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Volume 11
(January to June 1828) | Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), [iii]–iv.
 Preface Anon Genre: | Preface | Subjects: | Discovery, Periodicals, Utility |
Observes: 'In the "ARCANA OF SCIENCE" will
be found Abstracts of the principal Discoveries of the past six months,
together with a few valuable Documents or Paper on questions of contemporary
interest; which, it is hoped, have been distinguished by their usefulness, as
well as by their attractions for scientific inquirers' (iii–iv). Notes
that the 'Architectural Series' is a 'proof of the Proprietors' anxiety to
identify "THE
MIRROR"
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well as to render it an agreeable Miscellany of General Literature' (iv).
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Section: The Contemporary Traveller |
Section: Spirit of the Public Journals Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 7–10.
Presentiments of Death Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
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| Subjects: | Prognostication, Superstition, Natural Law |
Observes that to say that presentiments 'are produced by a latent taint of
superstition, is to elude the question', and that such experiences have been
'confessed by men of the sternest intellect' (7). Argues that many
'visible presentiments rest upon authority so good as to be not a little
troublesome to those who would explain them all implicitly on natural
principles' (8). Documents numerous examples of presentiments of death.
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Section: The Selector, and Literary Notices of New Works Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 10–11.
A Voyage Round the World. By
James
Montgomery
Montgomery, James
(1771–1854)
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| Subjects: | Exploration, Navigation, Physical Geography, Imperialism,
Nationalism |
The imaginary journey round the world concludes: 'Britain, thou'rt my
home—my rest; / —My own land, I love thee best' (11).
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 12.
Climate Anon
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Cotton Rope Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Invention, Industry, Patronage, Exhibitions |
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The Ostrich Anon Genre: | Extract, Reportage | Publications extracted: |
Jennings 1828
Jennings,
James 1828. Ornithologia; or, The Birds: A Poem, in Two Parts
with an Introduction to their Natural History; and Copious Notes, London:
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Lecturing | People mentioned: |
Joshua Brookes
Brookes, Joshua
(1761–1833)
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Zoological
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Zoological Society of London
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Fossil Plants Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Discovery, Palaeontology |
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Mining Anon
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Death's "Return" for 1827 Anon Genre: | News-Commentary | Subjects: | Death, Statistics, Publishing, Adulteration, Population |
Reports on the annual bill of mortality, observing that it takes the 'same
form as the Ale and Porter Brewer's Return'. Comments: 'if
Mr. Accum
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be right, there is more connexion between these two "Returns" than is generally
supposed'. Considers that the 'Malthusians will rejoice to hear that the
christenings exceed the burials, as heretofore, by 7,633'.
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Seasonable Counsels Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Publishing, Universities, Societies, Health |
Ridicules various 'trite remarks' on the preservation of health made in an
almanac, 'dated from the Council-Room of a learned University and Society'.
Concludes: 'We were not aware that the united labours of a "Society" were
requisite to repeat what
old Parr
Parr, Thomas ('Old Parr')
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grandmothers told us long ago'.
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Section: Arcana of Science Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 23.
Imagination Anon Genre: | Extract | Publications extracted: |
John Haslam
Haslam, John
(1764–1844)
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| Subjects: | Psychology, Child Development, Education, Fear, Superstition |
Argues that infants are devoid of imagination, and that the fearful
imaginings which harm them in their development are entirely attributable to
parents or nurses.
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Economy of Steam Anon
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The Lemming Anon
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New Paper Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Domestic Economy |
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Study of Nature Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Humphry Davy
Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet
(1778–1829)
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| Subjects: | Feeling, Wonder, Romanticism, Geology, Palaeontology, Design, Theology
of Nature |
Urges that the 'grand monuments of nature, which mark the revolutions of the
globe' should evoke a far greater sense of wonder than even 'the great remains
of human works'. The establishment of 'order and harmony' and the production of
'a system of life and beauty' out of the 'chaos and death' manifested by
geological phenomena proves 'the infinite power, wisdom, and goodness of the
Great Cause of all Being!'.
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Section: Spirit of the Public Journals Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 30.
A Few Opinions for 1828 Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
[Morgan] 1828
[Morgan, Thomas
Charles] 1828. 'Opinions for 1828', New Monthly Magazine, 22,
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| Subjects: | Transport, Invention, Aeronautics, Engineering, Universities,
Education, Commerce, Pharmaceuticals |
Records numerous spoof opinions, including: 'Opinion is much divided on the
subject of travelling between the Aeropleustics and the Vallancey [possibly a
reference to the Irish military engineer
Charles
Vallancey
Vallancey, Charles
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most feasible in the city. The friends of the kite and the vacuum tube
are each disposed to back their favourites for a large sum; but the odds are
five to one "Teakettle against the field". When this question is decided, a
suspension bridge over the Irish Channel, and a tunnel under the Straits of
Dover will be immediately put in hand'. Records: 'The
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Mechanics' Institutions hold their own'. Reports: 'Mustard-seed is still the
"sovereign'st thing in the world" for the digestion'.
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Manners & Customs of All Nations. Lingga Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Angelbeek 1826
Angelbeek, C.
Van 1826. 'Korte Schets van het Eiland Lingga en Deszelfs Bewoners',
Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en
Wetenschappen, 11, 3–62
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| Subjects: | Exploration, Geology, Ethnography, Commerce, Minearlogy,
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Verhandelingen
van het Bataviaasch Genootschap der Kunsten en Wetenschappen
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Campbell
Campbell, Thomas
(1777–1844)
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Hunt 1828
Hunt, Leigh 1828.
Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries: With Recollections of the
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| Subjects: | Universities, Phrenology |
Observes of Campbell that he betrays profoundly philanthropic feelings,
though he seeks to efface them. Notes: 'Mr Campbell professes to be hopeless
and sarcastic, and takes pains all the while to set up a
university
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sharply cut and fine; with plenty, according to the phrenologists, both of the
reflective and amative organs: and his poetry will bear them out'.
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Section: Juvenalia for the Season Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 46–47.
Oranges Anon
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Section: Spirit of the Public Journals Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 47.
Up with the Sun and Down with the Sun Anon Genre: | Extract, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
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| Subjects: | Astronomy |
Argues against the practice described in the article title: 'Because an
immense globe of fire, or luminous matter, of one kind or other, ever so many
millions of miles off, chances to set at a given hour, is that any reason why
you must set too, who are close at hand, and not of luminous matter? We hold
that it is as reasonable to sit up with the stars, as to lie down with the sun
[...] nothing like a general system of rules for the guidance of human life can
be deduced from the motions of the heavenly bodies'.
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Origin of the Colour and Fragrance of the Rose. By
Dr. Booker
Booker, Luke
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The anecdote recounts Booker's humorous poetical explanation of the origin
of scented and coloured roses, which relates them to the primeval flower's
reaction to the kiss of Eve.
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Observations on the Potato Anon
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Squalls of Wind on the African Shores Anon
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Popular Superstitions. No. II. The Sea Vyvyan
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William
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Scoresby, William, Jr.
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Stavorinus 1798
Stavorinus, Johan
Splinter 1798. Voyages to the East-Indies: The Whole Comprising a
Full and Accurate Account of all the Present and Late Possessions of the Dutch
in India, and at the Cape of Good Hope, trans. by
Samuel Hull Wilcocke, 3 vols,
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Observes that the 'manner of life' of sailors, 'the frequent opportunities
they have for reflection amidst the most elevating and sublime scenes in nature
(for what can exceed the waste of waters), the constant and ceaseless dangers
and perils to which they are exposed, combined with the deficiency of education
(which is perhaps the most material point), all seem calculated to [...] render
the mariner more superstitiously inclined than most men'. Considers that, on
land, the general decline in superstition 'before the light of knowledge,
affords a striking illustration of the "invaluable blessings which descend even
to the lowest of the people, from the diffusion of the sound principles of
philosophy"'. Reviews some past and present superstitions of sailors, and
observes that 'If the sailor would accustom himself to reason on any matters
out of the ordinary course of things [...] he would find that most of those
apparently mysterious occurrences on the deep, could be explained, on the
simplest principles, both natural and philosophical'. (55)
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Bird's-Eye View of an Abattoir, or French Slaughter-House Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Relevant illustrations: | wdct. | Subjects: | Architecture, Nutrition, Public Health, Cruelty, Government,
Societies | Publications cited: | The
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Reports on the great advantages in terms of public health, animal welfare,
and general convenience of the system of abattoirs adopted in Paris, and
endorses the proposals of
James Hakewill
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to introduce a similar scheme in London. Observes: 'Even the removal of that
focus of filth and nauseating odours, Warwick Lane, would be no inconsiderable
amelioration of that part of the city, as our good friends of Paternoster Row
will allow; but the grave
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have taken the alarm long since, for they have removed their sanctum to
a splendid new college, in one of the most elevated and salubrious situations
of the metropolis; while their dismal old temple in Warwick Lane is deserted'
(68).
