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	The Predictions of Isaac Bickerstaff
		Bickerstaff was the death "by a raging fever" of the famous astrologer John Partridge.
		Bickerstaff said that he had gone to see Partridge as he lay dying in his bed, and that with his last words the ailing astrologer had admitted to being a fraud.
		Bickerstaff coolly responded by arguing that Partridge was obviously dead, since no living man could have written the rubbish that had appeared in his last almanac.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /bickerstaff.html (514 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: People and Peoples (In-Iz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ISAAC H. Isaac H Williamson was an American politician.
		Isaac N Arnold was an American politician and writer.
		Isaac Williams was a Welsh poet and theologian.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /C61A.HTM (1628 words)

	Isaac Bickerstaffe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bickerstaffe also wrote bowdlerized versions of plays by William Wycherley and Pedro Calderon de la Barca.
		In 1772 Bickerstaffe fled to France, suspected of a homosexual offense.
		Long after Bickerstaffe's disappearance, his colleague Charles Dibdin was frequently accused of plagarizing his songs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Bickerstaffe (219 words)

	isaac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Isaac Watts - Watts, Isaac : July 17, 1674 - November 25, 1748 Recognised as the 'Father of English Hymnody', as he was the first both prolific and popular Englis...
		Isaac Barré - Isaac Barré (1726—1802), British soldier and politician, was born at Dublin in 1726, the son of a French refugee.
		Isaac Hull - Isaac Hull, Commodore, USN (1773-1843) Then Captain Hull was famous for commanding the USS Constitution in her...
	www.serebella.com /search/topic-isaac.html (412 words)

	Angelic &Satanic Mills Part One
		Bickerstaff's powers of prophecy were not taken seriously at this time by anyone, except by the Catholic Church in Portugal, which placed his writings on the list of banned books, probably not as a joke.
		Bickerstaffe did not stay to be tried and fled to the continent, a course which Oscar Wilde bravely and foolishly declined to take a hundred and twenty-three years later.
		Isaac Bickerstaffe is one of the less well-remembered Irishmen who have conquered the London stage.
	www.btinternet.com /~j.b.w/mill.htm (7497 words)

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		Bickerstaff, I am to acquaint you that I am to be yours for some time to come; it being our orders to vary our stations, and sometimes to have one patient under our protection, and sometimes another, with a power of assuming what shape we please, to ensnare our wards into their own good.
		Isaac, this to you looks wonderful, but not at all to us higher beings: that nobleman has as many good qualities as any man of his order, and seems to have no faults but what, as I may say, are excrescences from virtues.
		Bickerstaff, you remember you followed me one night from the play-house; suppose you should carry me thither to-morrow night, and lead me into the front box." This put us into a long field of discourse about the beauties, who were mothers to the present, and shined in the boxes twenty years ago.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext01/iscbk10.txt (15873 words)

	§7. The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff. II. Steele and Addison. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Soon, coffee-houses began to make their influence felt, and, as he gradually marked out as his province the intimate world of conduct and courtesy, he tended more and more to invest his figurehead with a new personality.
		The literature of coffee-houses must be as light and informal as their discussions; 22 so, he puts his moral counsels into the mouth of Bickerstaff, in order to preserve a conversational style and an air of persuasive authority quite acceptable to men who looked up to a self-constituted oracle in all their debates.
		23 As his readers were interested in eccentricity, Bickerstaff becomes an aged recluse living a lonely and mysterious life, surrounded, as Swift and suggested, by the old-fashioned paraphernalia of astrology and attended by his familiar Pacolet, 24 like the now discredited magicians of the previous century.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/219/0207.html (797 words)

