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Towards your subjects, act with such justice that you may steer a middle course, swerving neither to the right nor to the left, but lean more to the side of the poor man than...
Editor's Corner
‘Conservatives’ Inc, and Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize
The saying goes that politics is a mugs' game, the art of the possible and the practical and all that, and we must take what we can get - the crumbs off the master's...
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Sunday Musical Selection
To hear some virtuoso violin, treat yourself to Bach's Partita in B minor (BWV 1002), first published in 1720, for solo violin, as performed by the incomparable Hilary Hahn:
https://youtu.be/iEBX_ouEw1I
And, taking two centuries back in...
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I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid. (Pope Saint John Paul II)
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Has anyone ever come away from her troubled or saddened or ignorant of the heavenly mysteries? Who has not returned to everyday life gladdened and joyful because his request had been granted by the...
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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity. There are those who seek knowledge...
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Sunday Musical Selection: Tartini and Palestrina
There are a lot of rumours about Guiseppe Tartini (1692 - 1770), a prodigious Baroque composer, who purportedly locked himself away to practise the violin consistently until he became a virtuoso, something parents might...
