MW Coole violets, and orpine growing still,/Embathed balme, and chearfull galingale,/Fresh costmarie, and breathfull camomill, /Dull poppie, and drink-quickning setuale*,/Veyne-healing verven, and hed-purging dill,/Sound savorie, and bazil hartie-hale,/Fat colworts, and comfórting perseline**,/Colde lettuce, and refreshing rosmarine. [* Setuale, valerian.][** Perseline,…
Month: June 2021
Technical issues in Safari
As you might have been aware, Quotations’ functionalities were not available in the Safari browser over the last weeks. This was related to technical issues with IndexedDB in Safari and outside of our control. It appears that Apple may have…
Oaf
MW For look into the world, and you shall see men most part esteemed according to their means, and happy as they are rich: Ubique tanti quisque quantum habuit fuit. If he be likely to thrive, and in the way…
Earthwork
… Not slow our eyes to find it; well we knew who stood behind it,Though the earthwork hid them from us, and the stubborn walls were dumbHere were sister, wife, and mother, looking wild upon each other,And their lips were…
Desiccate
MW Our Theory of Gravitation is as good as perfect: Lagrange, it is well known, has proved that the Planetary System, on this scheme, will endure forever; Laplace, still more cunningly, even guesses that it could not have been made…
An Egyptian Traveller: Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt
Explore the new additions to our library: The true history of the Jacobites of Egypt, Lybia, Nubia by Barbatus, Josephus Abudacnus, was first published in 1675 (go to Books, select the author). It is thought to have been written between…