Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
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Hoffman's _Lexicon Universale_, and Facciolati, ed. Bailey, Appendix,
voc. _Zenobia_. M. Oxford. _Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 24. p. 389.).--There is Woolaston, in Gloucestershire, four miles from Chepstow, chiefly belonging now to the Duke of Beaufort. C.B. _Vox et præterea Nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247., and No. 24. p. 387.).--This saying is to be found in Plutarch's _Laconic Apophthegms_ ([Greek: Apophthegmata Lakonika]), Plutarchi _Opera Moralia_, ed. Dan. Wyttenbach, vol. i. p. 649. Philemon Holland has "turned it into English" thus:-- "Another [Laconian] having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale, and seeing what a little body it had: 'Surely,' quoth he, 'thou art all voice, and nothing else.'"--_Plutarch's Morals_, fol. 1603. p. 470. W.B.R. _Law of Horses._--The following is from Oliphant's _Law of Horses, &c._, |
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