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Pagina 17
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . HORACE SMITH ( 7th S. i . 360 ) .— Why Horace ? He himself wrote Horatio . See facsimile auto- graph in Mr. S. C. Hall's ' Book of Memories . ' I have a short note , dated Brighton , Dec. 14 , 1840 , also ...
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . HORACE SMITH ( 7th S. i . 360 ) .— Why Horace ? He himself wrote Horatio . See facsimile auto- graph in Mr. S. C. Hall's ' Book of Memories . ' I have a short note , dated Brighton , Dec. 14 , 1840 , also ...
Pagina 25
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . ADDISON AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY . - Addison , in the twenty - sixth Spectator ( one of the seven papers which Lord Macaulay says a 66 person who wishes to form a just notion of the extent and variety of ...
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . ADDISON AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY . - Addison , in the twenty - sixth Spectator ( one of the seven papers which Lord Macaulay says a 66 person who wishes to form a just notion of the extent and variety of ...
Pagina 35
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . At the last of these references MR . J. W. M. GIBBS corrects MR . RENDLE for an error of which he is guiltless . The mistake is the corrector's own , in representing MR . RENDLE as saying what he did not say ...
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . At the last of these references MR . J. W. M. GIBBS corrects MR . RENDLE for an error of which he is guiltless . The mistake is the corrector's own , in representing MR . RENDLE as saying what he did not say ...
Pagina 65
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . C. F. S. WARREN . PIAZZA . ( See 7th S. i . 463 . ) - It will be found , I think , that most untravelled Britons fancy the word piazza is equivalent to arcade , or colonnade . In the case cited by MR ...
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . C. F. S. WARREN . PIAZZA . ( See 7th S. i . 463 . ) - It will be found , I think , that most untravelled Britons fancy the word piazza is equivalent to arcade , or colonnade . In the case cited by MR ...
Pagina 71
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . I think the charade attributed to " the late Bishop of Salisbury " is considerably older than that origin would make it . It is thirty years of age at least , perhaps forty , and used to be re- ferred to the ...
... Treneglos , Kenwyn , Truro . I think the charade attributed to " the late Bishop of Salisbury " is considerably older than that origin would make it . It is thirty years of age at least , perhaps forty , and used to be re- ferred to the ...
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