Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 132, May 8, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 132, May 8, 1852: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Replies to Minor Queries:--Algernon Sydney--Cock-and-Bull
Stories--Thomas Crawford--Longevity--Theological
Tract: The Huntyng of the Romish Fox--Moke--Ground
Ice--Nobleman alluded to by Bishop Berkeley--House at
Welling--Constable of Scotland--The Iron Plate in Lewes
Castle--Chelwoldesbury--"The King's Booke"--Key
Experiments--Rhymes on Places--Old Scots March,
&c.--Ecclesiastical Geography--"Please the Pigs"--The Word
Shunt--Plato's Lines in "Antho. Palat."--Abigail--Nuremberg
Token--Meaning of Lode--Mother Damnable--Monuments
of De la Beche Family--Coke and Cowper--Monumental
Portraits--Motto on Chimney-piece--"Ve dâl am
daro"--White-livered--Enigmatical Epitaphs--Pelican in
her Piety, &c. 447
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, &c. 454
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 454
Notices to Correspondents 454
Advertisements 455
SIR ROBERT PEEL, AND HIS CLAIMS TO BE REMEMBERED BY THE LITERARY MEN OF
ENGLAND.
One of the most interesting of the recently published parts of Murray's
_Reading for the Rail_ is unquestionably _Theodore Hook, a Sketch_,
which has been reprinted from the _Quarterly Review_, with some
additional notes. Of these there is one (at p. 62.) which presents us
with the following honorable and characteristic anecdote of the late Sir
Robert Peel:--
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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