An important aspect of its success was its notion that urbanity and taste were values that transcended political differences. It struck me that the people of Hong Kong would suffer huge collateral damage. He has made his fortune himself; and says that England may be richer than other kingdoms by as plain methods as he himself is richer than other men; though at the same time I can say this of him, that there is not a point in the compass but blows home a ship in which he is an owner. This article was most recently revised and updated by, The Spectator - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). He seldom introduces the subject he speaks upon; but we are so far gone in years that he observes, when he is among us, an earnestness to have him fall on some divine topic, which he always treats with much authority, as one who has no interest in this world, as one who is hastening to the object of all his wishes, and conceives hope from his decays and infirmities. 5. A couple of days ago, Paul Mirengoff observed that ‘Going back at least as far as Ronald Reagan, incumbent presidents have not done well in first debates.’ Was that true tonight? However, as my friends have engaged me to stand in the front, those who have a mind to correspond with me, may direct their letters to the SPECTATOR, at Mr. Buckley's, in Little Britain. Sometimes I smoke a pipe at Child's, and whilst I seem attentive to nothing but the Postman [a newspaper], overhear the conversation of every table in the room. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. An editor can invent what rules and guidelines he wants, but then has to follow them. ( Log Out / Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. But perhaps we can hope that our un-ideal reader is a tolerant type who will skip over the notes that are superfluous for him/her without feeling that their intelligence has been insulted. Democrats view the contest as a referendum on Donald Trump, with a second term seen as a green light to bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, heteronormativity, cisgendered fundamentalism and all the rest of it. As the chief trouble of compiling, digesting, and correcting will fall to my share, I must do myself the justice to open the work with my own history. 2. 7. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! 6. It was decided by a 5-4 margin, along the so-called partisan lines within the Court. Together they set the pattern and established the vogue for the periodical throughout the rest of the century and helped to create a receptive public for the novelists, ensuring that the new kind of prose writing—however entertaining—should be essentially serious. 4. Not a school child, but not a literary expert either. Here are a few follow-up notes about the possibility or practical usefulness of (i) determining rules for writing explanatory notes and (ii) identifying a target reader and adapting the notes accordingly. Although what she did fell far short of the full rights we called for, Mrs Thatcher did extend right of abode to about 200,000 ‘key personnel’. A few weeks ago — centuries in 2020 time — Hillary Clinton offered an extraordinary piece of advice to her successor. 2. The father sends up every post questions relating to marriage-articles, leases, and tenures, in the neighborhood; all which questions he agrees with an attorney to answer and take care of in the lump. The others include an exposition, which explains and analyzes an idea or set of ideas; an argument, which attempts to persuade the reader to a particular point of view; and a description, a written form of a visual experience. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Is one of the editors an outlier? Offering intuitions without evidence: giving personal reactions (in an essay-like fashion)—the text annotated ‘becomes an occasion to think about one’s experiences and feelings’. Search internet (including using Google Advanced Book Search) so that, instead of the general OED definition, sinnet, for example, can be defined with relevance to its use in the text: ‘braided, rather than twisted, cordage, (here) the typical flat, plaited coconut-fibre cords of the Pacific islands’. What’s next? Following no rule or guidelines, the notes will be too varied in form and will leave the reader nonplussed. He will, however, in his way of talk excuse generals for not disposing according to mens dessert, or inquiring into it; for, says he, that great man who has a mind to help me has as many to break through to come to me as I have to come at him: therefore he will conclude that the man who would make a figure, especially in a military way, must get over all false modesty, and assist his patron against the importunity of other pretenders, by a proper assurance in his own vindication. Scots law the legal system of Scotland: under the 1707 Act etc. 5. I find the technique set out in the article referenced at the end of the blog post, with its layered system of annotation, rather alarming. Let’s just make it out of this wretched year