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I can’t read my Hand writing! (Post No.5351)

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Date: 22 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5351

 

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Hand writing Anecdotes

 

Horace Greeley is another instance of a famous man noted for the illegibility of his handwriting. He once wrote the following letter,
Mr M B Castle,
Sandwich III
Dear sir
I am over worked and growing old. I shall be 60 on next February the 3rd. On the whole, it seems I must decline to lecture hence forth except in this immediate vicinity. If I go at all, I cannot promise to visit Illinois on that errand, certainly not now.
Yours truly
Horace Greeley

A few days later he received this answer:-
Horace Greeley
New York Tribune

Dear sir,
Your acceptance to lecture before our association next winter came to hand this morning. Your penmanship not being the plainest, it took some time to translate it. But we succeeded and would say your time February 3rd and the terms 60 dollars, are entirely satisfactory. As you suggest we may be able to get you other engagements.

Respectfully
M B Castle

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I don’t know me!
John Calhoun’s handwringing, though it looked neat, was almost undecipherable. Once his friend sent him back one of his letters because it was too difficult to read. Calhoun replied,
“I know what I think on this subject but cannot decipher what I wrote.”
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Admission Pass or Doctor’s Prescription!


The actor, Macready, was notorious for the illegibility of his handwriting. He frequently was called upon to scrawl a chit for the free admission for friends and acquaintances to his performances. Although unrecognisable, they-were familiar to the door man and served their purpose. One day, however, a friend of the actor jestingly took one of Macready’s scrawled passes to a pharmacist and gravely handed it over as a prescription to be filled. The latter unhesitatingly compounded a potion from various phials and powder boxes, and handing it across the counter to the waiting customer, observed,
“A cough mixture, and a very good one. Fifty cents, please!”

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Said Marie Antoinette,
“My tastes are not the same as those of the king, who cares only for hunting and blacksmith work. You will admit that I should not show to advantage in a forge. I could not appear there as Vulcan, and the part of Venus might displease him even more than my tastes”.

  Xxx Subham xxx

 

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EXAMPLE OF HUMILITY; AMERICA’S FIRST PRESIDENT! (Post No.5348)

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Date: 21 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5348

 

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Following news item appeared in Metro newspaper of London yesterday (201-8-2018).

This emphasizes that George Washington a humble man. Eric Newman was a great charitable man. He has donated all his collections to charity.

It illustrates what the great Tamil poet Tiru Valluvar said in his Tirukkural:

There is a goodness and grace in our humility, but it crowns anew men of fortune—Kural 125

 

The graceless misers who hoard up their wealth and eventually lose it, do not know the pleasure which the wise derive in  giving to the poor what they need Kural 228

Enjoying alone the hoarded wealth , without giving others is worse than begging-  Kural 229

 

A  gold coin with the face of the first president of United States is sold for 1-37 million pounds!

It is a ten dollar coin with the date 1792 with

George Washington’s profile. It was specially made by a company seeking to make the first US currency. But he declined to have his head used so as not to look like European royalty. However he kept the coin as a memento and , a year later, the first coins had Lady Liberty on the front and a bald eagle on the back.

The coin had belonged to prominent American coin collector and author Eric Newman since 1942. Following his death at the age of 106 last year, his son Andy sold the coin through Heritage Auctions.

 

Andy said George Washington was a personal hero to his father. NOT PUTTING HIS IMAGE ON THE COINAGE WAS AN EMBLEMATIC EXAMPLE OF WASHINGTON’S PROFOUND HUMILITY.

More than 56 million pounds worth of coins from Eric Newman’s collection have been sold for charity since 2013.

 

–subham–

 

 

 

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Homer 15,693 lines and Valmiki 48,000 lines! (Post No.5347)

 

 

Homer 15,693 lines and Valmiki 48,000 lines! (Post No.5347)

 

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Date: 21 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5347

 

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Hindus have two great epics Ramayana and Mahabharata; of these two Ramayana is older and Mahabharata is larger. There is nothing in the world that is not touched by Veda Vyasa, author of Mahabharata. Ramayana is famous for its simplicity and superb story.

