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PREOCCUPIED WITH GOODNESS: Almost Forgivable Appetites For Life
Tom Jones was perpetually in delicate situations. As Henry Fielding remarked in one of his digressions,” It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions are intrinsically good; you must take care that they appear so.” Tom was … Continue reading
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LURKING DISASTERS THAT AWAIT ALL GOOD MEN
Peter Pumpkinhead came to town Spreading wisdom and cash around Fed the starving and housed the poor Showed the vatican what gold’s for But he made too many enemies Of the people who would keep us on our knees Hooray … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Rawson, Cervantes, Claude Rawson, Francisco Goya, G.M. Godden, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Fielding, Horace Walpole, James Gillray, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Larry Laban, Mary Vidal, Oliver Goldsmith, Pablo Picasso, Paul Baines, Richard Dorment, Robert Walpole, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Thomas Gray, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian Venus of Urbino, William Makepiece Thackeray, William Shenstone
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MALICE and the MISSISSIPPI
”For a time Europeans had invented an AMERICA peopled by noble savages, men uncorrupted by civilization; as Montaigne wrote, quoting Seneca, they were “fresh from the gods”. But Europe has never stopped reinventing the New World. The eighteenth-century debate took … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Corneille de Pauw, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Brendan O'Conner, Colin Farrell, Comte de Buffon, Dr. Johnson, Dr. William Robertson, E. Adamson Hoebel, Eve Kornfeld, Guillaume Thomas Raynal, Horace Walpole, Immanuel Kant, Jacques le Moyne, James Ceasar, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Lee Alan Dugatkin, Marlene Zuk, Oliver Goldsmith, Robertson History of America, Samuel Johnson, susan manning, Theodore de Bry, Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire
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