Pomps

And just as an aside, I've heard two songs in the past few days that really struck me as appropriate for the way I've been feeling about this -- Pomps and Pride by Toots and the Maytalls, and Ambiguity Song by Camper van Beethoven...

Archive 2009-01-18 Sean Craven 2009

The Germans, the Scandinavians,the Dutch, the English, the Hungarians, and the Turks were, he said, “masculine” races; the Slavs and the Celts were “feminine”;the French and the Italians were hermaphroditic—Hamilton, The Vanished Pomps of yesterday, 28.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Germans, the Scandinavians,the Dutch, the English, the Hungarians, and the Turks were, he said, “masculine” races; the Slavs and the Celts were “feminine”;the French and the Italians were hermaphroditic—Hamilton, The Vanished Pomps of yesterday, 28.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Germans, the Scandinavians,the Dutch, the English, the Hungarians, and the Turks were, he said, “masculine” races; the Slavs and the Celts were “feminine”;the French and the Italians were hermaphroditic—Hamilton, The Vanished Pomps of yesterday, 28.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Germans, the Scandinavians,the Dutch, the English, the Hungarians, and the Turks were, he said, “masculine” races; the Slavs and the Celts were “feminine”;the French and the Italians were hermaphroditic—Hamilton, The Vanished Pomps of yesterday, 28.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Germans, the Scandinavians,the Dutch, the English, the Hungarians, and the Turks were, he said, “masculine” races; the Slavs and the Celts were “feminine”;the French and the Italians were hermaphroditic—Hamilton, The Vanished Pomps of yesterday, 28.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

Pomps and vanities are undoubtedly bad, and should be abhorred; but it behooves those who thus take upon themselves the duties of censors to be sure that the practices abhorred are in truth real pomps and actual vanities, not pomps and vanities of the imagination.

Hunting Sketches 2004

Frigate, which keeps two Pomps constantly going, has determined the Captn. to put into

John Adams diary 30, 13 November 1779 - 6 January 1780 1961

Pomps and Vanities and Ceremonies of that little World,

John Adams diary 15, 30 January 1768, 10 August 1769 - 22 August 1770 1961

Parliament and Ceremonies, Pomps, Festivals, Pageants, Processions, works on Brasses and Seals, as well as those which treat of the science of

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan