Word: venuses
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...Venus, I fear, would be untrue...
...Said Venus, queen of charmers...
...Dickinsonian says that our poem entitled "Venus Victrix" has so charmed one of their Sophs. that he insists upon every one reading it who comes into the room. Perhaps our Sophs will enjoy the following, clipped from the said journal...
...private individual can hope to acquire so large, so valuable, or so comprehensive a collection of books as a rich and well-managed library. The great benefit of any library is that it has books on all subjects, and we can find something in it on the transit of Venus or the restored digamma. As a man reads he soon becomes interested in some particular branch, and desires to learn (pleasing hypothesis!) all he can about it; for this purpose he wants to buy books relating to it for his own private library, and finds a public library of great...
That carried Venus Victrix through the world...