Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
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_Brown Study_ (No. 22. p. 352.).--Surely a corruption of brow-study, brow being derived from to old German, _braun_, in its compound form _ang-braun_, an eyebrow. (Vide Wachter, _Gloss. Germ._) HENNES _Seven Champions of Christendom._--Who was the author of _The Seven Champions of Christendom_? R.F. JOHNSON. [_The Seven Champions of Christendom_, which Ritson describes as "containing all the lies of Christendom in one lie," was written by the well-known Richard Johnson. Our correspondent will find many curious particulars of his various works in the Introduction which Mr. Chappell has prefixed to one of them, viz. _The Crown Garland of Golden Roses_, edited by him from the edition of 1612 for the Percy Society.] {419} "_Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis_."--"E.V." (p. 215.) is referred to Cicero _De Officiis_, lib. i. cap. 10., and Ovid, _Met_. lib. xv. 165. et seqq. "_Vox Præterea nihil_."--"C.W.G." (p. 247.) is also referred to Ovid, _Met_. lib. iii. 397., and Lactantius, lib. iii. Fab. v. These are the |
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