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by pattymarie
March 26th, 2024, 11:06 am
Forum: Going Solo
Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 29
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Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa

I agree, Pattymarie, and I love your word louche! Actually, I love the whole paragraph you wrote. Thanks! Pam :) That's the first time I've used that word in my own right. I learned it years ago from a woman applying it to some of the leaders of the crusades in a review of a book about those ventur...
by pattymarie
March 19th, 2024, 3:03 pm
Forum: Going Solo
Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 29
Views: 864

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa

Sectıons 7 and 8 are pl ok. I loved Creighton's extensive and superbly articulate portrait of Aeneas's louche character eloquently limning a myriad of details that many people today would sum up with a vulgar epithet or two. Creighton's encapsulation of all Aeneas's disgraceful traits and deeds as &...
by pattymarie
March 11th, 2024, 1:22 pm
Forum: Going Solo
Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 29
Views: 864

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa

pnagami wrote: March 11th, 2024, 6:42 am Hi Pattymarie,

...we both know, for whatever reason!

Pam
For me it's growing up in a time and place in which Latin was taught at the public high school and translating parts of the Aeneid, then reading the whole epic in English translation in college world lit.
by pattymarie
March 10th, 2024, 1:25 pm
Forum: Going Solo
Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 29
Views: 864

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa

Sections 5 and 6 are pl ok. I wonder how many people today know who Anchises was, or even Aeneas, at least in the mythology enshrined in the Aeneid.
by pattymarie
March 9th, 2024, 4:47 pm
Forum: Readers Wanted: Books
Topic: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot
Replies: 42
Views: 2418

Re: [RELIGION/BIOS] From Life to Life; or How Our Preachers Die, by William Marion Weekley -brrot

Section 10 is pl ok. Thanks, Larry. I'll put in a claim for section 11 if you have time to proof it.
by pattymarie
February 27th, 2024, 5:33 am
Forum: Going Solo
Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 29
Views: 864

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa

Sections 2 and 3 are pl ok. I'll try to get to section 4 this evening. :)
by pattymarie
February 20th, 2024, 9:58 am
Forum: Going Solo
Topic: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 29
Views: 864

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol III by Mandell Creighton - loa

Section 2 pl notes: Oh dear, a teacher of English as a foreign language is jolted by the sound of an adjective where there should be an adverb as in the clause, "each strove to end its neutrality favourably to himself." It's found just a little way down from the mid-point of page 25 and, c...
by pattymarie
February 5th, 2024, 1:42 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 121
Views: 11428

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa

Sections 41 and 42 are pl ok. Once again the one little thing I thought might be a mistake, turned out to be in keeping with the text. I thought "prince of Christendom" might ought to have been in the plural, meaning the several kings in Europe, but singular it is, apparently meaning the H...
by pattymarie
February 2nd, 2024, 3:07 pm
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 121
Views: 11428

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa

Yes. I'm still sometimes amazed that I actually live here, so even coming back from Paris isn't a huge change in historic and artistic interest of my surroundings. I looked up the cannon and found that it was designed and built by a man named Orban (or Urban) whose nationality is disputed, probably ...
by pattymarie
February 2nd, 2024, 9:55 am
Forum: Completed Projects
Topic: [COMPLETE] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa
Replies: 121
Views: 11428

Re: [Solo History] A History of the Papacy, Vol II by Mandell Creighton - loa

Section 40 is pl ok. Interesting to get into the details of things I knew the broad brush strokes of. During the pandemic I taught private English lessons for which a taxi took me almost every morning for a ride along the western land walls of Constantinople and past Edirne (Adrianople) gate where M...