Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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George Bernard Shaw called it his "magnificent library in Bloomsbury." Samuel Butler said the two places where he was happiest were home and the British Museum...
...Hans Sloane, a prosperous 18th century physician who developed a passion for collecting, scurried over the world like a pack rat, assembling books, manuscripts, Roman, Egyptian and Asiatic antiquities, coins, medals and works of art. Sloane's friends (among them: Isaac Newton, Samuel Pepys, Christopher Wren, Alexander Pope) sent him odd things from everywhere. One friend, Poet Thomas Hearne, versified that he had collected for the good doctor...
...Samuel...
...that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward faith...
Harvard Historian Samuel Eliot Morison has taken a short leave of his massive history of the U.S. Navy in World War II to assemble a collection of his historical essays, By Land and by Sea (Knopf). Written with his usual clarity and common sense, they range in subject from the clipper ships of Massachusetts to history as a literary art, a piece that should be required reading for all academic historians...