Thursday, September 18, 2014

Berlioz on the trombone

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     "I regard the trombone as the true leader of the race of wind instruments which I have described as 'epic'.  It possesses...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Leaf of manuscript at First Free Methodist Church, Seattle

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benedicimus ti bi gloria in secu la.  p s . Magnt. Et fit co memor Domini nice prie Antiph. Nolite iudi care ut non iudi      Le...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Charles Wright, "A field guide to the birds of the Upper Yaak," Scar tissue: poems (New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)

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"It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. A people who talk too much will know little."

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     John Wesley to George Holder.  London, November 8, 1790.   Letters, ed. Telford, vol. 8, p. 247.

"Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night; for the love of thy only Son, our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen."

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Gelasian sacramentary no. 1589 (mid-8th) : Illumina, quaesumus, Domine, tenebras nostras, et totius noctis insidias repelle propitius.  P...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

For Hegel, it's clearly quid est, not just an est

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"In the Christian religion God has revealed Himself, that is, He has given us to understand what He is [(was er ist)]; so that He is no...

Et si omnes ego non | Etiam si omnes ego non | Etiamsi omnes ego non

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Even if all [others], not I. et si omnes scandalizati fuerint sed non ego (Mk 14:29). et si omnes scandalizati fuerint in te ego numquam ...