Curiosities of Literature
Curiosities of Literature (Origin of the Materials)
Origin of the Materials of Writing-Minute Writing-Titles of Books-Literary Labour and Perseverance-Curious Account of the Scarcity of…
Materials of Writing. -Minute Writing
and plants; they wrote on linen, and at length, when this was found apt to become mouldy, they prepared the skins of animals. Those of…
Titles of Books
useful to know. that a volume of matter may be contained in A very small space. very small space. "The We submit the following curious…
Scarcity of Books
75% Curious account of the SCARCITY OF BOOKS -Of the scarcity and value of books during the seventh and many subsequent centuries, the…
Scarcity of Books: Lincoln
Among the royal manuscripts in the book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard, an archdeacon of Lincoln has left this entry: "This book of the…
Scarcity of Books: Oxford
About 1225, Roger de Insula, dean of York, gave several Latin Bibles to the university of Oxford, on the condition, that the students who…
Book of Blunders.-London Instiutions
BOOK OF BLUNDERS. - One of the most egregious, shall we add illustrious, of all literary blunders, is that of the edition of the Vulgate…
Chap. Lxxxi
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.-(Continued.) Origin of the Word "News" - Origin of Newspapers-Instances of New Studies in Old Age-Literary…
Origin of Newspapers.- Studies in Old Age
these loose papers to spread about defamatory reflections, and were therefore prohibited in Italy by Gregory XIII. in a particular bull…
Curiosities of Literature (Anlaire may be regarded)
Anlaire may be regarded as a prodigy at the age of seventy he began to court the Muses, and they crowned him with their freshest flowers…
Imprisonment of the Learned
and Dr. William Carey, professor of Sanscrit and Bengulee at the college of Fort William, Calcutta, and the able and indefatigable…
Singular Custom Annually Observed by the Com
PANY OF STATIONERS. - On the annual aquatic procession of the Lord Mayor of London to Westminster, the barge of the Company of Stationers…
Origin of Cards
that it was to have been read in all the churches of England, but that archbishop Abbot, being at Croydon, flatly forbade its being read…
Address to the Late Queen Charlotte
That is, Georgius Tertius, Dei Gratia, Magnæ Brittanniæ, Franciæ et Hiberniæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, Brunswicit et Lunenburgi Dux, Sacri…
Chap. Lxxxii
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE.-(Concluded) Curious Address to the late Queen Charlotte-Quaint Lines on Queen Elizabeth-Curious Names adopted in…
Curious Address to the Late Queen Charlotte
"The Address of the Burgomaster, Magistrates, and Citizens of Strelitz, to her Royal Highness the Most Illustrious Princess Sophia…
Address to the Late Queen Charlottr
May she, with each endearing art possest, To pleasure ever soothe the Monarch's breast!
The Will of an Earl of Pembroke
"Imprimis. For my soul; I confess I have heard very much of souls, but what they are, or whom they are, or what they souls , but what they…
The Missionary Society
(Translation.) Matavae, Otaheite, Jan. 1, 1807.
Curious Love Letter
Madam,-Most worthy of estimation! After long conside ration, and much meditation, on the great reputation you possess in the nation, I have…
The Answer
Sir,-I perused your oration with much deliberation, and a little consternation, at the great infatuation of your imagination, to shew such…
Creeds of the Jews
signification.. same termination, though of great variation in each respective Now without disputation, your laborious application in so…
Mary Moderation
CREEDS OF THE JEWS.-The following piece is transcribed from the Common Prayer now in use among the Jews, and is the Common Prayer now in…
The Unbeliever's Creed
"I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God, and God is matter, and that it is no matter whether there is any God or not. I…
Terms of Whig and Tory.-Monster
that adhered to the interest of the crown and lineal succession, were by the contrary branded with the title given to the Irish robbers…
Miscellaneous Curiosities
MONSTER.-A birth or production of a living being, degenerating from the proper and usual disposition of parts in the species to which it…