Erle montaigne biography of rory

  • His chief literary works are his unfinished History of Rome (three vols.
  • His biography, 55.
  • I remember Sarah Bakewell noting that Plutarch's Moralia, translated into French in the same year in which Montaigne began writing Essays.

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    (The Boppard Altarpiece, Panel: limewood, pine, paint & gilt: Victoria & Albert Museum)

    Back in the day—not that day, another one—a woman had been on the throne of England for around sixty years.

    Walk wide o’ the Widow at Windsor,
    For ’alf o’ Creation she owns:
    We ’ave bought ’er the same with the sword an’ the flame,
    An’ we’ve salted it down with our bones.[1]

    Yes, back then, a while and a world ago, when Queen Victoria was not quite gone, Rudyard Kipling had dropped in on the west coast of the United States. ‘There was wealth—unlimited wealth—in the streets’, he wrote of San Francisco, ‘but not an accent that would not have been dear at fifty cents.’ He was disappointed by the disparity between the fine and expensive clothes worn by the women he saw and their voices, ‘the staccato “Sez he”,“Sez I,” that is the mark of the white servant-girl all the world over.’

    He felt, that is to say, that ‘fine feathers ought to make fine birds.’ But, ‘Wherefore, revolving in my mind that these folk were barbarians, I was presently enlightened and made aware that they also were the heirs of all the ages, and civilised after all.’ Luckily for this much-travelled traveller, he’s been accosted by ‘an affable stranger of prepossessing experience, with a blue and an innocent e

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    Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Vol 38 Milman - More

    - Milne-Home, David.
    - Milne, William Charles.
    Milner. See also Millner.
    See: Gibson, Thomas Milner-.
    - Milnes, Robert Pemberton.
    See Gloucester, Miles de.
    - Fletcher, Andrew (1692-1766).
    See: Meliton.
    - Milward, John (1619-1683).
    - Milward, Matthias.
    See: Gunning.
    Minnan, Saint. See: Monan.
    • Mines, John. See: Mennes.
    • Minns, Christopher.
    See: Myngs.
    - Elliot, Gilbert (1751-1814)
    - Elliot, Gilbert (1782-1859)
    - Elliot, Gilbert (1651-1718)
    - Elliot, Gilbert (1693-1766)
    • Minto, William
    • Minton, Herbert
    • Mirfeld, John
    • Mirk, John
    • Misaubin, John
    • Misselden, Edward
    • Misson, Francis Maximilian
    • Mist, Nathaniel
    • Misyn, Richard
    • Mitan, JamesAlso contains:
    - Mitan, Samuel.
    Mitchel. See Michell & Mitchell.
    Mitchell. See Michell & Mitchel.
    • Mitchell, Alexander
    • Mitchell, Andrew (1708-1771)
    • Mitchell, Andrew (1757-1806)
    • Mitchell, Cornelius
    • Mitchell, David
    • Mitchell, Hugh Henry
    • Mitchell, James (d.1678)
    • Mitchell, James (1786?-1844)
    • Mitchell, James (1791-1852)
    • Mitchell, John (fl.1556)
    • Mitchell, John (d.1768)
    • Mitchell, John (1785-1859)
    • Mitchell, John (1806-1874)
    • Mitchell, John (1804-1886) [See MICHEL.]
    • Mitchell, John Mitchell
    • Mitchell, Joseph
    • Mitchel
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