Bizarre; Notes and Queries; a Monthly Magazine of History, Folk-lore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Etc, Volumes 3-4S. C. & L. M. Gould, 1886 |
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... query over . Many words become petrified , and after a period of years are unearthed and again brought in to common par- lance , sometimes with a modified signification . A writer of some four - score years ago thus propounds his ...
... query over . Many words become petrified , and after a period of years are unearthed and again brought in to common par- lance , sometimes with a modified signification . A writer of some four - score years ago thus propounds his ...
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... note , 126 . First line of Thomas Paine's Crisis , 127 . First song , 135 . Fobi's Cova , or Lineation , 14 . Four greatest American , German , and French thinkers , 213 . Four second causes of Plato , 216 . Fourth of March on Sunday ...
... note , 126 . First line of Thomas Paine's Crisis , 127 . First song , 135 . Fobi's Cova , or Lineation , 14 . Four greatest American , German , and French thinkers , 213 . Four second causes of Plato , 216 . Fourth of March on Sunday ...
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... Notes on eccentric divines , 195 . Observations on digital squares , 155 , 156 . " O Galilean , Thou hast conquered , " 127 . Old Coquina Fort , 47 . Oldest bank - note , 126 . Oneteen , twoteen , thirteen , 89 . Legend of Golden Fleece ...
... Notes on eccentric divines , 195 . Observations on digital squares , 155 , 156 . " O Galilean , Thou hast conquered , " 127 . Old Coquina Fort , 47 . Oldest bank - note , 126 . Oneteen , twoteen , thirteen , 89 . Legend of Golden Fleece ...
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... 3d , 4th . Page 172 - a , c , d . Page 187 - f , g . Page 188 - b , c , f , f . • Questions answered , Questions unanswered , Number questions published , . 106 45 151 THE BIZARRE . NOTES AND QUERIES IN HISTORY , FOLK.
... 3d , 4th . Page 172 - a , c , d . Page 187 - f , g . Page 188 - b , c , f , f . • Questions answered , Questions unanswered , Number questions published , . 106 45 151 THE BIZARRE . NOTES AND QUERIES IN HISTORY , FOLK.
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THE BIZARRE . NOTES AND QUERIES IN HISTORY , FOLK - LORE , MATHEMATICS , MYSTICISM , ART , SCIENCE , Etc. The inhabitants of earth have many tongues , those of heaven but one . " -Henry Carey . VOL . III . JANUARY , 1886 . NO . 1 . ONE ...
THE BIZARRE . NOTES AND QUERIES IN HISTORY , FOLK - LORE , MATHEMATICS , MYSTICISM , ART , SCIENCE , Etc. The inhabitants of earth have many tongues , those of heaven but one . " -Henry Carey . VOL . III . JANUARY , 1886 . NO . 1 . ONE ...
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Page 221 - Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason, but from what we know? Of Man, what see we, but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 110 - THE glories of our birth and state Are shadows, not substantial things ; There is no armour against fate : Death lays his icy hands on kings ; Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 347 - And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness ; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
Page 184 - Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile!
Page 15 - ... thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Page 265 - Temperance, for example, was by some confined to eating and drinking, while by others it was extended to mean the moderating every other pleasure, appetite, inclination, or passion, bodily or mental, even to our avarice and ambition. I proposed to myself, for the sake of clearness, to use rather more names, with fewer ideas annexed to each, than a few names with more ideas...
Page 266 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 133 - He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on.
Page 338 - is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ?" The Master said, " Is not RECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Page 108 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it...