7.0083 Text Qs: Darwin; Spanish; K Philips; Usk; OTA (6/97)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 6 Jul 1993 19:49:53 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0083. Tuesday, 6 Jul 1993.


(1) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 15:21:38 EDT (9 lines)
From: Bernard van't Hul <USERGDME@UMICHUM.BITNET>

(2) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 13:17:50 EDT (7 lines)
From: "Susan R. Harris" <USERW080@UMICHUM.BITNET>
Subject: Oxford Text Archives via FTP?

(3) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 16:34:05 BST (23 lines)
From: Ian Budden <alfc6@central.sussex.ac.uk>
Subject: E-text of Thomas Usk

(4) Date: 28 Jun 1993 16:15:57 -0500 (EST) (20 lines)
From: "Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University "
<K_NIGHT@DEPAUW.BITNET>
Subject: Katherine Philips source-questions

(5) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 15:02:21 -0400 (EDT) (12 lines)
From: Steve Taylor <ussjt@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
Subject: Spanish E-texts

(6) Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 10:35:01 -0400 (EDT) (26 lines)
From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: Quotation from Darwin

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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 93 15:21:38 EDT
From: Bernard van't Hul <USERGDME@UMICHUM.BITNET>

I'd be grateful to anyone who will please attribute this
couplet to its author:

"That frost of fact by which our wisdom gives
Correctly stated death to all that lives."

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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 13:17:50 EDT
From: "Susan R. Harris" <USERW080@UMICHUM.BITNET>
Subject: Oxford Text Archives via FTP?

I recall seeing a note (somewhere ...) mentioning that the
Oxford Text Archives are now available for anonymous FTP. Can
anyone provide the address, or other pertinent details?
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 93 16:34:05 BST
From: Ian Budden <alfc6@central.sussex.ac.uk>
Subject: E-text of Thomas Usk

Could I resubmit this message, please (the form of name before the @
sign I gave last time might not be recognised off our own campus!)

Many thanks.

Can anyone tell me if they know of the existence of an e-text of Thomas
Usk's Testament of Love, please?

It was reprinted in Chaucerian and other pieces, edited by W.W. Skeat,
Clarendon Press, 1897; this was vol.7 of his Works of Geoffery Chaucer.

Many thanks,

Ian Budden

alfc6@central.sussex.ac.uk
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Date: 28 Jun 1993 16:15:57 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University " <K_NIGHT@DEPAUW.BITNET>
Subject: Katherine Philips source-questions

A colleague, Andrea Sununu, who is editing some works of Katherine Philips
(1632-1664), has asked me to seek list-help on some source-questions. At one
point Philips wrote
But as that sonne whose father's danger nigh
Did force his native dumbnesse, and untye
The fettred organs: so here is a cause
That will excuse the breach of nature's laws.
To a classicist at any rate this passage seems to allude to the tale of
Croesus' mute son, who spoke up to prevent his murder (Herodotos 1.85). The
silence of Croesus' son became proverbial (the How-Wells commentary to
Herodotus ad loc. refers to a proverb in Apostolius [Corpus Paroemiographorum
Graecorum II.686 no. 99], "more silent than Croesus' son"). The remaining
source-questions, on which list-help is sought, are (1) what are Philips'
likely sources for such a tale, and (2) is this tale used elsewhere in a
writer's self-justification for writing.
--Keith Nightenhelser, DePauw University k_night@depauw.bitnet
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1993 15:02:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steve Taylor <ussjt@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
Subject: Spanish E-texts

Can anyone direct me to any spanish texts (of any kind) in electronic
format, especially if available via the internet? Thanks.

Steve Taylor
Emory University



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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 10:35:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: NEUMAN@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Subject: Quotation from Darwin

A colleague would like to find the source and the exact phrasing of
the following quotation from the works of Darwin. She believes the
quotation appears in one of the works from 1872 -- either The
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals or On the Origin of the
Species (6th ed.) -- but she has not been able locate it through
browsing.

The laws governing inheritance are for the most part unknown. No
one can say why the same peculiarity in different individuals of
the same species, or in different species, is sometimes inherited
and sometimes not so, why the child often reverts in certain
characteristics to the grandfather or grandmother or more remote
ancestor.

A search of electronic text would help. Can anyone provide the name
and address of the editor of the Papers of Charles Darwin? I
understand the Papers are being prepared in both print and electronic
media. Thank you.

Mike Neuman
Georgetown
neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu