Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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Open a book of rhetorical terms, and you will meet a lot of gnarly looking Greek and Latin words. Apodioxis and epizeuxis sound like diseases you wouldn’t especially want to catch. But, pilgrim, Half a millennium before Mark Twain proclaimed that “substantially all ideas are second-hand” and long before we drained the term “curation” of meaning by compulsive and indiscriminate application, Montaigne observed: Does this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you. In December 1915, after he had recovered, Wavell was returned to General HQ in France as a GSO2. [22] He was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 8 May 1916. [23] In October 1916 Wavell was graded General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) as an acting lieutenant-colonel, [24] and was then assigned as a liaison officer to the Russian Army in the Caucasus. [9] In June 1917, he was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel [25] and continued to work as a staff officer (GSO1), [26] as liaison officer with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force headquarters. [9]

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Aristotle ordinarily heaps up a great number of other men’s opinions and beliefs, to compare them with his own, and to let us see how much he has gone beyond them, and how much nearer he approaches to the likelihood of truth; for truth is not to be judged by the authority and testimony of others; which made Epicurus religiously avoid quoting them in his writings. This is the prince of all dogmatists, and yet we are told by him that the more we know the more we have room for doubt.Prose does not scan like poetry. But it shares its effects. One of the most memorable lines in American history, for instance, is the clause in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”

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Wavell once again had the misfortune of being placed in charge of an undermanned theatre which became a war zone when the Japanese declared war on the United Kingdom in December 1941. He was made Commander-in-Chief of ABDACOM (American-British-Dutch-Australian Command). [54]

covering everything from the repetition of sounds to the repetition of larger ideas and arguments. So it’s not a paradox to say that your repetition can be various. Repeat, but do not be repetitive. In Michel de Montaigne: The Complete Essays ( public domain; public library) — the same indispensable volume that gave us the great philosopher’s ideas on death and the art of living— he writes: After the ' war to end war', they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making the 'Peace to end Peace. '" [99] (commenting on the treaties ending the First World War; this quotation was the basis for the title of David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace, New York: Henry Holt, (1989) ISBN 0-8050-6884-8) Wavell was working as a staff officer when the First World War began. [18] As a captain, he was sent to France to a posting at General HQ of the British Expeditionary Force as General Staff Officer Grade 2 (GSO2), but shortly afterwards, in November 1914, was appointed brigade major of 9th Infantry Brigade. [19] He was wounded in the Second Battle of Ypres of 1915, losing his left eye [20] and winning the Military Cross. [21] In October 1915 he became a GSO2 in the 64th Highland Division. [5]