Having seen Google Books mentioned here from time to time, I thought this might be of interest too:

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-features-on-google-books.html

Squeee, teh koolness! Much stuff to print and read this weekend.

Artifex: Thanks, that looks interesting, and I'll investigate, though frankly I'm so annoyed with Google Books for their various failings that it will take much koolness to convince me that they've done this right.

I'll get used to the new GB coolness, but I'm a bit ticked that they seem to have broken existing vq= links for highlighting on a page.

Too, Murray does not hesitate to remind us of the value...

I think this is the first time I have noticed sentence-initial "too," used as a rough equivalent of "furthermore,". Interesting.

Oh, it goes way back; the OED has cites from the 13th and 14th centuries. From 1641: "Too, we profess our selves the Redeemed of the Lord."

Cool. If the 1st edition of the OED weren't inexplicably suppressed on Google Books, I would be able to look this stuff up myself :)

Wa-a-ay cool, as they say. I have discovered much pleasant reading in prefaces to dictionaries, encyclopedias and atlases, and look forward to reading Murray's.

I swear that my first, or nearly first, encounter with initial "too" in this sense was in a spoken utterance -- uttered by a friend of mine when I was about 12 or 13. It seemed a little precious, and I had a hunch that he got it from his mother. Kids say the darnedest things!

I don't find initial "too" so strange - unusual, but I have read it before.

Too, me.

dw: It is not inexplicably suppressed; it merely has not been scanned, and what you see there is the consequence of importing library records. If Google shows you nothing, it is because it has nothing to show you. See my comment to this post.