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56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's in as vile a humor as ever I see, Tom, she said;"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, my lad, he said,"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to think, he cried,"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now, said Mr. Chillingsworth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have nothing to tell, your honor, said Tom,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Washed up out of the sea! exclaimed Mr. Chillingsworth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, how was... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! stop! he cried out at last, in the midst of something Tom was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stop! stop! Tell me; do you know the name of the vessel that was wrecked, and from which you were washed ashore?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fourteen cases of prints, 22 pieces per case, 38 yards to the piece, at 6-7/8 cents per yard."
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I might have taken the grains of sand on the sea-beach, and counted and weighed out an ounce of them, but that would have been troublesome work. Had I done so, however, I could have shown him a million of grains of sand. I had, however, some No. 9 shot, just such shot as are use... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why in this world, exclaims Margaret, who writes from a village in western Illinois,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "adds Margaret,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am quite of her opinion. But we girls here in A---- are willing to leave the whole matter... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Boy Travellers"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excuse blots. There is no excuse for them. Others say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pardon my mistakes."
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John B. Smith,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "John Bertram Smith,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "John Smith, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bertram Smith. How do you expect your correspondents to keep track of you under such a kaleidosco... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray to Mehmet,"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why does a star twinkle while a planet shines clear and steady?"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, I know exactly what you are, For with my spectroscopic ken I know you're naught but hydrogen; Twinkling there so very bright, In the distant realms of light."
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "C's and D's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "by way of distinction. A begins the game by sliding her pieces. For example, she has succeeded in placing two within and one without the line. C, who is A's antagonist, tries first to displace the latter's right-hand piece w... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and he hopes that though not a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Round"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; 11, Gneiss (nice); 12, Scarabæus; 13, A meteoric stone; 14, The British Museum; 15, Ishmonie, in Upper Egypt; 16, Palmyra; 17, An old satirical name for London; 18, The Bank of England; 19, From Morglay,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Parable of the _Vinegar_"
... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm glad I'm not a duck."
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Special Delivery"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Power of Attorney"
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good complexion needs no artificial toning or heightening."
}
] |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello! What's this--ostrich eggs?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure enough! Let's pick to see who gets the odd one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good. This is out of sight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thick shells, aren't they?"
},
... |
56589 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got the bicycle fever awfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I know a splendid cure for it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Snow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear! sig... |
832727 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold your tongue, you fool!"
}
] |
475844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We can, if Wesley hasn't opened the doors to them,"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When found, make a note of."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Foxes and Firebrands. No. 2."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Trojan Horse"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cant"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knight's Quarterly Magazine"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruffins --Origin of the Word Etiquette--Henri Quatre--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He that complies against his will, &c., and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To kick the bucket"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Epitaphium Lucretiæ --Oxford Commemoration Squib--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Imp --False Spellings from Sound--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good wine needs no bush --Three Fleurs-de-Lys--Portrait of Plowden-- St. Stephen's Day and Mr. Riley's"
... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old and young, the healthy and the invalid, may alike obtain useful and practical hints from Dr. Van Oven's book; his advice and observations are marked by much experience and good sense."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We rejoice to welcome this beautiful and compact edition of 'Evelyn'--one of the most valuable and interesting works in the language, now deservedly regarded as an English classic."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Deeply learned and of inestimable value."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carefully compiled from our earliest records, and purporting to be a literal translation of the writings of the old Chroniclers, miracles, visions, &c., from the time of Gildas; richly illustrated with notes, which throw a clear, and in many instances a new light on what would o... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In country beauties as we often see Something that takes in their simplicity, Yet while they charm they know not they are fair, And take without their spreading of the snare-- Such artless beauty lies in _Shakespear's_ wit; 'Twas well in spite of him whate'r he writ. His excelle... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and Malone quoted it as an _admirable character_ of Shakspere. Now, _admirable_ as it is, I doubt if it can be considered as expressive of the deliberate opinion of Dryden. The essayist himself, in his epistolary address to lord Buckhurst, gives a caution on that point. He obser... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The contrast of Ben. Jonson and Shakspere is peculiarly and strikingly felicitous."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "FOXES AND FIREBRANDS. NO. II."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "THE TROJAN HORSE."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet a Course at the Romyshe Foxe, &c. Compyled by Johan Harrison. Zurich. 1543. 4to."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Huntyng of the Romishe Foxe, &c. By William Wraughton. Basil. 1543."