great eastern

  1. KorbenDallas

    1854-59 ship: SS Great Eastern a.k.a. Leviathan

    FYI: the rise of publishing by the eighteenth century led to the use of newspapers and cheap editions of popular books for cleansing. Lord Chesterfield, in a letter to his son in 1747, told of a man who purchased a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages...
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