#the-ness

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sources (the the the; the only the; theness); and notes (further down)

1 ex OCR confusions at George Jean Nathan, “Pantaloons: A-Posture,” in The Smart Set : A Magazine of Cleverness (The magazine without a dull page; the magazine that’s read in the Pullman) 50:4 (December 1916) : 131-137 (134) 2 three misreads, all at The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions 21, respectively (August 2, 1890) : 94, (September 27, 1890) : 251, and (November 29, 1890) : 491 3 preview snippet only, at De Witt’s Choice School Speaker : Containing an unusually great variety of fine pieces: some gay, some severe; some dignified, some conversational; giving excellent opportunities for all kinds of speakers, either at school receptions or in home meetings (1882) : 97 snippet above, but evidently from list of “De Witt’s School Dialogues,” listed at hathitrust 4 somewhere (opposite gutter, p218?) at The Lancet : A Journal of British and Foreign Medical and Chemical Science, Criticism, Literature and News. (London, February 24, 1849) : 219 5 OCR defeated by music staves, at Thomas Hayes Bayly, set to music by Edward J. Loder, “The Rose that all are praising,” in Helen Kendrick Johnson (1844-1917, wikipedia), Frederic Dean, Reginald DeKoven and Gerrit Smith, “editors and special contributors,” The World's Best Music : Famous Songs and Those who Made Them, Vol. II (New York, The University Society, 1904) : 376 and ditto for “My Ain Fireside” by Elizabeth Hamilton (289); “God Save the King” by Henry Carey (291); “My heart’s in the highlands” (405); and “Jessie, the Flower o’ Dumblane” by Robert Tannahill, set to music by Robert Archibald Smith (436) 6 OCR confusion at poor scan, The Traffic World 27:21 (May 21, 1921) : 1079 (snippet view, but same page (different scan) at hathitrust) 7 snippet result only, OCR scan gone wild at “Library of the University of California” endpaper, yielding several hits but here, William Page (1861-1934), ed., The Victoria History of Shropshire, vol. 1 (of 11?) (1908); opens at hathitrust 8 confused results for Georg Friedrich Handel, The Messiah : An Oratorio for 4-part Chorus of Mixed Voices, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bass Soli and Piano, edited by Thomas Tertius Noble, revised by Max Spicker, (G Schirmer, 1912) : 106 9 snippet result, for The Peoples of Austria-Hungary. I. Hungary. Atlas. (Naval Intelligence Department, 1919) —

Hard to locate any specific source in volume containing many ethnic/geographical maps and “rates of change” diagrams. Scan at hathitrust opens to first of two-page table of contents. 10 OCR confusion at “Private Bills, reported, read and passed,” in Journals of the House of Commons of Canada (Ottawa, Friday, 2nd June 1922) : 294 (snippet only —

— but opens at hathitrust) 11 ex Whitley Stokes (1830-1909, wikipedia), D.C.L., “On the Bodleian Fragment of Cormac’s Glossary” (read December 4, 1891), in Transactions of the Philological Society (1894) : 149-206 (173), where this — Ness then is the name for the blow and for the wound, as is (said) in the Senchas Mór : From grains every measurement, from the Féni every law, from treasures every appraisment, From the fines for a man’s body, though many be his wounds, the ness was graduated. 12 OCR cross-column misread, at “Female Literature of the Present Age,” in The Ladies’ Garland 1:1 (April 15, 1837) : 12 the rendered misread, in full — freshness and and friend can repose with delight ; for neatmost delicate charm— The Sapphos and theness and order are the inmates of her habita Aspasias of antiquity , cast aside the fetters tion . of custom and the bonds of virtue .  

notes (subject to revision or deletion)

One a recent hiaticular day, without direction or aim — no forward motion — wondered about disappearing into the... the what?

Stopped at the — “the most commonly used word in the English language... seven percent of all printed English-language words” says wikipedia says Peter Norvig (using (how cautiously?) google Ngram) — and went no further. Let the take the lead, on a walk so to speak, untethered from its normal-only “definite article” purpose/functions. Sounded it out, the capaciousness of its shaping...