February 2011
10 posts
“‘Try to insure that everything in life has a...”
– Walter Benjamin, unpublished fragment, Gesammelte Schriften, VI, 205-206
“For I am he of whose genius you are the symbol: part brute, part woman, and part...”
– Julius Caesar to the Sphinx, Caesar and Cleopatra, George Bernard Shaw
“[What J.Q. Adams hilariously claims makes modern oratory better than the oratory...”
– John Quincy Adams, Ibid.
“[Aristotle] selects from the whole mass of habits and affections, which hold...”
– John Quincy Adams “Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory,” Harvard, 1806
