tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post7439064201118170462..comments2024-01-21T02:58:08.208-05:00Comments on On the Main Line: British "semi Polaken" are advised to mind their own business, in 1887. Also, a Lower East Side pickle review.Mississippi Fred MacDowellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02734864605700159687noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-13778334518689869652011-05-31T13:22:32.658-04:002011-05-31T13:22:32.658-04:00Does anyone out there have a recipe for bread-pick...Does anyone out there have a recipe for bread-pickled vinegar-free pickles? I'd be interested in trying my hand at them, just so that I could gloat at how bad they are (to honor my father's recipe). (Or, if it turns out that they're good, to honor my father's open-minded streak.) (Or, if they're too much work, to not bother with it.)Mike Koplowhttp://www.considerthesource2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-69672057366461656342011-05-31T10:50:41.761-04:002011-05-31T10:50:41.761-04:00My grandmother made pickles. Unfortunately I was t...My grandmother made pickles. Unfortunately I was too young to pay attention to how she made them, but they were definitely goo-oo-ooood.<br /><br />I can't think of any great pamphleting titles offhand, but I like Brian Walton's "The Considerator Considered," in reply to his critic John Owen's "Considerations" on his Polyglot Bible.<br /><br />Anon, thank you. I suspected that - which is why I wrote that it was unclear to me if it's Wise writing about the pickles, since that was in New York. I can think of no other reason why he would not be the author of the the other two pieces I mentioned.S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-90471138992587440322011-05-31T10:08:42.024-04:002011-05-31T10:08:42.024-04:00BT"W, Stigmai ageōmetrias, agroichias, antipo...BT"W, <i>Stigmai ageōmetrias, agroichias, antipoliteas, amatheias</i> was written in Greek characters (romanization copied and pasted, not done by myself).Mike Koplowhttp://www.considerthesource2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-60922120125324266562011-05-31T10:03:05.344-04:002011-05-31T10:03:05.344-04:00My father z"l used to home-brew pickles (and ...My father z"l used to home-brew pickles (and pickled tomatoes). They were goo-oo-ooood. As in, good. But I don't recall his using bread as a pickling agent. And he did use vinegar. I forgive this Wise guy for dissing my father and his condiments.<br /><br />But in terms of insults, those early modern British, with their pamphlet wars, were pretty good. Even in the titles. Thomas Hobbes, an amateur mathematician as well as a political philosopher, wrote a pamphlet, titled <i>Stigmai ageōmetrias, agroichias, antipoliteas, amatheias, or, Markes of the absurd geometry, rural language, Scottish church-politicks, and barbarismes of John Wallis professor of geometry and doctor of divinity</i> (1657).<br /><br />Joseph Glanvill was the author of <i>Plus ultra, or, The progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle / In an account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning: to encourage philosophical endeavors. Occasioned by a conference with one of the notional way</i> (1668). Better known as <i>Plus ultra</i>. Then along came Henry Stubbe, replying to Glanvill with my absolute favorite: <i>The Plus ultra reduced to a non-plus</i> (1670). (As it's usually known: the full title is <i>Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society: wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected and rectified : whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject, translated out of Italian : with a brief account of those passages of the authors life ... : together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c</i>).Mike Koplowhttp://www.considerthesource2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12600498.post-18955404126112230042011-05-30T22:00:56.924-04:002011-05-30T22:00:56.924-04:00I'm pretty sure that sometimes there were unat...I'm pretty sure that sometimes there were unattributed first-person articles in the Israelite that were not written by Wise. At least, that was my impression last time I sat down with the newspaper to research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com