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Ghulf Genes: Calendrical Tomfoolery
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Some would have Chaucer as its originator, in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, where arrogant Chanticleer, the cock, is tricked by a fox; but that explanation relies for its justification on a presumed misspelling of one word in one sentence of the tale ( link. Posted by Arsen Darnay. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gertrude Stein and Sisyphus. As the Plants See It. Evolution in Media and Beyond. An Active Spring Beckons. Rome, Naples et Florence: October 1816, Part II. November 201...
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Graveyard Masonry: Royal Birth
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Andrew Rickard's Commonplace Book and Digital Library. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy. III vi, tr. H. R. James (London: Elliot Stock, 1897), p. 115:. Then, again, who does not see how empty, how foolish, is the fame of noble birth? Why, if the nobility is based on renown, the renown is another's! The opening pages of this section from a copy of De consolatione philosophie. With commentary by St. Thomas Aquinas (Lyon: Johannes Faber, c. 1500):. A related post: Only Folly and Shame.
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Graveyard Masonry: A Permanent Loss of Happiness
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Andrew Rickard's Commonplace Book and Digital Library. A Permanent Loss of Happiness. Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes. London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1895), p. 280:. There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness. London: Chatto and Windus, 1906). The Development of Oneself.
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Graveyard Masonry: A More Refined Race
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Andrew Rickard's Commonplace Book and Digital Library. A More Refined Race. Angelica Garnett, Deceived With Kindness. London: Pimlico, 1995), p. 69:. And mayonnaise. She could not say their plumbing was as good as that of the English (those were the days when there was often no more than a hole in the ground and usually a smell of human excrement near one's picnic site), but in every other way they were a more refined race, not least in their sympathy for artists. A related post: The French.
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Graveyard Masonry: Don't Look Back
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Andrew Rickard's Commonplace Book and Digital Library. William Osler, A Way of Life. London: Constable, 1913), pp. 27-28. Thomas Eakins, Retrospection. A related post: Forget, Don't Forgive. A More Refined Race. Systematically Ascetic or Heroic. The Cup of Life. First Known When Lost. Le Blog du Bibliophile.
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Graveyard Masonry: April 2015
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Andrew Rickard's Commonplace Book and Digital Library. A More Refined Race. Angelica Garnett, Deceived With Kindness. London: Pimlico, 1995), p. 69:. And mayonnaise. She could not say their plumbing was as good as that of the English (those were the days when there was often no more than a hole in the ground and usually a smell of human excrement near one's picnic site), but in every other way they were a more refined race, not least in their sympathy for artists. A related post: The French. Keep the fac...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Last thoughts on slavery, in the USA, Russia and Mauritius
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Last thoughts on slavery, in the USA, Russia and Mauritius. The Comte de Tilly said that to begin ones life by being raped is a very poor school for virtue. Slavery is a very poor school too and it takes more than a generation for the descendants of former slaves to be able to overcome the lessons slavery teaches. This comparison indecently belittles the Holocaust, but it explains th...
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Paul Gottfried on U.S. presidents
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Paul Gottfried on U.S. presidents. Paul Gottfried interests me. He said that, unlike England, with its essentially medieval social structure, America was made by. Protestant sectarians who neither had nor desired a medieval past and whose descendants have turned into celebrants of progress, commerce and human rights. Progress, commerce and human rights depress him and depress me....
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village : Why I support the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War
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A Political Refugee From the Global Village. An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Why I support the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. In 1864, Confederate General Patrick Cleburne said that if the South lost,. Of course this is what has happened, especially since the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The Civil War was a terrible tragedy and could have been avoided, by statesmanship on both sides, but Lincoln could have allowed the South to secede. O. Of racial ...