A comparison with other great epics of the old world will give an idea of their enormous size.
Mahabharata has 2,20,000 lines
Ramayana has. 48,000 lines
Homer’s Iliad has 15,693 lines
Virgil’s Aeneid has 9868 lines
Iliad + odyssey together contain 30,000 lines

Professor Monier Williams says, “ Ramayana is undoubtedly one of the greatest treasure in Sanskrit literature. The classical purity, clearness and simplicity of  its style, the exquisite touches of true poetic feeing with which it abounds, its graphic descriptions of heroic incidents, nature’s grandest scenes, the deep acquaintance it displays with the conflicting workings and most refined emotions of the human heart, all entitle it to rank among the most beautiful compositions that appeared at any period or any country”.
“There are many graphical passages in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, which for beauty of description cannot be surpassed by anything in Homer,… that the the diction f Indian epics is more polished, regular and cultivated, and the language altogether in a more advanced stage of development than that of Homer”.

 

“The battle fields of the Ramayana and Mahabharata are not made barbarous by wanton cruelties, and the description of Ayodhya and Lanka imply far greater luxury refinement than those of Sparta and Troy. Ramayana and Mahabharata rise above the Homeric poems also in the fact that a deep religious meaning appears to underlie all the narrative, and that the wildest allegory may be intended to conceal a sublime moral, symbolizing conflict between good and evil, teaching hopelessness of victory in so terrible a contest with purity of souls, self-abnegation and the subjugation of passions.

Did Homer copy Ramayana?

Some critics hold that the Ramayana is the original of Iliad that the latter is only an adaptation of the former to the local circumstances of Greece; that Homer’s description of the Trojan war is merely a mythological account of the invasion of Lanka by Ram Chandra. The main plot, of course, is the same. Troy stands for Lanka (Tabropane), Sparta for Ayodhya, Menelaus for Rama, Paris for Ravana, Hector for Indrajit and Vibhishan; Helen for Sita, Agamemnon for Sugriva, Patroclus for Lakshmana, Nestor for Jambavan. Achilles is a mixture of Arjuna, Bhima and Lakshmana.

 

Anterior to Homer, Greek literature has no existence, even no name, and it is difficult to believe that, without any previous cultivation whatever, some of the highest and the noblest work in the whole range of literature should come into existence. The English literature did not begin with Milton, nor the Roman with Virgil; nor does the Sanskrit with Valmiki or Vyasa, as the Greek does with Homer.

 

M.Hippolyte Fauch, in the French translation of the Ramayana, says that, “Ramayana was composed before the Homeric poems’ and that Homer took his ideas from it.”

 

Schlegel calls ‘Ramayana the noblest of epics’.

Sir William Jones says,
“The Ramayana is an epic poem on the story of Rama, which, in unity of action, magnificence of imagery and elegance of style far surpasses the learned and elaborate work of Nonnus” .

 

(Nonnus was an Egyptian poet of Hellenized Egypt of fifth century CE. His epic on Dionysus contain 20,426 lines in Greek language)
After giving the argument of the Ramayana, with his usual moderation, Professor Heeren says, “Such in few words, is the chief subject of Ramayana, while the development and method of handling this simple argument is so remarkably rich and copious as to suffer little from a comparison in this respect with the most admired productions of the epic muse.”

 

Professor Dowden says, “Juliet is but a passionate girl before this perfect woman meaning Brutus’ Portia, but what becomes of Portia herself before this heavenly woman, this ethereal being, this celestial Sita?”

        

Stamps on Homer and Virgil

Source Book:- Is Hindu A Superior Reality, Krishan Lal Jain, Akshat Publications, 1989

–subham–

 

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Hindu Fables and Mathew Arnold! (Post No.5335)

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Date: 18 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5335

 

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Hitopadesa owing to its intrinsic merit, is one of the most popular works in Sanskrit literature. The following stanzas dealing with the transitoriness of human life near the end of Book IV have a peculiar pensive beauty of their own:-

 
As on the mighty oceans waves
Two floating logs together come
And having met for ever part:
So briefly joined are living things

These lines are the source of Mathew Arnold’s beautiful lines in his poem The Terrace at Berne:-

 

 
Like driftwood spars which meet and pass

Upon the boundless ocean-plain,

So on the sea of life, alas!

Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

 

I knew it when my life was young,

I feel it still, now youth is o’er!

The mists are on the mountains hung,

And Marguerite I shall see no more.

Source— page 159, Is Hindu A Superior reality

 

 

It is an example for Great Men think Like!

 

Nachinarkiniar, the greatest of the Tamil commentators, who, following the example of  Adi Shankara, wrote a number of commentaries on almost all the books of Tamil Sangam period, also used this drifting wood imagery. He compares two woods with holes in two different oceans coming together and joining and fixing. This is like the probability theory.

 

 

Now look at the life history of Mathew Arnold

 

Mathew Arnold
English poet and critic
Born on December 24,1822
Died on April 15, 1888
Age at death 65

Publications
1849 The Strayed Reveller
1852 Empedocles on Etna
1853 Poems
1861 On Translating Homer
1865 Essays in Criticism first series
1867 New Poems
1869 Culture and Anarchy
1871 Friendship’s Garland
1875 God and The Bible
1888 Essays in Criticism, second series

Mathew Arnold was a leading Victorian poet and critic who believed art served a moral purpose.


Arnold was born near London and went to Rugby school. His father, Thomas Arnold, the school principal, was famous for reforming teaching on firm Christian lines. Arnold studied at Oxford university and at 28, he became an inspector of schools, a post he held until retiring 35 years later. Also at 25, he married Frances Wightman. They lived at Laleham near London. Sadly, three out of their six children only outlived their father.

Mathew Arnold was 26 when his first book of poetry appeared. The Strayed Leveller was surprisingly gloomy and thoughtful from a man his friends had believed not to be serious. He wrote in an age when people were losing their religious beliefs and wondering what really mattered in life. Many of Arnold s verses are about people feeling lonely and confused. His longest and may be best poem Empedocles on Etna tells of an Ancient Greek philosopher driven by self-doubt to suicide. Arnold used such character s to explore his own fears and uncertainties.

Between the ages of 34 and 44 Arnold held the mainly unpaid post of professor of poetry at Oxford university. He wrote critical essays that praise Ancient Greek and Roman authors and proclaim the noble purpose of art. In Culture and Anarchy, he argued that culture could save society from depending on material possessions for happiness. In Essays in Criticism he argued for poetry to replace religion as the way to show people how to lead a good life.

Xxxx Subham xxxxx

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MARK TWAIN, STUPID OR WHAT? (Post No.5332)

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Date: 17 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5332

 

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MORE CLOTHING ANECDOTES!

Mark Twain, cherishing his comfort above his appearance, was very often wont to visit his friends and neighbours without wearing either a collar or a tie. His wife objected strenuously to this habit and, meeting him one day returning from a neighbourly visit without any sign of a collar or tie, scolded him soundly.

Mark returned home, searched out a collar and tie, wrapped them and sent them to the neighbours house with the following note,
“A little while ago I visited you without my collar and tie for about half an hour. The missing articles are enclosed. Will you kindly gaze at them for 30 minutes and then return them to me?”

Mark Twain profile
American Children’s Writer
Born Nov.30, 1835
Died Apr. 21, 1910
Age at Death 74

Mark Twain is one of America’s great humorous writers. He created two famous characters— Tom Sawyer and Hhuckleberry Finn.
Twain was born Samuel Leghorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, the fifth of six children. His father suffered ill health, and the family was poor. In 1839 they moved to Hannibal, a rapidly growing town on the Mississippi River, where Twain went to the local school. When he was 12, his father died and Twain had to leave school to find work.

At age 22 Twain became a river pilot at a time when there were 1000 boats a day on the Mississippi. He followed this trade for four years and loved it, but river traffic ended during the American civil war.
Becoming a full-time reporter in 1862, he soon began to use the pen name Mark Twain. He published his first important story at age 32 and his first successful novel, the humorous travel book The Innocents Abroad, when he was 34.

In 1870 Twain married Olivia Langdon, with whom he had five children. He wrote his classic children s stories The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in his 40s. Twain had become increasingly disillusioned by modern life and personal tragedies, and the books provided an opportunity for him to relieve the golden days of his boyhood on the Mississippi. Both stories give a realistic picture of life around the Mississippi and are full of adventure and humour. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
considered his master piece, is noted for its accurate and sympathetic depiction of adolescent life.

