Google Books strikes again

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Oct 4 23:55:34 UTC 2011


Can't hurt. May help.

http://www.covenanter.org/IMather/arrowagainstmixtdancing.htm

"Nothing beats a try but a failure."

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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> I searched Google Books/Any Books (that is, not selecting "Preview
> available") for the two words "gynecandrical dancing". Â It told me,
> as I suspected, that they are in Increase Mather's "Arrow Against
> Profane and Promiscuous Dancing". Â When I click on that result for
> "More editions", I'm given "Championship no-limit and pot-limit
> hold'em: on the road to the ...", T. J. Cloutier, Tom McEvoy - 1997-
> 211 pages - No preview. Â Well, at least that's another sin that the
> Mathers deplored.
>
> Joel
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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