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Lord Byron. (From
'Lord Byron and Some of his
Contemporaries
Hunt, Leigh 1828.
Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries: With Recollections of the
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Leigh Hunt
Hunt, Leigh (James Henry Leigh)
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Hunt 1828
Hunt, Leigh 1828.
Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries: With Recollections of the
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Observes: 'Franklin he liked. He respected him for his acquisition of wealth
and power; and would have stood in awe, had he known him, of the refined
worldliness of his character, and the influence it gave him. Franklin's works
[...] were among his favourite reading' (72).
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Section: Biographettes for the Month. January Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 77.
Jan. 11, 1752, died,
Sir Hans
Sloane
Sloane, Sir Hans
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Anon 1747–66
Anon. 1747–66. Biographia Britannica; or, The
Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and
Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the
Best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript, and Digested in the Manner of
Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, 6 vols, London: W. Innys
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| Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Medical Practitioners, Exploration, Botany,
Collecting, Societies, Publishing, Museums, Patronage, Government | Institutions mentioned: |
Royal Society,
Royal Society of London
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Jan. 14, 1741–2, died,
Dr. Edmund
Halley
Halley, Edmond
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Anon 1747–66
Anon. 1747–66. Biographia Britannica; or, The
Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and
Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the
Best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript, and Digested in the Manner of
Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, 6 vols, London: W. Innys
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| Subjects: | Astronomy, Mathematics, Exploration, Publishing, Navigation,
Hydrography | People mentioned: |
Isaac Newton
Newton, Sir Isaac
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Newton 1687
Newton, Isaac
1687. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, Londini: Jussu
Societatis Regiae ac Typis Josephi Streater
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Jan. 20, 1790, died,
John Howard
Howard, John
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Aikin, John 1792.
A View of the Character and Public Services of the Late John Howard Esq.
LL.D. F.R.S, London: Joseph Johnson
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| Subjects: | Hospitals, Epidemiology, Heroism |
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[Anecdotes of Military Bravery During Amputation] Anon
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Ancient Carved Work at Manchester Samuel Hardman, Late Adjutant of the 10th Royal Hussars, No. 6,
Charlotte-place, Kennington-Lane, Vauxhall.—London
Hardman, Samuel (Late Adjutant
of the 10th Royal Hussars, of 6 Charlotte Place, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London)
(fl. 1828)
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Relates that he comes from a long line of labourers, but that 'there are men
among the labourers, some of whom have not, perhaps, second shirts to their
backs, more perfect grammarians, astronomers, astrologers, and arithmeticians,
than any other men in England; all of course self-taught' (83).
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[Experiment with
Jacob Perkins's
Perkins, Jacob
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Steam Artillery] Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Military Technology, Steam-power, Government, Patronage, Invention,
Cultural Geography |
'An experiment has already been made with Mr. Perkins' steam artillery,
which he is constructing for the French government. Quere, what would be
the odds on the inventer's [sic] head were he in Constantinople?'
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[Goldsworthy
Gurney's
Gurney, Sir Goldsworthy
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'MR. GURNEY continues successful in his
experiments with his new steam carriage.'
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[Vegetation on a Glacier] Anon
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[Smallpox in the New World Before Vaccination] Anon
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[Metallic Alloy for Plating Iron] Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Invention, Metallurgy, Industry |
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Cold Caves Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Heat |
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Newspaper Sentiment Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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| Subjects: | Meteorology, Electricity, Disease, Veterinary Science, Physics,
Anatomy |
Considers that the sentiment and language of country newspapers is much less
denuded than that in the London newspapers. Country writers often prefer
uncommon to common language. Thus: 'If a flash of lightning set a haystack in a
blaze, or ring the bells of a steeple, the approved epithet is, "the electric
fluid". If a dog bite a pig, the narrative teems with "virus", the "rabid
animal", and the "latration" of the patient. Or, if a stage-coach running races
meets its natural fate, the world are called to wonder at "centripetal force",
"dire concussions", and "compound fractures of the tibia"' (95).
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Signs of the Times William Palin
Palin, William
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The poem concerns modern public houses. It begins: 'Of what use is a
Denham
Denham, Dixon
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Bruce
Bruce, James
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Clarke
Clarke, Edward Daniel
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Parry
Parry, Sir William Edward
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will more wonders produce, / Than were travell'd for e'en by them all? /
White, Red, Black, Golden Lions surround us! / Black Swans, and
Swans with Two Necks! / Blue Boars and Green Dragons confound
us— / And would they not
Buffon
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc,
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Manners and Customs of All Nations. The Indian Penance of Gulwugty, or
Churuk Pooja. From the Trans. of the Med. and Phys. Soc. of Calcutta Anon
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Cure for a Stoop Anon Genre: | Extract, Anecdote, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
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Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
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Coals Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
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Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
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Mode of Keeping Apples Anon
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Destruction of Snails by Common Salt Anon
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Quick Method of Putting Insects to Death Anon
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Hydrogen Gas from Salt Mines Employed for Producing Light, and for
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Points of the Compass Anon Genre: | Extract, Short Fiction, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
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The narrator recounts the observation in
Galt 1813
Galt, John 1813.
Letters from the Levant: Containing Views of the State of Society, Manners,
Opinions, and Commerce in Greece, and Several of the Principal Islands of the
Archipelago, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies
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less equably the further south one travels. Observes: 'It is not a little
extraordinary how many of our most important discoveries owe their existence to
chance. Every body knows the anecdote about
Sir Isaac Newton
Newton, Sir Isaac
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and the apple;
Dr. Jenner
Jenner, Edward
(1749–1823)
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the milkmaid [...] &c. &c.'. The narrator describes his or her own
serendipitous discovery of Galt's principle 'that women are operated upon
topographically by the climate', and recounts the changing behaviour of his or
her sister-in-law on moving to different addresses in London. Relates that in
the south of the city the sister-in-law was utterly subordinate to her husband,
and that she 'actually went the length of justifying the
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Tom holding fifteen shares in that watery excavation'. (108) The narrator
describes the wife's increasing dominance as the couple moved to progressively
more northerly addresses in the city, and concludes: 'No married man for whom I
have a value shall run his head against the North Pole if I can prevent it'
(109).
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The Valiant Doctor E L J
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'From no man yet, you've ran away! / Doctor, that may be true,— /
You've killed so many in your day, / Men mostly fly from you!'
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Feb. 5, 1799, died,
Lewis
Galvani
Galvani, Luigi
(1737–98)
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Aikin
1799–1815
Aikin, John
1799–1815. General Biography; or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of
the Most Eminent Persons of all Ages, Countries, Conditions, and Professions,
Arranged According to Alphabetical Order, 10 vols, London: G. G. and J.
Robinson [and 3 others]; Edinburgh: Bell and Bradfute
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| Subjects: | Physiology, Electricity, Discovery, Serendipity |
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Feb. 14, 1779, The Celebrated Navigator,
Captain James
Cook
Cook, James
(1728–79)
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Anon 1747–66
Anon. 1747–66. Biographia Britannica; or, The
Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and
Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the
Best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript, and Digested in the Manner of
Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, 6 vols, London: W. Innys
[and 22 others]
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| Subjects: | Exploration, Hydrography, Astronomy, Government, Heroism | Institutions mentioned: |
HMS
Endeavour,
HMS Endeavour
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Resolution,
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Hawkesworth 1773
Hawkesworth,
John 1773. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of
His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and
Successively Performed by
Commodore Byron,
Captain Wallis,
Captain Carteret, and
Captain Cook, in the
Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn up from the Journals which were
Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of
Joseph Banks, 3 vols, London:
W. Strahan and T. Cadell
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Feb. 25, 1723, died,
Sir Christopher
Wren
Wren, Sir Christopher
(1632–1723)
DSB
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Pasche
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Anon 1747–66
Anon. 1747–66. Biographia Britannica; or, The
Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and
Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the
Best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript, and Digested in the Manner of
Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, 6 vols, London: W. Innys
[and 22 others]
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Printing Machine Anon
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Gunpowder Anon
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Portuguese Man-of-War Insect Anon
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Creation Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
[Anon] 1827a
Anon. 1827a. Conversations on the Animal Economy, by a
Physician, 2 vols, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
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Mines in the Burmese Dominions Anon
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Great Dryness in the Antilles in 1827 Anon
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Auroræ Boreales observed in Roxburghshire in 1827 Anon Genre: | Notes, Reportage | Subjects: | Light, Electromagnetism |
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Natural Gas Lights Anon
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Artificial Stone Anon
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Wild Man Anon
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Washington
Irving's
Irving, Washington ('Geoffrey Crayon')
(1783–1859)
CBD
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Columbus
Columbus, Christopher
(1451–1506)
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Irving 1828
Irving,
Washington 1828. A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher
Columbus, 3 vols, New York: G. & C. Carvill
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Genius |
[3] Variation of the Needle
[4] Discovery of Cuba Subjects: | Exploration, Ethnography, Natural History, Aesthetics |
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[Mixing of Races] Anon Genre: | Anecdote | Subjects: | Race, Heredity |
'The West Indian white cannot bear with temper to see the mixing of the
offspring of a black and white illustrated by mixing a glass of port wine or
claret with water, five several times, after which the mixture becomes to all
appearance pure water'.