 

Publications
1867 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches
1869 The Innocents Abroad
1872 Roughing It
1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1881 The Prince and The Pauper
1884 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1894 Pudd’nhead Wilson A Tale

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SOMETHING SMELLS!

In his early days in New York Floyd Odlum and his wife were invited to a dinner. The only pair of shoes he happened to own at the time were bright yellow. In order to render them appropriate to the occasion he and his wife painted them black on the day of the party. During dinner , their hostess , sniffling perplexedly, said to her son,
Charlie I smell paint. Did you upset the paint in the cellar?

A fruitless discussion ensued in which everyone spoke of the smell of paint except Odlums who protested that that they smelled nothing.

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PREGNANT FRENCH QUEENS!

Before the birth of the son Marie Antoinette and Louise XVI, the fashion of pregnancy spread through the court. The Queens ladies in waiting wore skirts stuffed with cushions to make themselves appear enceinte; skirts of the season were created, with titles such as fourth month skirt etc their voluminousness adjusted to the progress of the Queen.

 

-SUBHAM-

 

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Odd One Out in a Nudist Colony! Clothing Anecdotes (Post No.5323)

Odd One Out in a Nudist Colony! Clothing Anecdotes (Post No.5323)

 

Compiled  by London swaminathan

Date: 17 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5323

 

 

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Whistler was standing bareheaded in a London hat shop while he was looking for his size hat. A short red faced man with a large waistline burst into the door and, mistaking Whistler for a clerk, exploded, “see, here, you, this hat doesn’t fit”.
The artist casually eyed the man from head to foot, then drawled out,
“Well, neither does your coat, what is more if you will pardon my saying so, I will be hanged if I care much for the colour of your trousers”.

((James Abbott McNeill Whistler (/ˈwɪslər/; July 11, 1834  – July 17, 1903) was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom- Wikipedia))


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Slip Slipped out!

A young lady on her way to business was standing in a crowded New York bus going down fifth avenue one morning. She was worrying over the age old problem of whether or not her slip was showing. Unable to twist around to see, she put the question directly to a small boy standing next to her.
No, Madame, he informed her politely. A few blocks farther she alighted and started to move briskly along crowded Fifth Avenue. Then, to her horror, she was hailed by the voice of the little boy, calling to her as the bus went by, yelling at the top of his lungs, “Your slip is showing now, lady, it’s showing now!”

(( a piece of underwear for a woman or girl that is like a dress or skirt))

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ODD ONE OUT! in a nudist colony!

There are numerous stories of the embarrassing predicaments that have ensnared public speakers at one time or another. Probably no worse fate ever befell any of them than that of the lecturer who, with some trepidation, had finally consented to address a banquet at a nudist colony.

 

Upon his arrival at the extensive premises, he was greeted by large numbers of men and women in their pristine natural state. He was shown into the headquarters building and it was suggested he might like to prepare for dinner.

Upstairs in the room to which they allotted him, he felt that there was nothing he could do except face the fact that he was expected to divest himself of his garments. In extreme mental anguish, he determined to be equal to the situation. At last, hearing the bell for the dinner, he marched downstairs as bare as Adam, to discover, to his horror, that the colonists had all assumed formal dress in deference to the speaker.
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Where is the Horse?

When the great Duke of Argyle was one night at the theatre in a side box a person entered the same box in boots and spurs. The Duke arose from his seat and with great ceremony, expressed his thanks to the stranger who, somewhat confused, desired to know for what reason he received those thanks. The Duke gravely replied,
For not bringing your horse into the box.

((SPUR= a device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider’s heel and used for urging a horse forward.))
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Nelson Garter
After the death of Nelson, English ladies were fond of wearing the Trafalgar garter on which was inscribed the memorable signal,

“England expects every man to do his duty”.

 

(( GARTER = a band worn around the leg to keep up a stocking or sock.))

