Trimalchio, a very rich man — he has a clock and a uniformed trumpeter in his dining-room, to keep telling him how much of his life is lost and gone
–Petronius’ Satyricon
As quoted in Sir William Ramsay’s The Letters to the Seven Churches (1904, p.6)
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Lost and gone
Posted in health and wealth on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Peaceful Union
Posted in East and West, God of All Nations, Sir William Ramsay, contextualization on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christianity is the religion which associates East and West in a higher range of thought than either can reach alone, and tends to substitute a peaceful union for the war into which the essential difference of Asiatic and European character too often leads the two continents.
–Sir William Ramsay
The Letters to the Seven Churches (1904, p. [...]
