tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8147494454619184838..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: QueryFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-74003159867567444642015-11-02T03:49:51.572+00:002015-11-02T03:49:51.572+00:00A lot of people liked Ossian. I've read a litt...A lot of people liked Ossian. I've read a little of it, and it isn't bad as 18th century Celtic story collections go. It does accurately reproduce the tone of a lot of real 18th century translations of Gaelic, and it does sorta follow the real Fenian stuff. Also it helps with a lot of references in literature.<br /><br />Of course, the really hard work is to collate between the Fenian Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-20195482623597112272015-11-01T16:50:21.413+00:002015-11-01T16:50:21.413+00:00Dear GOR,
"When the truth is found to be lie...Dear GOR, <br />"When the truth is found to be lies/And all the joy within you dies..."<br />Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-89335158231103522932015-10-30T20:41:37.437+00:002015-10-30T20:41:37.437+00:00Titus is spot-on. I never cease to marvel at how ...Titus is spot-on. I never cease to marvel at how many people think Jefferson had a hand in the formulation of the American Constitution....it was actually a good thing he was out of the country at the time.. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035162506462553288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91255500564076889442015-10-30T08:12:25.270+00:002015-10-30T08:12:25.270+00:00Romulus, but surely the South will rise again? Do...Romulus, but surely the South will rise again? Don't know about the Ursulines.Tony Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10862727279147129707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49270081595278317262015-10-30T08:02:22.669+00:002015-10-30T08:02:22.669+00:00The whole Church v State issue is the reason for t...The whole Church v State issue is the reason for the American failure in the ME, North Africa and Mesopotamia. Of couse, the West German experiment is the template for all of this and the Catholic Church has been in the firing line ever since. With German "feologians" acting as agents for this American century project, it is baffling how none of the popes have made the link. A little Sadie Vacantisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823532366874114366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-53905828630893314342015-10-30T02:25:05.227+00:002015-10-30T02:25:05.227+00:00This Jefferson too was an opinionated alienator, s...This Jefferson too was an opinionated alienator, self-absorbed, who fancied himself extremely highly, enough to bowdlerize the Bible and to compose a Constitution which expressed what his admirers consider his greatness as a political philospher, who created problems from which the world is still suffering. He too was sexually incontinent. But he made himself the opposite of unpleasant to Roman Figulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13549064050271896212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56613153807387511642015-10-30T01:06:18.469+00:002015-10-30T01:06:18.469+00:00According to Robert Sobel's history of North A...According to Robert Sobel's history of North America from the failed colonial rebellion of 1775-1778, Jefferson was one of the intellectual leaders of the American rebellion, having had a major hand in the drafting of what the rebels called "The Declaration of Independence." Of the 56 signers of that document, Jefferson was one of seven who were tried, convicted, and executed in Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14035162506462553288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38344916243812859392015-10-29T23:51:35.870+00:002015-10-29T23:51:35.870+00:00Thomas Jefferson was not the primary author of the...Thomas Jefferson was not the primary author of the United States Constitution. The work of James Madison was a far more substantial contribution. Indeed, Jefferson was not even in the country at the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified, as he was serving as minister to France for United States government under the country's first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. <br /><Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905201479928703850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-4384547652220277092015-10-29T22:44:49.382+00:002015-10-29T22:44:49.382+00:00We have a school here under that name: Colegio Tho...We have a school here under that name: Colegio Thomas Jefferson. I wonder if they have a Juan Domingo Perón College in the States. I hope not!<br />Anyway, I just wonder how many time we have to wait to see a Colegio Barack Hussein Obama here. We have a fancy for that sort of things.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12634293172724647135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88817753368234757032015-10-29T21:18:59.784+00:002015-10-29T21:18:59.784+00:00For what it's worth, in the summer of 1804 the...For what it's worth, in the summer of 1804 there was an exchange of letters between President Jefferson and Sr. Therese de St. Xavier Farjon, superior of the Ursuline nuns in the recently-acquired city of New Orleans. In his reply, President Jefferson assures the Ursulines that their rights would be "preserved to you sacred and inviolate... without interference from the civil authority.Romulushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18071095565318181930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-5405706759781078372015-10-29T20:46:49.212+00:002015-10-29T20:46:49.212+00:00I think Father was being rhetorical, people.
