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Ancient Glittering Eyes
on Bertrand Russell
on Bertrand Russell
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[...] Russell has debated philosophy with Wittgenstein and fiction with Conrad and D. H. Lawrence, he has argued economics with Keynes and civil disobedience with Gandhi, his open letters have provoked Stalin to a reply and Lyndon Johnson to exasperation. [...]
and of course he wrote about mathematical logic and philosophy (most notably in Principia Mathematica along with Alfred North Whitehead)
[...] Russell has debated philosophy with Wittgenstein and fiction with Conrad and D. H. Lawrence, he has argued economics with Keynes and civil disobedience with Gandhi, his open letters have provoked Stalin to a reply and Lyndon Johnson to exasperation. [...]
and of course he wrote about mathematical logic and philosophy (most notably in Principia Mathematica along with Alfred North Whitehead)
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"This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it me in a claret glass."
a Bertrand Russell anecdote (apparently William Gladstone said it in Bertrand Russell's vicinity)
"This is very good port they have given me, but why have they given it me in a claret glass."
a Bertrand Russell anecdote (apparently William Gladstone said it in Bertrand Russell's vicinity)
covey
(en)
(noun) a mature bird or pair of birds with a brood of young / (noun) a small flock / (noun) company group
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He was the grandson of a Prime Minister and cousin or nephew to a covey of military, diplomatic, and ecclesiastical worthies.
on Bertrand Russell
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He was the grandson of a Prime Minister and cousin or nephew to a covey of military, diplomatic, and ecclesiastical worthies.
on Bertrand Russell
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6 years, 11 months ago
espalier
(en)
(noun) a plant (as a fruit tree) trained to grow flat against a support (as a wall) / (noun) a railing or trellis on which fruit trees or shrubs are trained to grow flat / (verb) to train as an espalier / (verb) to furnish with an espalier
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This was the England of espaliers and velvet lawns
forgot the meaning
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This was the England of espaliers and velvet lawns
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[...] But Russell's Jacobinism is high Tory; it springs from the certitude that birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept. [...] True politics are the art of securing elbowroom for the best; they will alienate the squalor in the world at large that embarrasses or dissipates the life of the mind. [...]
Bertrand Russell was born and brought up an aristrocrat: grandson of a Prime Minister; extended family definitely in the ruling class (Whig aristrocracy of Victorian England)
[...] But Russell's Jacobinism is high Tory; it springs from the certitude that birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept. [...] True politics are the art of securing elbowroom for the best; they will alienate the squalor in the world at large that embarrasses or dissipates the life of the mind. [...]
Bertrand Russell was born and brought up an aristrocrat: grandson of a Prime Minister; extended family definitely in the ruling class (Whig aristrocracy of Victorian England)
coterie
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(noun) an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose
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the small, vibrant coterie of Apostles to which he belonged at Cambridge
on Bertrand Russell
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the small, vibrant coterie of Apostles to which he belonged at Cambridge
on Bertrand Russell
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6 years, 11 months ago
precept
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(noun) a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action / (noun) an order issued by legally constituted authority to a subordinate official
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birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept
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birth and genius are impose both the right and the obligation of moral precept
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misericord
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(noun) a small projection on the bottom of a hinged church seat that gives support to a standing worshiper when the seat is turned up
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