Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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CONTENTS OF THE PRESENT NUMBER.--Last Hours of Queen Mary II., from MS.
Memoranda by one of the Household; Original Letter of the late Professor
Wilson; Hewing Blocks with Razors; Certain Cures for Hydrophobia;
Disputative Authorities on Christ's Nativity; Supplement to Todd's
Johnson's Dictionary; M. Guizot and the Eikon Basilike; Cucking Stool and
Scolding Cart, Leicester; Neapolitan Innkeeper's Announcement; The
Awakening Mallet; Inscriptions on Bells in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin;
Dissection of Laurence Sterne, &c. &c.
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