Sublime

“Stout ropes to check him, and stout oars to guide.” he sent for Aristotle, the most renowned philosopher of the age, to be his son’s tutor, and paid him a handsome reward for doing so.

John Muir is remembered primarily as a no-nonsense conservationist and the founding president of the Sierra Club, but he was also a bold adventurer, a fearless scrambler of peaks, glaciers, and waterfalls whose best-known essay includes a riveting account of nearly falling to his death, in 1872, while ascending California’s Mt. Ritter.

the Edward Bonaventure.

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions

‘Arma virumque cano,’ began the harsh voice in the darkness, as some recollection of Diana’s mad cousin set Stephen’s memory in motion. ‘Well, thank God we are in Latin again,’ said Jack. ‘Long may it last.’ Long indeed; it lasted until the Equatorial Channel itself, when the morning watch heard the ominous words: ‘… ast illi solvuntur frigore memb

The Scottish writer James Kelman described the eloquence of unlettered people with a gift for language as ‘orature’, the capacity to compel and