PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK
THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK:
THOMAS STANLEY
“NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY HDT WHAT? INDEX
THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS STANLEY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK
A WEEK: As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover PEOPLE OF the causes of all past change in the present invariable order of A WEEK society. The greatest appreciable physical revolutions are the work of the light-footed air, the stealthy-paced water, and the subterranean fire. Aristotle said, “As time never fails, and the universe is eternal, neither the Tanais nor the Nile can have flowed forever.” We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west. Be assured that every man’s success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the waters annually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day’s work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.
THOMAS STANLEY ARISTOTLE HDT WHAT? INDEX
THE PEOPLE OF A WEEK: THOMAS STANLEY PEOPLE MENTIONED IN A WEEK
1625
Thomas Stanley was born with a big old silver spoon in his mouth, a son of Sir Thomas Stanley of Cumberlow, Hertfordshire and Mary Hammond Stanley. His mother was a cousin of Richard Lovelace and he would be educated in company with the son of Edward Fairfax (translator of Torquato Tasso).
NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT
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1637
Thomas Stanley matriculated at Cambridge University at the age of 13, with the status of a gentleman commoner of Pembroke Hall.
LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD.
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1641
Thomas Stanley received the MA degree, but from Oxford University rather than from Cambridge. He would enter upon a legal career.
THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1647
Thomas Stanley’s POEMS. THOMAS STANLEY’S POEMS
He also prepared a translation of AURORA AND THE PRINCE from the Spanish of Juan Pérez de Montalbán (London: printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Church-yard).
DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD.
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1649
Thomas Stanley’s EUROPA, CUPID CRUCIFIED, and VENUS VIGILS (Printed by W.W. for Humphrey Mosely, and are to be sold at his shop at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard).
CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT
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1650
Thomas Stanley prepared a 2d edition of his translation of ORONTA, THE CYPRIAN VIRGIN from the Italian of Sigr Girolamo Preti (London: Printed by F.B. for Humphrey Mosely at the Signe of the Princes Armes in St Pauls Churchyard). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1651
Thomas Stanley prepared a volume of translations of Anacreon, Bion, Moschus, KISSES by Secundus, etc. ANACREON BY STANLEY
THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT
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1655
The initial volume of Thomas Stanley’s THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: CONTAINING THE LIVES, OPINIONS, ACTIONS AND DISCOURSES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS OF EVERY SECT (London: Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring). The 3d volume of this would appear in 1661.
(The images offered are woodcuts purporting to represent THALES, SOLON, CHILON, PITTACVS, BIAS, CLEOBVLE, PERIANDER, SOCRATES, XENOPHON, ARISTIPPVS, PLATO, SPVSIPPVS, CARNEADES, ARISTOTELES, ANTISTHENES, and ZENON.) HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHERS HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1656
The 2d volume of Thomas Stanley’s THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: CONTAINING THE LIVES, OPINIONS, ACTIONS AND DISCOURSES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS OF EVERY SECT (London: Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring). The 1st volume had appeared in 1655 and the 3d volume would appear in 1661.
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1661
The 3d volume of Thomas Stanley’s THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: CONTAINING THE LIVES, OPINIONS, ACTIONS AND DISCOURSES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS OF EVERY SECT (London: Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring), the 1st volume of which had appeared in 1655 (there would be in addition a HISTORY OF CHALDAICK PHILOSOPHY, which would appear in 1662).
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1662
Thomas Stanley’s THE HISTORY OF THE CHALDAICK PHILOSOPHY (London, Printed for Thomas Dring, and are to be fold at his Shop at the George in Fleet-ftreet neer Cliffords-Inn). CHALDAICK PHILOSOPHY HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1664
Thomas Stanley prepared in folio a monumental edition of the text of Æschylus (extensive notes on Callimachus remain in manuscript, at the British Library). HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1678
April 12, Friday (Old Style): Thomas Stanley died at his lodgings in Suffolk Street on the Strand. The body would be interred in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1690
Thomas Stanley’s HISTORY OF CHALDAICK PHILOSOPHY appeared in Amsterdam in a Latin translation by Joseph Victor LeClerc. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1701
Thomas Stanley’s THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY (London: W. Battersby). A copy of this would be in Bronson Alcott’s library available to Henry Thoreau, and a quotation from Aristotle’s METEOROLOGICA obtained from this source would appear in A WEEK.
A WEEK: As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover PEOPLE OF the causes of all past change in the present invariable order of A WEEK society. The greatest appreciable physical revolutions are the work of the light-footed air, the stealthy-paced water, and the subterranean fire. Aristotle said, “As time never fails, and the universe is eternal, neither the Tanais nor the Nile can have flowed forever.” We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west. Be assured that every man’s success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the waters annually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day’s work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.
THOMAS STANLEY ARISTOTLE
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF
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1711
Thomas Stanley’s HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, published originally in English between 1655 and 1661, appeared in Leipzig in an expanded Latin version entitled HISTORIA PHILOSOPHIAE: VITAS, OPINIONES, RESQUE GESTAS ET DICTA PHILOSOPHORUM SECTAE CUIUSVIS COMPLEXA AUTORE THOMA STANLEIO EX ANGLICO SERMONE IN LATINUM TRANSLATA, EMENDATA VARIIS DISSERTATIONISBUS ATQUE OBSERVATIONIBUS PASSIM AUCTA ET DUOBUS TOMIS DIGESTA, by Godfrey Olearius (1672-1715). HISTORIA PHILOSOPHIAE HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1814
Thomas Stanley’s POEMS of 1647 was republished in an edition by Samuel Egerton Brydges. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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1883
Thomas Stanley’s translation of ANACREON was published along with the original in Greek, as edited by A.H. Bullen, with illustrations by J.E. Weguilin (New York: Merrill & Baker).
“MAGISTERIAL HISTORY” IS FABULATION, HISTORY IS CHRONOLOGY
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This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button. HDT WHAT? INDEX
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