Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Replies to Minor Queries:--Death, how symbolised--A
Kemble Pipe--Flemish Work on the Order of St.
Franciscus--Meaning of Tick--Spelling of Britannia,
&c.--Fossil Elk of Ireland--"In Time the Bull,"
&c.--Baldrock--Epitaph--Prayer of Mary Queen of
Scots--Aristophanes on the Modern Stage--The White
Rose--Mark for a Dollar--Gillingham--On the Lay of
the Last Minstrel, &c.--Lines on Temple--Sewell, Meaning
of--Lambert Simnel--Tennyson's "In Memoriam"--The second
King of Nineveh who burned his Palace--Legend in Frettenham
Church--Natural Daughter of James II.--Clarkson's
Richmond--MSS. of Sir Thomas Phillipps--Meaning
of Pilcher--Antiquity of Smoking--Principle of
Association--Corpse makes a Right of Way--Chloe--Family
of Sir J. Banks--Verse Lyon--Heronsewes--Theory of the
Earth's Form--Mythology of the Stars--Topical
Memory--Eisell--Four Want Way--Meaning of Carfoix--A
regular Mull--William Hone--The Rev. Mr. Gay--Lady
Mary Cavendish--Hand giving the Blessing--The Oldenburg
Horn--Covey--Davy Jones's Locker--Umbrella--Nao,
a Ship--Birth of Spenser, &c. 501
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 510
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 510
Notices to Correspondents 511
Advertisements 511
Notes.
NOTES ON BOOKS, NO. I.
_Mackintosh on Ogilvie's Essay on the Right of Property in Land._
At the dispersion of the library of the late Sir James Mackintosh,
striking evidence of his extensive reading appeared. It seems to have
been his custom to always read with a pencil in his hand, to score the
remarkable passages, and to make occasional notes; generally at the end
of the book he indicates the place where, and date when he read it.
One remarkable and not uninteresting example occurs in the following
volume in my possession:
"An Essay on the Right of Property in Land, with respect to its
foundation in the Law of Nature: its present establishment by the
municipal laws of Europe; and the regulations by which it might be
rendered more beneficial to the lower ranks of Mankind." London,
1782, 8vo.
On the inside of the cover Sir James Mackintosh has written:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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