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Wren, Locke, John Evelyn, Nicholas Barbon a property speculator via The Economist 2008-06-07-13 p97

"the key to the predominance of the United States and England has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. Mead explains how this helped create a culture uniquely adapted to capitalism, a system that brought both English-speaking powers to a pinnacle of global power and prestige. Where some see an end to history and others a clash of civilizations, Mead sees the current conflicts in the Middle East as the latest challenge to the liberal, capitalist, and democratic world system that the Anglo-Americans are trying to build. What we need now, he says, is a diplomacy of civilizations based on a deeper understanding of the recurring conflicts between the liberal world system and its foes."

"“Lycidas,” like much of Milton’s longer poetry, takes a nugget of actual narrative—the friend’s shipwreck—and blows it up to allegorical proportions with elaborate allusions, classical forms, a concern for immortality both poetic and spiritual, and even a digressive attack on greedy bishops. But if the allusions escape contemporary readers, and we’re never quite sure why his friend Edward is called Lycidas, there is a deep music that sweeps over the reader like the drowning sea at the heart of the poem: “Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. / And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.” In the end, the poem manages to enact the stages of mourning for a body lost at sea, and to achieve a resolution of psalmlike authority and Christian consolation, fused with unexpected emotional immediacy:"

http://www.google.com/notebook/public/17894154587286929730/BDQ7XSgoQnJ-t3pYj I'm listening to and enjoying these. "Introductory lecture on Old English given by Dr S. D. Lee, University of Oxford, 11/11/07. 'Who, where, what, when?'. Email: stuart.lee@ell.ox.ac.uk" via http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/skip-the-tuition:-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-world

"* The Dream of the Rood * The Battle of Maldon * The Wanderer * The Wife's Lament * Beowulf: The Fight with Grendel * Beowulf: The Lament of the Last Survivor * Beowulf: Beowulf's Funeral * Ælfric's Life of St Edmund * Bede's account of the poet Cædmon * New Facebook Group: Old English"

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"He gathered much of that evidence himself, disguised, while he hung out at bars and taverns. For all the barriers placed to prosecution, and separating the branches of government, English law still had ancient and formidable customs of authority. Newton was made a justice of the peace and between June 1698 and Christmas 1699 conducted some 200 cross-examinations of witnesses, informers and suspects. Newton won his convictions and in February 1699, he had ten prisoners waiting to be executed. Possibly Newton's greatest triumph as the king's attorney was against William Chaloner. One of Chaloner's schemes was to set up phony conspiracies of Catholics and then turn in the hapless conspirators whom he entrapped. Chaloner made himself rich enough to posture as a gentleman. Petitioning Parliament, Chaloner accused the Mint of providing tools to counterfeiters (a charge also made by others). He proposed that he be allowed to inspect the Mint's processes in order to improve them. He petitioned Parliament to adopt his plans for a coinage that could not be counterfeited, while at the same time striking false coins. Newton was outraged, and went about the work to uncover anything about Chaloner. During his studies, he found that Chaloner was engaged in counterfeiting. He immediately put Chaloner on trial, but Mr Chaloner had friends in high places, and to Newton's horror, Chaloner walked free. Newton put him on trial a second time with conclusive evidence. Chaloner was convicted of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered on 23 March 1699 at Tyburn gallows.[31]"

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