? |
16728 | In what countries is it cultivated? |
16728 | In what country is it seen constantly from October to Christmas? |
16728 | In what manner does Pepper grow, and what part of the shrub is used? |
16728 | In what manner is Parchment now prepared? |
16728 | In what manner is it formed into such a variety of shapes? |
16728 | In what manner is it obtained? |
16728 | In what manufacture is it now used? |
16728 | In what other countries is this plant found? |
16728 | In what other sense is the term Electricity employed? |
16728 | In what place was the art of Printing first practised? |
16728 | In what seas are they found? |
16728 | In what state is Lime found in nature? |
16728 | In what state is Mercury usually found? |
16728 | In what state is Silver usually found? |
16728 | In what state is Tin generally found? |
16728 | In what year, and where, was the making of glass bottles begun? |
16728 | Is Black Lead a proper term for this mineral? |
16728 | Is Coral put to any use by man? |
16728 | Is Manna peculiar to the Ash Tree of Southern Italy? |
16728 | Is ice the only instance of Water existing in a state of solidity? |
16728 | Is it a plant? |
16728 | Is it known to whom we are indebted for the invention of Linen Paper? |
16728 | Is it known who were the erectors of these Buildings? |
16728 | Is it not also used in Manure? |
16728 | Is it, then, necessary for chemists to understand the relative nature of all substances? |
16728 | Is not Gunpowder highly combustible? |
16728 | Is not the Indian liquor called Toddy, produced from the Cocoa Tree? |
16728 | Is not the Palma Christi much affected by soil and situation? |
16728 | Is not the air this medium? |
16728 | Is not the art of weaving very ancient? |
16728 | Is not the employment of Wool in the manufacture of Clothing of great antiquity? |
16728 | Is not the harp an instrument of high antiquity in Great Britain? |
16728 | Is not the knowledge of Chemistry very ancient? |
16728 | Is not the use of Gold quite ancient? |
16728 | Is not the work of decomposition perpetually going forward? |
16728 | Is not this an art of great antiquity? |
16728 | Is not this art of great antiquity? |
16728 | Is oil a production confined to the Olive alone? |
16728 | Is the Ink used in Printing the same as writing Ink? |
16728 | Is the Mace used as a spice? |
16728 | Is the Sugar Cane the only vegetable that produces Sugar? |
16728 | Is the Wool of the sheep all of one quality? |
16728 | Is the oil called_ castor_, which is so much used in medicine, the product of an animal or a plant? |
16728 | Is the wood of the Cherry Tree useful? |
16728 | Is there any other method of stereotyping? |
16728 | Is there not a machine by which we are enabled to obtain large supplies of electric power at pleasure? |
16728 | Is there not a tree more particularly designated the Turpentine Tree? |
16728 | Is there not a tree which bears a fruit that may be used for bread? |
16728 | Is there not a tree which produces a substance resembling the Butter which we make from the milk of the cow? |
16728 | Is there not a tree which yields a vegetable Tallow? |
16728 | Is there not another sort of Damask? |
16728 | Is there not another substance also employed in the manufacture of matches? |
16728 | Is there not another tree which produces Manna? |
16728 | Is this substance considered by naturalists as the habitation of the Insect? |
16728 | It is chiefly made in the United States, England, France,& c. What is Linen? |
16728 | It is used for making beer,& c. Of what are Hops the produce? |
16728 | It was first made in Flanders, and is used for table linen,& c. What is Flannel? |
16728 | Lightning usually strikes the highest and most pointed objects, as high hills, trees, spires, masts of ships,& c. What is Thunder? |
16728 | May Wine be extracted from other vegetable bodies? |
16728 | Of leather, silk, thread, cotton, worsted,& c. What skins are generally used for Gloves? |
16728 | Of what are Bricks composed? |
16728 | Of what are Candles made? |
16728 | Of what are Gloves made? |
16728 | Of what are Hats made? |
16728 | Of what are Needles made? |
16728 | Of what are Pins made? |
16728 | Of what are stockings made? |