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rescuynge of the Romishe Foxe,... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Doome of Heretiques; or a Discovery of Subtle Foxes who wer tyed Tayle to Tayle, and crept into the Church to doe Mischiefe, &c. Lond. 1648."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Trojan Horse, or the Presbyterian Government Unbowelled. London. 1646. 4to. By Henry Pa... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Against the Apple of the Left Eye of Antichrist; or The Masse-Booke of Lurking Darknesse (_The Liturgy_), making Way for the Apple of the Right Eye of Antichrist, the Compleate Masse-Booke of Palpable Darknesse. London. 1638. 8vo."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "High ... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And witty too in self-delusion, we Against highstreined piety can plead, Gravely pretending that extremity Is Vice's clime; that by the Catholick creed Of all the world it is acknowledged that The temperate _mean_ is always Virtue's seat. Hence comes the race of mongrel goodness... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir Roger Twisden's Historical Vindication of the Church of England in point of Schism, as it stands separated from the Roman. Lond. 1675."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bp. Andrewes' Tortura Torti. Lond. 1609."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Parallel To... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q.,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which formerly took place in the hall of the Inner Temple."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the conclusion of the ceremony, a huntsman came into the hall bearing a fox, a pursenet, and a cat, both bound at the en... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Hunter is Christ that hunts in haist, The Hunds are Peter and Pawle, The Paip is the Fox, Rome is the Rox That rubbis us on the gall."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Jesuit has collected _An Alphabetical Catalogue of the Names of Beasts by which the Fathers characterised the Heretics_. It may be found in _Erotemata de malis ac bonis Libris_, p. 93., 4to., 1653, of Father Raynaud. This list of brutes and insects, among which are a variety o... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of Roman Catholics and Puritans duping the penal laws is much wanting, especially of the former during the first twelve years of Elizabeth. With the Editor's permission I shall probably send in a few notes on the latter subject, with a list of the works for and against outward c... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was on the 5th that the first of our East-India ships appear'd off of the Texel, four of the ships came to an anchor that evening, nine others kept out at sea till day-light, and came up with the flood the next morning, and four more came in this afternoon; but as they belong... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never, since the establishment of the Order, had the affairs of the Hospitallers appeared more desperate than at this period. For the loss of Rhodes, so famed in its history, so prized for its singular fertility, and rich and varied fruits; an island which, as De Lamartine so be... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Scythians themselves confess that their countrymen suffer this malady in consequence of the above crime; their condition also may be seen by those who visit Scythia, where they are called Enareæ."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are likewise among the Scythia... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "among the Nogay Tatars, who call persons so afflicted"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Choss. In 1797-8, Count Potocki saw one of them. The Turks apply the same term to men wanting a beard. (See Klaproth's _Georgia and Caucasus_, p. 160., ed. 4to.) From the Turkish use... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On a prétendu que cet usage venait de je ne sais quel principe de la religion, mais cette religion avait, comme bien d'autres, prit sa naissance dans la corruption du coeur,"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Il y a de jeunes gens qui prennent l'habit de femme qu'ils gardent toute leur vie, et qui se croyent honorez de s'abaisser à toutes leurs occupations; ils ne se marient jamais, ils assistent à tous les exercises où la religion semble avoir part, et cette profession de vie extrao... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Indians believe the moon is the residence of a hostile female deity, and should she appear to them in their dreams, it is an injunction to become Cinædi, and they immediately assume feminine attire."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As labouring under an unfortunate destiny that they cannot avoid, being supposed to be impelled to this course by a vision from the female spirit that resides in the moon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Artimpasa. We are, for obvious reasons, at liberty to conjecture... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The last advices from Leghorn describe the genius of discord still prevailing in the unfortunate city of Constantinople, the people clamouring against their rulers, and the janissaries ripe for insurrection, in consequence of the backwardness of the Porte to commence hostilities... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cant."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In his Grace after Meat, he praid for those phanaticques and seditious ministers (who are now secured) in these words, 'The Lord pity and deliver the precious prisoners who are now suffering for the truth, and close up the mouths of the _Edomites_, who are now rejoicing;' with s... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Causidici curru felices quatuor uno Quoque die repetunt limina nota 'fori.' Quanta sodalitium præstabit commoda! cui non Contigerint socii cogitur ire pedes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Defendit numerus."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "KNIGHT'S QUARTE... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ordinances, constitutions, rules, and articles made by the Court of Star Chamber relating to Printers and Printing, Jan. 23, anno 28 Eliz."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Provided that Mr. Barker himselfe print the sayde Testaments at the lowest value by the direction of the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers for the tyme being. Provided alwaye that Mr. Barker do reteyn some small number of these for diverse services in her Ma^{ties}... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. John Bunyan, Author of the _Pilgrim's Progress_, and many other excellent Books, that have found great Acceptance, hath left behind him Ten Manuscripts prepared by himself for the Press before his Death: His Widow is desired to print them (with some other of his Works, which... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robertus, comes Moritoniensis,"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir James Wallace has not only given signal proofs of his bravery as a naval officer, but particularly in a duel with another marine officer, Mr. Perkins, whom he fought at Cape François; each taking hold of the end of a handkerchief, fired, and although the balls went through b... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q.?"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Signior Canaletto gives notice that he has painted Chelsea College, Ranelagh House, and the River Thames; which, if any gentleman, or others, are pleased to favour him with seeing the same, he will attend at his lodgings at Mr. Viggans, in Silver Street, Golden Square, from fift... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maidstone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wat Tiler, that idol of clownes, and famous rebell in the time of King Richard the Second, was of this town; and in the year 1206 about this town was a monster found stricken with lightning, with a head like an asse, a belly ... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruffins. _--In Spenser's _Faerie Queene_ we read (book iv. canto 11.), among the river guests that attended the nuptials of Thames and Medway came"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yar, soft washing Norwitch walls; and farther on, that he brought with him a present of f... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the original sense of the word, it may be inferred that it was formerly the custom to deliver cards containing orders for regulating ceremonies on public occasions."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Henri IV. roi de Navarre, né à Pau, le 13 Décembre, 1553, et ayant droit à la couronne, comme descendant de Robert, Comte de Clermont, qui étoit fils de St. Louis, et qui avoit épousé l'héritière de Bourbon, y parvient en 1589. The lineal descent of Henri from this Count Robert ... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Towards the west end of Knight Rider Street is the parish church of St. Nicolas Cold Abby, a comely church, somewhat ancient, as appeareth by the ways raised thereabout; so that men are forced to descend into the body of the church. It hath been called of many _Golden Abby_, of ... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q. the most agreeable magazine, or, as you have it,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "&c. I was so much pleased with the general _animus_ which characterised the strictures on my proposed translation of Ps. cxxvii. 2., that I was almost disposed to cede to my criti... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Denn seinen Freunden gibt er _es_ schlafend."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For surely God shall give food To His beloved, and his sleep shall not be withheld from him."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vehementer dolere nostratium Theologorum sortem sanctissime linguæ scientia carentium, et linguarum doctrinam fuisse intermissam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For look, to whom it pleaseth Him, He giveth it in sleep."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as ... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So He {109} giveth His beloved sleep,"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Song of Degrees,"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The best exposition which I can give of those two verses I have learned from our Saviour's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sermon on the Mount (Matt. vi. 25-33.). The third and following verses, as well as the next Psalm, are exegetical or illustrative. To whom do you... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Works of the great Albionen Divine, renowned in many Nations for rare Skill in Salem's and Athens' Tongues, and familiar acquaintance with all Rabbinical Learning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fox"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is not his language... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I to the church the living call, And to the grave do summon all."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Est michi collatum Ihc istud nomen amatum."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will sound and resound to thee, O Lord, To call thy people to thy word."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At proper times my voice I'll raise, And sound to my _subscribers'_ praise!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At proper times our voices we will raise, In sounding to our _benefactors'_ praise!"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thine incomparable oil, Macassar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To call the folk to Church in time, I chime. When mirth and pleasure's on the wing, I ring. And when the body leaves the soul, I toll."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Regal Heraldry of Europe,"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mira est enim quædam natura vocis; cujus quidem, _e tribus omnino sonis_, inflexo, acuto, gravi, tanta sit, et tam suavis varietas perfecta in cantibus."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Its stereotype Testament ... was proved to abound in gross errors; hardly a copy of it could be sold; and, in the end, the plates for continuing it have been of late presented by an illustrious personage, into whose hands they fell, to one of our prelates [this was Bishop Collin... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Through the intercourse which the Phoenicians, by means of their factories in the Persian Gulph, maintained with the east coast of India, the Sanscrit word _Kastira_, expressing a most useful product of farther India, and still existing among the old Aramaic idioms in the Arabia... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In longitude is sorely scanty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rumpies, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rumpy Cats."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jacque Pierre Brissot was born on the 14th Jan., 1754, in the village of Ouarville, near Chartres."
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An eagle, madam, Hath not so _green_, so quick, so fair an eye."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Disser: fa che le viste non risparmi: Posto t' avem dinanzi agli smeraldi, Ond' Amor già ti trasse le sue armi."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spare not thy v... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A cat _Cam_ when hym liked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A lovely lady _Cam_ doun from a castel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Till that he _came_ to Thebes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thus (er he wiste) into a dale He _came_."
},
... |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cum foderet ferro castum Lucretia pectus, Sanguinis et torrens egereretur, ait: Procedant testes me non favisse tyranno, Ante virum sanguis, spiritus ante deos. Quam recte hi testes pro me post fata loquentur, Alter apud manes, alter apud superos."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in his mind. Surely, he pronounces badly three French words of which he may know the meaning, or he may not. But when the same Englishman, or any other, orders _sparrow-grass_ for dinner, these two words contain"
}
] |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Vol. viii., p. 607.).--The custom of hanging out bushes of ivy, boughs of trees, or bunches of flowers, at _private_ houses, as a sign that good cheer may be had within, still prevails in the city of Gloucester at the fair held at Michaelmas, called Barton Fair, from the locali... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoveden _ (Vol. viii., p. 637.).--The statement of this feast being observed prior to Christmas must have {114} arisen from the translator not being conversant with the technical terms of the _Ecclesiastical Calendar_, in which, as the greater festivals are celebrated with Octav... |
28405 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard that a paper was found in her (the Countess's) desk after her death, declaring her conviction that the drum was for her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Another legend is, that a single swan is always seen on a particular lake close to the mansion of anot... |
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