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Lincoln Socks
Old Mrs Smith of South Orange N.J. ,who kept a small shop in Washington during the civil war said,
Abraham Lincoln came in one day asking for socks, I said,
What colour?
Colour, why? I don’t know, I am sure
Finally he stooped down and took hold of the end of his pants.

Why I guess this colour is good enough for me.
He pulled it up. I looked for the socks and saw his bare skin.
Xxx  SUBHAM xxx

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Sheridan bought Boots!! ( Post No.5328)

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Date: 16 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5328

 

 

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Sheridan made his appearance, one day, in a pair of new boots. These attracting the notice of some of his friends, Now guess, said he, how I came by these boots. Many probable guesses then took place. No, said Sheridan, no you have not hit it, nor ever will. I bought them and paid for them.

SHERIDAN PROFILE

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Irish Playwright

born oct.31, 1751

Died July 7, 1816

Age at death 64

 

PUBLICATIONS

1775 The Rivals

1775 St. Patrick’s Day

1775 The Duenna

1777 The School for Scandal

1779 The Critic

The playwright R B Sheridan is best known for his comedies of manners.

Sheridan was born in Dublin, and theatre was in his blood. His father was an actor, and his mother had written novels and plays. However, his family had money problems, and while Sheridan was away in England being educated, the family moved to France to avoid debtors.

When Sheridan was 19, the family moved back to England, and he joined them in the city of Bath. While there he became involved in a scandal concerning a well- known singer Elizabeth Anne Linley, over whom he later fought two duels. They were married in 1773 and then moved to London.

 

Once in London Sheridan became friends with a group of writers including Dr Johnson and Oliver Goldsmith. Although Elizabeth’s singing career could easily have supported them both, Sheridan decided to earn a living from writing. His first play, The Rivals, was written when he was 23. Two more followed later that year. The success of these plays led directly to Sheridan being offered the job of actor-manager of a London theatre.

 

Sheridan’s The School for Scandal is considered one of the most brilliant comedies of the 18th century. Like all of his plays, it makes fun of types of people Sheridan felt were cruel, stupid or self-important.

 

Sheridan’s theatrical skills made him a natural public speaker. He became a member of the British parliament and served as a minister.

Source- Book of Anecdotes and Who Wrote What When.

–Subham–

 

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‘Vande Mataram’ Poem by Bharati (Post No.5326)

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Date: 15 August 2018

 

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Poet Bharati composed this poem VANDE MATARAM

 

1).‘Vande Mataram’ we will sing!

These words throughout our land shall ring!

‘Vande Mataram’ we will say!

Mother land ,hail! to you we pray!

 

2).No more talk of caste and creed,

No more talk of birth and breed’

Who first drew breath in this our land,

Brahmin or other caste, with us he will stand.

 

3).What if an outcaste? Does he not live

With us right here and his labour give?

Has he become a Chinese man

And will harm us the way an alien can?

 

4).A thousand castes we have, oh dear!

But outsiders have no place here,

However they quarrel, can the sons of one mother

Cease to brothers of one another?

 

5).Only united, true life we attain

Divided go down, and none of us gain;

This is the lesson we all have to heed;

Once we know this, what else do we need?

 

6).Whatever fruits our efforts will bear

All of us equally in them will share;

For all thirty crores of us there shall be life,

Or for all thirty crores of us death after strife!

 

7).A pittance we preferred as serfs in a cottage

Forsaking our birth right for a mess of pottage;

This scandal and shame we have got to erase,

Spit on it, spurn it, and end the disgrace!

Note: The translation here given follows the Tamil original as published in ‘India’ magazine. Bharati revised this later. Stanza 6 was substituted by the following stanza when Bharati published it in 1907, the pamphlet entitled Swadesa Gitankal

 

Stanza 6

Our Bharat-Devi ‘ll quell all our evils

And confer on us boundless grace benign;

Unto the golden feet of the Mother

Dedicate body, life and possessions

 

It should also be mentioned here that Bharati restored the original version, later.

Translation by Professor P S Sundaram.