16728 | Of what are the strings of the Lyre,& c., composed? |
16728 | Of what countries is it a native? |
16728 | Of what countries is the Elephant an inhabitant? |
16728 | Of what country is the Orange a native? |
16728 | Of what country is the Potato a native? |
16728 | Of what do Calcareous Earths or Stones consist? |
16728 | Of what does Printing consist? |
16728 | Of what form is the fruit? |
16728 | Of what form is the tree which bears those large nuts, called Cocoa nuts? |
16728 | Of what form was money generally made? |
16728 | Of what is Earthenware composed? |
16728 | Of what is Gunpowder composed? |
16728 | Of what is Paper made? |
16728 | Of what is Soap composed? |
16728 | Of what is this last compounded? |
16728 | Of what nature is the Aurora Borealis? |
16728 | Of what substances was Money usually made? |
16728 | Of what use are the two remaining substances, Hydrogen and Carbon? |
16728 | Of what use is Bark? |
16728 | Of what use is this power to vegetables? |
16728 | Of what were the first huts composed? |
16728 | Of which of these Simple or Primitive Earths are the solid portions of the globe principally composed? |
16728 | On what does the Beaver feed? |
16728 | Raw silk is imported in quantities from India, China, Italy,& c. How is the Silk taken from the Worm? |
16728 | The Dutch in 1610; it was introduced into England in 1650 What is Coffee? |
16728 | To what circumstance did an ancient poet ascribe the invention of stringed instruments? |
16728 | To what did this revolution in its history give rise? |
16728 | To what great Civil Engineer has the West given birth? |
16728 | To what invention is the art of Navigation much indebted? |
16728 | To what is it more particularly applied? |
16728 | To what is the term Consul applied at the present time? |
16728 | To what other uses is the fruit of the Vine applied besides drying it for raisins, as described in the sixth chapter? |
16728 | To what part of bodies is Electricity confined? |
16728 | To what particular use did the Egyptians put it? |
16728 | To what use did the ancient inhabitants of Africa and Arabia put this substance? |
16728 | To what use did they put it? |
16728 | To what use is this substance put? |
16728 | To whom are we indebted for its invention? |
16728 | To whom do we owe this grand undertaking? |
16728 | To whom is the world indebted for this canal? |
16728 | Upon what materials did the ancients paint their works? |
16728 | Upon what principle do these last- mentioned instruments perform? |
16728 | Was Sculpture always performed in Stone? |
16728 | Was any gold ever produced by this method? |
16728 | Was not Vocal Music used before the invention of Instrumental? |
16728 | Was not the art greatly obscured for some centuries? |
16728 | Was not the use of Tin very early known? |
16728 | Was not this curious mineral better known to the ancients than it is at present? |
16728 | Was this search successful? |
16728 | Were Hieroglyphics employed before or after Alphabetic Writing? |
16728 | Were not books once made of Bark? |
16728 | Were not both these celebrated cities destroyed? |
16728 | Were not the Egyptians quite early acquainted with this art? |
16728 | Were the Egyptians acquainted with this art? |
16728 | Were the attempts to rear Silk Worms in England successful? |
16728 | What Honey was reckoned by the ancients the best in the world? |
16728 | What Tree produces the beautiful and well- known wood so much used in making the various articles of household furniture? |
16728 | What are Almonds? |
16728 | What are Artesian wells? |
16728 | What are Canoes? |
16728 | What are Capers? |
16728 | What are Cloves? |
16728 | What are Currants? |
16728 | What are Dates? |
16728 | What are Earthquakes? |
16728 | What are Furs, and how are they prepared? |
16728 | What are Galls? |
16728 | What are Mangoes? |
16728 | What are Melons? |
16728 | What are Metals called in their natural state? |
16728 | What are Nutmegs? |
16728 | What are Oats? |
16728 | What are Olives? |
16728 | What are Raisins? |
16728 | What are Shoes? |
16728 | What are Strata? |
16728 | What are Tamarinds? |
16728 | What are Yams? |
16728 | What are frequently substituted for Capers? |
16728 | What are generally meant by the Arts? |
