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OLD MAID , a See also:game of See also:cards. Any number may See also:play, and the full See also:pack is used, the See also:Queen of See also:Hearts being removed. The cards are dealt out one by one until exhausted, and each player then sorts his See also:hand and discards the pairs. The dealer then offers his hand, spread out See also:face downwards to the next player, who draws a card, which, if it completes a pair, is discarded, but otherwise remains in the hand. The See also:process continues from player to player, until all the cards have been paired and discarded excepting the See also:odd queen, the holder of which is the " Old Maid."
OLDMI%ON, See also:JOHN (1673—1742), See also:English historian, was a son of John Oldmixon of Oldmixon, near See also:Bridgwater. His first writings were poems and dramas, among them being Amores Britannici; Epistles See also:historical and gallant (1703); and a tragedy, The See also:Governor of See also:Cyprus. His earliest historical See also:work was The See also:British See also:Empire in See also:America (1708 and again 1741), which was followed by The See also:Secret See also:History of See also:Europe (1712—1715); by Arcana Gallica, or the Secret History of See also:France for the last See also:Century(1714); and by other smaller writings. More important, how-ever, although of a very See also:partisan See also:character, are Oldmixon's See also:works on English history. His See also:Critical history of See also:England (1724—1726) contains attacks on See also:Clarendon and a See also:defence of See also:Bishop See also:Burnet, and its publication led to a controversy' between Dr Zachary See also:Grey (1688—1766) and the author, who replied to Grey in his Clarendon and Whitlock compared (1727). On the same lines he wrote his History of England during the Reigns of the Royal See also:House of See also:Stuart (1730). Herein he charged Bishop See also:Atterbury and other of Clarendon's editors with tampering with the See also:text of the History. From his See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile Atterbury replied to this See also:charge in a Vindication, and although Oldmixon continued the controversy it is practically certain that he was in the wrong. He completed a continuous history of England by See also:writing the History of England during the Reigns of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William and See also:Mary, See also:Anne and See also:George I. (1735) and the History of England during the Reigns of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII., See also:Edward VI., Mary and See also:Elizabeth (1739). Among his other writings are, See also:Memoirs of See also:North See also:Britain (1715), See also:Essay on See also:Criticism (1728) and Memoirs of the See also:Press 1710—1740 (1742), which was only published after his See also:death. Oldmixon had much to do with editing two See also:periodicals, The See also:Muses See also:Mercury and The Medley, and he often complained that his services were overlooked by the See also:government. He died on the 9th of See also:July 1742.
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