Source: Bharati Patlakal, Tamil University, Thanjavur, 1989

Editor T N Ramachandran

Tamil Original

 

This is Vandemataram poem of Bankim Chandra Chatterji

வந்தே மாதரம் என்போம் – வந்தே மாதரம்

வந்தே மாதரம் என்போம்-எங்கள்
மாநிலத் தாயை வணங்குதல் என்போம். (வந்தே)

ஜாதி மதங்களைப் பாரோம்- உயர்
ஜன்மம்இத் தேசத்தில் எய்தின ராயின்
வேதிய ராயினும் ஒன்றே- அன்றி
வேறு குலத்தின ராயினும் ஒன்றே (வந்தே)

ஈனப் பறையர்க ளேனும்-அவர்
எம்முடன் வாழ்ந்திங் கிருப்பவர் அன்றோ?
சீனத்த ராய்விடு வாரோ?-பிற
தேசத்தர் போற்பல தீங்கிழைப் பாரோ? (வந்தே)

ஆயிரம் உண்டிங்கு ஜாதி-எனில்
அன்னியர் வந்து புகல்என்ன நீதி?-ஓர்
தாயின் வயிற்றில் பிறந்தோர்-தம்முள்
சண்டைசெய்தாலும் சகோதரர் அன்றோ? (வந்தே)

ஒன்றுபட்டால் உண்டு வாழ்வே-நம்மில்
ஒற்றுமை நீங்கில் அனைவர்க்கும் தாழ்வே
நன்றிது தேர்ந்திடல் வேண்டும்-இந்த
ஞானம் வந்தாற்பின் நமக்கெது வேண்டும்? (வந்தே)

எப்பதம் வாய்த்திடு மேனும்-நம்மில்
யாவர்க்கும் அந்த நிலைபொது வாகும்
முப்பது கோடியும் வாழ்வோம்- வீழில்
முப்பது கோடி முழுமையும் வீழ்வோம்
(வந்தே)

புல்லடி மைத்தொழில் பேணிப்-பண்டு
போயின நாட்களுக் கினிமனம் நாணித்
தொல்லை இகழ்ச்சிகள் தீர- இந்தத்
தொண்டு நிலைமையைத் தூவென்று தள்ளி
(வந்தே)

 

-subham–

 

 

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British Lion and American Eagle! Speech Anecdotes (Post No.5316)

 

Compiled by LONDON SWAMINATHAN

Date: 13 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5316

 

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More Speeches Anecdote More!
The ability of various public speakers was being discussed in Sydney Smith’s Club. Someone said that Archbishop Whatley was gifted with unusual oratorical powers. Smith granted that there were some things he could indeed admire in the worthy doctor’s discourses, remarking with emphasis of one particular speech,
“There he had some splendid flashes of silence”.
X

Lincoln’s Speech!


President Lincoln was attending a dinner at which many personages were asked to give speeches. Many and flowery were the phrases that were tossed about the table. At last the President was called upon to add his remarks to all that had gone before.
“I appear before you, fellow citizens, said Lincoln, merely to thank you for this compliment. The inference is a very fair one that you would hear me for a while at least, were I to commence to make a speech. I do not appear before you for the purpose of doing so, and for several substantial reasons. The most substantial of these is that I have no speech to make. In my position it is somewhat important that that I should not say any foolish things (At this point a voice was heard to say, if you can help it— but the president went on without appearing to have noticed it.).
It very often happens that the only way to help it is to say nothing at all. Believing that is my present condition this evening, I must beg of you to excuse me from addressing you further.

Xxx

British Lion and American Eagle

  
The distinguished Senator from Minnesota ( Cushman K Davis) , a member of the Peace Commission, said in the Senate. “We stand in the vestibule of a century full of miracles, and, following the metaphor of the English orator who eloquently proclaimed, “The British lion whether it is roaming the deserts of India or climbing the forests of Canada, will not draw in its horns or retire into its shell, so the American eagle will continue to guard whatever territory comes under the shadow of its wings so long as it chooses to hold it.”

Xxx

Rotten Egg Vs Gold Watch
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist, had much unhappy experience with mobs and missiles. At a dinner given by him by the British anti -slavery society he was presented with a watch.
“Well, gentlemen, he said, if this had been a rotten egg, I should have known what to do with it, but as it is a gold watch, I have nothing to say”.