I’m ...I think Father was being rhetorical, people.<br /><br />I’m sure he was not thinking of Jefferson Airplane – a sometime rock band which also performed in Britain - and none of whose ‘hits’ I can now recall, if I ever knew of them…GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71029961530819796152015-10-29T20:13:22.283+00:002015-10-29T20:13:22.283+00:00All wrong. Clearly the reference is to Jefferson ...All wrong. Clearly the reference is to Jefferson Davis, the first and so far only president of the CSA.Tony Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10862727279147129707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56115144864973709262015-10-29T18:45:13.549+00:002015-10-29T18:45:13.549+00:00I believe he's that fellow who's often cit...I believe he's that fellow who's often cited about a "wall of separation between church and state," as if that remark, in a private letter, was an infallible statement ex cathedra regarding the proper interpretation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but who as president sent to the U.S. Senate for ratification a treaty that provided for a stipend to be paid by theSeamushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065227784774273923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-76177311475515130822015-10-29T18:15:40.085+00:002015-10-29T18:15:40.085+00:00Thomas Jefferson the second President of the Unite...Thomas Jefferson the second President of the United States.<br /><br />"Thomas Jefferson did not write many poems, although he had a great appreciation for poetry. He read and quoted widely from poets such as Homer, Virgil, John Dryden, and John Milton. Ossian was a special source of pleasure." (http://loc.gov/rr/program/bib/prespoetry/tj.html)<br /><br />He was tutored by a Scots Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-24071408795756580842015-10-29T16:56:11.017+00:002015-10-29T16:56:11.017+00:00I think it is more than slightly disingenuous to d...I think it is more than slightly disingenuous to describe the Emperor Napoleon III as being merely the 'family' of his uncle, being a most illustrious successor and despite some errors and some misfortunes (which is why he, his Empress, and his son now rest at Farnborough) was perhaps the most successful and competent ruler of France since Louis XIV, without the severe over-reach and Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15068840602443958297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49182994223149671862015-10-29T16:32:47.690+00:002015-10-29T16:32:47.690+00:00The Jefferson in question is Thomas Jefferson the ...The Jefferson in question is Thomas Jefferson the 3rd US President. Dr Johnson said of MacPherson's 'translations' of tales from old Gaelic sources (i.e. Irish and highland Scots) that: 'Any man could write this stuff -- if he would stoop to it'Paulusmaximushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14183126491509874339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67036234941932787932015-10-29T16:03:03.234+00:002015-10-29T16:03:03.234+00:00Thomas of that ilk but the Americans will provide ...Thomas of that ilk but the Americans will provide lower level knowledge. They might wish to clarify if it was Andrew Jackson who claimed that America's constitution (of which TJ was the main author) was flawed because it was predicated on its adherents being Christian.Sadie Vacantisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823532366874114366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67005032712527983582015-10-29T14:51:56.393+00:002015-10-29T14:51:56.393+00:00Is Fr. rhetoricizing? For the Jefferson that comes...Is Fr. rhetoricizing? For the Jefferson that comes to mind was an opinionated... foreign-enough a fellow... perhaps may have been self-absorbed, certainly fancied himself enough to compose 'Constitutions' but more: insited every Constitution must be torn up after a generation! On his eternal authority, there shall be NO Traditions! And yes, he may very well have been unpleasant to Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-23850854363643023932015-10-29T14:10:32.623+00:002015-10-29T14:10:32.623+00:00Well, whatever else he might have been, he was not...Well, whatever else he might have been, he was not incontinent.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905201479928703850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67587435847545283392015-10-29T12:55:55.588+00:002015-10-29T12:55:55.588+00:00I believe it is Thomas Jefferson, a US statesman a...I believe it is Thomas Jefferson, a US statesman and President.Liam Ronanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01376666519733160167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8072144172690541682015-10-29T12:36:57.719+00:002015-10-29T12:36:57.719+00:00On this side of the Atlantic, we would assume that...On this side of the Atlantic, we would assume that the reference is to Thomas Jefferson, revolutionary, President, author of Constiutional Law, and founder of the University of Virginia.<br />Infamous amongst Christians for the "Jefferson Bible -- an Authorized Version from which he snipped any miraculous bits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43822836117524979782015-10-29T12:14:09.922+00:002015-10-29T12:14:09.922+00:00Thomas Jefferson, American President?Thomas Jefferson, American President?Philotheahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802767855842850666noreply@blogger.com