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[Natural History of Selborne] Anon
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A London Fog Anon
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The Bird Catcher. By Miss Mitford Anon
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Native Indians Anon Genre: | Extract | Publications extracted: |
Heber 1828
Heber, Reginald
1828. Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India from
Calcutta to Bombay 1824–25 (With Notes upon Ceylon): An Account of a
Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in
India, 2 vols, London: John Murray
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| Subjects: | Race, Ethnography, Religion, Climatology, Animal Breeding,
Degeneration, Progress, Human Species |
Discusses differences in skin colour among the different races, attributing
them to differences in climate. Suggests that other racial differences might be
caused by differences in climate, given time. Suspects that the 'primitive
complexion' of humans was that of the Indian, and that climate produced the
'negro' and European races by degeneration and improvement respectively, with
the English at the pinnacle. Supports this by the analogy of coloration among
wild and domestic animals.
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Ice Sledges Anon
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[Machinery for Cleaning Chimneys] Anon
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Men and Candles Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery | Publications extracted: | Monthly Magazine
Monthly Magazine
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Waterloo Directory
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Select Committee on Emigration
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The Times
The Times
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January 1828, that 'An able chemist and physician declares his conviction, that
it would be possible to transmute dead bodies into CANDLES'
(169). Suggests that this would be a suitable alternative to emigration as a
remedy for over-population, especially in Ireland. Considers some of the
possible outcomes of the procedure, noting: 'It would be grievous for a
president of a
Royal Society
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to be crammed into a bottle, and placed in a back garret, to twinkle the hours
away, until the tennant—some sans-culotte bricklayer's
labourer—staggered home, and puffed the ex-president out. [...]
Physicians and doctors would make but tolerable candles—they would always
appear with "winding-sheets" in them. [...] We should not like to see [...] a
modern
Brummell
Brummell, George Bryan ('Beau')
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light his cigar at a
Dr.
Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
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Properties of Charcoal Anon
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Composition for Washing in Sea Water Anon
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New Holland Anon
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Bleaching Liquid Anon
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Lime Anon
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Indelible Writing Ink Anon Genre: | Extract, Instructions | Publications extracted: |
Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
(1827–30)
Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
Britain
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Waterloo
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Soils Anon
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[Free Medical Treatment] Anon Genre: | Anecdote | Subjects: | Accidents, Medical Treatment |
'Tacitus relates the fall of a Roman Theatre, by which not less than 50,000
persons were killed or maimed. The Grandees of Rome, on this occasion, threw
open their doors, ordered medicines to be distributed, and the physicians
attended with assiduity in every quarter.'
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Quacks Anon Genre: | Extract, Anecdote, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Angelo
1828–30
Angelo, Henry
1828–30. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo: With Memoirs of his Late
Father and Friends, Including Numerous Original Anecdotes and Curious Traits of
the Most Celebrated Characters that have Flourished During the Past Eighty
Years, 2 vols, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley
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Dr Bossy
Bossy, Dr
(fl. c. 1788)
ML1/11/302d/13
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Dead March Anon Genre: | Anecdote, Drollery | Subjects: | Medical Practitioners |
'On the evening before
Dr. Clubbe
Clubbe, John
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physician feeling his pulse with much gravity, and observing that it beat more
even than upon his last visit; "My dear friend," said he, "if you don't
already know, or have not a technical expression, for it, I will tell you
what it beats—it beats the dead march."'
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Iron Roof Anon
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[Arcana of Science and
Art
Arcana of Science and Art
(1828–38)
Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art
(1838–80)
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'The ARCANA of SCIENCE and THE USEFUL
ARTS, containing ONE
THOUSAND INVENTIONS and
IMPROVEMENTS of the past year,—will be published on the
13th instant.'
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Mirabilia Naturæ W H H
H, W H
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Palaeontology, Museums, Geology, Biblical Authority |
Describes various curious resemblances in stones and minerals. Describes
chemical phenomena in
Benwell
Colliery
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takes the imprint of pit props. Argues for a 'plastic spirit' in nature by
which matter is 'modified into the form and shapes of the bodies of flies,
insects, &c.' (180). Discusses the history and origins of 'formed stones',
relating them to the Noachian deluge and the 'division of waters' in the first
creation narrative of Genesis.
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A, T S
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Diary
Ladies' Diary
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Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary
(1841–70)
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| Subjects: | Mathematics |
Introduces a French riddle, and its translation: 'My first in
Euclid
Euclid
(fl. 295 BC)
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place; / My second rolls incessantly through space: / My whole, 'tis said, is
rich, and rules the sea; But wine they drink there, is too dear for me';
suggests that the answer is 'Angleterre'.
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Printing Machinery Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Machinery, Invention, Progress | People mentioned: |
Charles Stanhope (3rd
Earl Stanhope),
Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope
(1753–1816)
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William
Nicholson,
Nicholson, William
(1753–1815)
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Friedrich
König,
König, Friedrich
(1774–1833)
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Bryan Donkin,
Donkin, Bryan
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Augustus
Applegath
Applegath, Augustus
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Cowper, Edward
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lecture delivered on 22 February at the
Royal
Institution
Royal Institution of Great Britain
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printing.
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Paris Flower-Market in the Month of January Anon
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To Destroy Red Spiders in Hot-houses Anon
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Garden Walls Anon
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English Oaks Anon
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Botany Anon
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The Adhesion of Screw Nails Anon
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African Elephant Anon
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[Books on Mineralogy] Anon Genre: | Anecdote, Drollery | Subjects: | Mineralogy, Publishing |
'A person inquired at a punning bookseller's, the other day, if there was
any recent work on mineralogy. "I don't know," replied the witty
bibliopole: "if there is any thing of the kind it must be Feldspar (Field's
Parr)."'
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[Arcana of Science and
Art
Arcana of Science and Art
(1828–38)
Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art
(1838–80)
Waterloo
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'Just Published. ARCANA of SCIENCE and ART, or One Thousand Inventions,
Improvements, and New Facts of 1827, with many Engravings, price 4s. 6d. in
cloth'.
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London Lions William Palin
Palin, William
(fl. 1828)
ML1/11/298/1, ML1/11/304/1
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Jacob Perkins
Perkins, Jacob
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Bemoans the smoke in London, suggesting 'a gigantic consumer / Be plac'd on
the top of St. Paul's' and enquiring: 'Why can't the gas-company burn it, /
'Twould save them a fortune in coals!'. Lists among London's notable
attractions 'Mr.
Cross's
Cross, Edward
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untameable flock, / [...] Lighted clocks, that the charleys may doze, /
Nor hazard miscalling the hours; / [...] Steam printing, steam coaching, and
cooking, / Steam-brewing, and boating, and guns; / [...] The Tow'r, the Thames
tunnel, and docks, / Canals, gas and water works, fires' (197).
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[Introduction] Anon Genre: | Introduction | Subjects: | Natural History, Amusement, Education, Popularization |
Notes that 'Vernal Notes' does not constitute a series, 'but will consist of
a few details of some of the most interesting phenomena of the natural history
of the season, interspersed with slips from the Floral Calendar of the
month, with poetical illustrations, so as may revive the recollections of the
country' in residents of London. Hopes also to 'aid the recreative studies of
Natural History, by familiarizing the general reader with a few of its most
popular facts, and thus become the means of drawing his attention to a more
scientific examination of its several branches' (204).
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Phenomena of Frost Anon
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Early Flowers Anon
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Astronomy Anon
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Comparative Pleasures of Science Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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| Subjects: | Wonder, Mechanics, Light, Chemistry, Astronomy, Electricity,
Amusement, Gas Chemistry |
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The Atmosphere Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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Eyes of Birds Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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| Subjects: | Ornithology, Anatomy, Light |
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Fecundation of Vegetables Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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| Subjects: | Botany, Sex, Breeding | People mentioned: |
Thomas A
Knight
Knight, Thomas Andrew
(1759–1838)
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Old Customs and Manners. By John Aubrey, 1678 C F E
E, C F
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John Aubrey
Aubrey, John
(1626–97)
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| Subjects: | Education, Gender, Medical Practitioners |
Observes that 'there were very few free schools in England before the
reformation', and that 'young women had their education [...] at nunneries,
where they learnt needle-work, confectionery, surgery, physic, (apothecaries
and surgeons being at that time very rare,) writing, drawing, &c.'
(216).
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Port Wine Anon Genre: | Extract, Reminiscences, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
(1814–81)
New Monthly
(1882–84)
Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Temperance, Epidemiology |
Relates an argument on the medical effects of drinking port-wine, between a
port-wine drinker and a temperance advocate. The former gives as his clinching
argument the fact that port-wine has 'kept the plague and the sweating-sickness
out of England', nothing of the kind having occurred there since the Methuen
trade treaty with Portugal (1703).
