Posted on 12/09/2018 9:17:56 AM PST by mairdie
A Russian astronomer observed the planets thru a telescope made of ice. Henry describes his observations. Ever wondered what the opinion of equality of the sexes was in 1789? Henry's position is that "Love, and all its delectable concomitants was utterly unknown there [on Venus]; as that passion exists but where equality is found or understood." Interesting?
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“A Russian astronomer observed the planets thru a telescope made of ice.”
Must have had some good weed in those days.
Did Livingston include the world of Australia?
Yep. That’s my website, too. I bought the 1791 volume, so have the best copy of that article. One of the fun ones was removed. Sigh.
No memory that he ever addressed Australia. He did write of the Eskimos in Canada, and of dinasaur bones found during an expedition by Yale, as I remember.
Henry’s imagination didn’t seem to need exotic substances. He got off on wild stories of small, flying objects, miniature baby houses for a little girl, a trip he made to the moon by accident, stories from the point of view of a pine tree and of a lump of gold in the ground. Nothing about him was conventional. His daughter wrote how he would set the table into hysterical laughter one minute, and drown them in tears with another tale the next.
I had to read something like this in one of my politics classes in college. When I wrote my paper, after having had to suffer through the s’s that look like f’s, I took special care to place f’s where the s’s were just like in what I had had to read. My profeffor was only slightly amufed.
Don’t you mean you proseffer waf only flightly amufed?
(CONTINUITY!)
That’s funny!
It took me a while to learn to read the old newspapers. I’m STILL having trouble with a few words in Henry’s letters. Which is why I only had Byron read one of them.
Captain Cook landed here in 1770, described the place as being unproductive and dry, the animals peculiar...and the naked natives living in the Stone Age. Not much to write about imo.
Thanks mairdie. I'm reminded of something Tolkien wrote, that he hated allegory in all its form, so he objected to some reviews that regarded his LOTR as an allegory.
This topic was posted , thanks mairdie for posting it, thanks all for reading it. I'm enjoying my end of the year check for missed topics.
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