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have seen a villain , un a certain shop in Greenwich beating his wife , and then heartily wished that " rough music" could be played in large towns . The only objection to this old custom would be , we fear , that the band would be required to play in one street or another every day . ' ¦ ' Before the dame and round about
Marched whijjlers and staffiers on foot . * In King Henry V ., act v ., sc . 1 , Shakspeare compares the sea to " a mighty whiffler 'fore the king . " Mr , Douce , in his " Illustrations of Shakspeare , " vol . i ., p . 506 , remarks that the term is undoubtedly borrowed from whiffle , another name for a fife or small
flute ; for whifflers were originally those wlio preceded armies or processions , as fifers or pipers . Afterwards , any person who preceded , with a sword , mace , or wand , a procession , was termed a whiffler . The duty of this person was to clear the road for the troops following , or any great procession , civil or military .
Throughout Volume I . the word " windore , " for " window , " frequently occurs . In olden days , there were few words which might not be spelt five or six different ways , as the humour of the writer directed . But Butler may have the word to be " wind-door , " and
not derived , as Johnson has it , from the Danish word mndue . Thd author of Hudibras , as many great and original writers have ever been , was very fond of coining words . "We may observe that the folloAYing Latin and Grseco-English words which he uses have become long since obsolete : —
Agnarctomachy , a fight between bears and dogs ; averruncatey eradicate ; untriumphable ; timidius , timidus ; tollutation , ambling ; succusation , trotting ; vitilitigation , cavilling ; ratiocination ,, deducing arguments from premises ; and disparata 7 diverse . Village schoolmasters , scholars , do you fully appreciate some of the losses which the English language has , from time to time , thus sustained ?
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Several specimens , including a facsimile of a note hy W . M . Thackeray , Esq ., the novelist , have heen shown to us , which , effected hy this process , render the difficulty of detection and facility of transmission equally astonishing . Cheques and hank-notes can he so forged as to infer a serious amount of importance to this science , if practised hy dishonest persons , and without the antidote of the patentee ; hut its chief value is in the restoration of old prints and documents , which we
have seen reproduced with singular and beautiful accuracy . It has not yet been properly put before the public by Mr . Appel , the patentee ; but we strongly advise our Masonic readers to visit his residence , 43 , Gerrard Street , Soho , especially those of them who are architects , artists , engineers , or connected with merchandise , banking , or literature , as not only is their business materially facilitated by the use of this ink , but their security against fraud greatly involved in the employment of the preventive means recommended by Mr . Appel . It is a singular and valuable invention .
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have seen a villain , un a certain shop in Greenwich beating his wife , and then heartily wished that " rough music" could be played in large towns . The only objection to this old custom would be , we fear , that the band would be required to play in one street or another every day . ' ¦ ' Before the dame and round about
Marched whijjlers and staffiers on foot . * In King Henry V ., act v ., sc . 1 , Shakspeare compares the sea to " a mighty whiffler 'fore the king . " Mr , Douce , in his " Illustrations of Shakspeare , " vol . i ., p . 506 , remarks that the term is undoubtedly borrowed from whiffle , another name for a fife or small
flute ; for whifflers were originally those wlio preceded armies or processions , as fifers or pipers . Afterwards , any person who preceded , with a sword , mace , or wand , a procession , was termed a whiffler . The duty of this person was to clear the road for the troops following , or any great procession , civil or military .
Throughout Volume I . the word " windore , " for " window , " frequently occurs . In olden days , there were few words which might not be spelt five or six different ways , as the humour of the writer directed . But Butler may have the word to be " wind-door , " and
not derived , as Johnson has it , from the Danish word mndue . Thd author of Hudibras , as many great and original writers have ever been , was very fond of coining words . "We may observe that the folloAYing Latin and Grseco-English words which he uses have become long since obsolete : —
Agnarctomachy , a fight between bears and dogs ; averruncatey eradicate ; untriumphable ; timidius , timidus ; tollutation , ambling ; succusation , trotting ; vitilitigation , cavilling ; ratiocination ,, deducing arguments from premises ; and disparata 7 diverse . Village schoolmasters , scholars , do you fully appreciate some of the losses which the English language has , from time to time , thus sustained ?
Anastatic Ink.
ANASTATIC INK .
Several specimens , including a facsimile of a note hy W . M . Thackeray , Esq ., the novelist , have heen shown to us , which , effected hy this process , render the difficulty of detection and facility of transmission equally astonishing . Cheques and hank-notes can he so forged as to infer a serious amount of importance to this science , if practised hy dishonest persons , and without the antidote of the patentee ; hut its chief value is in the restoration of old prints and documents , which we
have seen reproduced with singular and beautiful accuracy . It has not yet been properly put before the public by Mr . Appel , the patentee ; but we strongly advise our Masonic readers to visit his residence , 43 , Gerrard Street , Soho , especially those of them who are architects , artists , engineers , or connected with merchandise , banking , or literature , as not only is their business materially facilitated by the use of this ink , but their security against fraud greatly involved in the employment of the preventive means recommended by Mr . Appel . It is a singular and valuable invention .