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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: A question for those of you who learned to read....
... has anyone besides myself ever read the Diary of Samuel Pepys?
What did you think of it?
It can be read online here: http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/01/
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Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy.
The detailed private diary he kept during 1660–1669 was first published in the nineteenth century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.
His surname is usually pronounced /'pi?ps/, same as the word peeps, though it can also be pronounced "peps", or "peppis". |
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Great Sage of the Sea
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Location: Citrus County FL | Subject: RE: A question for those of you who learned to read....
Read parts of the Diary in high school English Lit. Put me to sleep.
"And so to bed...."
You can find it in Webster's 2nd under SLUT: "Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut."
He might not have been a sailor, but he knew how to admire women! |
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Senior Crew
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Location: Dogpatch (Conway), Arkansas | Subject: RE: A question for those of you who learned to read....
Well crap!! I was beginning to think Ric was an intellectual. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1405
Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US) | Subject: RE: A question for those of you who learned to read....
Ric - 2009-01-04 2:05 PM
... has anyone besides myself ever read the Diary of Samuel Pepys?
What did you think of it?
It can be read online here: http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/01/
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Samuel Pepys, FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy.
I wonder if that was whom Gilbert and Sullivan were lampooning in HMS Pinafore in the person Richard Porter KCB?
"When I was a lad"
"I am the Monarch of the Sea."
Ric, and intellectual?????? choke, choke! That's as bad a word association as Stoops and tact!
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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: A question for those of you who learned to read....
That's as bad a word association as Stoops and tact!
No, Stoops and intelligence... choke, choke..... |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: A question for those of you who learned to read....
Should try it again as an adult... very interesting stuff. Try and get the Robert Latham, William Matthews 1970 translations not the Wheatley from 1825, probably what you read in high school... latest versions the sex hasn't been censored out. Wheatley was a minister and put his own hangups on it. |
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A question for those of you who learned to read....