Xxx
Jules Janin, at a banquet, was given the toast,
Long live success !
Yes, he retorted, it is the only thing that succeeds.

Xxx

Mystic Mingling of Star and Clod?

Congress man Fred Landis of Indiana had made a reputation for himself as an orator. Speaking at the unveiling of a monument to President Lincoln, he uttered the phrase, “Abraham Lincoln-that mystic mingling of star and clod”.

This was loudly applauded.
After the speech a friend of Landis approached him and, repeating the phrase, said
Fred, what in the name of heaven does that mean?
Landis replied,

“I don’t know really, but it gets ‘em every time”.

Xxx

Who is A.G.?

The story is told in London that god fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was going over with the cabinet the speech he was subsequently to make in the House of Commons upon the accession of King Edward VIII. Afterwards Mr. Baldwin’s secretary gathered up the manuscript and observed a marginal note by the prime minister,
‘Refer again to A G’
Promptly the speech was rushed to Attorney General .
The hour was late and in some puzzlement the AG and his staff scrutinised the wholly innocuous phrases , wondering what Mr Baldwin could possibly have thought might be indiscreet or dangerous. It turned out next morning that orator Baldwin had meant to remind himself by his marginal note to refer again to ‘Almighty God’.

Xxx

Fire and Icebergs!
Rev. Samuel J. May,

“Mr Garrison, you are too excited, you are on fire!”
William Lloyd Garrison,
“I have need to be on fire, for I have icebergs around me to melt”.

Xx x
At the laying of a cornerstone, while President Coolidge turned a spade full of earth and then remained silent. The gathering expected him to speak . The master of ceremonies suggested that a few words would be fitting.
Mr Coolidge looked over the upturned earth.

“That’s a fine fishworm”, said he.

Xxx

Intellectual Steam
During a parliamentary discussion on curtailing a debate Sir Campbell Bannerman remarked that it was reasonable that Members should wish to let off a certain amount of intellectual steam.

“Is that a polite way of describing debate in this House?”, interposed Balfour.
“I thought steam was a motive power”, replied Bannerman.
“Not when its let off”, retorted Balfour amidst the laughter of the House.

Xxx

Churchill Speeches

Some years ago Winston Churchill highly amused his fellow Members in the House by distributing among them printed copies of his recent speeches. A Liberal Member for one of the Devonshire constituencies acknowledged the gift in the following manner

“Dear Mr Churchill, Thanks for copy of your speeches lately delivered in the House of Commons. To quote the late Lord Baconsfield, “I shall lose no time in reading them”.

Xxx Subham xxx

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Sss….tttt….ttt…u..tte…..ring Anecdotes!!! (Post No.5304)

Compiled by London swaminathan

Date: 9 August 2018

 

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Post No. 5304

 

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Henry Guy Carleton, wit, journalist and playwright, had an impediment in his speech about which he used to joke. Meeting Nat Godwin, the comedian, one day he asked
G G Godwin, c c can you g g give m m me f f fifteen m m minutes?

Certainly, replied the comedian, what is it?
I w w want to have a f f five minutes c c conversation with you .

 

xxx

Charles Lamb mocked by Coleridge!

Stammering, says Coleridge, is sometimes the cause of a pun. Some one was mentioning in Lambs presence the cold heartedness of the Duke of Cumberland, in restraining the Duchess in rushing up to the embrace of her son, whom she had not seen for a considerable time , and insisting on her receiving him in state. . How horribly cold it was, said the narrator.
Yes, said Lamb in his stuttering way, it you know he is the Duke of C Cu cum ber land!

 

(CUCUMERLNAD!)

Xxxx

 

Fear of demolishing Buildings!

A big hulk of a man, somewhat sinister in appearance, accosted a small dapper gentleman on the street, and asked,
C c can you t t tell me how to g g get to the C c city Hall?

The small man paled and turning on his heels , fled down the street. Angered and exasperated, the big man pursued him. They raced for several blocks until the little mans wind gave out and he was overtaken and captured. The big man seized him by the arm and cried angrily,
W w what do you m m mean running away w w when I ask you a c c civil question?

The little man looked up and gasped,
D d d do you t t think I wanted my block knocked off?

Xxxx Subham xxx

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