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- Title
Readers' Queries.
- Authors
Smith, Charles Daniel; Hogan, John C.; Schwartz, Mortimer D.; Wilson, Douglas Emory; Myer, Valerie Grosvenor; Easson, Angus; Longmeade, Kathryn; Jones, Kenneth R.; Sillars, Stuart; Zagarell, Sandra A.; Buell, Lawrence; Shillman, Irv
- Abstract
The article presents several queries related to English literature sent by the readers of the journal. In the Preface to his book "Rules and Maximes of the Common Lawes of England," Lord Bacon says he collected 300 Maximes, but that he would publish only some few, that is twenty-five of them. One reader wishes to know about any hints or suggestions anybody might have about the location of these other 275 Maximes. Similarly, another reader wants to know about the original source for the idiom made famous by Karl Marx, propounder of Communism, that capitalism contained within itself "the seeds of its own destruction."
- Subjects
ENGLISH literature; BOOKS; MAXIMS; MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; PROVERBS; CAPITALISM; IDIOMS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1984, Vol 31, Issue 2, p250
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/31-2-251f