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Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet, vol. i.
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The strange taste, or rather Vandalism, which despoiled the Manor House, had well nigh led the Halton family to consider the valuable MSS. and correspondence of their philosophical ancestor as so much waste paper.
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The passage to which our kindly Correspondent refers is as follows: "The serpent, instead of being the emblem of wisdom, should have been an emblem of stupidity."—See Mirror, vol. xviii. p. 343.
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See Mirror, vol. xviii. p. 356.
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Shaw's Zoolog. Lectures, vol. i. 1809.
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Ornithologia, p. 206.
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Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. iii. p. 517.
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