Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 217, December 24, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
"I regret that I cannot reply distinctly to the inquiries of G. L. S.
respecting the late Lieut.-General Whitelocke. I have ineffectually
searched all the various biographical dictionaries to that of the Rev.
H. J. Rose in twelve volumes, 1848, inclusive, without having found one
that has taken the least notice of him. I had casually heard, some
years since, that he had fixed his residence in Somersetshire, and that
he had died there; which I find confirmed by a paragraph in the _Annual
Register_, vol. lxxvi. for 1834 (_Chronicle_), p. 218., which states
that he died 'near Bath,' in February, 1834. With such scanty
information on the required points, I would still refer G. L. S. to a
work entitled _The Georgian Æra_, in 4 vols., London, 1832; where he
will find, in vol. ii. p 475., a short _military_ memoir of
Lieut.-General Whitelocke, which is dispassionately and candidly
written, and which accounts very reasonably for the inauspicious result
of his military operations. There is one slight error in the account of
_The Georgian Æra_, viz. in the date of the {622} _first_ appointment
of Mr. Whitelocke to a commission in the army, which appears in the
_London Gazette_, No. 11938. of December 26, 1778, and runs thus: '14th
Foot, John Whitelocke, Gent., to be Ensign _vice_ Day."--I trust some
reader of "N. & Q." will furnish us with the dates of the birth and
death of Lieut.-General Whitelocke, specifying when they took place, as
desired by G. L. S., with an abridgment of deficient particulars in his
history. D. N."]
_Greek Epigram._--In the _Bath Chronicle_ of the 10th of November last, I
find the following advertisement:
"The Clergyman of a Town Parish, in which are several crippled persons,
at present unable to attend divine worship, will feel very grateful to
any gentleman or lady who will give him an old Bath chair for the use
of these poor people; two blind men having offered, in this case,
charitably to convey their crippled neighbours regularly to the house
of God."
Surely this arrangement is not a new idea, and there is, if I mistake not,
a Greek epigram that records its success in practice several hundred years
ago. Can any of your readers, whose Greek is less faded than mine, refer me
to the epigram?
GEO. E. FRERE.
[Probably the following epigram is the one floating in the faded memory
of our correspondent:
[Greek: PHILIPPOU, hoi de ISIDÔROU.]
[Greek: Pêros ho men guiois, ho d' ar' ommasin; amphoteroi de]
[Greek: Eis hautous to tuchês endees êranisan,]
[Greek: Tuphlos gar lipoguion epômadion baros airôn,]
[Greek: Tais keinou phônais atrapon ôrthobatei,]
[Greek: Panta de taut' edidaxe pikrê pantolmos anankê,]
[Greek: Allêlois merisai toullipes eis eleon.]
_Anthologia, in usum Scholæ Westmonast._:
Oxon. 1724, p. 58.]
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