Something titled "The English liberal science..." of 1650?

[Joel S. Berson]

Yes, must be!  It's in the British Library catalog.  Unfortunately
I'm near Cambridge, Mass., not England, and Harvard doesn't list
it.  I'll try Early English Books Online next time I'm there, however.

Joel

At 10/6/2005 08:36 AM, you wrote:
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>Perhaps he meant:
>The Eighth Liberal Science... (1650)
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>Stephen Goranson
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>Quoting "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>:
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> > Eric Partridge, in "A dictionary of slang and unconventional English"
> > (1984) writes "In 1650 there appeared an anonymous pamphlet entitled
> > _The English Liberal Science: or a new-found Art and Order of
> > Drinking_. In addition to some general matter (introduction, comment,
> > anecdote), there are groups of slangy and colloquial phrases used
> > freely by tavern-frequenters of the time." He writes that he
> > reproduces the list "complete".
> >
> > I have been unable to uncover anything with this title, or with
> > subsets of its title words (Harvard, British Library, WorldCat).  Nor
> > has a Harvard reference librarian (who I assume also checked
> > ESTC).  Can anyone help?
> >
> > Joel
> >