#thomaslovepeacock — Public Fediverse posts

“In the mean time, he drank Madeira, and laid deep schemes for a thorough repair of the crazy fabric of human nature.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/11/in-the-mean-time-he-drank-madeira-and-laid-deep-schemes-for-a-thorough-repair-of-the-crazy-fabric-of-human-nature/

#book #crazy #deepSchemes #drank #EnglishDrama #fabric #gothic #humanNature #InTheMeanTime #laid #Madeira #quote #repair #ThomasLovePeacock #thorough

“But synthetical reasoning, setting up as its goal some unattainable abstraction, like an imaginary quantity in algebra, and commencing its course with taking for granted some two assertions which cannot be proved, from the union of these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of the human intellect.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/08/13/but-synthetical-reasoning-setting-up-as-its-goal-some-unattainable-abstraction-like-an-imaginary-quantity-in-algebra-and-commencing-its-course-with-taking-for-granted-some-two-assertions-which-ca/

> .. the quintessence of all the war-songs.. the sum and substance of all the appetencies, tendencies, and consequences of #MilitaryGlory:

> .. We made an expedition;
We met a host, and quelled it;
We forced a strong position.
And killed the men who held it..
> ..Fierce warriors rushed to meet us;
We met them, and o'erthrew them;
They struggled hard to beat us;
But we conquered them, and slew them.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/War_Song_of_Dinas_Vawr
#WarSong #WarSongs #ThomasLovePeacock #ThomasPeacock #Poetry