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  2. LITERARY SCRAPS. "I" AND "WE."

    Sovereigns when speaking of themselves or addressing their subjects use the plural we and its cases in the place of I, as in the following examples: ...

    Article : 920 words
  3. A LITERARY CURIOSITY.

    A poetical friend of ours, says' the Boston Transcript, has a paper folder With the following line from Gray marked on it:—"The ploughman home ward plods his weary way. ...

    Article : 234 words
  4. THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE LETTER H TO THE INHABITANTS OF LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS.

    The memorial of your unfortunate petitioner humbly sheweth, that, although conspicnons in heraldry, and entitled to the first place in honour, yet he has been, by many of you, most injuriously ...

    Article : 210 words
  5. MIND THE DOTS.

    When Ritter von Lang was private secretary to Baron van Bubler, Wurtemberg Minister at the Court of Vienna, he was one morning roused from sleep by the baron's valet, who hastily informed him ...

    Article : 125 words
  6. LANGUAGES.

    Adelung, in his Mithridates, enumarated 3064 languages and dialects; but M. Balbi reports a total of 850 distinct languages, and more than 5000 dialects Of the 850 languages 153 belong to ...

    Article : 62 words
  7. ANAGRAMS.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 104 words
  8. ETYMOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF COUNTRIES.

    The following countries were named by the ph[?]nicians, the greatest commercial people in the ancient world. These names, in the Phoenician language, signify something characteristic of the ...

    Article : 261 words
  9. SPELLING OF NAMES.

    A correspondent of the Times has raised the question, whether the Marquis of Exeter's Seat, once possessed by William Cecil Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's Minister, is properly called. "Burleigh" ...

    Article : 411 words
  10. MISCELLANEA.

    Write, We know is written right, When we see it written write! But when we see it written right, We know, it is not written wright; ...

    Article : 80 words
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