Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 169, January 22, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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"Shall not love to me,
As in the Latin song I learnt at school,
Sneeze out a full God-bless-you right and left?"
P. 231. l. 10., 7th edit.
My last Tennyson Query is about the meaning of--
"She to me
Was proxy-wedded with a bootless calf,
At eight years old."
_Princess_, p. 15. l. 18., 4th edit.
H. J. J.
Liverpool.
_"Ma Ninette," &c._--Can any of your French readers tell me the
continuation, if continuation there be, of the following charming verses;
as also where they come from?
"Ma Ninette a quatorze ans,
Trois mois quelque chose;
Son teint est un printemps,
Sa bouche une rose."
H. J. J.
_Astronomical Query._--You style your paper a medium of communication
between literary men, &c. I trust this does not exclude one of my sex from
seeking information through the same channel.
We have had additions to our solar system by the discovery of four planets
within the last few years. Supposing that these planets obey the same laws
as the larger ones, they must be at all times apparently moving within the
zodiac; and considering the improvements in telescopes within the last
seventy years, and the great number of scientific observers at all times
engaged in the pursuit of astronomy both in Europe and North America, I am
at a loss to understand why these planets were not discovered before.
I suppose we may not consider them as new creations attached to our solar
system, because the law of perturbations on which Mr. Herschel {85}
discourses at length, in the eleventh chapter of his _Treatise on
Astronomy_, would seem to demonstrate that they would interfere with the
equilibrium of the solar system.
Would some of your scientific contributors condescend to explain this
matter, so as to remove the ignorance under which I labour in common with,
I believe, many others?
LEONORA.
Liverpool.
_Chaplains to Noblemen._--Under what statute, if any, do noblemen appoint
their chaplains? and is there any registry of such appointments in any
archiepiscopal or episcopal registry?
X.
_"More" Queries._--
"When _More_ some years had Chancellor been,
No _more_ suits did remain;
The same shall never _more_ be seen,
Till _More_ be there again."
I infer from the first lines of this epigram that Sir Thomas More, by his
unremitting attention to the business of the Court of Chancery, had brought
to a close, in his day, the litigation in that department. Is there any
authentic record of this circumstance?
Are there, at the present day, any male descendants of Sir Thomas More, so
as to render possible the fulfilment of the prophecy contained in the last
two lines?
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
_Heraldic Query._--To what families do the following bearings belong? 1.
Two lions passant, on a chief three spheres (I think) mounted on pedestals;
a mullet for difference. The crest is very like a lily reversed. 2. Ermine,
a bull passant; crest, a bull passant: initials "C. G."
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