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Page 25 - THE -ZINCALI ; or, AN ACCOUNT OF THE GYPSIES OF SPAIN, with an original Collection of their Songs and Poetry, and a copious Dictionary of their Language, by GEORGE BORROW, late Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Spain, in two volumes.
Page 34 - Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the end of the Reign of George II.
Page 76 - Dissertation on the Gipseys: representing their manner of life, family economy, occupations and trades, marriages and education, sickness, death and burial, religion, language, sciences and arts, &c., &c., &c. With an historical enquiry concerning their origin and first appearance in Europe. London : Effingham Wilson; Printed by William Ballintine, 1807. 4 pl, xiii, 208 pp., I 1. 8".
Page 7 - To which is added, a Collection of Songs in the Canting Dialect, with a Dictionary explaining all the Burlesque and Canting Terms used by the several Tribes of Gipsies, Beggars, and other Clans of Cheats and Villains.
Page 42 - I must come to the conclusion that the gipsies, when above four centuries ago they first appeared in Western Europe, were already composed of a mixture of many different races, and that the present gipsies are still more mongrel. In the Asiatic portion of their lineage, there is probably a small infusion of Hindu blood; but this, I think, is the utmost that can be predicated of their Indian pedigree.
Page 108 - Leitner, relating to the Dialect of the Magadds and other wandering Tribes ; the Argots of Thieves ; the Secret Trade-Dialects and Systems of Native Cryptography in Kabul, Kashmir, and the Punjab ; followed by an Account of Shawl Weaving, &c. , &c. J'lates. 4* Lahore, 1882 The same. Appendix to "Changars...
Page 32 - Carew, the noted Devonshire Stroller and Dog-Stealer ; as related by Himself, during his Passage to the Plantations in America, Containing a great Variety of remarkable Transactions in a vagrant Course of Life, which he followed for the Space of Thirty Years and upwards.
Page 143 - Microcosm ; or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain...