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39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Action better than speach."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Action to some is rest."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beasts are Physitians, Logitians, Musitians, Artists, Students, Politikes, Docible, Capable of Military Order, of Affections, of Justice, of... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "under the title of _Histrio-Mastix_ (1633), which is absolutely unreadable by reason of the vast mass of authorities gathered from every century and every nation, to prove the wickedness of play-acting. Carlyle refers to the _Histrio-Mastix_ as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Women actors notorious whores ... and dare then any Christian women be so more than whorishly impudent as to act, to speake publikely on a stage perchance in man's apparell and cut haire here proved sinfull and abominable in the presence of sundry men and women?... O let such pr... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you would add an _index rerum_, that when the reader recollects any incident, he may easily find it, which at present he cannot do, unless he knows in which volume it is told; for Clarissa is not a performance to be read with eagerness, and laid aside for ever; but will b... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I intend to make an index to it. Two years later he is grateful that the work of indexing another book is to be done for him; writing to Millar (December 18th, 1759), he says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think that an Index will be very proper, and am glad that ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After many years of constant use of the catalogue, this is the only mistake, beyond a literal, that I ever found."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will thus often happen that the controversialist states his case first in the title-page; he then gives it at greater l... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Word upon Indexes, in his _Indicator_. He writes:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Index-making has been held to be the driest as well as lowest species of writing. We shall not dispute the humbleness of it; but since we have had to make an index ourselves,[6] we hav... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentry of England generally speaking in debt."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great men not truly known till some years after their deaths."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Women, the English excel all other nations in beauty. ---- Signs of their improveme... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A CIRCUMSTANCE in the situation of the mansion of early Discipline, discovering the surprising influence of the connexion of ideas."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "SOME peculiarities indicative of a country school, with a short sketch of the sovereign presiding over i... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Asses, their arrogance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Autumn, what cries then in use."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bully, his insolence to be corrected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Chairs and chariots prejudicial to health."
},
{
... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Adam, eldest son of, respected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Babel, probably the first congress."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cæsar, a tribute ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dr. Bentley's true story of the MS. prov'd false by the testimonies of ---- Mr. Bennet, p. 6. ---- Mr. Gibson, p. 7. ---- Dr. King, p. 8. ---- Dr. Bentley, p. 19."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dr. Bentley's civil usage of Mr. Boyle. His civil language to ---- Mr. Bo... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bentley seems to me an eminent instance of the extent to which intellectual powers of a most rare and admirable kind may be impaired by moral defects."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_Dissertation_, as Porson calls it, which not only defeated his enemies, but routed t... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In laying the design of the book, in writing above half of it, in reviewing [revising] a great part of the rest, in transcribing the whole and attending the press, half a year of my life went away. What I promised myself from hence was that some service would be done to your rep... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bulls and blunders which Sloane and his friends so naturally pour forth cannot be misrepresented, so careful I am in producing them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Tatler's Opinion of a Virtuoso."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some Account of Si... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A second edition appeared in the following year:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This was really the third edition, but probably the reprinters overlooked the edition of 1693. It was reprinted with the original licence of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "R... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This was a very malicious proceeding; my words and meaning plainly perverted in several places; which if they had been improper, and any observations trifling or impertinent, an allowance was due for my being very young, when they were made. But the performances of others, not e... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chatham, where and how situated, viz. on the other side of Rochester bridge, though commonly reported to be on this side, p. 1."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lodged at Rochester, an episcopal seat in the same county [Kent]. The cathedral church is plain and decent, ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the Jew That Shakespeare drew."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A gallery, where among the pictures of Christian Princes are those of King Charles the Second and his Queen, King James the Second and his Queen and the Prince and Princess of Orange."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the laundress's at the Hole in the Wall in Cursitor's Alley up three pair of stairs, the author of my Church history--you may also speak to the gentleman who lies by him in the flock bed, my index maker."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Afternoon Outing of the Skelmersdale Lodge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "An Oration delivered, etc."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Annual Outing of the Queen Victoria Lodge."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Another Masonic MS."
},
{
... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ditto employs spies."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All references must be made from an inspection, and if necessary the perusal of each article. Hence, no use will be made of the index which is usually printed with the volume, or of any other index. Those indexes were _made by unskilful persons_, and are full of all sorts of err... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Academy in Africa, A Monkey's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Africa, A Monkey's Academy in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Monkey's Academy in Africa, A."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aspects, The Renaissance in its Broader."
},
{
... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "According to the Code"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Disappearance of Plants"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eighteenth Century London through French Eye-glasses"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Gilbert White"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "before"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In such cases it will be necessary to make a heading such as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Navy,"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but this is misspelt"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Inde"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "India ... conquered by Judas Maccabeus and his brethren, 56"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If every subject shall have cross references to its allies, the work will be mainly a book of cross references rather than an index of subjects. He then adds:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One correspondent gives fifty-eight cross references under Mental Philosophy,... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was all, and this was pretty encouragement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The bung of a thrub chandler --was left unexplained. In the index under Bung there was a reference to Thrub chandler, and under Thrub chandler another back to Bung. Still the lexicographe... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Printing in the _Encyclopædia Britannica_. When the time for publication arrived (1885), Bradshaw was not ready, and in place of the article appeared the cross reference,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "PRINTING, TYPOGRAPHIC--See _Typography_. Bradshaw died on Februar... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wellington, _see_ Duke."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White Knights,"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wherefore the Kynge may say, as Julius Cæsar sayde, he that is not agaynst me is with me."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gower, edition of, ---- Baptist Leveson, ---- Countess of, ---- Dowager Lady, ---- Duke of, ---- Earl of, ---- John, Earl, ---- Lady, ---- Lady Elizabeth, ---- Lady Mary Leveson, ---- Lord, ---- Richard Leveson."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bellenden, Miss, Mistres... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Carlyle denounces the publishers of books unprovided with this necessary appendage; and Baynes, the author of the _Archæological Epistle to Dean Mills_ (usually attributed to Mason), concocted a terrible curse against such evil-doers. The reporter was the learned Francis Douce, ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have only further to express my satisfaction in thinking that a heavy weight is now to be removed from my conscience. So essential did I consider an index to be to every book, that I proposed to bring a Bill into Parliament to deprive an author who publishes a book without an ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Norton was appointed Remembrancer of the city of London in 1570, and directions were given to him that 'he shall gather together and reduce the same [the Bookes] into Indices, Tables or Kalendars, whereby they may be more easily, readily and orderly founde.' --_Analytical... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The labour and patience, the judgment and penetration which are required to make a good index is only known to those who have gone through this most painful, but least praised part of a publication. But laborious as it is, I think it is indispensably necessary to manifest the tr... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The compilation of an index is one of those useful labours for which the public, commonly better pleased with entertainment than with real service, are rarely so forward to express their gratitude as we think they ought to be. It has been considered a task fit only for the plodd... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arithmetick in 1674, which was published by his son in 1696: [Greek: Logistikêlogia]; _or, Arithmetick Surveighed and Reviewed_. Professor De Morgan specially refers to this book in his _Arithmetical Books_, saying:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those who know the v... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Winchelsea, when drowned 74."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Among the records of this town of Rye is a Memorandum entered that the year old Winchelsea was drowned (1287) corn was 2_s._ the quarter."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Rushworths, Whitelocks, Nalsons, Thurloes; enormous folios, these and many other have been printed and some of them again printed but never yet edited,--edited as you edit wagon-loads of broken bricks, and dry mortar simply by tumbling up the wagon! Not one of those monstrou... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To add to the list, my dear Madam, you will soon see a work of mine in print. Do not be frightened; it is only the Index to the thirteenth volume of the _Christian Observer_, which I have had the honour of composing. Index-making, though the lowest, is not the most useless round... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The compilation of Indexes will always and naturally so, be regarded as a humble art; 'index-makers in ragged coats of frieze' are classed by Lord Macaulay as the very lowest of the frequenters of the coffee houses of the Dryden and Swift era. Yet ''tis my vocation, Hal,' and in... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very unwilling to seem captious about such a work as an Index. By all means let Mr. ---- go on. But offer him with all delicacy and courtesy, from me this suggestion. I would advise him to have very few heads, except proper names. A few there must be, such as Convocation, N... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The single heading MACAULAY of course takes up a large space of the Index, and will be found, together with a few other headings, to contain everything directly touching him. The list of his published writings refers of course only to writings mentioned by his Biographer, and la... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To Mr. Edward Moore £6400 as a final compensation for thirteen years labour; Rev. Mr. Forster £3000 for nine years' labour; Rev. Dr. Roger Flaxman £3000 for nine years' labour; and £500 to Mr. Cunningham."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let no man imagine that the construction of an index to the Statute Law is a mere piece of mechanical drudgery, unworthy of the energy and ability of an accomplished lawyer. Next to codification, the most difficult task that can be accomplished is to prepare a detailed plan for ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Improvement of the Law by Private Enterprise,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have long believed that the law might by proper means be relieved of this extreme obscurity and intricacy, and might be displayed in its true light as a subject of study of the deepest pos... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In some instances it would have been impossible to convey a notion of the train of reasoning followed by the author, without using his own words, and in these no attempt has been made to do more than indicate the place where the subject is discussed. In other cases where it has ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saint--Saints _continued_ story of, p. 388:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "p. 389:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "p. 390:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "p. 391:"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord, High Chancellor, 7.6; 's Prayer vital to a nation, 7.22; Mayor and Corporation, &c of Hosts."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dicta Philosophi: A Concordance of Johnson's Sayings."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In my Index, which has cost me many months' heavy work, 'while I bore burdens with dull patience and beat the track of the alphabet with sluggish resolution,' I have, I hope, shown t... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Table of Contents to the Life of Johnson,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is Mr. Boswell's own Index, the paging being altered to suit the present edition; and the reader will see that it bears signs of having been prepared by Mr. Boswell himself. In the second e... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Index to the first ten volumes of Book Prices Current (1887-1896), constituting a reference list of subjects and incidentally a key to Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature, London, 1901."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lower House."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lower House see Commons, House of."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Window tax v. 102."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Window tax, imposed 1695 v. 102."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wit... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As a matter of fact, people without the first necessary qualifications, or any aptitude whatever for the work are set to compile indexes, and the work is regarded as nothing more than purely mechanical copying that any hack may do. So long as indexing and cataloguing are treated... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of all your talents you are a most amazing man at Indexes. What a flag too, do you hang out at the stern! You must certainly persuade people that the book overflows with matter, which (to speak the truth) is but thinly spread. But I know all this is fair in trade, and you have a... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Concordance, that is to saie, a worke wherein by the ordre of the letters of the ABC ye maie redely finde any worde conteigned in the whole Bible, so often as it is there expressed or mencioned ... anno 1550."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This Index contains the names of all persons mentioned in the appendix and foot-notes, but a selection only is given of those who were admitted into the Guild or enrolled in the Obituary."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on electricity from"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Scholar, and closed on November 19th by the same writer, who summed up the whole controversy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Scholar"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Scholar"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Last Autumn ... I read with respectful astonishment a letter to 'The Times' from a writer who preferred to veil his identity under the modest signature of 'a Scholar.' There I read that 'the studious public of this country and Europe in general have been surprised by the news th... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have formed, so far as I know, but one dogmatic conviction, and it is this: that the best catalogue which the art of man can invent is a catalogue in two inter-dependent yet independent parts; the first and greater part an alphabetical catalogue of authors, the second and less... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In order to guard against blunders Bayle proposed that certain directions should be drawn up for the guidance of the compilers of indexes."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The fatal defect of every classified arrangement is that nobody understands it except the person who made it and he is often in doubt."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The German _ae_, _oe_, _ue_ always to be written _ä_, _ö_, _ü_, and arranged as _a_, _o_, _u_."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mill on Liberty ---- on the Floss."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Patti, Adelina, ---- oyster."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cotton, Sir Willoughby, ----, price of."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Old age ---- Artillery Yard ---- Bailey."
... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "White Street White's Row White Heart Whitechapel."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Abbott Road Abbott Street Abbott's Road."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Square King Street King and Queen Street King David Street King Edward Road King William Street... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Da Silva_ _De_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_De La Place_ _Von_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "_Von Humboldt_ _Van_"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No man was ever so clear [as Macaulay] from the vice of thrusting in foreign words into an English sentence. One sees this in such small matters as the accurate way in which he uses foreign titles. He speaks, for instance, of the 'Duke of Maine,' the 'Count of Avaux,' while in o... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "STANHOPE Philip Dormer, 4th _Earl of Chesterfield_.... This is the British Museum rule and Mr. Jewett's. Mr. Perkins prefers entry under titles for British noblemen also, in which I should agree with him if the opposite practice were not so well established. The reasons for entr... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An 'Evitandum' in Index-making, principally met with in French and German Periodical Scientific Literature"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are referred to the 'Morals and Manners' index for such varied subjects as Apparitions, Divorce, Marriage, Duelling, Freemasonry, Mormonism, Mythology, Spiritualism and Witchcraft. There are 1,365 names in this index, and how are you to discover which belong to any of the ab... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smith (John), his character; his execution,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Smith (John), character of; execution of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brown (Robert) saves money,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brown (Robert), saving of money by.... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentleman's Magazine,"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rules for a Small Library"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christian --that is, baptismal or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--name; and their second their father's personal name, and not his family or, as we say,"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ") are the descendants of the Prophet Mahomet, through his son-in-law Allee; those descended through Fatima being distinguished as Sayed Hussanee and Sayed Hooseinee, and those from his other wives as Sayed Allee. The first name given t... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "), Beg ("
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dewan Sahib"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rajashri"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "B."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Z."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A. B. Z."
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And thus by God's assistance we have finished our Table. Miraculous almost was the execution done by David on the Amalekites who saved neither man nor woman alive to bring tidings to Gath. I cannot promise such exactness in our Index, that no name hath escaped our enquiry: some ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A complete knowledge of the whole _law_ is required before he begins to make the index, for until he can look down on the entire field of law before him, he cannot possibly judge of the proper arrangement of the headings or of the relative importance of the various provisions."
... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In my own practice I have got into a way of letting the slips fall on the table at an angle of forty-five degrees. Then, if the accumulation of titles should cause the heaps to slide, they will run into one another distinct, so that they can be separated instantly without sortin... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is to be printed from at once, and will soon become useless, it is a great comfort to have material that is convenient to handle while it is required. Some thought may also be given to the compositor, whose life will be made a burden to him if you send him"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stickphast"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I long ago discovered the cause of imperfections in my own work. It was the 'cutting into slips' and 'laying down' processes. The fact is you cannot be sure of preserving the cuttings or slips, if very numerous; they are almost certain to get mixed or lost, or elude you somehow.... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the Best Method of Constructing an Index. He wrote that, having had occasion to construct an index of the lives assured in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eagle Company, he had drawn up a few observations upon the subject."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With regard to the second part of this subject--_i.e._ the proportions of the several parts of the index--I may observe that the most useful mode of division appears to me to be that which is adopted by many offices--namely, to classify the surname under its first letter, and to... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Baillet, the learned author of the _Jugemens des Savans_, was appointed by M. de Lamoignon keeper of the exquisite library collected by that nobleman, he set to work to compile an index of the contents of all the books contained in it, and this he is said to have completed ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Society for the Formation of a General Literary Index. In the 2nd Series, vol. i., p. 486, the late Mr. Thomas Jones, who signed himself"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bibliothecar. Chetham., commenced a series of articles, which he continued for several years, as a ... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The time will perhaps come when our views upon this subject will be extended, and either Government or some public society will undertake the systematic cataloguing and indexing of masses of historical and scientific information, which are now almost closed against inquiry"
},... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Could not a permanent Index Society be founded with the support of voluntary contributions of money as well as of subject matter? In this way a regular staff could be set to work, under competent direction, and could be kept steadily at work until its performances became so gene... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Altogether I had six offers to take one copy each. This rebuff caused Mr. Welch to say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it not rather that people are not energetic to buy such indexes than that publishers are not energetic enough to issue them?"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With a view to this I should like to see lists made of all Biographical matters in such books as the Gentleman's Magazine, European Magazine, Monthly Magazine, Anti-Jacobin Magazine, etc. Also such books as the Annual Necrology, Public Characters, Living Authors, etc., and third... |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Times,"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Preliminary List of Indexes"
}
] |
39672 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Times _ was started by J. Giddings in 1862-63, but not continued. Later, Mr. S. Palmer commenced a _Quarterly Index_, which has been continued forward to the present time, and also backward. In 1899 Bailey's _Annual Index to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Times"
... |
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