16728 | What are its characteristics? |
16728 | What are its qualities? |
16728 | What are its qualities? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are its uses? |
16728 | What are the Liberal Arts? |
16728 | What are the Lungs? |
16728 | What are the Mechanical Arts? |
16728 | What are the Muscles? |
16728 | What are the Tides? |
16728 | What are the chief uses of Silex? |
16728 | What are the different states of natural bodies? |
16728 | What are the earliest accounts of Musical Instruments on record? |
16728 | What are the habits of this insect, and on what does it feed? |
16728 | What are the most ancient stringed instruments? |
16728 | What are the names of the principal islands of Coral formation? |
16728 | What are the properties and uses of Camphor? |
16728 | What are the properties of Clay? |
16728 | What are the properties of Nitrogen or Azote? |
16728 | What are the properties of Silex? |
16728 | What are the second and third kinds of Oils? |
16728 | What are the sources of currents? |
16728 | What are the uses of Copper? |
16728 | What are the uses of Gamboge? |
16728 | What are the uses of Gold? |
16728 | What are the uses of Parchment? |
16728 | What are the uses of Rye? |
16728 | What are the uses of air? |
16728 | What are the uses of this Tree? |
16728 | What are the uses of this Tree? |
16728 | What are their qualities and use? |
16728 | What are these glasses called? |
16728 | What badge or sign was worn by those who engaged in the Crusades? |
16728 | What can you say of its origin? |
16728 | What can you say of new islands formed by Volcanic Agency? |
16728 | What can you say of the origin of Glass? |
16728 | What causes led to these wars? |
16728 | What celebrated Astronomer arose in England? |
16728 | What celebrated Poets marked this revival? |
16728 | What circumstance caused them to unite? |
16728 | What circumstance contributed to the progress of this manufacture among the English? |
16728 | What city of France was long celebrated for its manufacture? |
16728 | What city of Italy excelled all Europe for many years in the making of fine glass? |
16728 | What countries are most noted for them? |
16728 | What countries had glass windows first? |
16728 | What countries produce the best Wines? |
16728 | What country affords the best Wool? |
16728 | What country is meant by Mauritania? |
16728 | What country was the most highly celebrated for its sculpture? |
16728 | What different kinds of Attraction can you mention? |
16728 | What do the Fine Arts usually include? |
16728 | What do the terms Refining and Smelting signify? |
16728 | What do you mean by Carbon? |
16728 | What do you mean by Exportation? |
16728 | What do you mean by Gems? |
16728 | What do you mean by Metallurgy? |
16728 | What do you mean by Metals? |
16728 | What do you mean by Polypus? |
16728 | What do you mean by_ Marly_? |
16728 | What do you mean by_ decomposition_? |
16728 | What do you understand by specific weight or gravity? |
16728 | What does the first coined money in ancient Britain appear to have been? |
16728 | What does the word Levant signify? |
16728 | What does the word Nature signify? |
16728 | What does the word Oriental signify? |
16728 | What effect had the Fall of the Roman Empire on Navigation? |
16728 | What effects are produced by currents? |
16728 | What else does the Sturgeon supply? |
16728 | What else is obtained from this tree? |
16728 | What event likewise contributed to the more rapid progress and diffusion of Navigation and Commerce? |
16728 | What event proved fatal to this art? |
16728 | What form does it bear? |
16728 | What good effect did this event produce? |
16728 | What immense fish is it that furnishes us with a quantity of_ animal_ oil? |
16728 | What improvement in this instrument would naturally follow? |
16728 | What influence has the Gulf Stream on the climate of Europe? |
16728 | What instrument was famous among the ancient Greeks? |
16728 | What is Alum? |
16728 | What is Arrow- root? |
16728 | What is Arsenic? |
16728 | What is Astronomy? |
16728 | What is Astronomy? |
16728 | What is Attraction? |
16728 | What is Baize? |
16728 | What is Bark? |
16728 | What is Barley Sugar? |
16728 | What is Black Lead? |
