Areopagus Volume XLVI

Seven short lessons every someday.

Welcome one and all to the forty sixth volume of the Areopagus. We begin this week with a quote from Dr Johnson, who once said this about John Milton:

He was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Last week, rather than a colossus, what I tried to write for you was a cherry-stone. The responses I received were encouraging and so once more, Gentle Reader, I present for you seven shorter lessons this Friday...