Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
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.
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I may add that a copy of the privately printed _Catalogue of Sir T.
Phillipps's MSS._ is now to be found in the British Museum, but it has
only recently (within the last few months) made its way into the
Catalogue.
C. W. GOODWIN.
_Meaning of Pilcher_ (Vol. iii., p. 476.).--Is not our excellent
correspondent MR. SINGER mistaken in supposing that the ears are the
ears of the scabbard or pitcher? If you draw one thing out of another by
the ears, it must be by the ears of the first, not of the second; yet he
also says that it is used for hilts.
C. B.
_Antiquity of Smoking_ (Vol. iii., p. 484.).--May I add, in my defence
as to the Thracians' smoking, that all I said was, that there was
nothing in Solinus, chap. 15. I had looked at the Bipont edition, in
which, as I now see, the passage is in chapter 10.
C. B.
_Principle of Association_ (Vol. iii., p. 424.).--I cannot but doubt
whether "La partie réelle de la métaphysique" means "all that has yet
been done in the philosophy of the human mind." I apprehend it means the
material, or physical part; that which is connected with the structure
of the body. This would apply to Hartley, though not to Mr. Gay: but I
speak in the dark, for I have not that edition of La Place which your
correspondent refers to.
C. B.
_Corpse makes a Right of Way_ (Vol. iii., p. 477.).--That a funeral
creates a right of way, is an error founded on the fact that, being a
remarkable, and sometimes a crowded event, it is not an unfrequent
evidence of the previous existence of a right of way.
C. B.
_Chloe_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--In reply to a Query in one of your late
numbers respecting the meaning of the expression "as drunk as Chloe," it
has been suggested to me that it refers to a lady who is mentioned
often in Prior's _Poems_, and who was celebrated for the propensity
alluded to.
ERYX.
_Family of Sir J. Banks_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--It appears, on a
reference to Burke's _Commoners_, that the ancestors of Sir J. Banks
were possessed of property in and about Keswick; and the present
representative of the family possesses black-lead mines in Borrowdale,
Cumberland. It is, therefore, very probable that the Mr. John Banks in
question may have been of the same family, though not a lineal
descendant of Sir J. Banks.
L. H.
_Verse Lyon_ (Vol. iii., p. 466.).--In the literal reprint of Puttenham,
1811, I find the words extracted by J. F. M., with one unimportant
exception, "And they _called_ it _Verse Lyon_." J. F. M. may find some
account of Leonine verses, which "are properly the Roman hexameters and
pentameters rhymed," in Price's edition of Warton's _History of English
Poetry_, vol. i. p. cxviii.
H. G. T.
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