Comments on: “Levelling up” in 1873 http://piratelibrary.com/2009/levelling-up-in-1873 Text and audio from the public domain Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:45:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Mark http://piratelibrary.com/2009/levelling-up-in-1873/comment-page-1#comment-77750 Mark Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:52:48 +0000 http://piratelibrary.com/?p=100#comment-77750 Hi Cori, I hand't realized that such a search might be done through the whole of Project Gutenberg's texts. Very interesting. And very useful. I'll poke around there a bit and learn more about it. I've only just now discovered that their books (many anyway) can be downloaded in formats ready-made for things like the Kindle. Hi Cori,

I hand’t realized that such a search might be done through the whole of Project Gutenberg’s texts. Very interesting. And very useful. I’ll poke around there a bit and learn more about it. I’ve only just now discovered that their books (many anyway) can be downloaded in formats ready-made for things like the Kindle.

]]> By: Cori http://piratelibrary.com/2009/levelling-up-in-1873/comment-page-1#comment-76675 Cori Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:22:55 +0000 http://piratelibrary.com/?p=100#comment-76675 Interesting, thanks, Mark! How funny that it takes 130 years to produce four published examples ... can't imagine that kind of pace nowadays. (And I know we might find others with a time-limited text search through Project Gutenberg, but still.) Interesting, thanks, Mark! How funny that it takes 130 years to produce four published examples … can’t imagine that kind of pace nowadays. (And I know we might find others with a time-limited text search through Project Gutenberg, but still.)

]]> By: Mark http://piratelibrary.com/2009/levelling-up-in-1873/comment-page-1#comment-75835 Mark Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:03:37 +0000 http://piratelibrary.com/?p=100#comment-75835 Hi Cori, I went to the OED & found this. "Level up" dates at least to S. Johnson in 1763, it would seem: OED. level. vb. 3.b. to level up, down: to bring up, down to the level of something (expressed or implied). Also absol., and intr. for refl. 1763 JOHNSON in Boswell 21 July, Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. 1809 SIR J. ANSTRUTHER Sp. Ho. Commons 11 May in Cobbett Pol. Reg. 20 May 754 Another party..whose object was to level down all public men to their own very humble state. 1873 HAMERTON Intell. Life III. viii. (1876) 111 To which he may level up. 1897 MORLEY Speech 16 Jan., To level up the beer and spirit duties. Hi Cori,

I went to the OED & found this. “Level up” dates at least to S. Johnson in 1763, it would seem:

OED. level. vb. 3.b. to level up, down: to bring up, down to the level of something (expressed or implied). Also absol., and intr. for refl.

1763 JOHNSON in Boswell 21 July, Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. 1809 SIR J. ANSTRUTHER Sp. Ho. Commons 11 May in Cobbett Pol. Reg. 20 May 754 Another party..whose object was to level down all public men to their own very humble state. 1873 HAMERTON Intell. Life III. viii. (1876) 111 To which he may level up. 1897 MORLEY Speech 16 Jan., To level up the beer and spirit duties.

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