antedating of capitalism, Google's help with

[Joel S. Berson]

Since there are 12 books listed in the Harvard
Library catalog whose titles begin "Acts Passed
by the General Assembly of Georgia" (and continue
by identifying some session and year), which from
other research I happened to be aware of already,
I think I'll skip that Google hit!  And all of
them are less than 90-odd pages, so I don't think I'd find page 197.

Also, the presence of the word "state" in the
snippet (twice) is suspicious for 1781 -- and the
view of the title page shows "Acts of the General
Assembly *of the State* of Georgia" (and not
"Passed by").  This is probably the multi-volume
collection (so which volume did Google mean?)
that reproduces acts starting in 1735 (two years
after the first settlers landed), which probably
explains Google's notion of the date.  So which
session/year was the law about the "iron
business" passed in?  If Jesse wants to assign
someone to go to the Harvard Law School library,
perhaps it will turn out to be before 1781 ...

For "Abbregé des derniers mouvemens d'Angleterre,
avec un raisonnement succinct ... - Page 353 by
George Bate - 1651", unfortunately the British
Library on-line catalog does not give the number
of pages (just the size), so I can't tell if it
really has a page 353.  And for an unknown-to-me
reason, this book doesn't show up in the ESTC
(which does give number of pages).

Intriguingly, by searching for "Abbregé des
derniers mouvemens d'Angleterre" I can get
another instance of "capitalist", page
115:  "This strange people had been admitted to
England by the Conqueror; the only capitalists of
the time, their ability and willingness to lend
money rendered them ..."  But the scanned images
do not look like pages from 1651 -- not rude
types, and  no long s.  Finally, when I ask
Google Books what library I can find this book
in, I get the message "No results match your
search for 'Abbregé des derniers mouvemens
d'Angleterre, avec un raisonnement succinct des
droits tant du roy, que du parlement [an abridged
tr. G. Bate's Elenchus motuum nuperorum Anglia]. george bate'."

Finally, FirstSearch/Worldcat tells me there is an
Abbregé des derniers mouvemens d'Angleterre. Avec
un raisonnement succinct des droits tant du Roy, que du Parlement.
Language: French  Type:  Book
Publisher: Anvers, Belgium : Jacques Moens, 1651.
(Yes, Univ. of Oxford has a copy.)

So Google has helpfully given us the date of the
*French* "Abbregé", and the text of some later *English* translation?!

I think I'll also skip the books still in Latin.

Joel

At 11/4/2007 08:10 AM, James A. Landau wrote:
>Google Book Search has 97 hits on "capitalist",
>"capitalists", and "capitalism" with claimed
>dates before 1781. Many of these dates are
>spurious, of course, but some glutton for punishment might tackle
>the following:
>
>Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia - Page 197
>by Georgia - 1735
>... capitalists to embark their capital in the
>iron business. Provided that no
>iron shall at any time be carried over the State
>Road so low that the State ...
>
>Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton
>... 1750 ... by "Jupiter Amman, and Capitalism ix 508 To that ...
>
>Several Matters, Relating to the Improvement of the Trade in this Kingdom ...
>by Hugh Chamberlen - Agricultural credit - 1700
>Reproduction of original from Goldsmiths' Library, University of London.
>
>Abbregé des derniers mouvemens d'Angleterre,
>avec un raisonnement succinct ... - Page 353
>by George Bate - 1651
>... and the guild, originally a corporation of
>working men, changed gradually into
>an exclusive body of capitalists. Moreover, even within their own limits, ...
>
>Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphosewn libri XV. - Page 84
>by Ovid, Johannes Minellius - 1686 - 621 pages
>vigili Capitalist-pace ...
>
>M. Tvllii Ciceronis orationes ex recensione
>Ioannis Georgii Graevii cum ... - Page 493
>by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1699
>Capitalist ad alia Co- ...
>
>Marci Tullii Ciceronis opera quae supersunt omnia, cum
>Asconio & scholiaste ... - Page 1089
>by Marcus Tullius Cicero,- 1724
>1724 ... capitalism, ...
>
>Opera Omnia - Page 433
>by L.A. Seneca - 1741
>pena? minor beneficio? iniqua eft. par & capitalist quid ...
>
>
>
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