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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Although the scientific arrangements of organic nature afford as yet the only complete example of the true principles of rational classification, whether as to the formation of groups or of series, those principles are applicable to all cases in which mankind are called upon to bring the various parts of any extensive subject into mental co-ordination. They are as much to the point when objects are to be classed for purposes of art or business as for those of science. The proper arrangement, for example, of a code of laws, depends on the same scientific conditions as the classifications in natural history; nor could there be a better preparatory discipline for that important function than the study of the principles of a natural arrangement, not only in the abstract, but in their actual application to the class of phenomena for which they were first elaborated, and which are still the best school for learning their use. Of this, the great authority on codification, Bentham, was perfectly aware; and his early 'Fragment on Government,' the admirable introduction to a series of writings unequalled in their department, contains clear and just views (as far as they go) on the meaning of a natural arrangement, such as could scarcely have occurred to any one who lived anterior to the age of Linnaeus and Bernard de Jussieu" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dissertations and Discussions" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was reaching out eagerly and strenuously to all sorts of food for thought,--literary, philosophical, and political,--that Mr. Mill set himself, among other things, to study and theorize upon poetry and the arts generally. He could hardly have failed to know the most recent efflorescence of English poetry, living as he did in circles where the varied merits of the new poets were largely and keenly discussed. He had lived also for some time in France, and was widely read in French poetry. He had never passed through the ordinary course of Greek and Latin at school and college, but he had been taught by his father to read these languages, and had been accustomed from the first to regard their literature as literature, and to read their poetry as poetry. These were probably the main elements of his knowledge of poetry. But it was not his way to dream or otherwise luxuriate over his favorite poets for pure enjoyment. Mr. Mill was not a cultivator of art for art's sake. His was too fervid and militant a soul to lose itself in serene love and culture of the calmly beautiful. He read poetry for the most part with earnest, critical eye, striving to account for it, to connect it with the tendencies of the age, or he read to find sympathy with his own aspirations after heroic energy. He read De Vigny and other French poets of his generation, with an eye to their relations to the convulsed and struggling state of France, and because they were compelled by their surroundings to take life _au sérieux_, and to pursue, with all the resources of their art, something different from beauty in the abstract. Luxurious passive enjoyment or torpid half-enjoyment must have been a comparatively rare condition of his finely-strung, excitable, and fervid system. I believe that his moral earnestness was too imperious to permit much of this. He was capable indeed of the most passionate admiration of beauty, but even that feeling seems to have been interpenetrated by a certain militant apostolic fervor; his love was as the love of a religious soldier for a patron saint who extends her aid and countenance to him in his wars. I do not mean to say that his mind was in a perpetual glow: I mean only that this surrender to impassioned transports was more characteristic of the man than serene openness to influx of enjoyment. His" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties, while clear and strenuous as most of his thoughts were, are neither scientifically precise, nor do they contain any notable new idea not previously expressed by Coleridge, except perhaps the idea, that emotions are the main links of association in the poetic mind: still his working out of the definition of poetry, his distinction between novels and poems, and between poetry and eloquence, is interesting as throwing light upon his own poetic susceptibilities. He holds that poetry is the delineation of the deeper and more secret workings of human emotion. It is curious to find one who is sometimes assailed as the advocate of a grovelling philosophy complaining that the chivalrous spirit has almost disappeared from books of education, that the youth of both sexes of the educated classes are growing up unromantic." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Catechisms, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Westminster Review" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of all the capacities of a poet, that which seems to have arisen earliest in Mr. Tennyson, and in which he most excels, is that of scene-painting in the higher sense of the term; not the mere power of producing that rather vapid species of composition usually termed descriptive poetry,--for there is not in these volumes one passage of pure description,--but the power of creating scenery in keeping with some state of human feeling, so fitted to it as to be the embodied symbol of it, and to summon up the state of feeling itself with a force not to be surpassed by any thing but reality." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The poems which we have quoted from Mr. Tennyson prove incontestably that he possesses in an eminent degree the natural endowment of a poet,--the poetic temperament. And it appears clearly, not only from a comparison of the two volumes, but of different poems in the same volume, that with him the other element of poetic excellence, intellectual culture, is advancing both steadily and rapidly; that he is not destined, like so many others, to be remembered for what he might have done rather than for what he did; that he will not remain a poet of mere temperament, but is ripening into a true artist.... We predict, that, as Mr. Tennyson advances in general spiritual culture, these higher aims will become more and more predominant in his writings; that he will strive more and more diligently, and, even without striving, will be more and more impelled by the natural tendencies of an expanding character, towards what has been described as the highest object of poetry,--'to incorporate the everlasting reason of man in forms visible to his sense, and suitable to it.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In Memoriam and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Idyls of the King." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Times, who read more for amusement than instruction, were disposed to consider Mr. Mill's style" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "System of Logic" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If from our experience of John, Thomas, &c., who once were living, but are now dead, we are entitled to conclude that all human beings are mortal, we might surely, without any logical inconsequence, have concluded at once from those instances, that the Duke of Wellington is mortal. The mortality of John, Thomas, and others is, after all, the whole evidence we have for the mortality of the Duke of Wellington. Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "System of Logic and his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This doctrine was especially obnoxious to him, as it set up a purely subjective standard of truth, and a standard--as he was easily able to show--varying according to the psychological history of the individual. Such thinkers as Dr. Whewell and Mr. Herbert Spencer had to be met in intellectual combat. Dr. Whewell held, not that the inconceivability of the contradictory of a proposition is a proof of its truth co-equal with experience, but that its value transcends experience. Experience may tell us what _is_; but it is by the impossibility of conceiving it otherwise that we know it _must be_. Mr. Herbert Spencer, too, holds that propositions whose negation is inconceivable have" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is through this door that ontological belief was supposed to enter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Things in themselves were to be believed in because we could not help it. Modern Noumenalists agree that we can know nothing more of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, Mr. Mill gives battle to this mode of thought. After reviewing, in an opening chapter, the various views which have been held respecting the relativity of human knowledge, and stating his own doctrine, he proceeds to judge by this standard the philosophy of the absolute and Sir William Hamilton's relation to it. The argument is really on the question whether we have or have not an intuition of God, though, as Mr. Mill says," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So profound and friendly a thinker as the late Mr. Grote held this raising of the veil inexpedient, but he proved, by a mistake he fell into, the necessity of looking at the matter in the concrete. He acknowledged the force of Mr. Mill's argument, that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Infinite must include" }, { "from": "human", "value": "but so also, he said, does the Finite. Now undoubtedly finite things, taken distributively, have contradictory attributes, but not as a class. Still less is there any one individual thing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Finite, in which these contradictory attributes inhere. But it was against a corresponding being," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Infinite, that Mr. Mill was arguing. It is this that he calls a" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Candid persons of all creeds may be willing to admit, that if a person has an ideal object, his attachment and sense of duty towards which are able to control and discipline all his other sentiments and propensities, and prescribe to him a rule of life, that person has a religion; and though every one naturally prefers his own religion to any other, all must admit, that if the object of his attachment, and of this feeling of duty, is the aggregate of our fellow-creatures, this religion of the infidel cannot in honesty and conscience be called an intrinsically bad one. Many indeed may be unable to believe that this object is capable of gathering round it feelings sufficiently strong; but this is exactly the point on which a doubt can hardly remain in an intelligent reader of M. Comte: and we join with him in contemning, as equally irrational and mean, the conception of human nature as incapable of giving its love, and devoting its existence, to any object which cannot afford in exchange an eternity of personal enjoyment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "from the narrow meaning of utility, as contrasted with the pleasures of art. The infirmity of human language excuses such errors; for the language in which controversy is conducted is so colored by sentiment that it may well happen that two shall agree on the thing, and fight to the death about the word. We need the support of such reflections when we recall the history of such a word as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To pursue pleasure, say the anti-utilitarians, is a swinish doctrine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, replied Mr. Mill," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those who could not answer this argument, and at the same time cannot divest themselves of the association of pleasure with the ignoble, took refuge in the charge of inconsistency, and, finding there was not less but more nobility in Mr. Mill's writing than their own theory, accused him of abandoning the tradition of his school. Mahomet would not go to the mountain, and they pleased themselves with the thought that the mountain had gone to Mahomet. Such a charge is really tantamount to a confession that popular antipathy was more easily excited by the word than by the real doctrine. Nevertheless Mr. Mill did an incalculable service in showing not less by his whole life, than by his writings, that utilitarianism takes account of all that is good in man's nature, and includes the highest emotions, as well as those that are more commonplace. He took away a certain reproach of narrowness, which was never in the doctrine, and which was loudly, though perhaps with little reason, urged against some of its most conspicuous supporters. An important addition to the theory of morals is also contained in the book on" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Utilitarianism. His analysis of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rationale of Judicial Evidence. He must, therefore, at an early period, have been master of the most original and enlightened theory of judicial evidence that the world has seen. He lived to see nearly all the important innovations proposed by Bentham become part and parcel of the law of the land; one of the last relics of bigotry--the exclusion of honest atheists (and only of such) from the witness-box--having been removed two or three years ago. Mr. Mill, in after years, attended Austin's famous lectures on jurisprudence, taking extensive notes; so that he was able to supply the matter wanting to complete two important lectures, as they were printed in the first edition of Austin's works. Among the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dissertations and Discussions, is a criticism of Austin's work, which shows that he was far more than a scholar,--a most competent judge of his master. He pointed out in Austin's definition of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--almost invariably refutations of the writers' own misconceptions. In Mill's exposition, the connection between principles and facts becomes clear and intelligible. The conditions and modes of action are exhibited by which human wants and desires--the motive powers of industry--come to issue in the actual phenomena of wealth, and political economy becomes a system of doctrines susceptible of direct application to human affairs. As an example, I may refer to Mill's development of Ricardo's doctrine of foreign trade. In Ricardo's pages, the fundamental principles of that department of exchange are indeed laid down with a master's hand; but for the majority of readers they have little relation to the actual commerce of the world. Turn to Mill, and all becomes clear. Principles of the most abstract kind are translated into concrete language, and brought to explain familiar facts; and this result is achieved, not simply or chiefly by virtue of mere lucidity of exposition, but through the discovery and exhibition of modifying conditions and links in the chain of causes overlooked by Ricardo. It was in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Essays on