[HN Gopher] Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwr...
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       Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by
       John Milton
        
       Author : nobody9999
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2024-05-16 03:03 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | fatcat500 wrote:
       | What in me is dark
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       | Illumine, what is low raise and support;
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       | That to the highth of this great Argument
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       | I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
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       | And justifie the wayes of God to men.
        
         | ksenzee wrote:
         | ...malt does more than Milton can / To justify God's ways to
         | man. --Housman
        
       | wanderingstan wrote:
       | The unusual 'r' glyphs in the text led me to reading about "R
       | rotunda".
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_rotunda
        
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