--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen [...] > Imagine if everything we said was proceeded by such > florid rhetoric? What a hoot! Oh infinite one, > bejeweled with the wisdom of the three worlds, > brandishing the trident of boundless Shiva and the > mace of Cosmic Vishnu, please pass the salt. > >
Most cultures had a period like that. Here's part of the dedication of _Study of the Lute_ by Ernst Gottlieb Baron, 1727: "HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL, AND PRACTICAL STUDY OF THE LUTE Prepared with diligence andpublished for the pleasure of all honest amateurs by ERNST GOTTLIEB BARON (Candidate in Law) Nuremberg, Johann Friedrich Rudiger 1727 To his Serene Highness, Lord Ernst August Duke of Saxony, Juliers, Celves and Brerg, also Engern and Westphalia, Landgrave in Thurgingia, Margrave of Hennberg, Duke of the March and Ravensberg, Lord of Ravenstein, etc., etc. My Most Gracious Prince and Lord, resident in Weimar Most serene Highness and Gracious Lord: In presenting these pages to Your Serene Highenss with the most humble gratitude, I hesitate less the more I hope that you may be pleased to look first upon the heart, zeal and intent before offering itself, as otherwise in all your doings you demonstrate greatness, and that you will thus imitate God the Highest, who as appointed the kings and princes as his governors on earth. This sole confidence also allows me the boldness to appear before Your Serene Highness with the present small work and, if it be most graciously allowed, to lay it before your sacred purple robe..." and so on for 3 more pages... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
