NYT Blogs: Headline from Pogue's Posts

[Jonathan Lighter]

There's a "Often imitated - never equaled" in the _Brooklyn Daily
Eagle_ (June 4, 1884), p. 1.

It's an ad for umbrellas, so I assume the phrase was merely a
commercial cliche'.

Earlier in the _Milwaukee Daily Sentinel_ (Dec. 13, 1880), p. 7. The
product: Seeley's Hard Rubber Trusses.

And earlier still, for shirts, in the Baltimore _Sun_ (May 9, 1874), p. 1.

JL

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I see the same bit in 1804 and 1820:
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> http://goo.gl/x7yud
> Sporting anecdotes: original and selected. By Pierce Egan. London: 18-4
> The Late Duke of Cumberland. p. 264
> http://goo.gl/rqX0V
> Sporting anecdotes: original and selected. By Pierce Egan. London: 1820
> The Late Duke of Cumberland. p. 477
>
> Some similar nonsense in 1704 (hard to be imitated, never to be
> parallel'd by others-- http://goo.gl/MirhU ), but the title page is
> recreated by an eager librarian (typewritten). No doubt about the title
> page of the 1735 edition that appears to be identical:
> http://goo.gl/rW7YR (5th edition)
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>     VS-)
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> On 10/9/2011 7:26 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>> ...
>> http://goo.gl/bIqQp
>> The Sportsman. New Series. Vol. I, No. II. London: August 1836
>> p. 95/2
>>> This the hand of Providence (as the first ohject of his heart) spared
>>> him long enough to see complete; but just in the moment of
>>> exultation, when loaded with the grateful caresses of an idolizing
>>> multitude, and when absolutely arranging the business of a Spring and
>>> Autumn meeting at Ascot, to vie in some degree with the sport of
>>> Newmarket, and when the whole county resounded with unprecedented
>>> plaudits, the allwise and dispensing power, to whose dictates we must
>>> piously submit, dropped the curtain of death upon such a life, such
>>> an accumulation of goodwill and charitable practice to all mankind,
>>> that it is but little imitated, never can be excelled! In the happy
>>> retrospection of which one admonition naturally presents itself for
>>> the rumination of every contemplatist of human excellence--
>>>     "Go thou and do likwise."
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