Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851

Notes

ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHAUCER NO. V

FOREIGN ENGLISH—GUIDE TO AMSTERDAM

SEVEN CHILDREN AT A BIRTH THREE TIMES FOLLOWING

RAMASSHED, MEANING OF THE TERM

AUTHORS OF THE POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN

Minor Notes

Queries

PASSAGES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT ILLUSTRATED FROM DEMOSTHENES

THE HOUSE OF MAILLÉ

Minor Queries

Replies

THE FAMILY OF THE TRADESCANTS

MEANING OF VENVILLE

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,

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The Arke of Artificial Day.

Before proceeding, to point out the indelible marks by which Chaucer has, as it were, stereotyped the true date of the journey to Canterbury, I shall clear away another stumbling-block, still more insurmountable to Tyrwhitt than his first difficulty of the "halfe cours" in Aries, viz. the seeming inconsistency in statements (1.) and (2.) in the following lines of the prologue to the Man of Lawe's tale:—

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To what other ark, then, could he have been alluding, if not to the horary diurnal ark?

I think, to the Azimuthal Arch of the Horizon included between the point of sunrise and that of sunset!

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