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Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
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Oh, look! 📜 Another "Letters of Note" entry where Bertrand Russell, the Swiss Army knife of intellectuals 🧠, flexes his verbal muscles against Oswald Mosley. Because nothing screams "fascinating" like reading the 1962 equivalent of an email rant.📫🤦♂️
https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/ #LettersOfNote #BertrandRussell #OswaldMosley #IntellectualDebate #1962Rant #Fascism #HackerNews #ngated -
Letters of Note – Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley
https://lettersofnote.com/2016/02/02/every-ounce-of-my-energy/
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