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Saturday, August 29, 2026

Art Added To Scholarship

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George Macaulay Trevelyan, Clio, A Muse & Other Essays  (London/New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1949 [1913]), 162-3: . . . hi...
Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Most Solid Goodness Of Heart

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Ernest Renan, Marcus Aurelius , tr. William G. Hutchison (London; New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1904), 239-40: The most solid g...

Disintegrating Effect Of German Education

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Emery Neff, The Poetry of History: The Contribution of Literature and Literary Scholarship To the Writing of History since Voltaire (New Yo...

Swiss & Florentine Democracy, & German Freedom

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Letter by John Richard Green to E. A Freeman, November 17, 1871 (in Letters of John Richard Green , ed. Leslie Setphen, 1901, 308-9): The Pi...
Tuesday, August 25, 2026

What Care?

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George Wither (1588-1667),  The Shepherd’s Resolution (1619):                     Shall I, wasting in despaire,                     Dye beca...
Monday, August 24, 2026

Taking A Foothold Outside Your Time

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Lord Acton, vol. 3 of Selected Writings: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality (Indianapolis: Liberty Classics/ Fund, 1988), 620: Resi...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

Clear, Pure, & Bright

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Ramon Llul, The Book of the Lover and the Beloved , tr. E. Allison Peers (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923), 37 &...
Friday, August 21, 2026

Cares, Sighs, & Tears

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Ramon Llul, The Book of the Lover and the Beloved , tr. E. Allison Peers (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923), 23-24: L...

Mystic Life

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E. Allison Peers, in his Intro. to: Ramon Llul, The Book of the Lover and the Beloved (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1...
Thursday, August 20, 2026

Bathed In A Profound Melancholy

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Romantic Legends of Spain , tr. Cornelia Francis Bates and Katherine Lee Bates (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1909), ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Pain Sung In Quiet

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Peter Abelard, from his  Planctus David super Saul et Jonathan *  (trans. found in: Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars (Boston & New ...

The Enchantment Of The Disenchanted

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Ernest Renan, Marcus Aurelius , tr. William G. Hutchison (London; New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1904), 229 & 233 (emphasis ...

The Great Drawback Of Actual Life

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Ernest Renan, Marcus Aurelius , tr. William G. Hutchison (London; New York: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1904), 231: The great drawback ...
Monday, August 10, 2026

A Nature Delicately Wrought

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Ṭāhir al-Tanāḥī, On the Deathbed [ʿAlā Fārash al-Mawt]  (Egypt: Dār al-Hilāl, 1939), 110 (al-Tanāḥī is describing the poet Ismāʿīl Ṣabrī Pas...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Saintly Soul

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Aleksándr Púshkin,  Boris Godunov  (in Leo Wiener, Anthology of Russian Literature  (New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press, 1903), vo...
Monday, August 3, 2026

Circle Of Chosen Spirits

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Jacob Burckhardt, The Civiliastion of the Renaissance in Italy , tr. S. G. C. Middlemore (London: Swannenschein & Co.), 549-550: But in ...

Not Seeing Oneself

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Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne , tr. Donald M. Frame (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966 [1957]), I:23, 83: Me...
Sunday, August 2, 2026

Schiller & Geniune Literature

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Thomas Carlyle, The Life of Friedrich Schiller (vol. 5 of the Library Edition of Carlyle’s Collected Works , London: Chapman and Hall), 233...
Thursday, July 30, 2026

Pray Eternity May Be As Sweet

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Joseph Ernest Renan, Brother & Sister: A Memoir and the Letters of Ernest and Henriette Renan , tr. Lady Mary Loyd (London: William Hein...

Life Of Study & Thought

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Joseph Ernest Renan, The Future of Science: Ideas of 1848 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1891), xxi (emphasis mine; written to Monsieur Eugène B...