"Mollissima tempora fandi."
A translation of the above is requested, in one line, which shall rhyme with the original. H.H.
Motto for a Cigar Smoker.
"Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem cogita." H.H.
St. Cross, Winchester, received some weeks since, shall appear next week.
THE LATE SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
No. 203, price Twopence, of
THE MIRROR,
Contains a STEEL-PLATE PORTRAIT and MEMOIR
of the late
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine for the present month.
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At this school also were educated Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood; Sir Robert Chambers; William Elstob, an antiquary and divine; the poet, Akenside; the Rev. George Hall, Bishop of Dromore; and the Rev. John Brand, author of a history of Newcastle, and secretary to the Society of Antiquaries; all of whom were born at Newcastle.
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In his Personal Tour through the United Kingdom, Part iii.
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It appears from the newspapers that on the night of the 25th of February, 1812, three outside passengers were found dead on the roof of the Bath coach, from the inclemency of the weather.
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By the way, a natural weathercock instead of the gilded vane, as defined by Brown, would have been a rara avis: "A kingfisher hanged by the bill, converting the breast to that point of the horizon whence the wind doth blow, is a very strange introducing of natural weathercocks."
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Sir George Armitage, of Kirklees Hall.—See Mirror, vol. xix. p. 322.
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