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Beefsteak Club Anon Genre: | Extract, Reminiscences, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
(1814–81)
New Monthly
(1882–84)
Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Crime, Medical Practitioners |
Relates an anecdote of the club containing the following: 'Brougham
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and
Vaux
(1778–1868)
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hypothetically the case of a man convicted of felony, and duly hanged according
to law, but restored to life by medical appliances; and asked what would be the
man's defence if again brought to trial' (218–19).
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Language of Flowers Anon
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Cruelty to Animals Anon Genre: | Extract, Anecdote, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh Monthly Review
(1819–21)
New Edinburgh Review
(1821–23)
Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Cruelty, Microscopy |
Relates an anecdote of a man who took his dislike of cruelty to what the
narrator considered ridiculous lengths, refusing to kill mice and spiders. The
narrator argued with him that on this principle the 'insect' responsible for
the bloom on a plum or for fermenting vinegar should not be destroyed.
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March of Mind Anon Genre: | Anecdote, Drollery | Subjects: | Chemistry, Gender |
'While a ventriloquist was describing the nature of gas, a blue
stocking lady clamorously inquired of a gentleman near her, what he meant
by oxy-gin and hydro-gin, or what was the difference? "very
little, madam," said he; "by oxy-gin, we mean pure gin, and by
hydro-gin, gin and water"'.
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East Gate,
Regent's
Park
Regent's Park
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Bonner, George Wilmot
(1796–1836)
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View the register entry >> | Subjects: | Alchemy, Horticulture, Acclimatization, Transport |
Introducing the illustration, asserts that 'Building, parking, and
disparking are the order of the present day'. Observes: '"All the talents"
write on landscape-gardening; and men who have given up the search of the
philosopher's stone, and left "all meaner things" to larger numbers [...] are
at length convinced of our earthy origin, and accordingly betake themselves to
theories of transplantation and papers on agriculture and gardening'. Notes
that both people and trees have been found to be 'improved by being
transplanted'. Observing that trees are now transplanted with more care than
formerly, suggests that a similar transformation has been wrought in human
transport.
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The Man of Promise C
C
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Physiognomy |
Considers that differences in intellectual ability, while to some degree
dependent on variations in native ability, are much less so than generally
supposed. Suggests reasons why many do not more effectually improve their
intellectual faculties. Argues that, nevertheless, 'Real genius [...]
accompanied by good sense, will break through the trammels of circumstance,
undismayed by privations, unchecked by obstacles'. Expounds the powers of such
genius, suggesting that its 'knowledge of things appears to be gained by
intuition'. (227) Discusses the vanity of genius and pretenders to genius.
Narrates a story of one such pretender, Thraso, who was considered a 'prodigy
of skill' at 'a public school in the north' because he could 'solve a question
in Double Position by the rule of Algebra' (228). Seeking to maintain such
appearances in the wider world, Thraso frequently made a fool of himself: 'If
the subject of physiognomy be introduced, and whether the visage be a true
index of the mind, Thraso [...] remarks that it is not as one of the Latin
poets, he thinks
Sallust
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question by saying, Fronti nulla fides'. In an afterword, argues that
real merit would be better distinguished from superficial pretension, if the
rising generation were given 'a better grounded, and more solid, but less
extended education'. (229)
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[Weather in Europe] Anon
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[Travels in North America] Anon
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[Experimental Farm] Anon
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Cure for Modern Conceit Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: | Quarterly Review
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| Subjects: | Transport, Steamships, Commerce, Progress |
Seeks to correct the view that 'the familiar intercourse of nations is a
thing of modern growth, and that turnpike-roads and mail-coaches, canals and
steam-boats, are the only methods by which we can bring together distant lands,
dissociabiles terras' (236–37), pointing to the great fairs of
Europe in evidence.
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Habits of Drinking Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
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| Subjects: | Class, Temperance, Physiology, Education, Physics |
Argues that there are not whole classes who have an innate propensity to
drunkenness. Urges that manual labourers should be worked hard, paid
moderately, and carefully overseen, and that under such circumstances 'Their
rigidity of fibre, and flow of animal spirits, will [...] keep them from the
ale-house and the gin-shop' (237). Considers the comments on drinking-clubs in
MacNish 1827
MacNish,
Robert 1827. The Anatomy of Drunkenness, Glasgow: W R
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asking: 'Would he have people to gather together round one large, long, or
round table, or several smaller ones, lean upon their elbows, stare into each
other's face, and discuss the Mechanical Forces, the Tides, the Prism, and the
Pleasures of Knowledge? And all this, without either pipe or tumbler?'.
Conjures a picture of a typical small town, where the inhabitants are mostly
'well to do', but have 'no turn for knowledge or literature, except, perhaps,
so far as to set up a Mechanics' Institution', arguing that drunkenness
prevails more there than in the larger cities. (238)
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Blue Stockings over the Border Anon Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
(1817)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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| Subjects: | Education, Universities, Gender, Cultural Geography, Mathematics,
Medical Practitioners, Nomenclature, Steam-power, Machinery, Phrenology, Astronomy,
Geology, Natural History, Chemistry, Steamships, Alchemy |
Warns
University of
Oxford
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to their studies, in advance of an invasion of blue stockings from Scotland.
The bluestockings will beat them at solving problems in
Euclid
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depths of medical science. 'Their clack is resounding, / With hard words
abounding; / Steam-guns are their weapons, which cause great disorder. / By Gas
they're enlighten'd— / By nothing they're frighten'd'. They excel in
every department, including phenology, and have a predominant 'organ of
Prying'. They will surpass astronomers, geologists, conchologists,
chemists, and steam-boat inventors. ''Tis said they've discover'd perpetual
motion, / Attach'd to their tongues, 'twill be henceforth their own'.
Counsels the reader not to believe the enemy who claims their heads are 'vacuum
engines' and that 'Watt's
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speeches, / Beginning in noise, and concluding in smoke'.
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"Men and Candles" Quæsitor
Quæsitor
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Reports that during the French revolution the
Cimetière des Innocens
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in Paris was cleared, during which process 'a sort of spermaceti was
discovered, occasioned by the action of water on some of the dead bodies', out
of which candles were made.
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Sap in Trees Anon
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Salmon Fisheries Anon
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Recent Improvements in Printing, by
Mr. Cowper
Cowper, Edward
(1790–1852)
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Edward Cowper
Cowper, Edward
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, Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
(1827–30)
Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
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| Subjects: | Invention, Machinery, Progress, Patents | People mentioned: |
Charles Stanhope (3rd
Earl Stanhope),
Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl Stanhope
(1753–1816)
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William Clowes,
Clowes, William, the elder
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William
Nicholson,
Nicholson, William
(1753–1815)
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Friedrich
König,
König, Friedrich
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Thomas Bensley,
Bensley, Thomas
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Richard Taylor,
Taylor, Richard
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Bryan Donkin,
Donkin, Bryan
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Augustus
Applegath
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Dibdin 1817,
Dibdin, Thomas
Frognall 1817. The Bibliographical Decameron; or, Ten Days
Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with
Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography, 3 vols, London: printed for
the author
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My Partner Anon Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
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| Subjects: | Meteorology, Gender, Geology, Botany, Chemistry, Instruments |
The poem is headed by an extract from the
British
Almanac
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poetic narrator recounts his attempt to engage in conversation 'old Sir
Geoffrey's daughter', whose only subject was the weather. He tried several
subjects: 'Was she a Blue?—I put my trust / In strata, petals, gases'
(252). Finally he concluded that the man who married her might as well 'marry a
Barometer, / And hang himself beside it!' (253).
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Bottle Companions Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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| Subjects: | Temperance, Medical Practitioners, Education |
Invokes the reader to consider the many who drink themselves to death.
Observes: 'perhaps you may remember more than one—ay half a dozen medical
students—as they were called—who after spending in the slips of
theatres, and the boxes of taverns, and worse haunts, the means furnished for
their education by parents who had meanwhile denied themselves even the
necessaries of life—vanished from the streets, as they said either truly
or falsely, for berths on board Whalers. Home-returning in poverty, they got
unsettled in small rural villages, unable to support a howdie', until some
disgraceful end overtook them (254).
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The Sketch-Book. The Pleasure Hunter. A Fragment Anon Genre: | Regular Feature—Introduction; Extract, Novel | Publications extracted: |
[Beazley] 1828
[Beazley,
Samuel] 1828. The Roué, 3 vols, London: H.
Colburn
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| Subjects: | Death, Medical Practitioners, Medical Treatment, Narcotics |
The narrator is the eponymous roué, who is dying. He protests that he
is not, and that his physicians 'judge by their own emaciated, fragile bodies;
they have no idea how much such a firm-knit, athletic frame' as his can suffer
(261). He considers the physicians fools, reporting that they insisted that he
should sleep and gave him a 'cursed' potion. His sleep was filled with
monstrous nightmares, and he observes 'I would rather invent some machine to
prop my eyes open, than take their cursed opiates to damn me before my time'.
