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Advent 2022, Day 11
“The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!”
– J. R. R. Tolkien

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2022-12-11

Back to basics: the plough, the grape, the farm, and the beehive

BL Burney 272; Various including Virgil, Bucolica, Georgica, Aeneis; c. 1473 CE; Germany or Austria (Melk?); ff.18r, 26r, 34v, 43v

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2022-11-06

“As, then, we do not compel the horse to plough, or the bull to hunt, but set each animal to that for which it is by nature fitted; so, placing our finger on what is man's peculiar and distinguishing characteristic above other creatures, we invite him — 1/

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2022-09-17

'The Plough,' is representative of the style of painting William Roberts began perfecting during WW2 and became his signature style for the next three decades; a simple pictorial language with strikingly cubist figures. This is from 1944.

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2022-03-26

For To a Mouse, On Turning Her up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785: 'I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,/Has broken nature’s social union,/An’ justifies that ill opinion,/Which makes thee startle/At me...'
(The Harvest Mouse by Joseph Wolf, Once a Week 1861)

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2022-01-26

How lovely: 'God spede the & sende us korne enow' - even the oxen look happy (though the ploughmen less so), and we’re suddenly in the room with the scribe illustrating the frontispiece to his 14thC manuscript of Piers Plowman (https://t.co/9KJTxTGLCX, f.001v).

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2022-01-18

Well said Ma'am

if God spare my lyfe ere many yeares, I wyl cause a boye that dryveth the plough, shall knowe more of the scripture then thou (the Pope) doest.”

even a “plowboy” could interpret Scripture in the main without the necessary help of the Church

Preach ma'am preach

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2021-11-29

Terence went third (11%), and I got a little weird with him.
Mostly part-arachnid, part-crustacean. The pincers felt sort of like an equivalent to his plough, somewhat.
That probably may not be the same case for the engines, however.

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2021-04-11

The theme set by today is Animals, and our inspiration is the Robert Bevan artwork in our collection.

The Turn Rice-Plough, Sussex, c1909
Ploughing on the Downs, c1907
The Ploughing Team, Dawn, 1906

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2020-08-13

This is for Tonight, find the plough, look directly under the lower right star that forms the box. It should be about half way between this star and the horizon. After 23:30 is the best time to look. Time is running out, closest to earth tomorrow and it's moving away from the sun

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2020-07-20

Sometimes called a scratch plough, the ard does little more than gouge some lines in the earth into which seed can be scattered. And because it is essentially a pointy stick, lighter silty soils are preferred locations. They were pulled by people or animals. 4/n

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2020-06-07

A bull yoked with a cow on this 1st-3rdC copper-alloy statuette of a ploughman in his rainproof, hooded cloak probably depicts a special occasion (see https://t.co/jpFIwNrOok) - it may also be early evidence for use of the heavy rather than an ard

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2020-02-28