There is good reason to suppose, that it was far from the intention of Ferdinand, king of Spain, to use his new subjects in America in the brutal and barbarous manner that his people did; and happy for the credit…
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Delite
The OED also cites ‘delite’ as a noun, though used in a different sense: Obsolete. Delay. Also in without delite: without delay; immediately.a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5790 Þar-to sal be na lang dilite [Vesp. lite, Trin. Cambr. delay].a1500 (▸?c1450) Bone Florence (1976) l. 868 The pope came…
Quaere
Finally, a Daemon by Essence is call’d a Dae∣mon, not by respect to Sequents, nor by rea∣son of some similitude to another thing, but has got his Property of himself, and has a cer∣tain distinct Existence, and his proper Powers,…
Were I an Epicure, I could bate swearing
Take not his name, who made thy mouth, in vain:It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.Lust and wine plead a pleasure, avarice gain:But the cheap swearer through his open sluceLets his soul runne for nought, as little fearing.Were I…
Fons et origo
…Were all i’ the way o’ the brute who never onceCeases, amid all provocation more,To bear in mind the first tormentor, firstGiver o’ the wound that goaded him to fight:And, though a dozen follow and reinforceThe aggressor, wound in front…
Words of the day: April 13 – April 16, 2021 Foolery, Nab, Minatory, Discomfit, Obstreperous, Lodestone
I count religion but a childish toy,And hold there is no sin but ignorance.Birds of the air will tell of murders past!I am asham’d to hear such fooleries.Many will talk of title to a crown:What right had Caesar to the…
Nincompoop, Nincompoopiana
Etymology: < nincompoop n. + -iana suffix. “nincompoopiana, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2021. Web. 12 April 2021. Nincompoop A simpleton, a foolish person. Etymology: Origin uncertain “nincompoop, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2021. Web. 12…
Deliquescent
“The stalwart ignorance of it! Little Latin and less Greek even Ben Jonson allowed our William, and manifestly he was fed on Tudor translations. And the illiteracy of Michael Angelo is just an inspiration of Chamberlain’s. He knows his readers.…
Pasch
O taskOf sacrifice,That we may baskIn clemency and keep an undreamt Pasch!O Treader lone,How pitiful Thy shadow thrownAthwart the lake of wine that Thou hast made!O Thou, most desolate, with limbs that wadeAmong the berries, dark and wet,Thee we forget!…
Brummagem
But a day of reckoning, he stated crescendo with no uncertain voice, thoroughly monopolising all the conversation, was in store for mighty England, despite her power of pelf on account of her crimes. There would be a fall and the…