Unsettled Questions in Political Economy that his views upon this subject were first given to the world,--a work of which M. Cherbuliez of Geneva speaks as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Future of the Industrial Classes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Logic has no doubt become a standard examination-book at Oxford. At Cambridge the mathematical and classical triposes still retain their former _prestige_. The moral science tripos, though increasing in importance, still attracts a comparatively small number of students, and there is probably no other examination for which it is necessary to read Mr. Mill's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Logic and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Political Economy. This fact affords the most satisfactory evidence that the influence he has exerted is spontaneous, and is therefore likely to be lasting in its effects. If students had been driven to read his books by the necessity which examinations impose, it is quite possible, that, after the examination, the books might never be looked at again. A resident, however, at the university can scarcely fail to be struck with the fact, that many who perfectly well know that they will never in any examination be asked to answer a question in logic or political economy are among the most diligent students of Mr. Mill's books. When I was an undergraduate, I well remember that most of my friends who were likely to take high mathematical honors were already so ultimately acquainted with Mr. Mill's writings, and were so much imbued with their spirit, that they might have been regarded as his disciples. Many looked up to him as their teacher; many have since felt that he then instilled into them principles, which, to a great extent, have guided their conduct in after life. Any one who is intimately acquainted with Mr. Mill's writings will readily understand how it is that they possess such peculiar attractiveness for the class of readers to whom I am now referring. There is nothing more characteristic in his writings than generosity and courage. He always states his opponent's case with the most judicial impartiality. He never shrinks from the expression of opinion because he thinks it unpopular; and there is nothing so abhorrent to him as that bigotry which prevents a man from appreciating what is just and true in the views of those who differ from him. This toleration, which is so predominant a feature of his writings, is probably one of the rarest of all qualities in a controversialist. Those who do not possess it always produce an impression that they are unfair; and this impression, once produced, exercises a repelling influence upon the young. Another cause of the attractiveness of Mr. Mill's writings is the precision with which his views are expressed, and the systematic form which is given to his opinions. Confidence is reposed in him as a guide, because it is found that there is some definite goal to which he is leading his readers: he does not conduct them they know not whither, as a traveller who has lost his way in a mist, or a navigator who is steering his ship without a compass. The influence exercised by Mr. Mill does not chiefly depend upon the originality of his writings. He did not make any great discovery which will form an epoch in the history of human thought; he did not create a new science, or become the founder of a new system of philosophy. There is perhaps not so much originality in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Political Economy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who says he has failed? And" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it said that he failed in? Now, it seems that the persons who are loudest in the assertion of his failure are precisely those to whom the reforms advocated by Mr. Mill in his writings are distasteful. They are those who pronounce all schemes of electoral reform embodying the principle of proportional representation to be the result of a conspiracy of fools and rogues; they are those who sneer at the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "they are those who think our present land tenure eminently calculated to make the rich contented, and keep the poor in their proper places; they are those who believe that republicans and atheists ought to be treated like vermin, and exterminated accordingly; they are those who think that all must be well with England if her imports and exports are increasing, and that we are justified in repudiating our foreign engagements, if to maintain them would have an injurious effect upon trade. The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings. It is rather a measure of his success in promoting these objects, and of the disgust with which his success is regarded by those who are opposed to his political ideas. It was known, or ought to have been known, by every one who supported Mr. Mill's candidature in 1865, that he was a powerful advocate of proportional representation, and that he attributed the very greatest importance to the political, industrial, and social emancipation of women; he advocated years ago, in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Political Economy, the scheme of land tenure reform with which his name is now practically associated; his essay" }, { "from": "human", "value": "On Liberty left no doubt as to his opinions upon the value of maintaining freedom of thought and speech, his article entitled" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A Few Words on Non-intervention might have warned the partisans of the Manchester school that he had no sympathy with their views on foreign policy. There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. A large number, however, probably supported him, knowing in a general way the views advocated in his writings, but thinking that he would probably be like many other politicians, and not allow his practice to be in the least degree influenced by his theories. Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study. It was one thing to write an essay in favor of proportional representation it was another thing to assist in the insertion of the principle of proportional representation in the Reform Bill, and to form a school of practical politicians who took care to insure the adoption of this principle in the school board elections. It was one thing to advocate theoretically the claims of women to representation it was another to introduce the subject into the House of Commons, to promote an active political organization in its favor, and thus to convert it, from a philosophical dream, into a question of pressing and practical importance. It was one thing to advocate freedom of thought and discussion in all political and religious questions it was another to speak respectfully of Mr. Odger, and to send Mr. Bradlaugh a contribution toward the expenses of his candidature for Northampton. The discovery that Mr. Mill's chief objects in Parliament were the same as his chief objects out of Parliament branded him at once as an unpractical man: and his success in promoting these objects constituted his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as a politician. His fearless disregard of unpopularity, as manifested in his prosecution, in conjunction with Mr. P.A. Taylor, of Ex-Governor Eyre, was another proof that he was entirely unlike the people who call themselves" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should like to have seen Mill's face when he heard this