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Orwell and Milton: By the known rules of ancient liberty; Jesuit Relations and The Dawn of Everything
Orwell ends The Freedom of the Press, his introduction to Animal Farm, with: In our country … it is the liberals who fear liberty and the intellectuals who want to do dirt on the intellect: it is to draw attention…
Transparent: “Paradise has many gates”
Surely we fear from our Lord a stern, distressful day. Therefore Allah win guard them from the evil of that day and cause them to meet with ease and happiness; And reward them, because they were patient, with garden and…
Acker, Acre, Aker, Akyr… A land, a river, a swamp…
The OED lists two meanings for Acker: Acker, n. 1 Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of eagre n. (although this is first attested later; compare the form agar at that entry). In later use English regional (Yorkshire). †1. A strong or turbulent current in the sea; a flood…
Orwell’s Animal Farm: “a statement about human society everywhere and at all times”?
Orwell’s Animal Farm is commonly read as a critique of Stalinism. However, is it a cautionary tale of how quickly and easily any power structure might turn totalitarian? Does any power structure contain seeds of potential abusiveness? Did the animals…
John Clare: Love, Old, Day, See, Green, Summer, Flowers, Heart
Find John Clare’s POEMS CHIEFLY FROM MANUSCRIPT in our library. Edmund Blunden, who edited the volume, writes: For the present volume over two thousand poems by Clare have been considered and compared; of which over two-thirds have not been published.…
100s of Words for Ice – a “precious knowledge”
“…focus attention on selected aspects of the world as it is taken to be by other cognitive systems, and provide intricate and highly specialised perspectives from which to view them, crucially involving human interests and concerns even in the simplest…
“You make them up? I will never look up a word in the dictionary again!” – In case you thought the dictionary came from God, it was not God, it was an unemployed first year linguist …And how the word F*ck got into Merriam-Webster…
From an interview with Lila Gleitman (professor of psychology and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania; an internationally renowned expert on language acquisition and developmental psycholinguistics, focusing on children’s learning of their first language): … 19:18: Lila Gleitman: “And you won’t work with me. You will work with –” And…
Joseph Brodsky on the importance of language
New Additions in Literature of the Sacred – Translations of the Bible and the Quran – and The Present State of the Jews (Synagoga Judaica or Juden Schul)
Pentateuch and the First New Testament, printed by William Tyndale (1526) The prophete Ionas with an introduccion, translated by William Tyndale (1531) The Coverdale Bible (1535) The Great Bible (1539) The Geneva Bible (1557) The Bishops’ Bible (1568) The Douay–Rheims Bible, the Douay portion (1610) The…