Yet these remedies were no crankier than the ingredients authorized by the country’s most elite medical men in the directory of medicines, the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, published by the Royal College of Physicians in 1746.19 Although the
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“Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”
― How to be a Conservative
― How to be a Conservative
“The Times correspondent who reported on the battle commented: ‘The estimation of Austrian losses is somewhat difficult as many of the fallen were not discovered until the penetrating odour of decomposed humanity disclosed the presence of bodies in wood or unharvested field.”
― The First World War: A Complete History
― The First World War: A Complete History
“Most of the time, however, the cruelty of Soviet camp guards was unthinking, stupid, lazy cruelty, of the sort that might be shown to cattle or sheep.”
― Gulag: A History
― Gulag: A History
“After Watergate, few would have predicted today’s dynamic in which some journalists view their job not as questioning the powers that be, but undermining those who report on the powers that be.”
― Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington
― Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington
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