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Gramsci would be proud if he could 'circumspice' now (correct the Latin for me, Tiberius, please).
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I can well believe that this ignorance is true of the journalists, circumspice, but I assumed the indusrial leaders were made of sterner stufff and educated in less decadent times or systems.
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As for that Blair legacy, well, ‘Si monumentum requiris, circumspice’.
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As for that Blair legacy, well, ‘Si monumentum requiris, circumspice’.
Archive 2008-05-18 2008
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I was stopped and moved by the words above the crypt of the great architect Christopher Wren, who built so much of that majestic city: Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice -- "Reader, if you seek his monument, look about you."
James Rocchi: The Moviegoer: Roger Ebert's Not at Sundance, Except When He Is 2008
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'Si monumentum requiris circumspice' but in Wren's case it applied to an amazing and wonderful edifice, whereas in Gramsci's case it would apply to the ruins of our own hertitage and culture.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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As was said of Sir Christopher Wren, so is it true of him whom we mourn: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice!
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Michigan -- Si quaeris peninsulam amoeanam circumspice: If thou seekest a beautiful peninsula, look around.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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The best record of his life is to be found in the present condition of the country -- _si monumentum requiris circumspice_.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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Were a worthy epitaph needed, it might well be, _simonumentum quæris circumspice_.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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