Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISRAELI, by Robert Blake. The wiles and wit of Britain's most prodigal Victorian Prime Minister, whose life as recounted in this excellent biography proves even richer than the many versions of its myth...
...churchmen like Eugene Carson Blake say, churches may "properly influence political decisions," then the churches should also support the Government financially...
...Church in the Next Decade, Blake himself states: "As Christians, we must question the justice of churches competing at an economic advantage against taxpaying citizens while availing themselves of all the benefits of government. We also must ask whether the churches' invasion of commercial arenas undermines the grounds on which their tax exemptions are based...
...book contains 14 drawings of "visionary heads" that Blake drew mainly in 1819 and 1820 for a wealthy young artist named John Linnell and Linnell's teacher, John Varley, who later used them as the basis for illustrations for their published treatise on zodiacal physiognomy. But the notes on the margins indicate that Blake sincerely believed he was drawing the faces of Socrates, Solomon, Richard the Lionhearted, Job, John Milton's first wife and the Saxon King Harold from life or, at any rate, from afterlife...
...Hotspur," reads one note, "said we should have had the battle, but for those cursed stars. Hotspur said he was indignant to be killed by such a person as Prince Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food...