Dec 25, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “‘You are my son.'”

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(Dominus dixit ad me: Fill-) us meus es tu. Ego hodie genu- i te. Ps(alm). Quare fre-(muerunt gentes) In sole posuit...

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Dec 24, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “…the world was subject to him.”

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(orbis terraru(m) erat subdit(us) illi Ps(alm) Domini est t(erra) Euouae V. Exquirebant pue- rum Maria et Joseph Re. Inter cognotoes et notos exin Pastores in- venerunt Mari- the world/universe was subject to him. The earth is the Lord's...

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Dec 11, 2018 Hillacre Bookhouse: Fed Up With Fads, Wary of Cults, and Independent Enough

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“At Riverside, Connecticut, between the road and the river, lies an acre of land, long and narrow and tilted up a little toward the west, so that the dwellers by the road at the top may look across the valley to the setting sun. Half...

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Dec 08, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “…bone now from my bones…”

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V. Os nu(n)c de ossibus meis et caro de carn(e) mea. R. Fortitudo et decor indume(n)tum eius: byssus et purpura...

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Dec 03, 2018 Book of the Week — Prayers Written at Vailima

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"Deliver us from fear and favor; from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have mercy on each in his deficiency; let him not be cast down; support the stumbling on the way, and give at last rest to the weary." -- Robert Louis Stevenson Prayers Written at...

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Nov 30, 2018 Medieval Latin Hymn Fragment: “…of the Apostle and, embalming it with spices,…”

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(Maximilla Christo amabilis corpus) Apolstoli optimo loco cum aro- matibus sepelivit Ps(alm) Laudate pue(ri) A(ntiphon) (Maximilla, a woman dear to Christ, too the body) of the Apostle and, embalming it with spices, buried it in the most honored place. Psalm. Praise the Lord, O you servants...

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Nov 19, 2018 Book of the Week — Turkeys and Trees

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"'Why don't we just stay poor,' said Mother, 'we're good at that.' 'Well alright, if that's what you want, but I met this guy who raises baby pigs, and he...

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Nov 12, 2018 Book of the Week — Geographie des dames, ou, Almanach geographique-historique

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"[This] little work...

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Nov 05, 2018 Remember, Remember the Fifth of November

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"That Catesby, Winter, Fawlks with many other Traitours lately attainted of high treason, would blowe vp with Gun-powder in the Parliament house, the King, the Prince, the Lls. Spirituall and Temporall, the Iudges of the realme, the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, and many other subjects...

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Oct 29, 2018 Book of the Week — The Pit and the Pendulum

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Very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound -- the tumultuous motion of the heart, and, in my ears, the sound of its beating. Then a pause in which all is blank. Then again sound, and motion, and touch -- a tingling...

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