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DELTA, _who writes to us respecting the origin of the thought embodied in
Cambell's line_--
Like angels' visits, few and far between,"
_is referred to our First Vol. p. 102, and our Second Vol. p. 286., for two
quotations from Norris of Bemerton, which embody the same idea._
_If _MR. JOHN POWERS_, who in _NOTES AND QUERIES_ for Jan. 12th. 1850, p.
163., offered to furnish an extract from Hardiman's _Statute of Kilkenny_,
will have the kindness to so at this distance of time, and to forward it to
us, the Querist to whom he replied, and whose direction we have just
received, will be much obliged to him._
E.T., _who inquires respecting the quotation in Sterne_,--
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,"
_will find many earlier instances of this proverbial expression quoted in
our First Vol._ pp. 325. 357. 418.
REPLIES RECEIVED.--_Breeches Bible--Curse of Scotland--John Sanderson--St.
Saviour's, Canterbury--Frozen Horn--Under the Rose--Lynch Law--"Talk not of
Love"--Darby and Joan--Robertson of Struan--Wolf and
Hound--Difformis--Culture of Imagination--Lachrymatories--Synod of
Dort--Bunyan and Hobbes--Booty's Case--Lucy and Colin--Black Rood of
Scotland--Ferling--Portraits of Bishops--Time when Herodotus wrote--Fronte
Capillata--Separation of Sexes in Church--Touching for the Evil--True
Blue--St.
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