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15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"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 ... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 efflo... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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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 ... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "System of Logic"
}
] |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 mort... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "System of Logic and his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy"
}
] |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 t... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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-... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 the... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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.... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I should like to have seen Mill's face when he heard this suggestion,"
}
] |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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",
"va... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 sev... |
15268 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
782351 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His niece? She isn't his niece."
}
] |
363566 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jack or to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Charteris, but to"
}
] |
945117 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We grant it!"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When found, make a note of."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Index of Charters"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am, have, and will be:"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lives of the Poets,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "INDEX OF CHARTERS."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 af... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The cooks the more num'rous the worse is the broth,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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": "hu... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 pr... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 authe... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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, th... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Kola's mild blue eyes shall weep."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 w... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Urbis Salis Burgensis genuina Descriptio."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Restore, we implore Thee, our beloved sovereign to his family and his people --"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 bushe... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 an... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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._"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "AM, HAVE, AND WILL BE:"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My loyalty, Which ever _has_, and ever _shall be_, growing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the identical combination which, in the case of"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 pro... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 Shak... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"
}... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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"... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
},
{
... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Note,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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-know... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q., Vol. iii., p. 43., a reply of W. S. to the Query of Warburton's editor, stating"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 tho... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "LIVES OF THE POETS."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 t... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Schenkelwyn, 31 July, 1597. Sekere Engelsche Comedianten, voor hore speelen op ten Stadhuyse, 8 q. Fransche wyns."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aldus gedaen op ten xviij Nov. 1608."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is some doubt, he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Abstract of the Tor Cartulary, at Trinity College, Dublin,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Confirmation thereof by said Engelesia."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The tything of _Teign Grace_, says Risdon,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May 19, 1793,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Odington, near Islip,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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": "prefixe... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sixth of the Kalends of March,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 hope... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N. & Q.,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
},
... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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: 'Wh... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Cibber, in the characters of Jaffier and Belvidera, painted by Zottanij,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life is like a Game of Tables, &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 40.).--The sentiment is very possibly"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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,"
},
{
... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amelia."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOTES AND QUERIES,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Cataract of Lodore"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOTES AND QUERIES,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "NOTES AND QUERIES"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Merrie England in the Olden Time,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Modern Dunciad,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Diary,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 lege... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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": "g... |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bagster's Flexible Turkey"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Proposals for Christian Union."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Europe from 1789 to 1815."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Physical Atlas,"
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The designs are executed with a spirit and fidelity quite extraordinary. They are indeed most truthful."
}
] |
42785 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"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 ... |
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