(262)
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Travels Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous, Extract | Publications extracted: | Quarterly Review
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| Subjects: | Exploration, Authorship, Publishing | People mentioned: |
Marco Polo,
Polo, Marco
(1254–1324)
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John Bell,
Bell, John
(1691–1780)
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Juan F G
Carreri,
Carreri, Juan Francisco Gemelli
(1645–1700)
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Mungo Park,
Park, Mungo
(1771–1806)
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Bryan Edwards,
Edwards, Bryan
(1743–1800)
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Giovanni B
Belzoni,
Belzoni, Giovanni Battista
(1778–1823)
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François le Vaillant
Vaillant, François le
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being written by persons who never travelled'.
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Modern Trade Anon
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Comparative Population of the Ancient and Modern World
[1/2]Anon, 'Comparative Population of the Ancient and Modern World', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 372–75
Close Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Serial | Publications extracted: |
Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
(1827–30)
Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
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| Subjects: | Population, Race, Degeneration |
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National Repository Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Exhibitions, Machinery, Societies, Government, Patronage,
Invention |
Reports: 'an establishment for the exhibition of national productions in
arts, mechanics, manufactures, &c. is now in progress, under the patronage
and auspices of
Mr. Agar
Ellis
Ellis, George James Welbore Agar-, 1st Baron
Dover
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Société
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Men and Candles—Adipocere S I B
B, S I
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Antoine F de
Fourcroy,
Fourcroy, Antoine François de
(1755–1809)
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George S
Gibbes
Gibbes, Sir George Smith
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| Institutions mentioned: |
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Paris
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| Publications cited: | Annales de Chimie,
Annales de Chimie
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Transactions of the Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
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Transplanting Trees Anon
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Metallic Caissons Anon
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Steel Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Discovery, Industry |
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Cure for Stammering Anon
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[Useful Domestic Hints] G W N
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[1] Infallible Cure for Asthma Subjects: | Pharmaceuticals, Medical Treatment |
[2] Recipe for a Consumption Subjects: | Pharmaceuticals, Medical Treatment |
[3] Cure for the Jaundice Subjects: | Pharmaceuticals, Medical Treatment |
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Anon 1716
Anon. 1716. Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers,
Paris: Jombert
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their Colour Subjects: | Chemistry, Domestic Economy |
[2] Grease Spots Upon Silk Subjects: | Chemistry, Domestic Economy |
[3] Stains of Oil Upon Satin, Stuffs, or Paper Subjects: | Chemistry, Domestic Economy |
[4] To Clean Bottles Infected With Bad Smells Subjects: | Domestic Economy |
[5] To Destroy Caterpillars Subjects: | Chemistry, Horticulture |
[6] To Make the Oil in Lamps Last Longer, and to Remove the Thick Smoke
Which is so Disagreeable and Hurtful to the Lungs Subjects: | Chemistry, Domestic Economy |
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Anecdotes of
Bonaparte
Napoleon I, Emperor of France
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Cromwell
Cromwell, Oliver
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Hazlitt
1828–30
Hazlitt,
William 1828–30. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 4
vols, London: Hunt and Clarke
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| Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Government |
Relating an anecdote in which Napoleon had suffered a carriage accident,
reports that in the evening he had 'Laplace
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
(1749–1827)
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Monge
Monge, Gaspard
(1746–1818)
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Berthollet
Berthollet, Claude Louis
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he was attended by
Jean N
Corvisart
Corvisart, Jean-Nicolas
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Flourishing Trade Anon Genre: | Anecdote | Subjects: | Transport, Accidents, Medical Practitioners |
'A GENTLEMAN being asked what business he intended to bring
up his son to? answered, "If I thought the rage for gigs, whiskies, tandems,
&c. would continue, I should bring him up to the profession of a
surgeon"'.
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Wine and Physic Anon Genre: | Anecdote | Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Temperance |
Concerns a physician who refused to take his own advice of giving up wine as
a cure for 'a constant rheum in his eyes', observing 'I love wine better than
my eyes'.
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A Pair of Plagues Anon Genre: | Epigram, Drollery | Subjects: | Disease |
'BETWEEN love and gout, Sir, / What miseries men find, /
For gout makes them lame, Sir, / And love makes them blind'.
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[Grenville on the Sinking Fund] Anon
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[Human Fecundity] Anon
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[Davy's Salmonia] Anon Genre: | Literary Gossip | Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Authorship | Publications cited: |
[Davy] 1828
[Davy, Humphry]
1828. Salmonia; or, Days of Fly Fishing, in a Series of Conversations: With
Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo, London:
John Murray
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Early Spanish Discoveries Anon Genre: | Abstract, Miscellaneous | Publications abstracted: | Foreign
Review
Foreign Review and Continental Miscellany
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Exploration | People mentioned: |
Blasco de
Garay,
Garay, Blasco de
(fl. 1539)
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Pedro F de
Quiros
Quiros, Pedro Fernandez de
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Clio Grub at Brighton Anon Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
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New Monthly
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| Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Hydropathy, Medical Practitioners, Race |
The eponymous hero is a hack writer suffering from rheumatism, who goes to
Brighton for his health. He is treated at the Turkish baths, but is only cured
when, on falling down a well, he drinks a smugglers' stash of gin.
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April 4, 1774, died,
Oliver
Goldsmith
Goldsmith, Oliver
(1728?–74)
ODNB
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Goldsmith 1801
Goldsmith,
Oliver 1801. The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.:
To Which is Prefixed, Some Account of his Life and Writings, new edn, 4
vols, London: J. Johnson [and 15 others]
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| Subjects: | Natural History, Authorship | Publications cited: |
Goldsmith 1774
Goldsmith,
Oliver 1774. An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature,
London: J. Norse
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April 9, 1626, died,
Francis Bacon
Bacon, Francis, 1st Viscount St Alban
(1561–1626)
DSB
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Anon 1747–66
Anon. 1747–66. Biographia Britannica; or, The
Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who have Flourished in Great Britain and
Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the
Best Authorities, both Printed and Manuscript, and Digested in the Manner of
Mr. Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary, 6 vols, London: W. Innys
[and 22 others]
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| Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners | Institutions mentioned: |
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
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April 17, 1790, died,
Benjamin
Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
(1706–90)
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Franklin 1793
Franklin,
Benjamin 1793. Works of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin:
Consisting of his Life Written by Himself, Together with Essays, Humorous,
Moral & Literary, Chiefly in the Manner of "The Spectator", London: G.
G. J. and J. Robinson
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| Subjects: | Scientific Practitioners, Electricity, Schools, Hospitals | Institutions mentioned: |
Royal Society
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Swiftiana Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Jonathan Swift
Swift, Jonathan
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| Subjects: | Supernaturalism, Mental Illness | Pharmaceuticals,
Medical Practitioners |
Gives as an argument to prove that 'the common relations of ghosts and
spectres are generally false' the fact that they usually only appear to one
person at a time, noting that 'it seldom happens to above one person in a
company to be possessed with any high degree of spleen or melancholy'.
Observes: 'Apollo was held the god of physic, and sender of diseases. Both were
originally the same trade, and still continue'.
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Love of Nature The Author of the Promenade Round Dorking, pseud.
[John Timbs]
Timbs, John
(1801–75)
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[Timbs] 1822
[Timbs, John] 1822.
A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking in Surrey, London: J.
Warren
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Relates that at Mickleham, Surrey, there is an inn 'much frequented by
botanists, for the beauty of the surrounding scenery, and the rare plants to be
found in the neighbourhood'. One of the last acts of the dying proprietor,
himself a botanist, was to send his daughter to see if a particular species was
in flower. 'This is a beautiful illustration of the love of nature, and the
exhaustless delight to be derived from her studies'. (308)
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Effects of Lightning on a Ship at Sea Anon
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Cloth Fabricated by Insects Anon
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The Fisheries Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Fleming 1828
Fleming, John
1828. A History of British Animals: Exhibiting the Descriptive Characters
and Sytematical Arrangement of the Genera and Species of Quadrupeds, Birds,
Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom. Including the
Indigenous, Extirpated, and Extinct Kinds, Together with Periodical and
Occasional Visitants, Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute; London: J.
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A Chapter of Ifs Anon Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
(1814–81)
New Monthly
(1882–84)
Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Artisans, Education,
Institutions | Narcotics | Technology, Commerce |
Among the 'ifs' are the following: 'If ruin'd men were fond of Quod [i.e.
prison], / Mechanics of the loom, / A schoolboy might admire the rod, / And
North [presumably a reference to 'Christopher North' (i.e.
John Wilson
Wilson, John ('Christopher North')
(1785–1854)
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Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
(1817)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
(1817–1900+)
Waterloo
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Brougham
Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and
Vaux
(1778–1868)
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[...] If laudanum were a lively thing, / A sermon might amuse [...] If gas
contractors kept their words, / We'd pension off the sun' (316).
