I've been with you regarding Sam's Navy commitment to value for money, but was rather blown away by the evidence that presented itself (sic!), and I displayed, "the supposed Creed scam", while regarding him as 'a very rogue' (Robert Gertz's "sly skunk"; but today's entry sounds truer to the cost- and time-accounting Sam. He does, however, have more than one thing troubling his conscience (personified by Coventry, his super-ego): -- the erroneous pay-bill for Creed; his mixed feelings about Batten; and his own estimated standing and prospects in the Navy Office.
PEPYS'S PAIN a letter By William Matthews to The New York Review of Books in reply to an Oct. 8, 1970, review of the L&M edition of Pepys's Diary, sc. "O Calcutta!" By Matthew Hodgart (in part):
"Professor Hodgart disputes about Pepys's stone. It was not a kidney stone, he says, but the size of a tennis ball. Our editorial note that the stone was a kidney stone is mostly based on the fact that after Pepys's death seven stones were found in his left kidney. Professor Hodgart's tennis ball comes ultimately from Evelyn, who said Pepys's stone was that size. But it is important to remember that tennis balls change size, and that seventeenth-century tennis balls were considerably smaller than those used by Pancho Gonzalez; I think they were about one inch in diameter. One thing to remember in connection with even this smaller stone is that the operation was a scarifying experience from which Pepys might well have died; another is that he passed more stones during the diary period and that he frequently suffered excruciating pain; a third is that he, a man who loved children, was somehow cheated of having children." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1… The Hodgart review, linked to this letter, is accessible in full to subscribers to the NYRB.
Those who seemed to be co-conspirators in "graft" or "lagniappe", Messrs. Creed and Pepys, now appear to deplore the schemes of Lord Rutherford and others "to have the profit of victualling of the garrison...and...the benefit of making the Mole".... Or are Sam and Creed confessing to themselves a maximk universal and (thank you, On Water Writ) ancient that applies to themselves as well? And what, indeed, is the answer to the question posed by Ding Kalis?
Per Robert Gertz, "For fun, a link to a memoir of the court of Louis XIV by the Duke of Saint-Simon. Interesting to get an eyewitness view from the other side…" http://pglaf.org/~widger/folder/c… Madame Maintenon in Conferance—painted by Sir John Gilbert
is always used by Sam when he visits Westminster Hall. http://www.gyford.com/cgi-sys/cgi… 3 February 1659/60: About noon Mrs. Turner came to speak with me, and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them the manner of the Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door for us. Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys, it being term time
It may be OT to observe that the tradition of trompe l’oeuil continued in Holland for over 300 years, influenced and was visually analyzed by Maurits C. Escher (1898-1972) (made more famous by *Gödel, Escher, Bach* by Douglas Hofstadter). Here is Escher's Gallery 1946 http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/b…
The beginning of the term of Parliament's sitting at Westminster Hall.
(Though this is the fourth time Sam has attended it and called it so, it is not in either L&M's Select or Greater Glosssaries, and there was as yet no remark on the, ah, term -- so I thought I'd make one.)
"Mazarinades are the name given to the numerous pamphlets that were printed in France before and during the Fronde (1648-1653). They take their name from Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661), who is the subject of most these tracts, and they represent the first mass use of the press for the purposes of political propaganda." For a facsimile cover of one from 1649 and Transcriptions thereof (in French) see http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Mazar…
lampoons, satires, later known as mazarinades (so L&M and others) had been issued about the Cardinal -- as though this were a new genre in the 19th century and beyond.
I've been persuaded by y'all to change my mind in favor of Chesterfield, and therefore give the nod to "(a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind". L&M concur. They have "the precedence in taking the Queens upper hand abroad out of the house, which Mr. Mountagu challenges, it was given to my Lord Chesterfield -- so that I perceive he goes down the wind, in honour as well as everything else, every day", so their punctuation -- expresssing their (editorial) view that Lord C. is the "he" in question.
Of which the Duke has been governor since 1661 and will be until 1673, when the Test Act, which barred all Catholics and Dissenters from holding administrative positions causes James to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral and go abroad.
Down the wind. (a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind. (b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] ``He went down the wind still.'' --L'Estrange. http://dict.die.net/down%20the%20…
This is but one of the names SP calls whatever-it-is about the Navy, but a while back L&M noted it doesn't seem to have survived among his carefully-preserved books, so its content will remain a mystery.
