"Dismissible" Quotes from Famous Books
... Names of Towns" in titles, referred your readers to the Supplement of Lempriere. I am much obliged to him for the hint, and have obtained the work in consequence; but it is right your readers should know that the information therein given must only be taken as suggestive, and sometimes as dismissible upon reference to the commonest gazetteer. I opened at the letter N; and found, that of three entries, the first my eye lighted upon, two were palpably wrong. The first informs us that "Naeostadium in Palatinatu" is in "France;" the third that "Nellore" is in "Ceylon." I am bound to say that ... — Notes & Queries, No. 25. Saturday, April 20, 1850 • Various |