Category: antiquarianism
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Classic Pepys
Sunday 26 March 1665 (Pepys’ Diary) At noon home to dinner, my wife and I (Mercer staying to the Sacrament) alone. This is the day seven years which, by the blessing of God, I have survived of my being cut of the stone, and am now in very perfect good health and have long been;…
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Introduction by analogy.
I remember that Rouseeau used to drone on about the great library in Alexandria, y’know the world’s ultimate repository of knowledge, lost for millenia: just another one of those great creations of mankind that are meant to be floating around somewhere. Anyway his version of the story was that when the turks or the ottomans…
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