I think what's involved is something between Wheatley's "graft" and Clement's "lagniappe" (the latter bringing us back to Katrina) --
Lagniappe derives from New World Spanish la ñapa, “the gift,” and ultimately from Quechua yapay, “to give more.” The word came into the rich Creole dialect mixture of New Orleans and there acquired a French spelling. It is still used in the Gulf states, especially southern Louisiana, to denote a little bonus that a friendly shopkeeper might add to a purchase. By extension, it may mean “an extra or unexpected gift or benefit.” http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/L00…
-- but in this case the gift or benefit is expected -- by the hotel porter, the restaurant valet driver, the....
Samuel may have read Hobbes's LEVIATHAN, 1660 (probably not, but this describes the Diary)
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame; which verbal discourse cannot do, farther than the judgement shall approve of the time, place, and persons. An anatomist or physician may speak or write his judgement of unclean things; because it is not to please, but profit: but for another man to write his extravagant and pleasant fancies of the same is as if a man, from being tumbled into the dirt, should come and present himself before good company. And it is the want of discretion that makes the difference. Again, in professed remissness of mind, and familiar company, a man may play with the sounds and equivocal significations of words, and that many times with encounters of extraordinary fancy; but in a sermon, or in public, or before persons unknown, or whom we ought to reverence, there is no jingling of words that will not be accounted folly: and the difference is only in the want of discretion. So that where wit is wanting, it is not fancy that is wanting, but discretion. Judgement, therefore, without fancy is wit, but fancy without judgement, not." http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/p…
in time, perhap: AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, written in exile during the reign of the current Duke of York, appeared in 1690 with a Preamble dated 24th of May, 1689 http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/phi…
Comments
First Reading
About Thursday 29 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Minnes (Mennes) has not (so far) regaled Sam with old Navy tales like the Sir Wms did even since he (SP) cooled toward them - Sir John is a cold fish.
About Tuesday 27 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
And on the side opposite Coventry, perhaps Creed is playing Sam like a viall (he does come around and hang out).
About Tuesday 27 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
A. Hamilton
I've been with you regarding Sam's Navy commitment to value for money, but was rather blown away by the evidence that presented itself (sic!), and I displayed, "the supposed Creed scam", while regarding him as 'a very rogue' (Robert Gertz's "sly skunk"; but today's entry sounds truer to the cost- and time-accounting Sam. He does, however, have more than one thing troubling his conscience (personified by Coventry, his super-ego): -- the erroneous pay-bill for Creed; his mixed feelings about Batten; and his own estimated standing and prospects in the Navy Office.
About Bladder and kidney stones
Terry F • Link
PEPYS'S PAIN a letter By William Matthews to The New York Review of Books in reply to an Oct. 8, 1970, review of the L&M edition of Pepys's Diary, sc. "O Calcutta!" By Matthew Hodgart (in part):
"Professor Hodgart disputes about Pepys's stone. It was not a kidney stone, he says, but the size of a tennis ball. Our editorial note that the stone was a kidney stone is mostly based on the fact that after Pepys's death seven stones were found in his left kidney. Professor Hodgart's tennis ball comes ultimately from Evelyn, who said Pepys's stone was that size. But it is important to remember that tennis balls change size, and that seventeenth-century tennis balls were considerably smaller than those used by Pancho Gonzalez; I think they were about one inch in diameter. One thing to remember in connection with even this smaller stone is that the operation was a scarifying experience from which Pepys might well have died; another is that he passed more stones during the diary period and that he frequently suffered excruciating pain; a third is that he, a man who loved children, was somehow cheated of having children." http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1… The Hodgart review, linked to this letter, is accessible in full to subscribers to the NYRB.
About Tuesday 27 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Those who seemed to be co-conspirators in "graft" or "lagniappe", Messrs. Creed and Pepys, now appear to deplore the schemes of Lord Rutherford and others "to have the profit of victualling of the garrison...and...the benefit of making the Mole"....
Or are Sam and Creed confessing to themselves a maximk universal and (thank you, On Water Writ) ancient that applies to themselves as well?
And what, indeed, is the answer to the question posed by Ding Kalis?
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Per Robert Gertz, "For fun, a link to a memoir of the court of Louis XIV by the Duke of Saint-Simon. Interesting to get an eyewitness view from the other side…" http://pglaf.org/~widger/folder/c… Madame Maintenon in Conferance—painted by Sir John Gilbert
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Hans Holbein’s dizzying “The Ambassadors" 1533, National Gallery, London, UK”
http://www.abcgallery.com/H/holbe…
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Term time"
is always used by Sam when he visits Westminster Hall. http://www.gyford.com/cgi-sys/cgi…
3 February 1659/60:
About noon Mrs. Turner came to speak with me, and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them the manner of the Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door for us. Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys, it being term time
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
It may be OT to observe that the tradition of trompe l’oeuil continued in Holland for over 300 years, influenced and was visually analyzed by Maurits C. Escher (1898-1972) (made more famous by *Gödel, Escher, Bach* by Douglas Hofstadter). Here is Escher's Gallery 1946
http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/b…
(not as pertinent as Dirk's contributions!)
