Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
47425	How do we know so much as this?
47425	In 1911 Mark Twain''s book,"Is Shakespeare dead?"
47425	What''s the matter, woman?
39149	Did you know before there was as much figuring and measuring done in the making of the Alphabet as there is in building a house?
39149	Do you know that they did not have any paper in those days long ago, either?
39149	Do you not think that this would be a very strange thing to do unless there was a good reason for it?
39149	Do you notice, too, the difference in the thickness of the letters?
39149	Do you see the difference between these two alphabets?
39149	Do you wonder how this came about?
39149	Have you guessed what these twenty- six little tools are called?
39149	If you put these two words,_ Alpha_ and_ Beta_, together, what do you have?
39149	In the following line--[ Illustration] you see the same phrase"_ Biliteral Cipher_,"but it does not look strange to you, does it?
39149	It looked like this--[ Illustration] We can not understand this either, can we?
39149	Now do you begin to see how important these two forms are?
39149	Now what letter of the Alphabet does a group of five_ a_''s stand for?--=A=, does it not?
39149	Their writing looked like this--[ Illustration] That does not look much like writing, does it?
39149	What do you think they used?
39149	Which one do you like the best?
39149	Why do you suppose this artist went to the trouble to make these letters so much alike, and yet different?
39149	Would you like now to hear the story about it?
39149	Would you like to know what it is?
39149	Would you like to know why he did this?
39149	You can easily see that there are two different forms of the same letters, can you not?
39149	You do not know what it means, either, do you?
39149	You never knew before that the Alphabet was such a wonderful thing, did you?
13888	Shall the Great Seal come to the bar?
13888	(?)
13888	And what followed?
13888	Had James disclosed something of his dead servant, who left some strange secrets behind him, which showed his unsuspected hostility to Bacon?
13888	How is it that nothing was heard of them when the things happened?
13888	It is a question which recurs continually to readers about those times and their precocious boys, what boys were then?
13888	Or did he show signs of wanting backbone to stand amid difficulties and threatening prospects?
13888	Shall their petitions be presented by armed petitioners?
13888	Stately, leastwise nodd(?)
13888	The question naturally presents itself, in regard to a friend of Bishop Andrewes, What was Bacon as regards religion?
13888	To take secret counsel, to execute it, to run together in numbers armed with weapons-- what can be the excuse?
13888	Was he too open to new impressions, made by objections or rival views?
13888	What one scientific discovery can be traced to him, or to the observance of his peculiar rules?
13888	What one thing, it is asked, would not have been discovered in the age of Galileo and Harvey, if Bacon had never written?
13888	What was then to portend danger to Bacon when the Parliament of 1620/21 met?
13888	What, then, with all these mistakes and failures, not always creditable or pardonable, has given Bacon his preeminent place in the history of science?
13888	Whence should this be?
13888	Why should not the King employ him again?
13888	Will any simple man take this to be less than treason?''
13888	Would the new turn out for the better or the worse?
36650	*****"But wherefore do not you a mightier waie Make warre uppon this bloodie tirant Time?
36650	And fortifie your selfe in your decay With meanes more blessed, then my barren rime?
36650	But wot ye what?
36650	Could the dramas be more accurately described than in the foregoing extracts?
36650	Did Bacon mark his first work on philosophy and his last book by printing the first letter in each from the same block?
36650	Following his profession at the Bar?
36650	Granted that the contentions of the former were sound, and the object desirable, should not this work be carried out by the Universities?
36650	Hand it to Rawley with instructions for it to be printed?
36650	How can I then be older than thou art?
36650	How many readers of"Lucrece"would know of such a practice?
36650	How was this to be accomplished?
36650	IS IT PROBABLE THAT BACON LEFT MANUSCRIPTS HIDDEN AWAY?
36650	If it did exist, was not its use very rare?
36650	In 1586 how many men were there who could write such English?
36650	In the address to"The understanding Reader"Le Grys says,"What then should I say?
36650	In the treatment of this especial theme is not Shakspeare the greatest of all poets-- nay, is he not unique among them all?
36650	In view of this the line 33 is significant:--"Why is Colatine the publisher?"
36650	Indeed, how could a Bacon attain that position with respect to Greek poetry that was unattainable by the mighty imagination of a Shakspeare?
