Liber locorum communium
Friday, October 3, 2008
Byron on Southey
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"Byron prophesied that Southey's Joan of Arc, An Epic Poem would be read 'when Homer and Virgil are forgotten, but-- not till ...
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Honour all men
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"a Christian is like a little child; a little child is modest before men, and his heart is apt to be possessed with fear and awe among ...
Friday, September 19, 2008
Edwards on the sole "direct, clear, and all-conquering evidence" of "the truth of the great things of the gospel"
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"The gospel of the blessed God does not go abroad a-begging for its evidence. . . ." Jonathan Edwards, The religious affections, ...
Too close for comfort
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. . . what I say to you, I say as one that is a stranger to the story as stranger to the deed. For I would not be far upon the track if I a...
Monday, September 1, 2008
Baciocchi on Mary
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"Of the Jewish woman under the Old Testament more than any other is it true that she comes into the world humanly and religiously vowed...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity
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"As I look at the town now, dwindling without grace, I think how strange that lives were lost in its formation." Judge Antone Bazi...
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Speaking of fifth-rate minds like mine (and first-rate minds, too)
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"If [the flight from understanding] never refuses to supply superficial minds with superficial positions, it is quite competent to work...
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