	The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers - 1708 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bickerstaff's predictions, publish'd about a month ago, that he should die on the 29th instant about eleven at night of a raging fever.
		Bickerstaff's second prediction, that the Cardinal de Noailles is to die upon the fourth of April, and if that should be verified as exactly as this of poor Partridge, I must own I should be wholly surprized, and at a loss, and should infallibly expect the accomplishment of all the rest.
		Bickerstaff, nor do I say, that a certain star-gazing 'squire has been playing my executor before his time; but I leave the world to judge, and if he puts things and things fairly together, it won't be much wide of the mark.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/socl/socialconcerns/thebickerstaff-partridgepapers/chap1.html (4146 words)

	Serebella: Index - Isaac Barrow to Isaac Mao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Isaac Barrow Isaac Bashevis Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac ben Luria Isaac ben Solomon Luria Isaac Bickerstaff Isaac Blank Isaac Bonewits Isaac Bonewits laws of magic Isaac Bonewits Laws of Magic Isaac Brock Isaac Brock (musician) Isaac Butt Isaac C. Kidd Isaac C. Kidd, Jr.
		Isaac Casaubon Isaac Chauncey Isaac Comnenos Isaac Comnenus Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus Isaac D'Israeli Isaac Deutscher Isaac de Benserade Isaac de Caus Isaac Disraeli Isaac Dukas Comnenus Isaac Emmanuelovich Babel Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel Isaac Fischer Isaac Fischer, Jr.
		Isaac Hanson Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayward Isaac Hull Isaac Hutner Isaac I Isaac II Isaac II Angelus Isaac Ingalls Stevens Isaac Isaacs Isaac Israel Hayes Isaac I Comnenus Isaac I Comneus Isaac Jogues Isaac Kauffman Funk Isaac Kaufmann Funk Isaac Kidd Isaac Klein Isaac Luria Isaac Mao
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/level2.php?start1=210000&start2=1250 (137 words)

	Aikin's Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bickerstaff's chief scenes of action, as Addison said, were the coffee-houses and theatres, rather than camps and battlefields.
		Bickerstaff is mentioned, and I am told he has done so much good that the sharpers cannot increase their stocks as they did formerly; for one Young came into the Chocolate House, and said he would stop Mr.
		Bickerstaff ventured to tell the town that they were a parcel of fops, fools, and vain coquettes; but in such a manner as even pleased them, and made them more than half inclined to believe that he spoke truth.
	www.english.vt.edu /~drad/Courses/ENGL3034/AddisonSteele/AikenIntro.html (6808 words)

	April Fool
		In February 1708 a previously unknown London astrologer named Isaac Bickerstaff published an almanac in which he predicted the death by fever of the famous rival astrologer John Partridge.
		Partridge indignantly denied the prediction, but on March 30 Bickerstaff released a pamphlet announcing that he had been correct: Partridge was dead.
		Bickerstaff, it turned out, was a pseudonym for the great satirist Jonathan Swift.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/aprilfool/comments/868 (512 words)

	Edited with Introduction & Notes by George A. Aitken - THE TATLER - George A Aitken at HistoricalBookArchive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq." Isaac Bickerstaff professed to be a true astrologer, disgusted at the lies told by impostors, and he said that he was willing to be hooted at as a cheat if his prophecies were not exactly fulfilled.
		Bickerstaff was mistaken almost four hours in his calculation....
		In starting his new paper Steele assumed the name of the astrologer Isaac Bickerstaff, rendered famous by Swift, and made frequent use of Swift's leading idea.
	www.historicalbookarchive.com /293-1.html (703 words)

	Introduction to 'The Partridge-Bickerstaff Papers' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		SWIFT was in London from the autumn of 1707 down to June, 1709, a period enlivened by l'affaire Bickerstaff.
		Predictions for the Year 1708, purporting to be by one Isaac Bickerstaff, also an astrologer, appeared before the end of January, 1708.
		Isaac Bickerstaff is one of Swift's happiest inventions, and it is not difficult to understand why Steele in his Tatler, launched in April, 1709, chose to prolong the career of this odd character
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/swift/bckrstff/cover.htm (226 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Ephesian Matron - an opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With music by Charles Dibdin and words by Isaac Bickerstaff, it is exceedingly silly, poking fun at the conventions of contemporary opera.
		Following Bickerstaff's disgrace, Dibdin's next few works found little acceptance, as audiences assumed the texts were by his shamed colleague.
		Isaac Bickerstaff had been a military man before his theatrical career, making good use of this background in his first libretto, Thomas and Sally (1760).
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A3797094 (1398 words)

	The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers - 1709 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Last year was publish'd a paper of predictions, pretended to be written by one Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; but the true design of it was to ridicule the art of astrology, and expose its professors as ignorant or impostors.
		If this be granted, I am sure it must be also allow'd, that the author (whoever he were) was a person of extraordinary sagacity; and that astrology brought to such perfection as this, is by no means an art to be despised, whatever Mr.
		As to the tradition of these lines having been writ in the original by Merlin, I confess I lay not much weight upon it: But it is enough to justify their authority, that the book from whence I have transcrib'd them, was printed 170 years ago, as appears by the title-page.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/socl/socialconcerns/thebickerstaff-partridgepapers/chap2.html (3417 words)

	periodicalsgenealogy
		Crackenthorpe and Isaac Bickerstaff should work together as a pair, presumably rounding out one another's weaknesses and harnessing their strengths.
		Bickerstaff says-one may write to eternity, the world is still the same" (no. 90).
		Bickerstaff happily attempted it." The ladies use this reader's letter as a prompt to speculate on Bickerstaff's motives for using this term.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/female_tatler/periodicalsgenealogy.html (1645 words)

	Isaac Bickerstaff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For Joseph Addison or the Anglo-Irish playwright, see Isaac Bickerstaffe
		Isaac Bickerstaff Esq was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac–maker, astrologer, and quack John Partridge.
		Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new paper The Tatler by naming the fictitious Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Bickerstaff (373 words)

	Skyscript:The Bickerstaff Papers, by Jonathan Ledbury
		Next he issued a pamphlet under Partridge's name entitled: Squire Bickerstaff Detected, or The Astrological Impostor Convicted, in which Partridge was supposed to have protested...
		As Bickerstaff he objected - again satirising Partridge's lack of education - to his rough language, and proceeded to prove that Partridge was not alive.
		The full text of the Bickerstaff Papers are available in the University of Adelaide Library Electronic Texts Collection.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /bickerstaff.html (613 words)

	Harry Kies Theaterprodukties - cabaret , theater , humor en cabaretfragmenten
		Deze ultieme eer viel in de 19de eeuw de Amerikaanse bioloog Isaac Bickerstaff te beurt.
		Bickerstaff was een kind van Duitse inwijkelingen en groeide op in de staat Colorado, waar het toen nog vol zat met trappers en cowboys, de pioniers van het Wilde Westen.
		Terwijl Bickerstaff bleef spelen, sneed zijn assistent de dieren één voor één de geweide kop af.
	www.harrykies.nl /default.asp?keuze=columndetail&id=69&artiestnaam= (589 words)

	Bickerstaff's Books, Maps &c. -- About Our Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bickerstaff's is a name that can be traced back to Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) of Gulliver's Travels fame.
		Capitalizing on the popularity of the character, Richard Steele (1672-1729) appropriated Isaac Bickerstaff as his pseudonym as editor of the English periodical, The Tatler.
		The Bickerstaff name came to America in the second half of the 18th century when Benjamin West (1730-1818), mathematician and professor at Brown University, adopted the pseudonym as the author of several series of successful almanacs in New England.
	pws.prserv.net /usinet.bicks/bicksaboutourname.html (157 words)

	Jonathan Swift as Isaac Bickerstaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under the pen name of "Isaac Bickerstaff", a fictitious astrologer and publisher, Swift printed and distributed an almanac in which he predicted, in great meticulous detail, the March 29th death by fever, of the perfectly healthy astrologer and rascal, one John Partridge.
		Needless to say, Partridge denounced the prediction to everyone in earshot, but on March 30th Bickerstaff produced a second pamphlet announcing that his prediction had proven true, John Partridge had passed away only a few hours after the predicted time.
		By April 1st the news had taken hold and it was general knowledge that Partridge had died.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/001572.html (343 words)

