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Enquire within upon everything

av Robert Kemp Philp

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"Whether you wish to model a flower in wax; to study the rules of etiquette; to cure a headache; to make a will; I hope you will not fail to 'Enquire Within'." First published in 1956, Enquire Within Upon Everything was created as the ultimate household reference guide and remains a real gem of cultural history. Including thousands of fascinating entries, such as how to dance the polka, bake partridge pudding or even declare bankruptcy, this book provides rich insight into the day-to-day life of people living in Victorian Britain. This encyclopaedic guide inspired Tim Burners Lee to invent the internet, influenced by the book's huge array of knowledge contained in one place. It also records some games and customs that would have otherwise been lost to history, such as the English version of trucco, a croquet-like lawn game.… (mer)
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Sententious indexing
The Index of the 78th, revised edition of Enquire within upon everything (Houlston and Sons, 1888)—27-page, triple-column, is full of such useful entries as
Beds for the Poor, How to Make
Dirty People to be Avoided
Falling into Water, How to Act
An unusual feature is the use of this index to promote moral precepts. Each of the book's 388 text pages has one, in small capitals, as its headline, and the index is no exception to this stern rule. So one is admonished as one searches; usually in rather glum fashion. The precept above the page of As is most appropriate to its place:

an index is a key to a treasury.
Splendid! (But any index . . .?) Then, above B, we move to
HONESTY IS A STRONG STAFF TO LEAN UPON.
Good thought, if not particularly apposite to information retrieval. And so through such good advice as
study not TO BEAUTIFY THY FACE. BUT THY MIND; BUSYBODIES NEVER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO; THE LANE OF BY-AND-BY leads to the house of never.
Some use is made of facing pages; D-E casts double gloom with
for age and WANT SAVE WHILE YOU MAY Opposite THERE ARE NONE poor but such as god disowns.
A comma at the end of the headline above P,
keep on good terms with your wife,
is the only indication that this thought is continued above Q-R,
your stomach, and your conscience.
Above Z, page 415, the editor sinks thankfully back with
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. ( )
  KayCliff | Oct 8, 2012 |
I honestly thought this book was not a real book, but a fictional device: I have seen it referenced in several novels. But it really exists, and seriously, you can enquire within upon everything. Want to know how to revive a drunk? It's in there. How to address the Queen? It's in there. Set a table, play whist, keep your husband, clean lace? IT's ALL THERE.

Of course, a word to the wise: probably putting a drowned person in a warm bath isn't going to help them much. And giving brandy to the guy with the concussion isn't awfully helpful, either. But the authors have EXCELLENT advice on the art of conversation, and how to go about consigning your incorrigible son to Borstal.
1 rösta 2chances | Jul 29, 2011 |
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perfectly delightful reading
tillagd av KayCliff | ändraThe Indexer, Hazel K. Bell (Apr 1, 1974)
 
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Choice of Articles of Food. - Nothing is more important in the affairs of housekeeping than the choice of wholesome food.
IF there be any among my Readers who, having turned over the pages of “Enquire Within” have hastily pronounced them to be confused and ill-arranged, let them at once refer to THE INDEX, at page 389, and for ever hold their peace.
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Daughters, Management of 2187 Debt, Don't run in 2615 Dirty People to be Avoided 1726 Windows, What a Sign of... .474(«) Diving for Eggs to test Buoyancy of Water.... 1398 Dutch People, Cleanliness of.... 1729 Eat Slowly Esquire to be written in full Fair Person, Sky Blue Becoming to Falling into Water, How to Act Family Circle, the Clocks, Oil for Pudding Floating in Water, Test of Capability of Girls, Management of Habits of a Man of Badness Kind Words, Power of Matches, Keep from Children's Reach Person on Fire Plate, Uncleaned, Don't put by Poor, Beds for the Quadrupeds, to Stuff Quotations, Greek and Latin, to be Avoided Rabbits, Care of to Choose Cold, to Dress to Hash Royal Game of Goose Scandal, Live it Down Scottish Brogue, Hints for Correction of Semicolon, Nature and Value of Singing, Utility of Superiority, Intellectual, Rudeness in Boasting of Suppers, My Wife's Taste of Medicine, to Prevent Temper, Female, Management of 2184 Keep Your Uncteanliness of Person, Deprecated Vulgarity, Avoidance of W, Use of, for V, Enigma on Water, Adulteration of as Beverage, Excellence of on the Brain, Remedy for Effect of, on Meat, if Left in, when Cooked Ecrustation of Certain Vessels by Erect Position in Hard, to Prepare for Washing Hard to Soften Hot, Efficacy of in Holland and England Soft, to Prepare Window-Curtains on Fire, How to Act Work by Daylight Preferable in Winter How to accomplish Wow-Wow Sauce Yorkshire, Dialect, Errors
Although the art of knitting is known perhaps more generally than almost any other kind of fancy work, still as the knowledge is not universal, and there have been of late years great improvements in many of the processes, we hope that a short account of all the stitches, and the elementary parts of the craft, will be welcomed by many of our friends; and most seriously would we recommend them to attain PERFECTION in this branch of work, because, above all others, it is a resource to those who, from weak eyes, are precluded from many kinds of industrial amusement, or who, as invalids, cannot bear the fatigue of more elaborate work. The fact is that knitting does not require eyesight at all; and a very little practice ought to enable anyone to knit whilst reading, talking, or studying, quite as well as if the fingers were unemployed. It only requires that the fingers should be properly used, and that one should not be made to do the duty of another.
[from the index] Ink, Dr. Ure’s
for Garden Labels
Marking, without Preparation
Powder
Preparation of
Red Writing
Ink-stains, to Remove from Boards
from Books
from Mahogany
from Silver
from Table Covers.
Paper: - Cement; for Children; Fire Screens;, Hangings, to Choose to Clean; Patterns, Black; Printed, Unfit for Wrapping; to Remove Writing Ink from; to Stain; Wrapping; Paper-Mâché Articles, to Clean; Parchment, to Stain
351. Paper Fire Screens should be sized and coated with transparent varnish, otherwise they will soon become soiled and discoloured.
326. Printed Papers are unfit for wrapping anything, as the printing ink rubs off on the articles enclosed in them, and also soils the gloves of the person that carries the parcel.
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"Whether you wish to model a flower in wax; to study the rules of etiquette; to cure a headache; to make a will; I hope you will not fail to 'Enquire Within'." First published in 1956, Enquire Within Upon Everything was created as the ultimate household reference guide and remains a real gem of cultural history. Including thousands of fascinating entries, such as how to dance the polka, bake partridge pudding or even declare bankruptcy, this book provides rich insight into the day-to-day life of people living in Victorian Britain. This encyclopaedic guide inspired Tim Burners Lee to invent the internet, influenced by the book's huge array of knowledge contained in one place. It also records some games and customs that would have otherwise been lost to history, such as the English version of trucco, a croquet-like lawn game.

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