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Term time"
The beginning of the term of Parliament's sitting at Westminster Hall.
(Though this is the fourth time Sam has attended it and called it so, it is not in either L&M's Select or Greater Glosssaries, and there was as yet no remark on the, ah, term -- so I thought I'd make one.)
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"Mazarinades are the name given to the numerous pamphlets that were printed in France before and during the Fronde (1648-1653). They take their name from Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661), who is the subject of most these tracts, and they represent the first mass use of the press for the purposes of political propaganda." For a facsimile cover of one from 1649 and Transcriptions thereof (in French) see http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Mazar…
About Monday 26 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
pasquill
lampoons, satires, later known as mazarinades (so L&M and others) had been issued about the Cardinal -- as though this were a new genre in the 19th century and beyond.
About Sunday 25 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
“he goes down the wind”
I've been persuaded by y'all to change my mind in favor of Chesterfield, and therefore give the nod to "(a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as, birds fly swiftly down the wind".
L&M concur. They have "the precedence in taking the Queens upper hand abroad out of the house, which Mr. Mountagu challenges, it was given to my Lord Chesterfield -- so that I perceive he goes down the wind, in honour as well as everything else, every day", so their punctuation -- expresssing their (editorial) view that Lord C. is the "he" in question.
About Sunday 25 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
sir aqua writheth truth
(in however evanescent a medium, sc. virtual, subject in the long run also to lability -- tech experts are at work on this....)
About Sunday 25 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Portsmouth
Of which the Duke has been governor since 1661 and will be until 1673, when the Test Act, which barred all Catholics and Dissenters from holding administrative positions causes James to relinquish the post of Lord High Admiral and go abroad.
About Sunday 25 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"he goes down the wind"
Down the wind.
(a) In the direction of, and moving with, the wind; as,
birds fly swiftly down the wind.
(b) Decaying; declining; in a state of decay. [Obs.] ``He
went down the wind still.'' --L'Estrange.
http://dict.die.net/down%20the%20…
About Saturday 24 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"my manuscript"
This is but one of the names SP calls whatever-it-is about the Navy, but a while back L&M noted it doesn't seem to have survived among his carefully-preserved books, so its content will remain a mystery.
About Saturday 24 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
I think what's involved is something between Wheatley's "graft" and Clement's "lagniappe" (the latter bringing us back to Katrina) --
Lagniappe derives from New World Spanish la ñapa, “the gift,” and ultimately from Quechua yapay, “to give more.” The word came into the rich Creole dialect mixture of New Orleans and there acquired a French spelling. It is still used in the Gulf states, especially southern Louisiana, to denote a little bonus that a friendly shopkeeper might add to a purchase. By extension, it may mean “an extra or unexpected gift or benefit.” http://www.bartleby.com/61/80/L00…
-- but in this case the gift or benefit is expected -- by the hotel porter, the restaurant valet driver, the....
About Friday 23 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
Samuel may have read Hobbes's LEVIATHAN, 1660
(probably not, but this describes the Diary)
"The secret thoughts of a man run over all things holy, prophane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame, or blame; which verbal discourse cannot do, farther than the judgement shall approve of the time, place, and persons. An anatomist or physician may speak or write his judgement of unclean things; because it is not to please, but profit: but for another man to write his extravagant and pleasant fancies of the same is as if a man, from being tumbled into the dirt, should come and present himself before good company. And it is the want of discretion that makes the difference. Again, in professed remissness of mind, and familiar company, a man may play with the sounds and equivocal significations of words, and that many times with encounters of extraordinary fancy; but in a sermon, or in public, or before persons unknown, or whom we ought to reverence, there is no jingling of words that will not be accounted folly: and the difference is only in the want of discretion. So that where wit is wanting, it is not fancy that is wanting, but discretion. Judgement, therefore, without fancy is wit, but fancy without judgement, not." http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/p…
About Friday 23 January 1662/63
Terry F • Link
"He may have been exposed to Locke:"
in time, perhap: AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, written in exile during the reign of the current Duke of York, appeared in 1690 with a Preamble dated 24th of May, 1689 http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/phi…