16728 | What is Bombazine? |
16728 | What is Brandy? |
16728 | What is Brass? |
16728 | What is Calico? |
16728 | What is Cambric? |
16728 | What is Camlet? |
16728 | What is Camphor? |
16728 | What is Canvas? |
16728 | What is Catgut? |
16728 | What is Cayenne Pepper? |
16728 | What is Chalk? |
16728 | What is Chemistry? |
16728 | What is Chocolate? |
16728 | What is Cinnamon? |
16728 | What is Cloth? |
16728 | What is Coal? |
16728 | What is Cochineal? |
16728 | What is Copperas? |
16728 | What is Coral? |
16728 | What is Cork? |
16728 | What is Corn? |
16728 | What is Cotton? |
16728 | What is Damask? |
16728 | What is Dew? |
16728 | What is Diaper? |
16728 | What is Ebony? |
16728 | What is Electricity? |
16728 | What is Electrotyping? |
16728 | What is Engraving? |
16728 | What is Flax? |
16728 | What is Fossil or Rock Salt? |
16728 | What is Frankincense? |
16728 | What is Gamboge? |
16728 | What is Geometry? |
16728 | What is Gin? |
16728 | What is Ginger? |
16728 | What is Glass? |
16728 | What is Gold? |
16728 | What is Granite? |
16728 | What is Gravity? |
16728 | What is Gum Arabic? |
16728 | What is Gum? |
16728 | What is Hail? |
16728 | What is Holland? |
16728 | What is Honey? |
16728 | What is Hydrogen? |
16728 | What is India Rubber or Caoutchouc? |
16728 | What is Indian, or Chinese Ink? |
16728 | What is Ink? |
16728 | What is Inlaying? |
16728 | What is Iron? |
16728 | What is Isinglass? |
16728 | What is Ivory? |
16728 | What is Lapis Calaminaris? |
16728 | What is Lead? |
16728 | What is Leather? |
16728 | What is Licorice? |
16728 | What is Lightning? |
16728 | What is Lime? |
16728 | What is Lithography? |
16728 | What is Logwood? |
16728 | What is Magnesium Light? |
16728 | What is Malt? |
16728 | What is Manna? |
16728 | What is Marine Salt? |
16728 | What is Mercury? |
16728 | What is Millet, and in what countries does it grow? |
16728 | What is Mohair? |
16728 | What is Musk? |
16728 | What is Myrrh? |
16728 | What is Opium? |
16728 | What is Oxygen? |
16728 | What is Painting? |
16728 | What is Papyrus? |
16728 | What is Parchment? |
16728 | What is Pearl Barley? |
16728 | What is Pepper? |
16728 | What is Phenicia? |
16728 | What is Photography? |
16728 | What is Pimento or Allspice? |
16728 | What is Pitch? |
16728 | What is Platina? |
16728 | What is Poetry? |
16728 | What is Potash? |
16728 | What is Quick- Lime? |
16728 | What is Rain? |
16728 | What is Rhubarb? |
16728 | What is Rice? |
16728 | What is Rum? |
16728 | What is Sago? |
16728 | What is Salt? |
16728 | What is Saltpetre? |
16728 | What is Sculpture? |
16728 | What is Silver? |
16728 | What is Slate? |
16728 | What is Snow? |
16728 | What is Soda? |
16728 | What is Spermaceti? |
16728 | What is Sponge? |
16728 | What is Spring Salt? |
16728 | What is Starch? |
16728 | What is Steel? |
16728 | What is Sugar Candy? |
16728 | What is Sugar? |
16728 | What is Sulphur? |
16728 | What is Tan? |
16728 | What is Tapioca? |
16728 | What is Tar? |
16728 | What is Tea? |
16728 | What is Thermo- electricity? |
16728 | What is Tin? |
16728 | What is Tobacco? |
16728 | What is Turpentine? |
16728 | What is Twilight? |
16728 | What is Vellum? |
16728 | What is Velvet? |
16728 | What is Vinegar? |
16728 | What is Water? |
16728 | What is Wax? |
16728 | What is Wind? |
16728 | What is Wool? |
16728 | What is Zinc? |
16728 | What is a Barometer? |
16728 | What is a Bathometer? |
16728 | What is a Blowpipe? |
16728 | What is a Cable? |
16728 | What is a Camera Obscura? |
16728 | What is a Cell; what a Battery? |
16728 | What is a Chronometer? |
16728 | What is a Coal Mine? |
16728 | What is a Dynamo- electric machine? |
16728 | What is a Kaleidoscope? |
16728 | What is a Kiln? |
16728 | What is a Lightning Rod? |
16728 | What is a Microphone? |
16728 | What is a Microscope? |
16728 | What is a Mine? |
16728 | What is a Mint? |
16728 | What is a Mirror? |
16728 | What is a Mosque? |
16728 | What is a Pendulum? |
16728 | What is a Phonograph? |
16728 | What is a Prism? |
16728 | What is a Pyramid? |
16728 | What is a Rainbow? |
16728 | What is a Spectrum? |
16728 | What is a Stereoscope? |
16728 | What is a Stethoscope? |
16728 | What is a Suspension Bridge? |
