Pepys' Diary: Wednesday 4 April 1660
The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be? Rochester: The love of wine and women.
The King: God bless your majesty!" new. Hhomeboy on Sun 6 Apr 2003, ...
The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be? Rochester: The love of wine and women.
The King: God bless your majesty!" new. Hhomeboy on Sun 6 Apr 2003, ...
Sober in govt….continued:
One of the better exchanges between Rochester and The King:
"Rochester:Were I in your Majesty's place I would not govern at all.
The King: How then?
Rochester: I would send for my good Lord Rochester and command him to govern.
The King: But the singular modesty of that nobleman-
Rochester: He would certainly conform himself to your Majesty's bright example. How gloriously would the two grand social virtues flourish under his auspices!
The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be?
Rochester: The love of wine and women.
The King: God bless your majesty!"
Matt Gross for The New York Times My set up for inexpensive, international calls.
In Venice, a city of odd spaces, Gianni Colombo’s walk-in art installation “Spazio Elastico” (1967-68) at the Palazzo Grassi contemporary art museum, is one of the oddest. A nearly lightless room subdivided into rectangles by thin elastic cords that glow white in the dark and ever so slowly shift position, it’s as disorienting as a hall of mirrors, only without the mirrors.
India has more fake than genuine doctors, according to K.K. Kohli, who chairs the anti-quackery committee of the Delhi Medical Council.
Ten years ago Delhi's state government drew up an “Anti-Quackery Bill” of which nothing more was heard. But the real problem is less the quacks themselves than the health-care vacuum in which they flourish.
Quackdown 可以有兩義 一是
一是諧因音 crackdowncrack·down (krăk'doun')
n.
An act or example of forceful regulation, repression, or restraint: a crackdown on crime.
One of the better exchanges between Rochester and The King:
"Rochester:Were I in your Majesty's place I would not govern at all.
The King: How then?
Rochester: I would send for my good Lord Rochester and command him to govern.
The King: But the singular modesty of that nobleman-
Rochester: He would certainly conform himself to your Majesty's bright example. How gloriously would the two grand social virtues flourish under his auspices!
The King: O, prisca fides! What can these be?
Rochester: The love of wine and women.
The King: God bless your majesty!"
Staying in Touch Internationally, on the Cheap
Matt Gross for The New York Times My set up for inexpensive, international calls.India has more fake than genuine doctors, according to K.K. Kohli, who chairs the anti-quackery committee of the Delhi Medical Council.
Ten years ago Delhi's state government drew up an “Anti-Quackery Bill” of which nothing more was heard. But the real problem is less the quacks themselves than the health-care vacuum in which they flourish.
Quackdown 可以有兩義 一是
罵美國管制機構無能或"庸醫"水準每況愈下或找更便宜的
immediately faced a decade-long "quackdown" by the FDA. By the 1950s, Hoxsey was riding what ...
ASIA: India's fake doctors
quack (DISHONEST PERSON)
noun [C]
1 DISAPPROVING a person who dishonestly pretends to have medical skills or knowledge
Organ-trading has been illegal since 1994. But India has done little to curb its “quacks”, as medical impostors are known.
2 UK INFORMAL OFTEN DISAPPROVING a doctor:
Have you seen a quack about that cough?
quackery
noun [U] DISAPPROVING
medical methods that do not work and are only intended to make money
*此假說極可能錯誤quack (DISHONEST PERSON)
noun [C]
1 DISAPPROVING a person who dishonestly pretends to have medical skills or knowledge
Organ-trading has been illegal since 1994. But India has done little to curb its “quacks”, as medical impostors are known.
2 UK INFORMAL OFTEN DISAPPROVING a doctor:
Have you seen a quack about that cough?
quackery
noun [U] DISAPPROVING
medical methods that do not work and are only intended to make money
Quackdown
The high cost of medicines bought on the cheap一是諧因音 crackdowncrack·down (krăk'doun')
n.
An act or example of forceful regulation, repression, or restraint: a crackdown on crime.
priscan
IN BRIEF: Existing in ancient times.
crest
The Family Motto is: "PRISCA FIDES" this translates to "Ancient Trust" and can
be traced to John Glassford Tobacco Lord. ...
The Family Motto is: "PRISCA FIDES" this translates to "Ancient Trust" and can
be traced to John Glassford Tobacco Lord. ...
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