Notes and Queries
MINOR QUERIES:--"To try and get"--Fleet Prison--Colonel St. Leger--Lord's Descents--Reverend Robert Hall--"Lydia, or Conversion"--Personal Descriptions--"One while I think," &c.--Lord Bacon--Society for burning the Dead-- Cui Bono--The Stock Horn--Lady Harington--Descendants o...
"The army that follows the Messiah, we are told, amounts to 144,000; and there are a few passages in the Revelation of St. John, that denote the place where they are to be assem...
5. Part 5_Tenth (or the Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons_ (Vol. viii., p. 538.; Vol. ix., p. 19.).--The monarch of this realm reviewing a regiment, of which the heir a...
4. Part 4That Sir Nicholas Upton was Grand Prior of England in 1551, is sufficiently shown in the above extract; and that _he was_ Commander of Repton, or Ripston, will be as readily see...
3. Part 3_Cui Bono._--What is the true rendering of the Latin phrase _Cui Bono_? Most text-books say it means "For what good?" or, "What use was it?" But Francis Newman, in p. 316. of _H...
1. Part 1MINOR QUERIES:--"To try and get"--Fleet Prison--Colonel St. Leger--Lord's Descents--Reverend Robert Hall--"Lydia, or Conversion"--Personal Descriptions--"One while I think," &c....
6. Part 6If, as we believe, the first and greatest qualifications for an editor of Shakspeare be love for his author and a thorough appreciation of his beauties, Mr. Charles Knight may w...