16728 | What is a Telescope? |
16728 | What is a Thermometer? |
16728 | What is a Tortoise? |
16728 | What is a Volcano? |
16728 | What is a singular characteristic of the Coral Islands? |
16728 | What is an Anemometer? |
16728 | What is an Aneroid Barometer? |
16728 | What is an Electric current? |
16728 | What is an author? |
16728 | What is generally meant by Corn? |
16728 | What is it called when found in a perfect metallic form? |
16728 | What is its habitation? |
16728 | What is its origin? |
16728 | What is meant by Architecture? |
16728 | What is meant by Chrysalis? |
16728 | What is meant by Combustion? |
16728 | What is meant by Gas? |
16728 | What is meant by Mahomedan? |
16728 | What is meant by Mechanics? |
16728 | What is meant by Navigation? |
16728 | What is meant by Ochreous? |
16728 | What is meant by Science? |
16728 | What is meant by a Senate? |
16728 | What is meant by an Archipelago? |
16728 | What is meant by the Assyrian Empire? |
16728 | What is next done? |
16728 | What is peculiar to the ore of Lead? |
16728 | What is positive and what negative electricity? |
16728 | What is signified by a glass- house? |
16728 | What is supposed to cause them? |
16728 | What is that part of the Pacific called, where the Coral Rocks are most abundant? |
16728 | What is the Citron? |
16728 | What is the Drummond or Lime Light? |
16728 | What is the Ear- trumpet? |
16728 | What is the Electro- Magnetic Telegraph? |
16728 | What is the Gulf Stream? |
16728 | What is the Lime? |
16728 | What is the Loadstone? |
16728 | What is the Mariner''s Compass? |
16728 | What is the Ruby? |
16728 | What is the Steam Engine? |
16728 | What is the Tasimeter? |
16728 | What is the Turquois? |
16728 | What is the White Pepper? |
16728 | What is the appearance of Frankincense? |
16728 | What is the cause of bodies being either solid, liquid, or aeriform? |
16728 | What is the cause of bodies floating on liquids? |
16728 | What is the character of Gold? |
16728 | What is the character of Gum? |
16728 | What is the difference between Electrotyping and Stereotyping? |
16728 | What is the government of the United States? |
16728 | What is the meaning of A.D.? |
16728 | What is the name of the remarkable stone of which a cloth has been made, that resists the action of fire? |
16728 | What is the nature of Electricity? |
16728 | What is the nature of Phosphorus? |
16728 | What is the poetical name for the morning Twilight? |
16728 | What is the signification of Mediterranean? |
16728 | What is the vessel called which is used in Distilling? |
16728 | What is understood by Magic? |
16728 | What is understood by a Consul? |
16728 | What is used to cement bricks firmly together? |
16728 | What island possesses a remarkable substitute for the want of springs of Water? |
16728 | What kind appears to have been held in the greatest esteem by the ancients? |
16728 | What materials are used for the dyeing and coloring of our manufactures? |
16728 | What materials were employed by ancient nations in Writing? |
16728 | What materials were used for writing, before the invention of Paper? |
16728 | What method is used in preparing the Asbestus? |
16728 | What method is usually employed in countries where the sun''s heat is not sufficiently powerful? |
16728 | What mode is usually employed in this country in obtaining it? |
16728 | What nation appears to have excelled in Chemistry in early times? |
16728 | What nation first applied this art to the purposes of Trade? |
16728 | What nation first introduced it into Europe? |
16728 | What nation holds the olive in great repute? |
16728 | What nation invented the large looking- glass plates now in use? |
16728 | What nation is supposed to have known and practised this art even before the foundation of Rome? |
16728 | What nation so greatly excelled in the manufacture of a beautiful species of Earthenware? |
16728 | What nation was fed with a kind of Manna? |
16728 | What nation was particularly celebrated for musical talents? |
16728 | What nation wore Shoes made of the bark of the papyrus? |
16728 | What next greatly forwarded this interesting science? |
16728 | What other circumstance also prevented commercial intercourse from ceasing altogether? |