	AMERICAN THUMBPRINTS,
		Jonathan Swift is the writer to whom the original Bickerstaff squibs are in the main to be ascribed.
		Squire Bickerstaff's jest had to do with almanac-makers, and was directed against a chief pretender, Dr. Partridge, the astrologer and philomath Pope refers to when he speaks of the translation of the raped "Lock" to the skies:
		In the Bickerstaff jocularity evidences of the death of Partridge are enumerated in material surroundings of a not too prosperous London quack.
	www.kancoll.org /books/thumbprints/at_ch8.htm (5545 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: The Tatler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Steele’s concern with social mores is also evidenced by a number of issues dealing with Bickerstaff’s “Court of Honour”, which tries such petty misdemeanours as the failure to return a bow or the sporting of an outsized hoop petticoat.
		Isaac Bickerstaff was originally the pseudonym under which, in April 1708, Jonathan Swift mocked the pretensions of the astrologer John Partridge by publishing a pamphlet predicting Partridge’s death, followed by a further pamphlet, detailing his demise and funeral.
		Bickerstaff is not an autobiographical persona: he is a frail old man in his sixties, a genial eccentric and a loner, while Steele was at this time a well-known playwright and a sociable career-politician aged 37.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7889 (1062 words)

	Anecdote - John Partridge - Isaac Bickerstaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As 'Isaac Bickerstaff' he published a spoof, Predictions for the Year 1708.
		'Bickerstaff' professed his concern to rescue the noble art of astrology from the hands of the quacks.
		It was four years before Partridge recovered sufficiently from this onslaught to resume publication of his almanac, by which time 'Isaac Bickerstaff' had become a household name."
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=13954 (244 words)

	Portrait of Jonathan 'Isaac Bickerstaff' Swift
		Description: Jonathan 'Isaac Bickerstaff' Swift (1667-1745) Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland on 30 November 1667, second child and only son of Jonathan Swift1 and Abigaile Erick Swift.
		Using the name Isaac Bickerstaff8, he prophesied "a trifle...[Partridge] will infallibly die upon the 29th of March next, about eleven at Night, of a raging fever." At the proper time, using another name, Jonathan announced the fulfillment of said prophecy9.
		Partridge, in his next almanac, protested loudly that he was still alive, but no one believed him.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,portrait-jonathan-isaac,621972.html (614 words)

	SWIFT'S "A FAMOUS PREDICTION OF MERLIN"
		Last year was published a paper of predictions, pretended to be written by one Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; but the true design of it was to ridicule the art of astrology, and expose its professors as ignorant, or impostors.
		If this be granted, I am sure it must be also allowed, that the author (whoever he were) was a person of extraordinary sagacity; and that astrology brought to such perfection as this, is, by no means, an art to be despised; whatever Mr.
		As to the tradition of these lines, having been writ in the original by Merlin; I confess, I lay not much weight upon it: But it is enough to justify their authority, that the book from whence I have transcribed them, was printed 170 years ago, as appears by the title-page.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /Camelot/swift.htm (875 words)

	Isaac Bickerstaff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The "Tatler's" personality was Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer; as to years, just over the grand climacteric, sixty-three, mystical multiple of nine and seven; dispensing counsel from his lodgings at Shire Lane, and seeking occasional rest in the vacuity of thought proper to his club at the "Trumpet."
		I am sorry to own it; but there is one branch of the house of the Bickerstaffs who have been as erroneous in their conduct this way as any other family whatsoever.
		Samuel Bickerstaff, esquire, is so happy as that by several legacies from distant relations, deaths of maiden sisters, and other instances of good fortune, he has besides his real estate, a great sum of ready money.
	www.blackmask.com /olbooks/bickerstaff.htm (16938 words)

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