English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2)Ashton, John
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English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2)
Ashton, John
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Caricatures and cartoons
[84] Pidcock’s Menagerie was one of the best and largest that used
to exhibit in Bartholomew and other fairs: the animals being hired
from Cross’s famous collection in Exeter ‘Change. At this time (1803)
Pidcock was probably dead, as he exhibited in 1769. The show was
afterwards known as Polito’s.
[85] Hanging them. A revival of the old Revolutionary cry of ‘À la
Lanterne!’
[86] Indicative of Hanover.
[87] The Marquis of Hartington in a speech in the House of Commons,
March 17, 1884, said ‘there were now 209,365 volunteers enrolled, of
whom 202,478 were efficient.’--_Morning Post_, March 18, 1884.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a
predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not
changed.
Missing or extraneous accent marks in French text have not been changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced
double and single quotation marks were retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Page 32 refers to eight plates by Woodward about Josephine, but the
book only contained seven.
Page 59: The symbol before “An undoubted likeness” is a hand, pointing
to the right.
Page 62: “Sacrement” was printed that way.
Page 73: “The Gallant Nellson” was printed that way.
Page 123: In the original book, “Egypt” was printed with a strikethrough
and replaced by “Earth”. In the text version of this eBook, this is
represented by “Egypt/Earth”.
Page 162: "the vexation of Little Boney. vide the" was printed that way.
In other sources, "Vide" is capitalized and often followed by a period
and a capital "The".
Page 170: “Projets” was printed that way.
Page 171: “quareling” was printed that way.
Page 201: In the original book, the asterism ⁂ was inverted.
Lyrics on pages 213-214 and 225 were printed with music scores, as
indicated by [Music].
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