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Quote of the Day: George III on Rebellion
A Proclamation, by The King, for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition
King George III
August 23, 1775Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas, there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this Realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us, our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity; and for that purpose, that they transmit to one of our principal Secretaries of State, or other proper officer, due and full information of all persons who shall be found carrying on correspondence with, or in any manner or degree aiding or abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion against our Government, within any of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, and abetters of such traitorous designs.
Given at our Court at St. James’s the twenty-third day of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, in the fifteenth year of our reign.
GOD save the KING.
It was on this day in 1775 that King George III made his proclamation against sedition and rebellion in his colonies and authorized the use of force. What are you doing to celebrate?
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Just got a larger one?
You could sign him up to be in The Brothers Karamazov.
Too old to be Alexei. Maybe Zosima.
Unless he learned the secret of (near) immortality from George Burns and Bob Hope, I probably would be pretty safe on that front.
There you go, Hollywood! Wanna remake something? Remake The Brothers Karamazov.
Oh, and no messing it up from the get-go by having Alex Kurtzman or Rian Johnson or Jar-Jar Abrams spoil it. Find someone who’s read the book and likes it. Somebody other than the aforementioned Moe, Larry, and Curly of the motion picture industry. Stick to Dostoevsky’s book. No subverting expectations or any of that nonsense.
I would love a husband that gets all my jokes, and 89 seems like about the target age for that.
Aw, quit griping about Hollywood. We’re putting some of our best people on it. Grushenka’s Desire is being directed by Ava DuVernay from a script by Lena Dunham. There’s hip-hop synergy with a character from the Crime and Punishment Cinematic Universe timeline, the moneylender’s wife, who enters the BKCU as the angel of vengeance.
They’ll cast Will Smith as Dmitri. They can’t help themselves anymore.
Didn’t Mark Twain edit it for him?
A more detailed explanation of the relationship between Twain and Grant is here.
No lie, I thought about throwing in a Hemingway reference.
There is a likely a high-brow/low-brow aspect to it. Compare Frankenstein to Varney the Vampire, written 10 or 15 years later. Frankenstein is written in the high-brow style, and for such a short book, it’s a real slog to get through. Varney reads like it was written last Thursday. Pretty much everything written nowadays is low-brow.
Grant was a distinctly low-brow kind of guy.
He did to a degree. If you’ve read a lot of Twain, he mixes his own cadence up considerably; usually for a joke.
No doubt, Joyce was jealous.
I’m pretty sure I’ve freaked more than a few people out where I live in England, because I go running almost every day, and depending upon when my parents decide to FaceTime, they sometimes catch me outside instead of in my dorm. My mom, if she can see that I’m not inside, will always say, “What are you up to, street walker?” and (because she and my dad consistently make fun of my very elderly tastes) I’ll generally respond “Not much, just staking out the nursing homes and elderly care centers, looking for my next beau.”
You are so naughty. Also, just for you.
There’s no way you could get a big Hollywood studio to sign off on making The Brothers Karamazov at the appropriate length; they might give 3 hours to a Marvel movie, but no dice for Dostoevsky. Unless it was a Martin Scorsese reimagining, set in 1970s New York City, and funded by Netflix, then it could probably be as long as he pleased.
Eh, he might have surprised you. One of the problems he had when finishing 21st out of 39 at West Point was that he spent more time reading James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving than he did at going over his studies. His modest rank ruled out being appointed to the cavalry, which was a pity because he knew horses well. His father trusted his horse sense so much that he’d send 10-year-old Lys out alone to evaluate horses his father was interested in buying. Grant set a record for jumping a horse that stood for 25 years.
Ah, thanks! I love a feeling of deep frustration at dead economic historians in the morning.
That’s what battle axes are for, that early morning workout against bad ideas.
Well, I managed a 4 mile run after reading that quote, so it must be good for something.
If nobody steps up to claim tomorrow for QotD, I may have to quote his nephew tomorrow. 😈🎣
Oh, that’s just cruel. You’re going to manage to blackmail me into a QotD, aren’t you?
It’s the only way to stop my evil reign of terror.
And yet, it began so promisingly…
I’d never seen that before, I love it.
All fiction, all the time.
So you say….
So, wait. I was confused. I think.
@kirkianwanderer is a chick and not a dude? How did I miss that?