16728 | What other circumstance contributed to the advancement of Astronomy? |
16728 | What other fluid is drawn from Wine? |
16728 | What other great engineering work can you mention? |
16728 | What other kinds of stone are used in building? |
16728 | What other name is given to Liquids? |
16728 | What other nations excelled in the art of Building? |
16728 | What other people, about this period, distinguished themselves in the art of Navigation? |
16728 | What part of it produces the Gum? |
16728 | What part of the plant is eaten? |
16728 | What part of the plant is used? |
16728 | What part of the world is meant by Australia? |
16728 | What people are regarded as the Fathers of Poetry? |
16728 | What people are represented by the ancient writers as having brought the art of Building to a greater state of perfection? |
16728 | What probably gave the first idea of Navigation? |
16728 | What produces the difference between Green and Bohea, or Black? |
16728 | What progress did the Romans make in Sculpture? |
16728 | What progress did the generality of the Eastern nations make in this art? |
16728 | What progress did they make in Astronomy? |
16728 | What remarkable event followed their foolish pride? |
16728 | What remarkable phenomenon is afforded to the inhabitants of the polar regions? |
16728 | What sea produces the best and greatest number of Pearls? |
16728 | What seasons are more liable to rain than others? |
16728 | What sources of light do you know? |
16728 | What species of Melon is that which almost makes up for a scarcity of good water in hot countries? |
16728 | What term is used to denote the quality of the Diamond? |
16728 | What time of the day is the best for drawing the juice? |
16728 | What was the Edict of Nantes? |
16728 | What was the Pantheon? |
16728 | What was the Philosopher''s Stone? |
16728 | What was the first Book that was printed from metal types? |
16728 | What was the greatest telegraphic undertaking? |
16728 | What was the next improvement? |
16728 | What was the origin of the city of Venice? |
16728 | What were its objects? |
16728 | What were the Crusades? |
16728 | What, then, would they employ? |
16728 | When and by whom were Watches and Clocks invented? |
16728 | When are they gathered, and how are they dried? |
16728 | When did Hats come into general use? |
16728 | When is the time to gather the spice? |
16728 | When was the first telegraph established? |
16728 | When was the knowledge of Sculpture introduced into England? |
16728 | When was the manufacture of silk introduced into England? |
16728 | When was the use of Money first introduced? |
16728 | When was the use of stamped coin introduced into Britain? |
16728 | When were Spectacles invented, and who was their inventor? |
16728 | Whence are Lemons brought? |
16728 | Whence are the best and greatest number of Sponges brought? |
16728 | Whence are the greatest quantities of Sulphur brought? |
16728 | Whence are they brought? |
16728 | Whence come the colors in the objects we see in nature? |
16728 | Whence is it obtained? |
16728 | Whence is its name derived? |
16728 | Whence is its name derived? |
16728 | Whence is the word Oil derived? |
16728 | Whence is the word Velvet derived? |
16728 | Whence is the word derived? |
16728 | Where and in what manner is Gold generally found? |
16728 | Where are Cochin China, and Corea? |
16728 | Where are Florence and Lucca situated? |
16728 | Where are Rubies found? |
16728 | Where are the Azores situated? |
16728 | Where are the principal Tin Mines? |
16728 | Where are the richest Silver Mines found? |
16728 | Where are they mostly found? |
16728 | Where did Cotton anciently grow, and for what was it used? |
16728 | Where do Beavers usually fix their habitations? |
16728 | Where do the Egyptians dwell? |
16728 | Where does it grow? |
16728 | Where is Abyssinia? |
16728 | Where is Armenia situated? |
16728 | Where is Chalk found? |
16728 | Where is Genoa situated? |
16728 | Where is Genoa? |
16728 | Where is Granite found? |
16728 | Where is Jamaica situated? |
16728 | Where is Lead found? |
16728 | Where is Milan situated? |
16728 | Where is Mount Libanus? |
16728 | Where is Naples? |
16728 | Where is Ravenna? |
