Saturday, 7 November 2009

A Question

“Is Society become wholly a bag of wind, then, ballasted by guineas?”

Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. V: May 1850: Stump-Orator (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850), p.163.

5 comments:

  1. Aye aye. But the guineas may be cut adrift.

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  2. And now with added graphics..........

    Next thing you know there will be YouTube links.

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  3. Fancy, eh? Fear not: I have no plans for linking to YouTube.

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