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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. SESAME. OF KINGS' TREASURIES. I: Title.?Sesame. ' Open Sesame ' is the magic pass-word which opens the treasure-cave in the story of The Forty Thicves in the Arabian Nights. For its significance as the title of the lecture cf. 62: 22. The sesame is an Arabian plant, of which the seeds are used for food. I: Title.?Kings' Treasuries. In Ezra 5: 17 we find the phrase 'king's treasure-house ' used for the archives in which the records of Darius' k1ngdom are kept. 1: Motto.?Lucian. A Greek essay-writer and satirist of the second century A.d. The Fisherman is a dialogue between Lucian and the great philosophers of Greece in which philosophy itself becomes the object of satire. At the end of the satire Lucian baits his hook with a fig and a gold coin, and, seated on the wall of the Acropolis, fishes for the gluttons of the city. Hence the title. (Encyc. Brit., s. v. Lucian.) 2: 12.?Some connection with schools. Because of his father's generosity Ruskin had been made life-governor of various schools, among them the famous Christ's Hospital in London. In 1854 he was interested in the founding of the Working Men's College in London, where he gave instruction in drawing. He was not made professor at Oxford till 1870. 2: 27.?Double-belled doors. With two bells, one for visitors, one for business callers. 3: 27.?The last infirmity of noble miu1la. Milton, Lyridas 71: Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days. Ruskin's quotation is slightly inaccurate. ' Last infirmity means that the desire for fame is the weakness hardest for wise men to put off. 4: 24.?My Lord. Bishops of the Cnurch of England have the rank of barons with a seat in the House of Lords, an...

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