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Pleasures of Disputation Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: | New Monthly Magazine
New Monthly Magazine
(1814–81)
New Monthly
(1882–84)
Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Societies |
Bemoans the endless debating in clubs of rules and regulations. Observes: 'I
have known a philosophical club to be dispersed the first night of meeting by
an intemperate debate, whether coffee or negus were to be handed about for
refreshment'. Describes the debating clubs once common at the 'Crown and Rolls
Rooms in Chancery-Lane', including the 'Academics'—apparently a reference
to the
Academical
Society
Academical Society, Chancery Lane
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Cats Anon
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May and June Anon
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Robert Burns
Burns, Robert
(1759–96)
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New Year's Letter, Addressed by Burns to Mrs. Dunlop Anon Genre: | Extract, Letter | Publications extracted: |
Robert Burns
Burns, Robert
(1759–96)
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| Subjects: | Botany, Ornithology, Feeling, Machinery, Natural Theology,
Immaterialism, Immortality |
Burns relates that certain flowers and birds evoke strong feelings in him.
Observes: 'Are we are a piece of machinery, which, like the Æolian harp,
passive, takes the impression of the passing accident? Or do these workings
argue something within us above the trodden clay? I own myself partial to such
proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all
things—man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal or
woe beyond death and the grave' (327).
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Allan
Cunningham's
Cunningham, Allan
(1784–1842)
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Burns
Burns, Robert
(1759–96)
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Lockhart 1828
Lockhart, John
Gibson 1828. Life of Robert Burns, Constable's Miscellany,
23, Edinburgh: Constable and Co; London: Hurst, Chance and Co.
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| Subjects: | Agriculture, Progress, Chemistry |
Observes of Burns that his agricultural methods were undeveloped: 'He
plodded on in the regular slothful routine of his ancestors; he rooted out no
bushes, he dug up no stones; he drained not, neither did he enclose; and weeds
obtained their full share of the dung and the lime, which he bestowed more like
a medicine than a meal on his soil' (328).
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[Fashions in Diseases] Anon
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Coffee Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Natural Imperialism, Botanical Gardens, Acclimatization,
Commerce |
Describes how 'a distinguished French botanist' introduced coffee into the
West Indies from the
Jardin
des Plantes
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Wine-Drinking Anon
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[Sadler
Sadler, Michael Thomas
(1780–1835)
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Ireland] Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Sadler 1828
Sadler, Michael
Thomas 1828. Ireland; Its Evils and their Remedies: Being a
Refutation of the Errors of the Emigration Committee and Others, Touching that
Country; to Which is Prefixed a Synopsis of an Original Treatise, about to be
Published, on the Law of Population, Developing the Real Principle on which it
is Universally Regulated, London: John Murray
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[Arsenic Poisoning] Anon
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[Muscular Power of Fish] Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Zoology |
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 330.
Switzerland Anon Genre: | Reportage, Extract | Publications extracted: |
Walter 1828
Walter, Weever
1828. Letters from the Continent: Containing Sketches of Foreign Scenery and
Manners; with Hints as to the Different Modes of Travelling, Expense of Living,
etc., Edinburgh: William Blackwood ; London: T. Cadell
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Mineral Waters Anon
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[Preserving Valuable Fruit Trees by Transfusing Sap] Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Horticulture, Physiology |
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 331.
Malaria Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
[Macculloch 1828]
Macculloch,
John 1828. An Essay on the Remittent and Intermittent Diseases,
Including Generically, Marsh Fever and Neuralgia: Comprising under the Former,
Various Anomalies, Obscurities, and Consequences, and, Under a New Systematic
View of the Latter, Treating of Tic Douloureux, Sciatica, Headach, Ophthalmia,
Toothach, Palsy and Many Other Modes and Consequences of this Generic
Disease, 2 vols, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
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[Cold Punch] Anon
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[Presentation of Telescope] Anon
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The Earwig Anon
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The Man with the Mouth Anon Genre: | Extract, Short Fiction, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
A Modern Pythagorean
Modern Pythagorean, A
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Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
(1817)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
(1817–1900+)
Waterloo
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| Subjects: | Magnetism, Feeling, Wonder, Phrenology |
The narrator is astonished by the size of the mouth possessed by a man
sitting opposite him in the Advocate's Library in Edinburgh. For a spell, his
attention oscillates between it and an interesting article in
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
(1817)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
(1817–1900+)
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and my mind was, like a piece of iron, reciprocally acted upon by a couple of
powerful loadstones' (331). The mouth evokes strong feelings of wonder and
delight in the narrator, who questions why it should have so strong an effect
upon him. However, 'being neither casuist nor phrenologist', he has to drop the
subject as being too much for his powers (332). When the man with the mouth
yawns, the narrator thinks that it would 'rival the loudest yawn ever uttered
by luckless wight, while luxuriating in the recondite pages of that profound
philosopher,
Dr. Black
Black, Joseph
(1728–99)
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(333).
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Ode on the Distant Prospect of a Good Dinner Anon Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
(1817)
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
(1817–1900+)
Waterloo
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| Subjects: | Nutrition, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Practitioners, Disease |
The poem reflects on the consequences for health of overindulgence. Begins:
'Ye distant dishes, sideboards blest / With Halford's [possibly a reference to
Henry Halford
Halford (formerly Vaughan), Sir Henry
(1766–1844)
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peptic pill / Where grateful gourmands still attest / Illustrious Robert's
skill'. The imagined gourmands eat 'regardless of their doom', 'Yet see how all
around them press, / Th'attendants of each night's excess; / Fell Indigestion's
followers vile: / Ah! show them where the hateful crew / Scoff calomel and
pills of blue, / Ah! tell them they have bile'.
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Ancient Cannon Raised from the Sea Anon
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Assamese Method of Blasting Rocks Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 336.
Purification of Alcohol Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 336.
Method of Obtaining the Figure of a Plant Anon
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Swiftiana Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Jonathan Swift
Swift, Jonathan
(1667–1745)
ODNB
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| Subjects: | Astronomy, Astrology, Superstition |
'Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason; their long
bears, and pretences to foretell events'.
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Discovery of Gas-Lighting T Hatchard
Hatchard, T
(fl. 1828)
ML1/11/313/1
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William
Murdoch,
Murdoch, William
(1754–1839)
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Archibald Cochrane
(9th Earl of Dundonald),
Cochrane, Archibald, 9th Earl of Dundonald
(1749–1831)
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Mr Campion,
Campion, Mr
(b. c. 1709)
ML1/11/313/1
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Frederick A
Winsor
Winsor, Frederick Albert
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Trinity House
Trinity House
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Claims to have been the first to use coal-gas lighting, but to have been
unsuccessful in attempting to apply the process commercially.
| See also: | Anon, 'Outline of the History of Gas Lighting', Mirror of Literature, 10 (1827), 449–52 |
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Distances at which Sounds are Heard Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 344.
Magnificent Achromatic Telescope Executed at Paris Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 344.
Ancient Armour Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Archaeology |
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 344.
Chinese Paper Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Industrial Chemistry |
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 345–46.
The Imperial Bee-Hive Anon Genre: | Reportage; Miscellaneous | Relevant illustrations: | wdct. | Subjects: | Entomology, Invention, Horticulture, Sex, Wonder | Institutions mentioned: |
Messrs. Lawes and
Co.
Lawes and Co. (Messrs)
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| Publications cited: |
Bevan 1827,
Bevan, Edward
1827. The Honey Bee: Its Natural History, Physiology and Management,
London: Baldwin, Craddock and Joy
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Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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Filtering Cisterns Anon
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The Clarence Bridge Anon Genre: | Reportage | Subjects: | Engineering, Transport, Periodicals |
Relates the details of the planned bridge from a prospectus sent by a
correspondent. Discusses the recently completed
Hammersmith
Bridge
Hammersmith Bridge
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Timbs, John
(1801–75)
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Arcana of Science
Arcana of Science and Art
(1828–38)
Yearbook of Facts in Science and Art
(1838–80)
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footnote states: 'A second edition of this valuable little work is, at the
suggestion of the public, now publishing in parts. It has been pronounced to be
one of the best assemblages of the Scientific Improvements of the past year;
and with the above facility, we hope its circulation will be proportionate to
the importance of its contents'.
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Disease of Silk-Worms and its Cure Anon
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Temperature Below the Earth's Surface Anon
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Extraordinary Instances of Fall of Rain Anon
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The Old Clock-House at Westminster Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 369–70.
History of Clocks and Watches
[1/2]George Smeeton, 'History of Clocks and Watches', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 434–37
Close [George Smeeton]
Smeeton, George
(fl. 1800–28)
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Section: Arcana of Science Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 372–75.