16728 | Where is Rouen? |
16728 | Where is Seville? |
16728 | Where is Sumatra situated? |
16728 | Where is the Asbestus found? |
16728 | Where is the Coral Insect found? |
16728 | Where is the Crimea? |
16728 | Where is the Tree found? |
16728 | Where is the best Black Lead found? |
16728 | Where was Babylon? |
16728 | Where was Carthage? |
16728 | Where was Crape first made? |
16728 | Where was Etruria situated? |
16728 | Where was Silk first made? |
16728 | Where was Troy? |
16728 | Where was the first Paper Mill erected in England? |
16728 | Where were the cities of Thebes and Athens situated? |
16728 | Which is supposed to be the most natural state of all bodies? |
16728 | Which is the largest tunnel in the world? |
16728 | Which is the most powerful artificial light? |
16728 | Which is the most rare and beautiful of all the kinds? |
16728 | Which was the more ancient city, Tyre or Sidon? |
16728 | Who are the Japanese? |
16728 | Who are the Maltese? |
16728 | Who first introduced the China Orange into Europe? |
16728 | Who first taught the true system of the Universe? |
16728 | Who introduced it into France and England? |
16728 | Who introduced the Silk Worm itself into Europe? |
16728 | Who invented the Telephone? |
16728 | Who planned these bridges? |
16728 | Who was Alexander the Great? |
16728 | Who was Apollo? |
16728 | Who was Cyrus? |
16728 | Who was Galileo? |
16728 | Who was Jupiter? |
16728 | Who was Leo the Tenth? |
16728 | Who was Lucullus? |
16728 | Who was Mercury? |
16728 | Who was Nabuchodonosor? |
16728 | Who was Nero? |
16728 | Who was Pericles? |
16728 | Who was Pliny? |
16728 | Who was Roger Bacon? |
16728 | Who was Sesostris? |
16728 | Who was Sir Francis Drake? |
16728 | Who was Venus? |
16728 | Who was the inventor of the telegraph in this country? |
16728 | Who was the original discoverer of Coffee, for the drink of man? |
16728 | Who were the Cretans? |
16728 | Who were the Franks? |
16728 | Who were the Goths? |
16728 | Who were the Ionians? |
16728 | Who were the Lombards? |
16728 | Who were the Phenicians? |
16728 | Who were the Pisans? |
16728 | Who were the Saracens? |
16728 | Who were the Scandinavians? |
16728 | Who were the Sicilians? |
16728 | Who were the Venetians? |
16728 | Who were the principal masters of the Italian school? |
16728 | Why are the leaves of plants green? |
16728 | Why do we say that certain metals-- as, for example, platina or gold-- are heavier than others, say, lead or iron? |
16728 | Why does a portion of the floating body sink below the surface of the water? |
16728 | Why is it called Allspice? |
16728 | Will you describe the Megaphone? |
16728 | With whom may the School of British Sculptors be considered as commencing? |
16728 | Yes, the ancients wrote their books on the barks of many trees, as on those of the ash and the lime tree,& c. Which part did they use? |
16728 | You describe Pearls as being ranked among the number of Gems, although they are not Stones; what kind of substance are they? |
16728 | You have given me an account of a useful Butter prepared from a plant; is there not also a tree which can supply the want of a cow? |
16728 | You inform me that Chemistry enables us to discover the properties of bodies by means of_ analysis_ and_ combination_: what do these terms imply? |
16728 | You mentioned Silicious and Argillaceous Earths: is not, then, the earthy covering of our globe of one common character? |
16728 | You said that the olive is an Evergreen: to what plant or shrub is the term particularly applied? |
16728 | You say that a Geologist is one who studies Geology: what is meant by this term? |
16728 | [ Illustration: GLASS BLOWING AT THE GLASS- WORKS, PITTSBURGH, PA.] What is the appearance of the Nutmeg? |
16728 | [ Illustration: GOLD MINERS WASHING ORE.] To whom is the invention of Gunpowder ascribed? |
16728 | _ Hebrews_, the children of Israel, the Jews Who were the Athenians? |
16728 | _ Legislative_, giving or enacting laws How are our laws made? |
16728 | _ Lye_, a liquor made from wood- ashes; of great use in medicine, bleaching, sugar works,& c. What are Figs? |
16728 | _ Maturity_, ripeness, perfection How much silk is each ball said to contain? |