 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 Seiten
...(.'umdea. Try the taking of fumes by pipes, as in tobacco and other things, to dry and comfort. liaeon. That office of her majesty's exchequer, we, by a metaphor,...small pipes or quills, as water into a cistern. Bacon. The exercise of singing openeth the breast and pipes. Peacham. The part of the pipe, which was lowermost,... | |
 | John Bellenden Ker - 1837 - 334 Seiten
...of her Majesty's Exchequer, we, by a metaphor, call the pipe, because the whole receipt is finallV conveyed into it by the means of divers small pipes...way of giving a kiss or buss ; but whether the Latin basium is the same word, and whether basiare and the Italian baeiare belong here, may be a question.... | |
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... I suspect, so called from the tubular-shape into which they are rolled. Though Lord Bacon explains the ground of the name given to that office in another way, and as follows : — That office of her Majesty's Exchequer, we, by a metaphor, call the... 