Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought, David Hackett Fischer (1970) Nunc pro tunc translates to “now for then,” and is apparently also a legal term. There is as well the concept of presentism in Philosophy. It’s unrelated to the concept as it’s used in literary and historical analysis. Surprisingly, that infallible source has
very English in appearance…” There is a fellow on Gab who posts a daily Project Gutenberg Release notes to the Old Books group. This one naturally caught my eye (orig. published 1899). It is a bibliography, with many annotated entries. Church, by the way, also wrote The Iliad for Boys and Girls (1907) that we
I have no original thoughts this morning so I wondered what I was thinking around this date in years past. And look what I found! At the end I comment on cleaning my desk. I actually remember doing this. It was over loaded with books. What’s amazing is that I’ve managed to keep it underloaded.
I wrote about Paddleford last March when I posted the recipe for Ruth Thornton’s Stuffed Peppers. Some years ago I took an online class, Writing American Food. Among the food and restaurant critics, cooks and authors the course covered was the “first food journalist,” Clementine Paddleford (1898-1967). She was a hoot. While based in New York,
He gave them a brief relation of all the adventures that had befallen him. This is going to be a fun book to read. First published in 1808, mine is the Platt & Peck Co. edition from 1902. We’ll read along together in the next few days. Consider hitting the tip jar. What other blog
The Bat Poet Randall Jarrell. Maurice Sendak, illus. Harper Collins, New York. 1964. (reprinted, 1992) They just don’t write ’em like this anymore. Or if they do, I haven’t found them and that’s too bad. As you know, I’ve been spending a lot of my life in the last year or so looking at children’s
Reposting today Crappy Old Quote of the Day | NO. 138 Originally published on July 4, 2020 Cato’s Farewell John Trenchard & Thomas Gordon The London Journal, Saturday, July 27, 1723 “SIR, As I have with a success which no man has yet met with (if I regard the number of my readers, and the sale of
Good morning, afternoon, or evening as the case may be! Today I was sidetracked. I need to do a little write up on the Phoenicians and it occurred to me that there might be something in my Horizon Magazine (scroll down a bit) collection that would be more than what I’m finding in encyclopedia and online.
According to Mencken, along with another word highfalutin is a useful word; it is impossible, not employing them to convey the ideas behind them without circumlocution. The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States Fourth Edition (1980, 1st 1919) A true Americanism. Now you know.
From “Book hunting as a sport,” an address from James Westfall Thompson to the Caxton Club of Chicago, 1907 (published 1908). Full address here. “It is a truism that a man is known by his friends. Show me a man’s library, and I will tell you what kind of man he is.” “The element of
Some years ago I took an online class, Writing American Food. Among the food and restaurant critics, cooks and authors the course covered was the “first food journalist,” Clementine Paddleford (1898-1967). She was a hoot. While based in New York, she traveled the county to discover “how America eats”– even went so far as to
DEAR common flower, that grow’st beside the way,Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold!First pledge of blithesome May,Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold—High-hearted buccaneers, o’erjoyed that they 5An Eldorado in the grass have found,Which not the rich earth’s ample roundMay match in wealth!—thou art more dear to meThan all the prouder summer-blooms may
Most recently finished shelves. These are up against the back of the sofa and help define the breakfast “room”. On the left are histories of literatures, books about certain periods, anthologies, and the like. Here’s what happens during the non-book cleaning time of year. I will get a crappy old book, or discover one in
Toward a Logic of Historical Thought David Hackett Fischer (1970) Historians’ Fallacies (2) dealt with the organization of the book, the general topic of question framing, and the fallacy of false dichotomous questions. Misology was a general introduction to the book with some fun quotes. The overarching theme of this series of posts is that
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