Monday, 20 March 2017

You can find a bishop anywhere, totally untrained, but all ready-made in dignity

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How is it that precious stones are hard to find, fertile land rare, bad horses everywhere, and good ones bred only  in rich stables; but tha...
Sunday, 26 February 2017

They differed once about whether the earth rotates on its own axis in space or stands on the head of an ox

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On subjects outside religion, their disputes were not infrequent. For example, they differed once about whether the earth rotates on its ow...
Saturday, 25 February 2017

I feel as uneasy as I do if there is no evidence of wine glasses or bottles

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In fact, if I go into a friend's dining room and see no loaf on the table, I feel as uneasy as I do if there is no evidence of wine gla...
Monday, 6 February 2017

Gained considerable reputation as a poet

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Elsewhere in the same lists of what has become its most famously poignant number, Wisden reported the death of Sub-Lieutenant Rupert Brooke,...
Saturday, 4 February 2017

Rather like a history of the Balkans

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A chronology of Australian cricket administration between the turn of the century and World War I reads back rather like a history of the B...
Friday, 3 February 2017

Force cannot be eliminated

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Governments may think and say what they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are told t...
Thursday, 2 February 2017

I asked the doctor to take my fingers off; he refused

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My hand was a ghastly sight; two of the fingers were hanging by a piece of skin, all the palm was shot away and most of the wrist. For the ...