Reviews for The Mount Vernon Reader: A Course of Reading Lessons Selected with Reference to Their Moral ...

The average rating for The Mount Vernon Reader: A Course of Reading Lessons Selected with Reference to Their Moral ... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-05 00:00:00 Mariaan Van Staden Let's take a page at random. There are 168 pips in a set of double-six dominoes, so we turn to page 168. On that page, we select quatrain 69, because 1+8=9, so that page 168 indicates 69 hermetically, and because the digits in the number 69 are symbolic of Cancer, astrologically: The psychic significance of this quatrain thus established, we discover a genuine prophecy! The great one shall be no more in a false sleep, The restlessness shall take rest, He shall raise an army of gold and azure He shall conquer Africa and gnaw it to the bone. "The great one" here is a reference to guard Trey Burke, who scored thirty points to lead Michigan (maize and blue) over Minnesota, 73-69, in overtime, in a Big Ten men's basketball tournament quarterfinal on 9 March 2012. Nostradamus is amazingly accurate in predicting Burke's "restlessness" -- he played all 45 minutes. (box score) Burke "takes rest" after the semifinal, won 77-55 by Ohio State. He is described as "gnawing to the bone" to further clarify the allusion to the Wolverines. "Africa" refers to Golden Gophers head coach Tubby Smith, who is African-American. Henry C. Roberts wrote some nonsense associating this quatrain with World War II; perhaps his prophetic vision failed him. ***serious review follows*** The apotheosis of mental illness, achieved at great effort by generations of scam artists and credulous fools.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-25 00:00:00 Jami Shackelford Not a good book cover. The poetry of the quatrains is very descriptive but the images are often too confusing to understand. There are some quatrains that the translators admit they can not interpret.