36650	Indeed, what poet could have excelled Shakspeare in this respect?
36650	Is it not strange that there is no mention of any connection of Francis Bacon with this work?
36650	Is it possible that it could have been in existence and not brought to the notice of the King?
36650	Is not the inexhaustible theme of Shakspeare''s poetry the history and course of human passion?
36650	Is there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon?
36650	Supposing Bacon had prepared either the one or the other, what could he do with it?
36650	Those of his own age, or those who were living at the time?
36650	Upon the conviction_ This must be done_ followed at once_ How_ may it be done?
36650	Was its significance of general knowledge amongst printers and readers, or was it an earmarking device used by one person, or by a Society?
36650	Was the"French Academie"Bacon''s_ temporis partus maximus_?
36650	What are the published writings referred to?
36650	What can these allusions mean but that Burghley had been rendering financial assistance to his nephew?
36650	What effect might the advancement of Francis Bacon have on Robert Cecil''s career?
36650	What had happened to the translators''work whilst it was left in his hands?
36650	What justification is there for calling him the father of the Inductive Philosophy?
36650	What might be the outcome if this rare and unaccustomed suit were granted?
36650	What was his motive in selecting this insignificant little volume of essays whereby to proclaim himself a writer?
36650	What was this enterprise?
36650	What was this suit?
36650	Where are these works to be found?
36650	Where are they to be found?
36650	Where can the fulfilment of his promise be found?
36650	Where had all the money gone?
36650	Where is Bacon''s library?
36650	Who but the writer of the Shakespeare plays could have written that specimen of musical language?
36650	Who can explain the"Latent Process"?
36650	Who does bury manuscripts?
36650	Who were the contemporaries alluded to?
36650	Who, to use a Baconian expression, could have depicted man and all his passions more_ ad vivum_?
36650	Why should I sacrifice them to a study of the common laws?
36650	Why were they published, and how was the cost provided?
36650	_ Ingenioso._--40 shillings?
36650	_ Rea._--But who is he that hath thy books repar''d, And added moe, whereby thou are more graced?
47424	Beeston,who was he?
47424	But his learning?
47424	If I go, who remains? 47424 W. H.,"a friend of Thorpe, dedicator or dedicatee?
47424	Was there ever a more wonderful phenomenon?
47424	What child is there, that, coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes?
47424	Where did he get his material?
47424	Who shall, say Heminges and Condell lied?
47424	Why two days? 47424 ( But if Shakespeare put them in tocatch the ear of the groundlings,"who took{ 309}them out again for the folio of 1623?
47424	* As to Miss Bacon''s question,"What did William Shakespeare do with Bacon''s manuscripts?"
47424	* Besides, if he had revised them for the glory of his own name, why did he not cause them to be printed?
47424	* See"Was Shakespeare ever a Soldier?"
47424	* as well as,"Did Lord Bacon write William Shakespeare''s work?"
47424	*"Could rare Ben Jonson, who is worthy of our love and respect, have lied?"
47424	** What was the miracle in the case of John Bunyan?
47424	****=``` Ten in the hundred lies here engraved;```''Tis a hundred to ten his soul is not saved;``` If any one asks,"Who lies in this tomb?"
47424	--and they point to the Chandos portrait--"is not that the head of a genius?"
47424	Actors, fellows of W. S. Did they suspect imposition?
47424	Again, Sharpham, in his"Fleire,"printed in 1607, has this piece of dialogue:"_ Kni_.--And how lives he with''am?
47424	And are et ceteras nothing?
47424	And did Hamlet''s"pretended madness"cause"much mirth"to the age, or only to{ 028}Samuel Johnson?
47424	And does the mere name of William Shakespeare make that, which is otherwise expedient, infamous?
47424	And see"Was Shakespeare a Lawyer?"
47424	And shall we require less or more proof, in proportion as the fact to be proved is nearer or more remote?
47424	And to fit it, Antigonus, the first speaker, says to the mariner:"Art thou perfect, then?
47424	And was agriculture taught at this Stratford school, and politics and the art of war?1 And was there any thing that William Shakespeare did not know?
