Various. Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850
THE MOSQUITO COUNTRY.—ORIGIN OF THE NAME.—EARLY CONNECTION OF THE MOSQUITO INDIANS WITH THE ENGLISH
NOTES ON BACON AND JEREMY TAYLOR
DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S CORRESPONDENCE
PARNELL
EARLY ENGLISH AND EARLY GERMAN LITERATURE.—"NEWS" AND "NOISE."
FOLK LORE
THE ANGLO-SAXON WORD "UNLAED."
BP. COSIN'S MSS.—INDEX TO BAKER'S MSS
ARABIC NUMERALS AND CIPHER
ROMAN NUMERALS
ERROR IN HALLAM'S HISTORY OF LITERATURE
NOTES FROM CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON
ANECDOTE OF CHARLES I
QUERIES
THE MAUDELEYNE GRACE
"ESQUIRE" AND "GENTLEMAN."
FIVE QUERIES
QUERIES PROPOSED, NO. I
MINOR QUERIES
REPLIES
EARLY STATISTICS.—CHART, KENT
PARISH REGISTER STATISTICS.—CHART, KENT
EARLY STATISTICS.—PARISH REGISTERS
BYRON'S LARA
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES
IRON RAILINGS ROUND ST. PAUL'S
MISCELLANEOUS
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS
Отрывок из книги
In his essay "On Delays," Bacon quotes a "common verse" to this effect:—"Occasion turneth a bald noddle after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken." As no reference is given, some readers may be glad to see the original, which occurs in an epigram on [Greek: Kairos] (Brunck's Analecta, ii. 49.; Posidippi Epigr. 13. in Jacob's Anthol. ii. 49.).
In Jermey Taylor's Life of Christ (Pref. § 29. p. 23. Eden's edition), it is said that Mela and Solinus report of the Thracians that they believed in the resurrection of the dead. That passage of Mela referred to is, l. ii. c. ii. § 3., where see Tzschucke.
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In the same work (Part I. sect. viii. § 5. note n, p. 174.) is a quotation from Seneca, "O quam contempta res est homo, nisi super humana se erexerit!" which is plainly the original of the lines of Daniel, so often quoted by Coleridge ("Epistle to the Countess of Cumberland"):—
Perhaps some of your readers can supply the reference to the passage in Seneca; which is wanting in Mr. Eden's edition.