first. (1711) 6. Check with Google Advanced Book Search to confirm a suspected original use by Stevenson. We added that ‘the paradoxical effect of having the right to leave will be that people will want to stay’. The occasional note is breathtakingly judgemental and condescending, like this one on a popular French novelist in which the editor adds “He …testifies to Stevenson’s somewhat indiscriminate taste and his inability to put childish things behind him at a literary level”. of Texas at Austin, Fill His Head First with a Thousand Questions, Writing Brtain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, "Acts may be forgiven; not even God can forgive the hanger-back. 3. For 90 minutes, two cantankerous and incoherent old men ignored the rules, shouted over each other and ruined the event. 113) or without it (as in Addison’s critical papers on Paradise Lost, John Milton’s epic poem, which appeared in issues no. It seems to me that the greatest danger lies in self-indulgence; in wanting the reader to admire how clever we have been in digging up an interesting fact, or cross-reference, or some random correspondence. Stating the obvious: explaining something that any potential reader will know already or can gather from the text itself. Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirke (2017), ‘Explanatory Annotation of Literary Texts and the Reader: Seven Types of Problems’, International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 11.ii (2017): 212-232. I had not been long at the university, before I distinguished myself by a most profound silence; for during the space of eight years, excepting in the public exercises of the college, I scarce uttered the quantity of an hundred words; and indeed do not remember that I ever spoke three sentences together in my whole life. I have given the reader just so much of my history and character, as to let him see I am not altogether unqualified for the business I have undertaken. the entry for hold the candle does not mention its use (from French) of ‘assist in a love affair’, though Stevenson uses the phrase alluding to this meaning on at least a couple of occasions. While working on an article on Habermas and Dewey in the early 1990s, I asked Habermas if Dewey had influenced him and he responded that Dewey's strong notion of liberal democracy, of politics and the public, and of the active connection between theory and practice made a strong impression on him; see Antonio and Kellner 1992 for details. The comments there are of interest to both print and digital annotation. ( Log Out / He told me Mrs Thatcher disliked Deng when she met him, saying: ‘He’s very cruel.’ Sir Percy had replied: ‘He wouldn’t be where he was if he wasn’t.’. It has displayed that annoyance decisively with its recent promulgation from Beijing of a new national security law for Hong Kong. They would indeed draw me out of that obscurity which I have enjoyed for many years, and expose me in public places to several salutes and civilities, which have been always very disagreeable to me; for the greatest pain I can suffer is the being talked to, and being stared at. ( Log Out / Almost immediately it was hugely admired; Mr. Spectator had, observed the poet and dramatist John Gay, “come on like a Torrent and swept all before him.”. So I agree with Lesley: ‘our un-ideal reader is a tolerant type who will skip over the notes that are superfluous for him/her without feeling that their intelligence has been insulted’: i.e. [RD: 1. I think it’s clear that the reader of an annotated edition will want to have these allusions explained.] It was a great story, well told. It’s useful to distinguish between rules and guidelines. Not an expert in either essays, history, philosophy, the life of Stevenson or 19th Century philosophy, but someone with a curious mind. Be aware that Stevenson often invents new uses of words. Lightness (RD). 2. Other reasons for adapting the OED definition or writing your own definition are given in the following points. Our job in the volume is to accompany the reader, without allowing him/her to go off on long detours, in a reflective reading experience, to facilitate the reading of the work, to accompany the reader’s understanding and appreciation of it but doing some of the hard work of establishing context, definition, and allusion but none (or very little) of the joyful, heuristic work. in what is considered relevant and in compositional style). If you think that’s hyperbole, just listen to what our would-be leadership has been saying. This is at once frustrating (I would love to tell you about how I believe ‘An Education of an Engineer’ is really about the difficulty of communication and the risk of miscommunication, but also humbling and affords freedom for follow up studies and analyses.). I cannot tell whether I am to account him, whom I am next to speak of, as one of our company; for he visits us but seldom, but when he does, it adds to every man else a new enjoyment of himself. 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