47424	And was there a further change made also to suit Mr. Burbadge, the leading tragedian of the time?
47424	And were the modern languages also taught by this myriad- minded Jenkins?
47424	And yet are men to believe that the writer of these pages left no impress on the history of his age and no item in the chronicle of his time?
47424	And, when we wit{012}ness it, the question is: Do we enjoy it-- or does it bore us?
47424	Born versed in all knowledge?
47424	But as the world advanced and culture increased, why did not the question arise before?
47424	But did William Shakespeare ever try his hand at verse- making?
47424	But did none of William Shakespeare''s contemporaries suspect the harmless deception?
47424	But how{ 080}about Edmund Spenser?
47424	But if, diverging from the scanty records, we go to the testimony of contemporaries, what do we find there?
47424	But were these plays, so printed_ outside_, the same plays as those acted_ inside_ the theater?
47424	But where did these printers procure the"copy"from which to set up the plays they printed?
47424	But who can tell of more than he knows?
47424	But why need Dr. Harvey have resorted to vivisection to make his"discovery"?
47424	But why should these great minds have chosen to put their philosophy into enigmas and ciphers?
47424	But, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Latin aside, was English taught at Stratford school?
47424	But, if there was but one author for these two contemporary works, why not William Shakespeare as well as Francis Bacon?
47424	Can we imagine a reason why the same process should have been improbable in the days of Elizabeth and James?
47424	Could we imagine it as the record of a Milton?
47424	Could_ he_ be guilty of a lie?"
47424	Detain them, and what departs?
47424	Did Shakespeare practice a deceit upon his{ 250}noble and generous patron?
47424	Did William Shakespeare own a library?
47424	Did he forget his caste?
47424	Did the great fire of London affect his chronicle and his labors?
47424	Didst thou never hear that?
47424	Does it"draw?"
47424	Does our thrifty Shakespeare forget that he has written them?
47424	Except that Mr. Spedding, in the"Gentleman''s Magazine"for February, 1852, printed a paper"Who wrote{ 184}Shakespeare''s Henry VIII?"
47424	For example, if it is asked, Why reject the story of King James''s autograph letter, and retain the story of the trespass on Sir Thomas Lucy''s deer?
47424	For, it can not be too incessantly reiterated, the question is not,"Was Shakespeare a poet?"
47424	Had the busy manager been studying them as well?
47424	Had the busy{ 298}manager followed or preceded the philosopher''s footsteps, step by step, up through them all?
47424	Having lost"our Shakespeare"both to- day and forever, it will doubtless remain-- as it is-- the question,"Who wrote the Shakespearean dramas?"
47424	How does he dispose of them?
47424	How must it be fed?
47424	How old, then, was Hamlet when Yorick died?
47424	How otherwise are they to be accounted for?
47424	Humor?
47424	If I remain, who goes?"
47424	If he was not, to whose interest was it to steal the mask from the family who cared enough about the dead man''s memory to go to the expense of it?
47424	If this transcendent literature had come down to us without the name, would it have been sacrilege to search for its paternity?
47424	In fact, is it not William Shakespeare the editor, and not the author, to whom our veneration and gratitude is due?
47424	Is it a misprint?
47424	Is there any more evidence to be examined?
47424	Is this compatible with a genius thus culminating, on any other supposition than the death of the poet and the survival of the employer?"
47424	Left in possession of the secret of the Baconian authorship, how could such a one as Matthew let the secret die with him?
47424	Manager Shakespeare discharging the same duties as Mr. Wal- lack, Mr. Daly, or Mr. Boucicault?
47424	Mr. William Henry Smith, of London, in September, 1856, appeared with his"Was Lord Bacon the Author of Shakespeare''s Plays?
47424	Must Shakespeare have been a physician?
47424	Must Shakespeare have been at the bar?
47424	Must the man that wrote the dramas have visited Italy?
47424	Nobody asked,"Who wrote Shakespeare?"
47424	Not one of them has paused to ask the Scriptural question,"How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?"