suggestion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Political Institutions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Essay on the Human Understanding covered doubtless a field more purely psychological than the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Logic; but we must remember that the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Analysis of the Mind by the elder Mill had recently carried the inductive study of mind to an advanced point. If, however, we regard less the topics on which these two illustrious men wrote, than the special service rendered by each of them to intellectual progress, we may not unfittingly compare the work of Locke--the descent from metaphysics to psychology--to the noble purpose of redeeming logic from the superstition of the Aristotelians, and exalting it to something higher than a mere verbal exercise for school-boys. The attack that Locke opened with such tremendous effect on the _a priori_ school of philosophy was never more ably supported than by the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Logic" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Government significantly attest the rudimentary condition of political philosophy in Locke's day. Adam was generally considered to have had a divine power of government, which was transmitted to a favored few of his descendants. Accordingly Locke disposes of Adam's title to sovereignty to whatever origin it may have been ascribed,--to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is something almost ludicrous in discussing fundamental questions of government with reference to such scriptural topics; and it is a striking evidence of the change that has passed over England since the Revolution, that, whereas Locke's argument looks like a commentary on the Bible, even the bishops now do not in Parliament quote the Bible on the question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Nevertheless Locke clearly propounded the great principle, which, in spite of many errors and much selfishness, has been the fruitful heritage of the Whig party." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury, _and all this only for the public good_. Locke also enounced the maxim, that the state of nature is one of equality. Mr. Mill's special views on the land question are not without parallel in Locke; for that acute thinker distinctively laid down that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "was the true ground even of property in land. Still it must be confessed that Locke's political philosophy is much cruder than Mr. Mill's. His" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Essay on Government is as the rough work of a boy of genius, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Representative Government" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On Liberty. In this undertaking Mr. Mill followed the noble precedent of Locke, with greater largeness of view and perfection of work. Locke's four letters" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Concerning Toleration constitute a splendid manifesto of the Liberals of the seventeenth century. The principle, that the ends of political society are life, health, liberty, and immunity from harm, and not the salvation of souls, has taken nearly two centuries to root itself in English law, but has long been recognized by all but the shallowest bigots. And yet Locke spoke of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here again, what a stride does the _Liberty_ make? It is, once more, the difference of the times, rather than of the men. The same noble and prescient insight into the springs of national greatness and social progress characterizes the work of both men, but in what different measures? Again, we must say, the disciple is greater than the master. Closely bearing on this topic is the relation of the two men to Christianity. Locke not only wrote to show the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reasonableness of Christianity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some considerations of the consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money, in which he propounded among other views, that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His niece? She isn't his niece." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack or to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Charteris, but to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We grant it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When found, make a note of." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Index of Charters" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear the Decks for Bognie's Carriage --London Queries--Scarf worn by Clergyman--Life of Queen Anne--Erasmus Smith--Croxton or Crostin of Lancashire--Grub Street Journal--Chaplain to the Princess Elizabeth--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Snow-flake" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am, have, and will be:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lives of the Poets," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For God will be your King to-day --Jennings Family--The Furze or Gorse in Scandinavia--Mistletoe-- Inscription on a Dagger--Steevens--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life is like a Game of Tables," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "INDEX OF CHARTERS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Index, drawn up in the Year 1629, of many Records of Charters granted by the different Sovereigns of Scotland, between 1309 and 1413 (which had been discovered by Mr. Astle in the British Museum), most of which Records have been long missing; with an Introduction, giving a State, founded upon Authentic Documents still preserved, of the Ancient Records of Scotland, which were in that Kingdom in 1292." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Cooper. After tea, we walked for a while in the garden. I kept close to his side, and once he addressed me as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My little master. I returned to school; but that variable, expressive, and interesting countenance I did not forget. In after years, standing, as was my wont, before the shop windows of the London booksellers (I have not _quite_ left off this old habit!), reading the title-pages of tomes that I intensely longed, but had not then the money, to purchase, I recognised at a shop in St. Paul's Churchyard that well-remembered face, prefixed to a volume of poems," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The _cap_ (for when I saw" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Cooper he wore a wig, or his hair, for his age, was unusually luxuriant) was the only thing that puzzled me. To make" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hastened to the house of a near relation hard by, and I soon learnt that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Cooper" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The cooks the more num'rous the worse is the broth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wha lies here? Pate Watt, gin ye speer. Poor Pate! is that thou? Ay, by my soul, is't; But I's dead now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Under this stone lies Bobbity John, Who, when alive, to the world was a wonder; And would have been so yet, had not Death in a fit Cut his soul and his body asunder." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Las, qu'on verra grand peuple tourmenté Et la loy sainte en totale ruine, Par autres Loix toute la Christianité, Quand d'or, d'argent trouve nouvelle mine." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! how a great people shall be tormented, And the holy law in an utter ruin; By other laws all christendom be troubled, When new mines of gold and silver shall be found." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Restore corrected from" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Resolve" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Meteors, Aerolites, and Shooting Stars, makes a suggestion which, if admitted into" }, { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q.," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Qui lapis etiam nunc ostenditur, magnitudine vehis, colore adusto; and he adds the fact that a burning comet (meteor) accompanied its descent. Plutarch explicitly states that it was still held in much veneration by the inhabitants of the Chersonesus. He also speaks of its vast size. If the mass remained visible, and of such magnitude as described, down to Pliny's time, it is far from impossible (remarks the reviewer) that it may even now be re-discovered, with the aid, perchance, of some stray tradition attached to the place, surviving, as often happens, the lapse of ages, the changes of human dominion, and even the change of race itself, upon the spot. The locality, indeed, is not further indicated than by the statement of its fall at Ægospotamos; but the invariable manner in which it is thus described defines tolerably well the district to be examined. We learn (he adds) from the old geographers, that there was a town called Ægospotami on the Thracian side of the Hellespont, and we may infer a stream from which its name was derived. The description of the naval fight, and the situation relatively to Lampsacus (the modern Lamsaki), further define the locality within certain limits. The reviewer then adds some practical suggestions of importance. The traveller devoting himself to this research should make his head-quarters at various places near the spot in question. He should render himself previously familiar with the aspect of meteoric stones, as now seen in European cabinets, and should study the character of rocks and fragmentary masses in the vicinity, to appreciate the differences of aspect. A small part only of the mass may now appear above the surface, and may even be wholly concealed by alluvial deposits, in which case the research would, of course, be in vain, unless happily aided by local tradition, which at the outset should be sedulously sought for. The research, if successful, would be of interest enough, both for history and science, to perpetuate a man's name. In the hope that some of the correspondents of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q., now sojourning in, or likely to visit the locality, may be tempted to undertake it, I send you these suggestions, extracted from an article of no small scientific interest and value; and I will conclude with the Query, whether the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ecclesiastical Thermometer" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To complete the experiment, I prevailed upon a friend of mine, who works under me in the occult sciences, to make a progress with my glass through the whole island of Great Britain; and after his return, to present me with a register of his observations. I guessed beforehand at the temper of several places be passed through by the characters they have had time out of mind. Thus that facetious divine, Dr. Fuller, speaking of the town of Banbury near a hundred years ago, tells us, it was a place famous for cakes and zeal, which I find by my glass is true to this day as to the latter part of this description; though I must confess it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put out the word _zeale_ in Banbury, where some think it a disgrace, when as _zeale_ with knowledge is the greater grace among good Christians; for it was first foysted in by some compositor or pressman, neither is it in my Latin copie, which I desire the reader to hold as authentic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Banbury veal, cheese, and cakes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a credible story, that while Philemon Holland was carrying on his English edition of the _Britannia_, Mr. Camden came accidentally to the press, when this sheet was working off; and looking on, he found, that to his own observation of Banbury being famous for cheese, the translator had added cakes and ale. But Mr. Camden, thinking it too light an expression, changed the word _ale_ into _zeal_; and so it passed, to the great indignation of the Puritans, who abounded in this town." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Joseph Richardson, Esq., Barrister, and Member for Newport in Cornwall, engraved in line by W. J. Newton, from a picture by the late president, M. A. Shee, Esq., R.A.; and another impression, from the _same_ plate, inscribed" }, { "from": "human", "value": "James Murphy, Esq., Architect." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Walpole certainly failed in his attempts to clear a way through it. Will any of your botanical readers give me the proper name of the plant? and also of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Giant Arum," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Grindle, close adjoining the town of Bury St. Edmund's; and consists of an encampment and earthworks, very similar to several mentioned before in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "N. & Q. under the articles" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Grimsdyke" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "During the administration of Spencer Perceval, on the 8th of May, 1811, the Honourable A. W. Hodge, a member of his Britannic Majesty's council at Tortola, was executed for the murder of one of his negroes by excessive flogging." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--The announcement, in _Punch_, that the Lords of the Admiralty had ordered a large supply of arm-chairs (of course on castors) for the use of our veteran commanders, has recalled to my recollection the above, which used to pass current in Banffshire, as a call for a clear stage. Can any of your readers tell us who was" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bognie; what was his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and what the connexion between it and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The History of the Life and Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne: wherein all the Transactions of that Memorable Reign are faithfully compiled from the best authorities, and impartially related. Illustrated with a regular Series of all the Medals that were struck to commemorate the great Events of this Reign; with a Variety of other useful and ornamental Plates. London, printed and sold by the Booksellers in Town and Country. 1740." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The world knows nothing of its greatest men." }, { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When Kola's mild blue eyes shall weep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "St. Fintan-Chorach was abbot here towards the close of the sixth century. By some writers he is said to have been interred here; and from {109} others we learn that Cluainednach, or Clonfert Brendan, was the place of his sepulture. St. Mochonna was abbot or bishop here, but at what period is unknown. Stevens, however, says this abbey was in Leinster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. Fintan, otherwise called St. Munnu, in the sixth century, founded the abbey of Cluian Ædnach; those of Achad-Arglass, Achad-Finglass, and _Lanchoil_ in _Leinster_, and those of Dumbleske and Ross-Coerach in Munster." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Urbis Salis Burgensis genuina Descriptio." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Restore, we implore Thee, our beloved sovereign to his family and his people --" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The husband of poor Nature was a gentleman and an honest man, made a fortune and spent it nearly, in which his wife had no share, for that he governed and ruled the roast is well known to many: he had a noble and generous soul, but always kept poor Nature's talents under a bushel, where they shall never go again. He was old enough to be her father, and ever treated her like a child." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never learned to write or spell, Although I read and write so well;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "to a kiss which he gave her (p. 215.). He was blind, but on hearing some of her poems read, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my God, madam, there is nothing like this in Shakspeare!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For since she has been free by the death of her Late owner, the poor thing has been a scamperer, _And has often known the want of a good meal;_ _For she was highly fed in her old master's lifetime._ But he, alas! sleeps in peace, and peace be to his soul. He was a good master and a real gentleman, And left his little trotter to a merciless world: She is gentle by Nature; _but the poor thing's heart_ _Is now breaking_; yet by kind treatment she might Be made one of the most valuable and amusing Things in Nature. She is a little foundered, but not to hurt Or retard her movements; she is of some mettle and High spirit, notwithstanding her hard fate, She will even kick if roughly handled, Nor would she suffer a dirty hand to touch her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish I had an only friend, To shield me from the winter's blast, For should I live to see another, He may cut keener than the last; And I shall never wish to feel A keener winter than the past." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To him she has given, _she never did lend_, For her plan is to give to the foe or the friend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Should he be tempted to write again, let him sign his name, or where a letter may find the kind-hearted creature, who has such a love for Nature. His stinging advice was to run down the widow's soul's delight, her dear scraps, which not a block in Nature can suppress" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now Grimalkin each day on her throne takes a seat, With a smile on her face when her master can eat; _But, alas! he eats little._" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PREFACE OR NO PREFACE.--No preface can be to the Scraps of Nature, for God gave none when He formed creation, nor was there ever a book sent into the world like the volume of Nature, since the creation of the world, nor ever so bold an undertaking. It has never been seen by any eye, nor corrected by any hand, but the eye and hand of the writer. No volume has more humour," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "but, had not the authoress told us what it was, it might be taken for a mole or a wart. As the face is perfectly cheerful, and the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "is headed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Compliment to the Engraver," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "India and Ceylon, then published, and since reprinted in 1852, by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. In that map the country I was passing through appears as a large blank, with the words" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Unknown mountainous region. But I found it abounding in prosperous villages, and tracts of land cultivated both for rice and dry grain. So far from being" }, { "from": "human", "value": "its forests have a numerous though scattered population; and as to its being" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "there is scarcely a hill in the entire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AM, HAVE, AND WILL BE:" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My loyalty, Which ever _has_, and ever _shall be_, growing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the identical combination which, in the case of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were made a parenthetical explanation of _that_. The" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is the mere matter-of-course duty to be expected from every subject; but the King says that, over and above _that_, Wolsey ought," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do profess That for your highness' good I ever labour'd More than mine own." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "into" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Setting aside all consideration of the comparative force of the two words, and the circumstance that _crack_ is frequently used by Shakspeare in the sense of _sever by violence_--the adoption of _lack_ would be to attribute to Shakspeare an absolute blunder, for how could" }, { "from": "human", "value": "into" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in _As You Like It_, Act III. Sc. 5.), notwithstanding that it seems so obvious, and has been declared so self-evident," }, { "from": "human", "value": "_Capable_ is _concave_, and has reference to the _lipped_ shape of the impression, and _cicatrice_ is a _lipped_ scar; therefore one word supports and explains the other. And it is not a little singular that _cicatrice_ should, in its turn, have been condemned as an improper expression by the very critic (Dr. Johnson) who, without perceiving this very cogent reason for so doing, nevertheless explains" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(which I freely allow to be a great improvement upon that of Thomas Warton), how comes it the Sir H. Wotton knew nothing of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of _Comus_ until he was let into the secret by Milton himself? If Robert Randolph was the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was one of such a pregnant wit that the Muses may seem not only to have smiled, but to have been tickled at his nativity, such the festivity of his poems of all sorts." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Milton's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "was to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "More than a voluntary motion doth now carry me towards Suffolk, especially that I may confer by the way with an excellent physician at B., whom I brought myself from Venice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B. is meant St. Edmund's Bury, and by the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "De Dominis in the plural, for he could serve two masters, or twenty if they would all pay him wages." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PRIMITIVE BOILERS.--The gourd is probably the original vessel for heating water, &c. &c., its exterior being kept moistened by water while on the fire, as still practised by some people, while others apply a coating of clay to protect it from the effects of flame." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A primitive Sumatran vessel for boiling rice is the bamboo, which is still used; by the time the rice is dressed the vessel is nearly destroyed by the fire. This destructibility needs hardly to be considered an objection to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whereupon he w^{th} others who had thovergyght of that worke, procured a warrant from the Counsaile to take of the heades vppon London Bridge and make cuppes thereof, whereof they dranke and founde some reliefe, althoughe the moost of them dyed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Note," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q., Vol. ii., p. 7., where" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stript to the naked soul, escaped from clay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "and his friend" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "should have been at a loss to know where these well-known verses were to be found, and should have countenanced their having been Charles Yorke's, seems the more wonderful: for the verses are given in _Warburton's own letters_ as _Pope's_, and were printed near a hundred years ago in Ruffhead's _Life of Pope_, _as Pope's_; and in the MS. copy furnished by Mr. Yorke, they are marked as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Pope's." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q., Vol. iii., p. 43., a reply of W. S. to the Query of Warburton's editor, stating" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q., a communication from MR. CROSSLEY, which states correctly all the foregoing circumstances, with the addition, that the verses appeared as _Aaron Hill's_ in an edition of his works as early as 1753. Thence arises another discussion; were they Pope's or Hill's? Roscoe thought they were Hill's; MR. CROSSLEY thinks they were Pope's. I think, both from external and internal evidence, that they were not Pope's. But that has little to do with my present object, which is to show how often the matter has been already discussed in" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "N. & Q. I must observe, however, that MR. CROSSLEY has fallen into a slight anachronism. He says that the verses were" }, { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q., of which a _column and a quarter_ is wasted by a correspondent A. T. W., who confesses that he (or she) has _not a modern edition of Pope within reach_, and begs to know whether these verses (repeated _in extenso_)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "N. & Q." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LIVES OF THE POETS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent you a _feast_! Johnson's _new_ volumes of the _Lives of the Poets_. You will observe that Savage's _Life_ is one of the volumes. I suppose it is the same which he published about thirty years ago, and therefore you will not be obliged to notice it otherwise than in the course of enumeration. In the account of Hammond, my good friend Samuel has stumbled on a material circumstance in the publication of Cibber's _Lives of the Poets_. He intimates that Cibber never saw the work. This is a reflection on the bookseller, your humble servant. The bookseller {114} has now in his possession Theophilus Cibber's receipt for twenty guineas (Johnson says ten), in consideration of which he engaged to 'revise, correct, and improve the work, and also to affix his name in the title-page.' Mr. Cibber did accordingly very punctually revise every sheet; he made numerous corrections, and added many improvements: particularly in those lives which came down to his own times, and brought him within the circle of his own and his father's literary acquaintance, especially in the dramatic line. To the best of my recollection, he gave some entire lives, besides inserting abundance of paragraphs, of notes, anecdotes, and remarks, in those which were compiled by Shiells and other writers. I say _other_, because many of the best pieces of biography in that collection were not written by Shiells, but by superior hands. In short, the engagement of Cibber, or some other _Englishman_, to superintend what Shiells in particular should offer, was a measure absolutely necessary, not only to guard against his Scotticisms, and other defects of expression, but his virulent Jacobitism, which inclined him to abuse every Whig character that came in his way. This, indeed, he would have done; but Cibber (a stanch Williamite) opposed and prevented him, insomuch that a violent quarrel arose on the subject. By the way, it seems to me, that Shiell's Jacobitism has been the only circumstance that has procured him the regard of Mr. Johnson, and the favourable mention that he has made of Shiell's 'virtuous life and pious end'--expressions that must draw a smile from every one who knows, as I did, the real character of Robert Shiells. And now, what think you of noticing this matter in regard to truth, and the fair fame of the honest bookseller?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Schenkelwyn, 31 July, 1597. Sekere Engelsche Comedianten, voor hore speelen op ten Stadhuyse, 8 q. Fransche wyns." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aldus gedaen op ten xviij Nov. 1608." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is some doubt, he says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Abstract of the Tor Cartulary, at Trinity College, Dublin," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confirmation thereof by said Engelesia." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The tything of _Teign Grace_, says Risdon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "by King Henry III." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This Bishop Brewer also went into the Holy Land (_transfretavit, cruce signat._) the eleventh of Henry the Third." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May 19, 1793," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Odington, near Islip," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sixth before the Kalends. Indeed, it is highly probable, although it cannot be supported by direct evidence, that the first day of the double sextile was distinguished from its name-fellow of the following day by having the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "prefixed to _sextum_; so that, in leap-years, the 24th of February would be expressed as follows:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ante diem _bis_-VI Calend. Martias; while the following day, or the 25th of February (being considered the real Simon Pure), would retain the usual designation of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A.D. VI Calend. Mar." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sixth of the Kalends of March," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the Irish nobility. Can your correspondent refer me to the play in which there is some sneer that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Martha Blount." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of Studies," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A world without a sun," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And say, without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh! what were man?--a world without a sun." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning: Love's the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thine am I, my faithful fair." