The querist repeated again and again what he had said before, and then Sancho said, "It seems to me I can set the matter right in a moment, and in this way; the man swears that he is going to die upon the gallows; but if he dies upon it, he has sworn the truth, and by the law enacted deserves to go free and pass over the bridge; but if they don't hang him, then he has sworn falsely, and by the same law deserves to be hanged."
"But then, senor governor," replied the querist, "the man will have to be divided into two parts; and if he is divided of course he will die; and so none of the requirements of the law will be carried out, and it is absolutely necessary to comply with it."
"Near the pretty little woman in white?" asked a middle-aged gentleman seated by the
querist's side, with orders in his button, and several under-waistcoats, and a great, choky, white stock.
Focusing on Graves' skillful use of "The
Querist," his advice column in the Tennessee Baptist, Stephan argues that it was through this column that Graves connected with the members of many local Baptist churches and persuaded them of his views.
3, 6-7; Patrick Kelly, 'Ireland and the Critique of Mercantilism in Berkeley's
Querist', Hermathena, 139 (1985), 102-3.
There is also a visible link of Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who is the senior counsel for
Querist, the parent company of Union Carbide.
George Berkeley (1685-1753) is better known as a philosopher, he deserves recognition as a development economist with his
Querist (1735).
We are reminded that in The
Querist (1735-37) money, too, is considered as a sort of sign.
It is the historian which gives Carthage a history, and therefore gives "more than a purely personal existence to everyman." According to Simms, the best historical method involves "[r]easoning of what should have been from what is before us." It is from the "probable" that we gather the "true." In the light of these considerations the dates and names of "the mere chronologists" are "nothing." The Simmsian historian is busy "tracing hopes and fears, feelings and performances." He is searching for "the greatness which was, and the glories which exist no longer." He does not wish to be held up by "some cold and impertinent
querist" who "forbids our inquiry as idle" if we cannot be precise as to names and dates.
(33.) The first quote is from "A North American" [Thomas Bradbury Chandler], The American
querist: or, Some questions proposed relative to the present disputes ([New York], 1774), Early American Imprints, No.