47424	Opinion of English of plays, 218. Who wrote Shakespeare?
47424	Or, how about Chaucer?
47424	Query: How did Sir Thomas know that the young man resembled Shakespeare?).
47424	Shakespearean question, not what, but who?
47424	Take the Shakespearean pages away from English literature, and what remains?
47424	The Baconians would probably ask:"Did Bacon, after Shakespeare was dead?"
47424	The awakening ages will put you on the stand, and you will not leave it until you answer the question, what did you do with them?"
47424	The problem she proposed to herself was not,"Did Bacon and others write the plays?"
47424	The time for the question,"Who wrote them?"
47424	This is his own business, and who has any thing to say?
47424	Thy rheum, Cob?
47424	Various translations of, 279. Who was he?
47424	Was all this money made by writing plays for the Globe, or by working on Bacon''s Novum Organum, or by other literary labor?
47424	Was he a Roman Catholic?
47424	Was he a lawyer?
47424	Was he admitted to noble companionship?
47424	Was his family name"Shakespeare,"and was he christened"William"?
47424	Was it added to suit Burbadge?
47424	Was it found that the bard had, of all his worldly goods, left the wife of his bosom no recognition save the devise of a ramshackle old bedstead?
47424	Was there any- thing he did not know?
47424	Were medicine and{ 215}surgery taught there?
47424	Were the question before us,"Was the author of these works a poet, statesman, philosopher, lawyer?"
47424	Were the theory and practice of the common law taught there?
47424	Were these the ones?
47424	Were they not of as much value, to say the least, as a damaged bedstead?
47424	Were they not, as a matter of fact, not only invaluable, but the actual source of his wealth?
47424	Were{ 258}they ever performed at his theater?
47424	What are the general indications of death from violence?
47424	What becomes of his plays?
47424	What can remain with the audience to carry home with them?
47424	What did he do with them?
47424	What else could it have been that"the players"( according to Ben Jonson) saw?
47424	What indeed, but"the true original copies"of these plays which were in William Shakespeare''s handwriting?
47424	What is that humor?
47424	What papers?
47424	What says my Æsculapius?
47424	What sort of testimony is this as to a fact?
47424	What was to be the employment of Ariel during two days?
47424	What was to hinder William Shakespeare from reading, appreciating, and purchasing these dramas, and thereafter''keeping his poet,''like Mrs. Packwood?
47424	When we are about to visit a theater in these days, what we ask and concern ourselves with is: Is the play entertaining?
47424	Where did he find his leisure?
47424	Where did he get his material?
47424	Where did they come from?
47424	Where is the scholar who glories not in his scholarship?
47424	Which is right?
47424	Which of these two portraits is nearest to the life?
47424	Who are these who find this book, and make this man to fit it?
47424	Who is it-- his reason and judgment once enlisted-- who believes this thing?
47424	Who wrote these plays?
47424	Who wrote those, and why?
47424	Why not ask the question,"Did William Shakespeare write Lord Bacon''s works?"
47424	Why- should he call attention to the fact, publish it to the rabble, or record it on his stage whenever he found opportunity?
47424	Will we recommend our friends to come that they may be entertained, too, and that we may discuss it with them?
47424	William Shakespeare may have remembered this when he wrote:=````"Wherefore stand you on nice points?"
47424	[ Illustration: 9135] UT what is the summing up on the other side?
47424	_ First Clown._--Can not tell that?
47424	_ Hamlet._--How long is that since?
47424	``` Had not his worship one deer left?
47424	``` These are as some infamous bawd or whore``` Should praise a matron; what could hurt her more?
47424	```` What then?
47424	`````--_ Timon, I, 1._=```"Come we to full points here?
47424	are we to have miracles in sport?
47424	as very much-- from the necessities of his vocation-- the same sort of man as either of them?
47424	but"Why did Bacon and others write the plays under the name of William Shakespeare?"
47424	but,"Had he access to the material from which the plays are composed?"
47424	how did they get into print?
47424	my Galen?"
47424	or will we warn them to keep away?
47424	or( I speak reverently) does God choose idiots by whom to convey divine truths to man?''"
47424	was he a doctor?
47424	who, if anybody, delivered the"copy"to the printer, and vouched for its authorship?
47424	{ 300}Or, is this the meaning of the incantation on the tomb-- that cursed shall he be that seeks to penetrate the secret of the plays?