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Saturday, January 29, 2022
Frances Burney, Camilla
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Introduction Opening Passage: Repose is not more welcome to the worn and to the aged, to the sick and to the unhappy, than danger, difficu...
Friday, January 28, 2022
Common Doctor
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Today is the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church. From his commentary on Colossians ( c.3 l.1 ): The benefit that we have re...
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Jotting on the Hollow Brazen Horse
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When Glaucon tells the story of the Ring of Gyges in Book II of the Republic, he includes an interesting detail: According to the tradition...
For a House Full of Books, and a Garden of Flowers
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Ballade of True Wisdom by Andrew Lang While others are asking for beauty or fame, Or praying to know that for which they should ...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Human Frailty with Thy Secret Woes!
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Ballade of Modest Confession by Hilaire Belloc My reading is extremely deep and wide; And as our modern education goes— Unique I think, and ...
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Linkabilia
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This term has had an unusually complicated start -- I was originally doing three in-person classes, then two of those got canceled and repla...
Monday, January 24, 2022
The Gentleman Saint
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Today is the feast of St. Francis de Sales, Doctor of the Church. From An Introduction to the Devout Life , Part I, Chapter II : The world,...
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