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Sir Walter Scott Foresees Obama Reelection, End of U.S. (Vanity)

Posted on 11/13/2012 8:28:56 PM PST by kreitzer

"It has been thrown away like a child's broken toy. Well, transeat, the good sense of the people is much trusted to; we shall see what it will do for us. The curse of Cromwell on those whose conceit brough us to this pass. Sed transeat. It is vain to mourn what cannot be mended."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: vanity
Was reading Kirk's "The Conservative Mind" and found this.
1 posted on 11/13/2012 8:29:01 PM PST by kreitzer
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To: kreitzer

I love Scott. And appropriately, I was just sitting here looking at Ivanhoe gathering dust next to my computer and thinking I need to read it again.


2 posted on 11/13/2012 8:33:08 PM PST by nagelbett
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To: kreitzer

I have that on my Kindle and will be heading there shortly.


3 posted on 11/13/2012 8:40:05 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: kreitzer

Don’t get the point. Lots of emo around here.

Vain.


4 posted on 11/13/2012 9:07:49 PM PST by stanne
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To: kreitzer

Bookmark.


5 posted on 11/13/2012 9:53:32 PM PST by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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