1. 00:53 27th Jan 2011

    notes: 27

    tags: anonymousHypnerotomachia1499

    Then I being left alone to the high cogitations of loue, hauing passed ouer a long and tedious night without sleepe, through my barren fortune, and aduerse constellation, altogether vncomforted and sorrowfull, by means of my vntimely and not prosperous loue, weeping, I recounted from point to point, what a thing vnequall loue is: and how fitly one may loue that dooth not loue: and what defence there may bee made against the vnaccustomed, yet dayly assaults of loue: for a naked soule altogether vnarmed, the seditious strife, especially being intestine: a fresh still setting vpon with vnstable and new thoughts.

    - Anonymous, Hypnerotomachia (Poliphilo’s Strife of Love in a Dream) (1499) [full text]

    Wikipedia: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

     

  2. 20:46 26th Jan 2011

    notes: 13

    tags: anonymousJames Weldon Johnston1912raceThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Manautobiography

    I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

    - Anonymous, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) [full text]

    Wikipedia: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

     

  3. 11:10 9th Dec 2010

    notes: 13

    tags: Anonymousfood1726

    The Invention of Eggs was merely accidental, two or three of which having casually roll’d from off a Shelf into a Pudding which a good Wife was making, she found herself under a Necessity either of throwing away her Pudding, or letting the Eggs remain, but concluding from the innocent Quality of the Eggs, that they would do no Hurt, if they did no Good. She wisely jumbl’d ’em all together, after having carefully pick’d out the Shells; the Consequence is easily imagined, the Pudding became a Pudding of Puddings; and the Use of Eggs from thence took its Date.

    - Anonymous, A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [full text]

     

  4. 17:50 13th Sep 2010

    notes: 6

    tags: AnonymousWaterloo1902autobiography

    One man came to me with his left hand bandaged up. He inquired if I was badly hurt. “Well,” says he, “you’re in luck to be alive now. I took deliberate aim at you as you stood with your back towards me while loading your rifle. My —— shotgun burst and blowed off three of my fingers, and that is what saved you.” In his eagerness to kill a Yankee, he had put too heavy a charge in his gun, and it had burst just where he gripped the barrels with his left hand. - Stanley Waterloo (ed.), The Story of a Strange Career: Being the Autobiography of a Convict (1902) [full text]

    One man came to me with his left hand bandaged up. He inquired if I was badly hurt.

    “Well,” says he, “you’re in luck to be alive now. I took deliberate aim at you as you stood with your back towards me while loading your rifle. My —— shotgun burst and blowed off three of my fingers, and that is what saved you.”

    In his eagerness to kill a Yankee, he had put too heavy a charge in his gun, and it had burst just where he gripped the barrels with his left hand.

    - Stanley Waterloo (ed.), The Story of a Strange Career: Being the Autobiography of a Convict (1902) [full text]

     

  5. 15:53 9th Sep 2010

    notes: 8

    tags: WaterlooAutobiographyAnonymous1902

    Only the Algerian and Moorish women seemed to be without gaiety. They were all dressed alike, a light gauzy dress and a long veil of the same material covering the head and face, leaving only the eyes uncovered. The rich wore shoes; the poor went barefooted. The young had smooth skins on their wrists; the old were wrinkled. That was the only way we could tell the difference between them. As to their beauty, we had no means of judging.

    - Anonymous, Stanley Waterloo (ed.), The Story of a Strange Career: Being the Autobiography of a Convict (1902) [full text]

     

  6. 12:33 17th Jul 2010

    notes: 22

    tags: anonymousillustrated1881science

    But the hardships and responsibilities by no means end with the building of the Light-house; the keeper who has it in charge holds a most important position, for upon the skill of his hands in the management of the delicate costly lenses and machinery, the clearness of his head, and the courage of his heart, as well as his honesty and fidelity, depends, even more than upon the captain of a vessel, the safety of many precious lives and millions of property; so it is of the first importance that he be intelligent, efficient and trustworthy. - Anon, ‘Something about Light-Houses’ in Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls (1881) [full text]

    But the hardships and responsibilities by no means end with the building of the Light-house; the keeper who has it in charge holds a most important position, for upon the skill of his hands in the management of the delicate costly lenses and machinery, the clearness of his head, and the courage of his heart, as well as his honesty and fidelity, depends, even more than upon the captain of a vessel, the safety of many precious lives and millions of property; so it is of the first importance that he be intelligent, efficient and trustworthy.

    - Anon, ‘Something about Light-Houses’ in Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls (1881) [full text]

     

  7. 15:24 9th Apr 2010

    notes: 11

    tags: anonymousadvice1896

    TO CURE LAZINESS: Give the patient an occasional dose of ferri. The sulphate of ferri is the best. It acts on the liver and vital organs, and is a sure cure for laziness.

    - Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]

     

  8. 16:32 8th Apr 2010

    notes: 9

    tags: anonymousadviceself-help1896

    To Remove Black Specks or Flesh-worms.—Squeeze them by pressing the skin, and then wash with warm water and rub well with a towel. Then apply the following lotion: Liquor of potassa, one ounce; cologne, two ounces.

    - Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]

     

  9. 11:39 7th Apr 2010

    notes: 9

    tags: anonymous1896adviceself-help

    The ladies of Eastern nations commonly heighten the hue and freshness of their lips by means of cosmetics, a practice which in Western Europe is only adopted on the stage, and occasionally by courtesans and ladies of the demimonde.

    - Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]

     

  10. 17:29 3rd Apr 2010

    notes: 19

    tags: 1896adviceanonymouswhisky to intoxication

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    Poisons and their Antidotes -- Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]

    Poisons and their Antidotes

    -- Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]

     

  11. 21:49 2nd Apr 2010

    notes: 12

    tags: anonymousadvice1896

    Men who marry too young, unless they are of cold and phlegmatic constitution, and thus moderate in their conduct, become partially bald, dim of sight, and lose all elasticity of limb in a few years.

    - Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]

     

  12. 12:29

    notes: 38

    tags: anonymous1896advice

    DAYS OF THE WEEK: THEIR IMPORTANCE AT THE NATAL HOUR

    A child born on Sunday shall be of long life and obtain riches.

    A child born on Monday will be weak and effeminate.

    Tuesday is more unfortunate still, though a child born on this day may, by extraordinary vigilance, conquer the inordinate desires to which he will be subject; still, in his violent attempts to gratify them, he will be in danger of a violent death.

    The child born on Wednesday will be given to a studious life, and shall reap great profit therefrom.

    A child born on Thursday shall attain great honor and dignity.

    He who calls Friday his natal day shall be of a strong constitution, and perhaps addicted to the pleasures of love.

    Saturday is another ill-omened day; most children born on this day will be of heavy, dull, and dogged disposition.

    - Anonymous, The Ladies’ Book of Useful Information (1896) [full text]