Michael Knox Beran

Dilettante/antiquary/scribe: Last Patrician/Jefferson’s Demons/Forge of Empires/Pathology of the Elites/Murder by Candlelight/WASPs

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@manuthebest58 He’s in the intelligence agency meeting scene.

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@jlawrencenc @EWErickson More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of?

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@William_Laing @GrayConnolly Last person to receive or last living recipient?

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@allhailtwit 1955?

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@manuthebest58 At Columbia

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@CaVautrin @Armees_Gouv How striking in every way, the achievement of the scholar, the impressiveness of the uniform, and the congratulations of a minister of the armed forces with the surname Vautrin. Tout ou rien!

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@DurhamWASP “Money is a kind of poetry.” Wallace Stevens

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Time to re-read Blake’s Disraeli? A brilliant biography. I confess that, after valiant attempts, I never got through the whole of the Young England trilogy: a virtue of Blake’s book (as I remember it) is that he extracts from the novels Dizzy’s case against an unadulterated “school of Manchester.”

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@ItsTaz1989 Pat Moynihan had Nixon reading Disraeli. https://t.co/OYycAEeNgR

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@simonmontefiore Crowd outside the palace looks unmomentously “meh.” There were more people when I was there on a random Thursday in late May.

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@CapelLofft Mary Endicott was an American. No better salve for an aging Brit.

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In his retirement at Split, Diocletian’s “leisure hours were sufficiently employed in building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. He was solicited by that restless old man to reassume the reins of government and the Imperial purple. He rejected the temptation with a smile of pity, calmly observing that, if he could show Maximian the cabbages which he had planted with his own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power.” Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chapter XIII.

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Shelf cloud precedes the squall line that swept across Connecticut and parts of Long Island last night with a Sturm und Drang that overshadowed the semiquincentennial fireworks. A (patriotic) art that nature makes …

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... redeunt iam gramina campis / arboribusque comae

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Diffugere nives …

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@manuthebest58 So he borrowed Laura's Mercedes?

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@bo66ie29 “England is a garden. Under an ash-colored sky, the fields have been combed and rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of a plough.” Emerson, English Traits

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@Lost___London @PubHistoryTours It’s now Green Park, yes?

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“Whoever has never kept a dog does not know what it is to love and be loved.” Mariano José de Larra

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@manuthebest58 So she needn’t bother to sniff my breath!