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...Dirty Hands. ) The worm of incest causes not only the ruin of two families and the death of both sister and brother, but also a few assorted stabbings, poisonings and eye-gougings which Ford probably threw in for his sensation-seeking upper-class audiences-though, then again, seventeenth-century. Englishmen assumed Italians were that...
...When a British correspondent raised his hand, Pompidou repeated the Count d'Anterroches' proverbial invitation at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745: "Your turn to fire, Englishmen!" (The English did, but the French...
Weekdays, the Pilgrims looked like any other Englishmen: wearing the rich browns or the Lincoln greens then popular in their homeland. Governor Bradford even had a red vest and William Brewster a violet coat. The traditional dour grays and blacks were principally for Sundays. Their observance of the gloomy Sunday, however, was a practice not without its perils. Since the Pilgrims believed that a baby born on a Sunday had been conceived on a Sunday, preachers thundered when a woman gave birth on a Sunday. One preacher stopped such harangues after his own wife gave birth to twins during...
...Pilgrim congregational church structure-like that of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans-was democratic, a tradition carried into New England's history. Moreover, the Plymouth settlers preserved not only the fundamental rights of Englishmen-among them, trial by jury and due process-but gave legal protection to Indians. They did not hesitate to execute two fellow Pilgrims for killing an Indian...
...approach is based upon some reasonable assumptions and several perhaps questionable corollaries. The first assumption: "No breeding ground for fantasy is so fertile as a society in a state of disintegration and flux." Postwar England was just that. The core fantasy of postwar Englishmen, as Booker gloomily sees it: a tendency to mistake disintegration and flux for the throes of rebirth...