Saturday, September 27, 2014

"'No good work is undertaken with wise reflection.'"

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"'. . . but God led me up like a[n old] nag whose eyes have been put out so that it won't see those who come to deliver the fat...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

"As though a Christian could be without the Lord's [day assembly-cum-Eucharist]"!

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"As though a Christian could be without the dominicum or the dominicum be celebrated without the Christian.  Do you not know, Satan, ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Gunpowder "was one of the chief instruments in freeing the world from the dominion of physical force. . . ."

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Wikimedia Commons Das Schießpulver “war ein Hauptmittel zur Befreiung von der physischen Gewalt. . . .”      Georg Wilhelm Friedrich...

306 Trombones

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"[The Tuba mirum opens with a lofty phrase that leads nowhere and is impotent.]  Why just one trombone to sound the terrible blast tha...
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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