Comparative Population of the Ancient and Modern World
[2/2]Anon, 'Comparative Population of the Ancient and Modern World', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 266–67
Close Anon Genre: | Serial—Extract, Miscellaneous; Afterword | Publications extracted: |
Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
(1827–30)
Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
Britain
(1830–31)
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| Subjects: | Population, Race, Progress, Degeneration, Statistics, Periodicals,
Popularization | People mentioned: |
David Hume,
Hume, David
(1711–76)
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Gerard J
Vossius,
Vossius, Gerard Jan
(1577–1649)
CBD
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Charles L de
Secondat,
Secondat, Charles Louis de, Baron de la
Brède et de Montesquieu
(1689–1755)
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Edward Gibbon
Gibbon, Edward
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Quarterly Journal of
Science
Journal of Science and the Arts
(1816–19)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and the
Arts
(1819–27)
Quarterly Journal of Literature, Science and
Art
(1827–30)
Journal of the Royal Institution of Great
Britain
(1830–31)
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linear acknowledgement is due from us to that valuable work for our
occasional levies on its pages. The New Series [...] has done more than
any similar journal to popularize science and art' (375).
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Geographical Society Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 378.
Agriculture Anon
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 378.
[The Emu] Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Zoology, Hunting |
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 378.
Classical Education Anon Genre: | Literary Notice | Publications noticed: |
Maude 1828
Maude, Thomas
1828. An Apology for the System of Public and Classical Education,
London: J. Hatchard and Son
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| Subjects: | Education, Schools, Mathematics, Gender |
Observes: 'In these days of sines and tangents, it may become the fashion to
scoff at the ever-living languages; but we agree with
Mr. Maude
Maude, Thomas
(1801–65)
WBI
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away this chief corner-stone, and the temple of our future glories will
be a slovenly, unregulated pile, devoid of grace, and devoted to oblivion"'.
Notes that the 'conductresses of female education seem to have better sense
than to question the utility of the classics'.
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[The Population of Great Britain] Anon Genre: | Extract, Reportage | Publications extracted: |
Jacob 1828
Jacob, William
1828. Tracts Relating to the Corn Trade and Corn Laws: Including the Second
Report Ordered to be Printed by the Two Houses of Parliament, London: John
Murray
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| Subjects: | Population, Statistics |
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Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 379.
Voyage in a Balloon Anon Genre: | Extract, Poetry, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
Mordaunt 1827
Mordaunt, H.
1827. Peace; A Comedy, by Aristophanes, Freely Imitated in English
Verse, [publisher unknown]
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| Subjects: | Aeronautics, Astronomy | Publications cited: |
[Russell] 1809
[Russell, William],
ed. 1809. The Lunar Planispheres, Engraved by the late
John Russell,
from his Original Drawings. With a Description, London: [n.
pub.]
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[The Population of Europe] Anon Genre: | Extract, Reportage | Publications extracted: |
Jacob 1828
Jacob, William
1828. Tracts Relating to the Corn Trade and Corn Laws: Including the Second
Report Ordered to be Printed by the Two Houses of Parliament, London: John
Murray
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| Subjects: | Population, Statistics |
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Anthropophagi Anon
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Supply of Water in London (From the Report, Printed by Order of the House
of Commons) Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Table | Publications extracted: |
Report
of the Royal Commission on the Supply of Water in the Metropolis
Report of the Royal Commission on
the Supply of Water in the Metropolis: Report of the Commissioners
Appointed by His Majesty to Inquire into the State of the Supply of Water in
the Metropolis, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, Session 1828 (267),
9, 53–207
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| Subjects: | Government, Public Health | Institutions mentioned: |
New River
Company,
New River Company
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East
London Water Works,
East London Water Works
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West Middlesex Water Works,
West Middlesex Water Works
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Chelsea Water
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Chelsea Water Works
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Grand Junction Waterworks
Company,
Grand Junction Waterworks Company
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Lambeth Water Works Company,
Lambeth Water Works Company
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Vauxhall
Water Company,
Vauxhall Water Company
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Water Works
Southwark Water Works
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Receipt for Scouring Drops. Addressed to a Lady G C
C, G
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'FROM the pine that once flourished on Norway's bleak
hills, / The skill of the chemist a spirit distills; / From the lemon that grew
in some grove in Navarre, / His art too an essence or oil can prepare; / Of the
first, dearest Harriet, an ounce you may take, / Of the latter, two drams, and
you'll Scouring Drops make'.
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Origin of Music and the Lyre W G C
C, W G
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'The
Hermes
Hermes Trismegistus
()
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surnamed Trismegistus, or Three Illustrious, who was, according to
Sir Isaac Newton
Newton, Sir Isaac
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the secretary of Osiris, is reported to have been the inventor of music'.
Details the circumstances under which this is supposed to have occurred.
Observes: 'There is something beautiful in this allegory which leads us into a
conception of the energetic powers of the human mind in the early ages of the
world, thus directed to discovery of the capabilities of nature by the finger
of Omnipotence in the form of accident'.
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Character of
Charles
II
Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
(1630–85)
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Philo
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Bray, ed. 1818
Bray, William, ed.
1818. Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn:
Comprising his Diary, from the Year 1641 to 1705–6, and a Selection of
his Familiar Letters. To which is Subjoined, the Private Correspondence Between
King Charles I and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, Whilst his
Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at Other Times During the Civil War; also
Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne
Ambassador to the Court of France. The Whole Now First Published, from the
Original Mss., 2 vols, London: Henry Colburn
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| Subjects: | Laboratories, Pharmaceuticals, Mathematics, Mechanics |
Relates that he was 'a lover of the sea, and skilful in shipping; not
affecting other studies, yet he had a laboratory, and knew of many empirical
medicines, and the easier mechanical mathematics' (390).
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The Effects of Light upon Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals Jacobus
Jacobus
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John Canton,
Canton, John
(1718–72)
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Wilhelm
Homberg
Homberg, Wilhelm (or Guillaume)
(1652–1715)
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Popular Superstitions. Witchcraft Vyvyan
Vyvyan
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Practitioners |
Asserts that 'though the "march of mind" is making sad inroads on the
"wisdom of our ancestors," yet [...] a belief in witchcraft still prevails
amongst the peasantry of our native country to a considerable extent'.
Nevertheless maintains that the 'progress of intellect in the human race
towards perfection, during the last century, has certainly been much more rapid
than could have been expected', and that 'philosophy' has broken the power of
superstition. Traces the history of witchcraft. Observes that formerly 'the
most eminent men and philosophers (Sir Thomas Browne
Browne, Sir Thomas
(1605–82)
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against the prevailing opinions'. (391) Relates that in 1634 the reprieved
Pendle witches were sent to London, where they were 'viewed and examined by his
majesty's physicians and surgeons' (392).
| See also: | Vyvyan, 'Popular Superstitions. No. II. The Sea', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 54–56 |
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Fat Folks Anon
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A Few Londonisms Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous, Drollery | Publications extracted: | Monthly Magazine
Monthly Magazine
(1796–1843)
Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Natural History, Sex, Botany, Zoology, Universities, Exploration,
Aeronautics | Institutions mentioned: |
University of
London
University of London
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Repudiates the pleasures of nature in favour of those of Metropolitan life.
Observes that no-one 'that has a soul in him' could care about 'the billet-doux
which the bee carries from the male ash to the female; the leers and loving
looks of a couple of jacks, or gudgeons, or red mullets [...]. Put a hook in
the jaws of the rascals; drag them out; bring them to London; send them to
school at Bleadon's [possibly an inn or hotel], or to the professor at the
proper London University in St. James's-street [possibly a reference to
one of the clubs for which that street was celebrated], till they be fit for
appearing in genteel-company' (396–97). Advises: 'course over every land;
sail over every sea; be frozen with
Parry
Parry, Sir William Edward
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Clapperton
Clapperton, Hugh
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[...]; be a traveller who has more glory than name; go up in
balloons—down in diving-bells; fly over the Alps, or tunnel it under the
Atlantic;—why, what do you get by that? Pain—sheer unmingled
pain—without an atom of pleasure' (397).
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[Suicide of Aristotle] G H C
C, G H
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'The Gulf of Negropont, in Greece, ebbs and flows seven times a day.
Aristotle
Aristotle
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to give any rational account of this phenomenon, drowned himself therein,
saying, "If I cannot understand thee, thou shalt take me"'.
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Gold Coinage Anon
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Zinc Roofs Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Metallurgy |
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Travelling Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous, Drollery | Subjects: | Exploration, Endeavour, Human Development |
Asserts: 'CHILDREN, destined by their parents to be
travellers, should be thrown into a pail of ice the moment they are born, and
then transferred for half an hour to the kitchen fire; they may have to swim
across frozen rivers, and run a race in the torrid zone, more than once before
they die:—they should be often fed on bread and water, and sometimes not
at all; in the deserts of Arabia there is seldom any of either:—they
should be clad thinly; the brigands of Terracina frequently strip their
victims:—they should know how to go naked on emergencies; tailors are not
to be had in the wilderness'.
