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knocker, knacker. Cornish mine-spirits, thought to be the ghosts of the Jews who worked the mines in the 11th and 12th centuries; sometimes confused with the
bucca. For the most part the gnomelike knocker is thought harmless; out of sight of humans, it cannot endure the sign of the Cross. A counterpart of the Welsh
coblynau. Folk motifs: F456; F456.I.I; F456.I.I.I; F456.I.2.I.I; F456.I.2.2.I; M242.
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The Prison Diary: 16 May-22 November 1794, of John Horne Tooke.
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...as in all performances, stand out as lead actors and one such person in the late eighteenth century was John Horne Tooke. John Horne was born in 1736 into a wealthy middle-class family, later adopting the name Tooke after a patron, William...
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Gentleman Radical: A Life of John Horne Tooke 1736-1812.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...over in works like Alexander Stephens' Memoirs of John Home Tooke (1813), J.A. Graham's work of the same name...published in New York in 1828, and I.M. Yarborough's John Horne Tooke (1926). In many respects Stephens' Memoirs, with...
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John Horne Tooke and the Grammar of Political Experience.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...as different as can be imagined, John Horne Tooke brings together in his Diversions...than any of his own contemporaries, Tooke--a political refugee from the...thread that has not been addressed in Tooke, namely his attempt, in the course...
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Susan Manly. Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke" (1). In Locke's philosophy...linguistic theories on the work of John Horne Tooke, a prominent radical linguist of...1790s (11). Manly's reading of John Horne Tooke calls attention to a previously...
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Language, custom, and nation in the 1790s; Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 434 words
; ...and nation in the 1790s; Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth. Manly...17th-century British philosopher John Locke. She traces the influence...s ideas and terminology through John Horne Tooke to William Wordsworth, and seeks...
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Review: House & Home: A piece of the old country Crooked Billet cottages were built for rural labourers too poor to rent. Now, says Ross Clark, only the rich need apply
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/28/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...home in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to John Horne-Tooke, one of the "Wimbledon Circle" of political radicals...mausoleum in the garden, with an inscription reading: "John Horne-Tooke. Late Proprietor and now Occupier of this spot...
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Michael West, Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...European influences such as John Locke, Etienne Condillac...Antoine Court De Gebelin, and Horne Tooke, with special emphasis...Hugh Blair), or nouns (Horne Tooke), or verbs (Samuel...philological adversary, John Sherman, who emphasized...
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Imagining the King's Death.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Fantasies of Regicide 1793 -- 1796 John Barrell Oxford University Press...about when the Crown charged Hardy, Horne Tooke and Thelwall under this Act with having...the Crown persisted in prosecuting Tooke and Thelwall, the tension generated...
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A courtly love-nest ; The 17th century house where James II met his mistresses is the setting for a sale. Katrina Burroughs is intrigued
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...of the most eccentric political radicals of his age, John Horne Tooke (resident 1782-1812), who lived there with his two illegitimate daughters and cows that grazed the lawns. Tooke campaigned on an assortment of issues, including the...
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Constructive treason and Godwin's treasonous constructions. (William Godwin)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...deconstruct his own political philosophy. In 1794, John Horne Tooke, Thomas Hardy and other members of the London Corresponding...arbitrary accusations and executions (156). The actions of Tooke and Hardy, et al. did not specifically fall within...
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John Horne Tooke
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Horne Tooke 1736-1812, English radical politician and philologist. Born John Horne, he adopted the name Tooke in 1782 after being designated heir to the estate of a rich...
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Horne Tooke, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Horne Tooke, John (1736–1812). A man of many parts (clergyman, philologist, and wit), Tooke carried the radicalism of the 1760s into the early 19th cent. His legal...
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Tooke, John Horne
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Tooke, John Horne (1736–1812) British radical politician and philologist. In 1769 Tooke founded the Society of Supporters of the...RIGHTS , which was largely designed to pay John WILKES's debts and get him into Parliament...
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Joel Barlow
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...friends, because he was associated now with Thomas Paine, Horne Tooke, and Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1792 he published Advice...Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow (1958). See also John Dos Passos, The Ground We Stand On (1941), and Leon...
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Perceval, Spencer
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...Perceval was the seventh son of John, earl of Egmont. At Trinity College...trials of the radicals Tom Paine and Horne Tooke but he declined Pitt's offer of...and deranged Russia merchant named John Bellingham, who mistook him for Castlereagh...
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