Notes and Queries
MINOR QUERIES:--Gold Signet Ring--Ecclesia Anglicana--Tangiers: English Army in 1684--Smith-- Termination "-itis"--Loak Hen--Etymological Traces of the Social Position of our Ancestors--Locke's Writings-- Passage in Göthe's "Faust"--Schomberg's Epitaph by Swift--The Burial Ser...
MINOR QUERIES:--Gold Signet Ring--Ecclesia Anglicana--Tangiers: English Army in 1684--Smith-- Termination "-itis"--Loak Hen--Etymological Traces of the Social Position of our An...
2. Part 2_Car._ "I do professe That for your Highnesse good, I euer labour'd More then mine owne: that am, haue, and will be (Though all the world should cracke their duty to you, And th...
3. Part 3The recent observations of your correspondent MR. NOAKE (Vol. vi., p. 531.) on the superstitions of the people of Worcestershire regarding the weather, have called my attention...
4. Part 4_Passage in Göthe's "Faust."_--Has the following passage from the second part of _Faust_ ever been noticed in connexion with the fact that the clock in Göthe's chamber stopped a...
5. Part 5It is the popular belief at Kirton in Lindsey that if a woman, who has contracted debts previous to her marriage, leave her residence in a state of nudity, and go to that of her...
6. Part 6The wax-paper process has been extolled by many, and very successful results have been obtained: the paper has the undoubted advantage of keeping after being excited much longer...
7. Part 7"Hart's Orthography, 1569; or, 'An Orthographie conteyning the due order and reason, howe to write or paint thimage of manne's voice, most like to the life or nature. Composed b...
8. Part 8KERR & STRANG, Perfumers and Wig-Makers, 124. Leadenhall Street, London, respectfully inform the Nobility and Public that they have invented and brought to the greatest perfecti...