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Water Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Chemistry, Public Health |
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[Population of Brussels] Anon Genre: | Fragment | Subjects: | Population, Statistics |
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Society
of Arts
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C T Tower
Tower, C T, Esq (of Weald Hall, Essex)
(fl. 1828)
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Meteorological Prognostication Observed in the Shetland Isles Anon
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Fall of Aërolites Anon
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Manures Anon
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Ornamental Gardening Anon
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To Keep the Common Blue Plum Anon
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To Keep Pears Anon
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Protecting Vines from Spring Frost Anon
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Dung Without Straw Anon
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Sugar from the Beet Root Anon Genre: | Extract, Reportage | Subjects: | Horticulture, Industry |
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The Lady-Bird Anon
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[Endymion the Originator of Astronomy] Anon Genre: | Miscellaneous | Subjects: | Astronomy, Ancient Authorities |
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The Awkward Confession Jacobus
Jacobus
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A poetic tale of a woman with a 'doctor' who, once called in, was reluctant
to discharge his patient: 'But medical gents, Sir, as well you and I know, /
Can't hastily leave, when there's plenty of rhino; / While the purse is in
health the disorder is slow, / The lighter your pocket the sooner they go'.
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Origin of Gas Lighting John Davy
Davy, John
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Clayton 1739
Clayton, John
1739. 'An Experiment Concerning the Spirit of Coals, Being Part of a Letter to
the Hon. Rob. Boyle, Esq.', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society, 41 (1739), 59–61
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| Subjects: | Invention, Discovery, Gas Chemistry, Light, Technology | People mentioned: |
T Hatchard,
Hatchard, T
(fl. 1828)
ML1/11/313/1
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Murdoch
Murdoch, William
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John Clayton
Clayton, John
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Clayton 1739
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evidenced by an extracted paper on the subject.
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Note [John Timbs]
Timbs, John
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On the grounds that it would introduce controversy, the editor declines to
include in the journal a letter signed
'Verax'
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earlier letter on the invention of coal-gas lighting. He nevertheless
summarises its contents. Referring to the preceding article [John Davy, 'Origin of Gas Lighting', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 419], he observes that it has been included
in full 'on account of the record which our correspondent has therein copied
from the "Philosophical
Transactions
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origin of gas-lighting, or as an interesting experimental research,
will, we are persuaded, be acceptable to the reader' (420).
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Snatches of Sentiment. (From a Midsummer Day's Dream) Anon Genre: | Introduction; Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine
Edinburgh Monthly Magazine
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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Noting the naval supremacy of London, observes: 'The ocean obeys the
"meteor-flag of England," even as its ebbing and flowing obeys the planet'
(423).
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'A high philosophy has gone out from the sages of thy cities into the
loneliest recesses of the hills. The student sits by the ingle of his father's
straw-roofed shed [...] and pores and meditates over the pages of
Reid
Reid, Thomas
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Fergusson
Ferguson, Adam
(1723–1816)
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Stewart
Stewart, Dugald
(1753–1828)
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Brown
Brown, Thomas
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benefactors of the race' (424)
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[10] Philosophy Subjects: | Natural Philosophy, Piety, Feeling, Metaphysics |
While the 'study of physics is sublime, for the student feels as if mounting
the lower steps of the ladder leading up to God in the skies', the study of
metaphysics is sublimer still, 'when reason is her own object' (426).
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Migration of Fishes Anon
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Weight of the Atmosphere Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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Everard Home
Home, Sir Everard, 1st Baronet
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Discoveries in the Arctic Regions Anon
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Progress of Discovery Anon Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous | Publications extracted: |
Brougham 1826
Brougham, Henry
Peter 1826. Objects, Advantages, and Pleasures of Science,
Library of Useful Knowledge, London: [Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy]
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| Subjects: | Progress, Discovery, Serendipity, Steam-power, Expertise, Endeavour,
Invention, Machinery, Chemistry | People mentioned: |
James Watt,
Watt, James
(1736–1819)
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Richard
Arkwright,
Arkwright, Sir Richard
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Humphry Davy,
Davy, Sir Humphry, Baronet
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Edward C
Howard
Howard, Edward Charles
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Hajji Baba (again!) Anon Genre: | Extract, Novel, Drollery | Publications extracted: |
[Morier 1828]
[Morier, James
Justinian] 1828. The Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, in
England, 2 vols, London: John Murray
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| Subjects: | Instruments, Steam-power, Steamships |
The narrator is giving an 'account of the wonders of Frangistan (London)' at
'an audience with the shah at Ispahan'. The shah is interested to know if he
has seen the 'miraculous spying-glass' (telescope) of which he has heard. He is
incredulous when the narrator describes a steam-ship.
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Tobacco Anon
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The New
Corn
Exchange
Corn Exchange
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Describing the Greek Doric architecture of the new Corn Exchange, observes:
'Indeed, the accuracy of its details almost corresponds with the fora of
the ancients, except that its halls are appropriated to the Philosophy of
Statistics, or of those provoking items £. s. d.—and its
speculations restricted to the
Smiths
Smith, Adam
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Malthuses
Malthus, Thomas Robert
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our days' (433).
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History of Clocks and Watches
[2/2][George Smeeton], 'History of Clocks and Watches', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), 369–70
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Smeeton, George
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Jacopo
de'Dondi,
Dondi, Jacopo de'
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Richard of
Wallingford,
Richard of Wallingford
(c. 1292–1336)
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Peter
Courtenay,
Courtenay, Peter
(1432?–1492)
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Ptolemy,
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolomaeus)
(c. 100–c.170)
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Thomas Tompion,
Tompion, Thomas
(1639–1713)
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Humphry
Gainsborough,
Gainsborough, Humphry
(1710/11–1785)
WBI,
ML1/11/319/2
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William
Kennedy,
Kennedy, William
(b. 1768)
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Christiaan
Huygens,
Huygens, Christiaan
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Edward Barlow [i.e.
Booth],
Booth (alias Barlow), Edward
(1638–1719)
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Daniel Quare,
Quare, Daniel
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King James II
James II and VII, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
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| Publications cited: |
Derham 1796
D[erham],
W[illiam] 1796. The Artificial Clock-Maker: A Treatise of Watch,
and Clock-Work, Wherein the Art of Calculating Numbers for Most Sorts of
Movements is Explained to the Capacity of the Unlearned. Also the History of
Clock-Work, Both Ancient and Modern with Other Useful Matters Never Before
Published, London: James Knapton
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| See also: | Anon, 'The Celebrated Clock of Strasburg', Mirror of Literature, 3 (1824), 209–10, Thomas
Byerley Anon, 'The Clock and Clock-House at Strasburg', Mirror of Literature, 3 (1824), 262–63 |
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Natural History of the Salmon Anon
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Hot Springs Anon
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Mineral Waters of Carlsbad Anon
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Eqrthquakes in 1827 Anon
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Weather in Paris Anon
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Useful Hints Anon
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The Sketch Book. The Sexton of Cologne Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Extract, Short Fiction | Publications extracted: | Monthly Magazine
Monthly Magazine
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Waterloo Directory
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| Subjects: | Death, Putrefaction, Superstition, Supernaturalism, Fear,
Disease |
Narrates the burial in a trance of a rich burgomaster's wife, and her
revival after her coffin was opened by the sexton. When the sexton came to rob
the coffin, he fancied that he smelt 'the pestilential breath of decay, though
it was full early for corruption to have begun is work' (446). The supposed
corpse seizing his hand, he fled; he trembled all over 'as if shaken by an
ague-fit' (447).
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Memoir of the Late
Captain
Clapperton
Clapperton, Hugh
(1788–1827)
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Disease, Medical Practitioners, Publishing | People mentioned: |
Mungo Park,
Park, Mungo
(1771–1806)
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Walter Oudney,
Oudney, Walter
(1790–1824)
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Henry Bathurst (3rd Earl
Bathurst),
Bathurst, Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst
(1762–1834)
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Dixon Denham,
Denham, Dixon
(1786–1828)
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Alexander G
Laing,
Laing, Alexander Gordon
(1794–1826)
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Richard L
Lander
Lander, Richard Lemon
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Lander 1830
Lander, Richard
Lemon 1830. Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to
Africa: With the Subsequent Adventures of the Author, 2 vols, London: H.
Colburn and R. Bentley
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first African journey,
Sultan Bello
Muhammad Bello, Sultan of Sokoto
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Sokoto [in modern Nigeria] requested him 'to send from England some Arabic
books and a map of the world; and, in recompense, promised his protection to as
many of our learned men as chose to visit his dominions' (v). The sultan also
repeatedly expressed a desire for a British consul and physician to be resident
at Sokoto. Describes as underhand the dealings of the sultan on Clapperton's
return to Sokoto with the requested presents.
| See also: | Anon, 'Captain
Clapperton. From a Sketch by
Mr. Manton', Mirror of Literature, 11 (1828), facing [i] |
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