NAPOLEON’S PALINDROME
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
ADAM AND EVE’S PALINDROME
Madam, I’m Adam!
When Charles Grant, Colonial
Secretary, was made Lord Glenelg, in 1835, he was called Mr Facing-both-ways,
because his title Glenelg was a perfect palindrome, that could be read with the
same result from either end.
It was a member of the same
family who sought to prove the antiquity of his race by altering an “i” into an
“r” in his family Bible, so that the text ran, “there were Grants on the earth
in those days.”
A GOOD PALINDROME
“Roma, ibi tibi sedes, ibi
tibi amor,” which may be rendered, “At Rome you live, at Rome you love;” is a
sentence which reads alike from either end.
A QUAINT PALINDROME
Eve damned Eden, mad Eve!
This sentence reads alike
from either end.
A good specimen of a palindrome is this German saying that can be read from either end:—
Bei Leid lieh stets Heil die Lieb(In trouble comfort is lent by love.)
[III-109]
Here are some ingenious
palindromes, which can be read from either end:
Repel evil as a live leper.
Dog, as a devil deified,
lived as a god.
Do Good’s deeds live never
even? Evil’s deeds do O God!
A SCHOOLBOY’S PALINDROME
“Subi dura a rudibus”
“I have, endured roughness
from the rod” which can be read alike from either end.
Very notable as a long
palindrome, even if it is not true record of the great surgeon’s experience, is
this quaint sentence:—“Paget saw an Irish tooth, sir, in a waste gap.”
A PEACE PALINDROME
Snug & raw was I ere I
saw war & guns.
This sentence reads alike
from either end.
A PALINDROME PUZZLE
Reversed I do not alter.
One half of me says haste away!
The other bids me falter.—Noon.
Very remarkable for its
length and good sense combined is the following palindrome, which can be read
from either end with the same result:—“No, it is opposed, art sees trades
opposition.”
A PERFECT PALINDROME
Perhaps the most perfect of English palindromes is the excellent adage:
“Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age.”[III-110]
Here is the most remarkable
Latin palindrome on record:
SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA
ROTAS
Its distinguishing
peculiarity is that the first letters of each successive word unite to form the
first word, the second letters spell the second word, and so on throughout the
five words; and as the whole sentence is a perfect palindrome, this is also
true on reversal.
A. Cyril Pearson, TwentiethCentury Standard Puzzle Book, George Routledge & Sons, London, 1907.
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