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Morma or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Morena. There is little doubt but the latter is the correct reading." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Morena is good Portuguese for a brunette, and may have been used by Pepys as a term of endearment for Miss Dickens, like the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Colleen dhas dhun" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q.," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King John's Palace, Eltham (No. 494.), and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sweakley, near Uxbridge" }, { "from": "human", "value": "In the horizon of art (strange to say, and yet to be explained!) this luminary glows no more till 1808, when he had 'on the line' (?) several views of Fonthill, as well as 'The Tenth Plague of Egypt.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Fifth (not the Tenth) Plague of Egypt, were exhibited in 1800, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Tenth Plague of Egypt" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Battle of the Boyne." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "July the first, of a morning clear, One thousand six hundred and ninety, King William did his men prepare-- Of thousands he had thirty,-- To fight King James and all his host, Encamp'd near the Boyne water," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He says, 'My boys feel no dismay, At the losing of one commander, _For God shall be our King this day,_ _And I'll be general under_.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Both horse and foot they marched on, intending them to batter, But the brave Duke Schomberg he was shot, as he crossed over the water. When that King William he observed the brave Duke Schomberg falling, He rein'd his horse, with a heavy heart, on the Enniskilleners calling: 'What will you do for me, brave boys? See yonder men retreating; Our enemies encouraged are, and English drums are beating.' He says, 'My boys, feel no dismay at the losing of one commander, For God shall be our King this day, and I'll be general under.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the Parke House which Sir Peter Frescheville, in his will, 16th March, 1632, calls my new Lodge in Staveley Parke. Heare my Lord Frescheville did live, and heare growes _the famous mistleto tree, the only oake in England that bears mistleto_, which florished at my deare Wife's birth, who was born heare." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Die een peninck wint ende behovt Die macht verteren als hi wort owt. Had ick dat bedocht in min ionge dagen Dorst ick het in min ovtheit niel beklagen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, in the characters of Jaffier and Belvidera, painted by Zottanij," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life is like a Game of Tables, &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--The sentiment is very possibly" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "N. & Q. know well what discussions have been raised upon such phrases as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Prenzie Angelo," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whose mother was her painting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ribaudred nag," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most busy, least when I do it, &c. The writer of the _Notes and Emendations_, now first published, has given in these, and hundreds of other difficult and disputed passages, corrections which are consistent with Shakspeare's character as the poet of common sense. He converts the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "into the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "into" }, { "from": "human", "value": "is changed into" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "into" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most busy blest when I do it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Amelia." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Cataract of Lodore" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "NOTES AND QUERIES" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Merrie England in the Olden Time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Modern Dunciad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. John Bishop, coming after other arrangers, has profited by their omissions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is sufficient to say that the present edition is the 34th edition, to stamp it with the genuine mark of excellence. It really deserves all the popularity it enjoys." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Diary," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is perhaps hardly necessary to observe, that this work is of an Archæological, and not a Theological character. The Editor has not considered it his business to examine into the truth or falsehood of the legends of which he narrates the substance; he gives them merely as legends, and, in general, so much of them only as is necessary to explain why particular emblems were used with a particular Saint, or why Churches in a given locality are named after this or that Saint." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The latter part of the book, on the early Christian and mediæval symbols, and on ecclesiastical emblems, is of great historical and architectural value. A copious Index of emblems is added, as well as a general Index to the volume with its numerous illustrations. The work is an important contribution to English Archæology, especially in the department of ecclesiastical iconography." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Ross prepares lenses for Portraiture having the greatest intensity yet produced, by procuring the coincidence of the chemical actinic and visual rays. The spherical aberration is also very carefully corrected, both in the central and oblique pencils." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Ross has exhibited the best Camera in the Exhibition. It is furnished with a double achromatic object-lens, about three inches aperture. There is no stop, the field is flat, and the image very perfect up to the edge." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bagster's Flexible Turkey" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Proposals for Christian Union." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Europe from 1789 to 1815." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Physical Atlas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye, and a body ready to put itself into all postures; so in the Mathematics, that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The designs are executed with a spirit and fidelity quite extraordinary. They are indeed most truthful." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the first wants of an incipient antiquary is the facility of comparison, and here it is furnished him at one glance. The plates, indeed, form the most valuable part of the book, both by their number and the judicious selection of types and examples which they contain. It is a book which we can, on this account, safely and warmly recommend to all who are interested in the antiquities of their native land." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A book of such utility--so concise, so clear, so well condensed from such varied and voluminous sources--cannot fail to be generally acceptable." } ]