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" Among the many signs, which are appropriated to some particular business, and yet have not the least connection with it, I cannot, as yet, find any relation between Blue Balls and Pawnbrokers; nor could I conceive the intent of that long pole jutting... "
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 5

1785 - 772 pages
...Among the many SIGNS, which are appropriated to fomc particular bufinefs, and yet have not the leaft connection with it, I cannot, as yet, find any relation...of that long POLE jutting out at the entrance of a baiber's (hop, till a friend of mine, a learned etymologiftand gloffariographer, aflured me, 'that...
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The British Essayists: The Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 430 pages
...in many of our signs evident marks of the religion prevalent among us before the Reformation. Saint George, as the tutelary saint of this nation, may...jutting out at the entrance of a Barber's shop, till a N° p. ADVENTURER. 59 friend of mine, a learned etymologist and glossariographer assured me, that the...
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The British Essayists;: Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...the tutelary saint of this nation, may escape the censure of superstition : but St. Dunstan with hi» tongs ready to take hold of Satan's nose, and the...shop, till a friend of mine, a learned etymologist and glossanographer assured me, that the use of this Pole took its rise from the corruption of an old English...
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The British Essayists;: Adventurer

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 328 pages
...appropriated to some particular business, and yet have not the least connection with it, I caonot, as yet, find any relation between Blue Balls and Pawnbrokers: nor could I A discerning eye may also discover in many of our signs evident marks of the religion prevalent among...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 19-20

British essayists - 1823 - 686 pages
...many signs, which are appropriated to some particular business, and yet have not the least connexion with it, I cannot, as yet, find any relation between...of an old English word. ' It is probable,' says he, ' that our primitive tonsors used to stick up a wooden block, or head, or poll, as it was then called,...
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The British Essayists: Adventurer

English essays - 1823 - 324 pages
...many signs which are appropriated to some particular business, and yet have not the least connexion with it, I cannot, as yet, find any relation between...of an old English word. ' It is probable,' says he, ' that our primitive tonsors used to stick up a wooden block, or head, or poll, as it was then called,...
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The Adventurer, Volume 1

English essays - 1823 - 304 pages
...many signs which are appropriated to some particular business, and yet have not the least connexion with it, I cannot, as yet, find any relation between blue balls and pawnbrokers : nor could J conceive the intent of that long pole jutting out at the entrance of a barber's shop, till a friend...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, Volume 19

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1856 - 338 pages
...in many of our signs evident marks of the religion prevalent among us before the Reformation. Saint George, as the tutelary saint of this nation, may...of an old English word. ' It is probable,' says he, ' that our primitive tonsors used to stick up a wooden block, or head, or poll, as it was then called,...
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The History of Signboards: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Jacob Larwood, John Camden Hotten - Inn signs - 1866 - 616 pages
...many signs which are appropriated to some particular business, and yet have not the least connexion with it, I cannot as yet find any relation between...Nor could I conceive the intent of that long pole putting out at the entrance of a barber's shop, till a friend of mine, a learned etymologist and glossariographer,...
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