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Literature | Brazen Head The following are noted:- One by Albertus Magnus, which cost him thirty years' labour, and was broken into a thousand pieces by Thomas Aquinas, his disciple. One by Friar Bacon. "Bacon trembled for his brazen head." Pope: Dunciad, iii. 104. "Quoth he, `My head's not made of brass, As Friar Bacon's noddle was.' " S. Butler: Hudibras, ii. 2. The brazen head of the Marquis de Villena, of Spain. Another by a Polander, a disciple of Escotillo, an Italian. It was said if Bacon heard his head speak he would succeed; if not, he would fail. Miles was set to watch, and while Bacon slept the Head spoke thrice: "Time is"; half an hour later it said, "Time was." In another half-hour it said, "Time's past," fell down, and was broken to atoms. Byron refers to this legend. "Like Friar Bacon's brazen head, I've spoken, `Time is,' `Time was,' `Time's past.' " Don Juan, i. 217. Brazen Head. A gigantic head kept in the castle of the giant Ferragus, of Portugal. It was omniscient, and told those who consulted it whatever they required to know, past, present, or to come. (Valentine and Orson.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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brazen head | 12 |
brazen head inn | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-e-e-h-n-r-z" | |
-2 letters: barehead, brazened. | |
-3 letters: aneared, zareeba. | |
-4 letters: abrade, adhere, bander, beaned, behead, bender, brazed, brazen, dharna, earned, endear, harden, hazard, header, herbed, neared, razeed, zander, zareba. | |
-5 letters: aahed, ahead, anear, ardeb, areae, arena, baaed, baned, barde, bared, bazar, beard, brand, braza, braze, bread, brede, breed, debar, denar, eared, ender, hared, hazan, hazed, hazer, heard, heder. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 41 5A 45 4E 48 45 41 44 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01000001 01011010 01000101 01001110 00100000 01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R A Z E N   H E A D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0041 005A 0045 004E 0048 0045 0041 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)365235603948242393538 |
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