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Blest! who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
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Code used by founding father is finally cracked
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O good old man, how well in thee appears the constant service of the antique world…
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I will not here discuss the right or the rights of slavery, but I say that…it is utterly incompatible with any theory of human rights, and especially with the rights which the Declaration of Independence proclaims as self-evident truths. The moment you come to the Declaration of Independence, that every man as a right to life and liberty, this case is decided. I ask nothing more in behalf of these unfortunate men, than this Declaration.
John Quincy Adams on slavery and the Declaration of Independence before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Amistad case. -
John Carteret, Earl Granville, said he loved to be at an Inn, because the people of the House were overjoyed when he arrived, & concerned when he went away.
Horace Walpole’s handwritten note in his copy of Hawkins’ Life of Samuel Johnson. -
Words change their meanings over time. New concepts are coined to describe new ideas. Obvious points ought to be central to all forms of historical inquiry, but they pose particular problem for students of the long eighteenth century because it seems on surface to be so like our own mental world, so easily accessible. So many of the words are the same that we feel safe and secure in assuming their meaning and, therefore, understanding the concepts they describe without any need to delve any deeper into the historical context. Yet this sense of familiarity is artificial. Too often we project back into this period ideas and categories which were created/formulated/emerged only much later, in much different historical contexts.
J.C.D. Clark, English Society. -
On the Funeral of Charles the First at Night, in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor by William Lisle Bowles : The Poetry Foundation
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Too Soon?
Asked what he thought was the significance of the French Revolution, Chinese Premier Zhou En-lai is reported to have answered, “It’s too soon to tell.”
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‘Hoos c1825: Faculty & students of @UVA found @CWFRockLibrary Special Collections. @UVAAlumni @colonialwmsburg
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