All the President’s Mien by Theodore Dalrymple.
Theodore Dalrymple on The Food Police.Jacques Barzun on Administering and the Law:
“Administering as opposed to administration may be defined by this example. Some years ago a distinguished physician in Boston was doing research on several related afflictions characterized by anemia. He developed a new treatment, which included a strictly controlled diet. One day, entering a patient’s room, he met the nurse coming out with the lunch tray, where he saw each of the prescribed dishes eaten only in part or not at all. He had a sudden revelation of his oversight. The carefully measured gluten, proteins… waisberg.micro.blog
Patrick Kurp on Joseph Epstein
Collections of English Translations of the Odes. Update: 53 Translations Added!172 translations of Solvitur Acris Hiems (Odes I.4) 218 translations of Vides Ut Alta (Odes I.9) 223 translations of Carpe Diem (Odes I.11) 249 translations of Integer Vitae (Odes I.22) 181 translations of Vitas Hinnuleo (Odes… waisberg.micro.blog
Another year! – another deadly blow! Another mighty Empire overthrown! And We are left, or shall be left, alone; The last that dare to struggle with the Foe. ‘Tis well! from this day forward we shall know. That in ourselves our safety must be sought; That by our own right hands it must be wrought; That we ... waisberg.micro.blog
Broken Codes of Conduct by Theodore Dalrymple.
New Collection of Translations: 232 English Translations of Horace’s Persicos Odi (Odes I.38). Including Translations by: William Cowper, Hartley Coleridge, William Makepeace Thackeray, C. S. Calverley, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Austin Dobson, Willa Cather, Franklin P. Adams, Ford Madox Ford, and Muriel Spark.
New Collection of Translations:
Collections of English Translations of the Odes (Updated):169 translations of Solvitur Acris Hiems (Odes I.4) – NEW! 207 translations of Vides Ut Alta (Odes I.9) 220 translations of Carpe Diem (Odes I.11) 245 translations of Integer Vitae (Odes I.22) 175 translations of Vitas Hinnuleo (Odes I.23) 162 tra… waisberg.micro.blog
A friend of ours who is not Catholic remarked that changing long-held religious beliefs makes it harder to believe, since what was once accepted as made by God is now presented as made by man.
The great secret of reading the New Testament is to read it. —Margaret T. Monro, Enjoying the New Testament, p. 23
Those who receive the Body with unworthy dispositions have in store for them the same punishment as those who pierced it through with nails. —St. John Chrysostom
The will is free but weak.
This present life is the time for penance and for the remission of sins; in the life to come, the just judgment of retribution will take place. —St. Basil
Who are you, shipwrecked man? Leontichus found My corpse on the shore and over it heaped this mound, Bewailing his own sad life, for neither is he At peace, but flits like a sea-gull over the sea. —Challimachus (tr. Maurice Baring)
The best claim that a college education can possibly make on your respect, the best thing it can aspire to accomplish for you, is this: that it should help you to know a good man when you see him. —William James, “The Social Value of the College Bred”
Higher education hasn’t been doing this.
New Collection of Translations:
Wicked conversations corrupt good characters. —St. Cyrian
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Corinthians 15:33, Menander?, Euripides?
Sheep and Goats
All the nations will be gathered…. Lord, when did we …. Lord, when did we …. Sc. 78, Matthew 25: 32, 37, 44
This must mean that numbered among the sheep and the goats will be many who didn’t know Christ.
Also: Observe how they had failed in mercifulness, not in one or two respects only, but in all. —Chrysostom. This means that succeeding in one or two respects is sufficient to be a sheep. For some sheep it may be enough to be anti-abortion and not pro-life, with all that pro-life is said to be.