Friday, 28 September 2012

Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose

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Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological department  has done in the corruptio...
Thursday, 27 September 2012

The parochial organisation should always be attacked

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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for t...
Monday, 10 September 2012

It is a fact amazing to ordinary mortals that The Jupiter is never wrong

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I wanted to post the entire chapter on the power of the press from The Warden , but it's too long. This is the best bit - the entire thi...
Sunday, 2 September 2012

Ever rising on stepping-stones of dead whiskies and sodas

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Where most of his [Galahad's] contemporaries had reluctantly thrown in the towel and retired to Harrogate and Buxton to nurse their gout...
Saturday, 1 September 2012

One of the many gods that Dr. Juvenal Urbino wrote with a small g

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the Revered Jonathan B. Lynch, a lean black Protestant minister who rode on a mule through the poverty-stricken settlements in the salt mars...
Saturday, 11 August 2012

They like command better than power

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military men are the opposite of you, general, they're men of quick and easy ambition, they like command better than power and they'...
Thursday, 26 July 2012

The Liberals were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests

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The Liberals ... were Freemasons, bad people, wanting to hang priests, to institute civil marriage and divorce,  to recognise the rights of...