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Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Postſeek, and ye ſhall findIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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Originally posted by oliver sudden View PostIt isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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.... from AuntDaisy's #6222 above - " the effective introduction of the reform in England was credited to the printer and publisher John Bell who in his British Theatre of 1791 used the short s throughout. /.../ Though it would be amusing to do so, there seems to be no reason to accept the legend that Bell initiated the change in his edition of Shakespeare because of his dismay at the appearance of the long s in Ariel's song in The Tempest: "Where the bee sucks, there suck I."
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I have this ∫ (option+b) on the ordinary keyboard, which seems to be a variant (italic), without the half cross bar.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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