on the Indisputable Fact
that some Old Pomological Works Have
Absurdly Long Titles
as if the Author Were Not Content to Let the Work Speak for Itself, but Were in Stead Compelled to Described the Nature and Contents of the Treatise in Great Detail
and if the Reader Thinks this Title is one of Those, then
FEAST YOUR EYES ON THIS
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The
complete book, by William Coxe, is online.
Well, sometimes when you get started typing it's just hard to stop ....
ReplyDeleteI love it. I used to share correspondence from the first few issues of The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (1665 or so) with my students and I loved the way people used to splice together sentences in such as way as to make whole paragraphs of complex single sentences.
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