Until the end of the 19th century, papermaking involved searches for rags to make paper. This fact must have been on the mind of this anonymous 18th-century English poet who penned the following verse:
RAGS make paper PAPER makes money MONEY makes banks BANKS make loans LOANS make beggars BEGGARS make RAGS
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The circle of life Iain
http://www.witleypress.co.uk/book_paperprinting.html
Paper Facts.....
Until the end of the 19th century, papermaking involved searches for rags to make paper. This fact must have been on the mind of this anonymous 18th-century English poet who penned the following verse:
RAGS make paper
PAPER makes money
MONEY makes banks
BANKS make loans
LOANS make beggars
BEGGARS make RAGS
My dad was fond of reciting this paraphrased nursery rhyme:
"Scintillate, scintillate, orb vivific,
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific,
Loftily poised in the ether capacious,
Closely resembling a gem carbonaceous."
Maybe it was a work/hire/lease car ... not supposed to smoke in those nowadays.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi Dove, yes, that's quite a possibility, I think.
There's quite a story behind your father's rhyme, Josusa!
The whole story begins with a nursery rhyme, entitled, THE STAR, which was parodied by Lewis Carrol in Alice in Wonderland:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/first-publication-of-twinkle-twinkle-little-star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle,_Twinkle,_Little_Bat
Your father's version was yet another parody of the original:
https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/teaser.php?op=2&id=198&comm=0
and it was written by John Carson:
http://www.carsonfamilyhistory.com/books/JohnRaymondCarson1936/ScintillateScintillate.html
I admit, I had never heard of the latter or his ...scintillating rhyme before!
I've seen it before, I think in an old Readers Digest or some such. I'm sure it had a second verse though, along the lines of
"When torrid Phoebus refuses his presence
And ceases to light us with fierce incandescence
Then you illiumine the regions supernal
Scintillate scintillate semper nocturnal"
And as I recall there was another version published with it:
"Twinkle twinkle little star
I don't wonder what you are
You're the cooling down of gases
Forming into solid masses"
but I don't know who that should be attributed to
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I've never come across either but the first seems like irony or sycophantic flattery, whilst the second must surely have something to do with science?
Toby Young resigns from the Office for Students after backlash
YES!
Shouldn't have been appointed in the first place.