{"id":179,"date":"2010-01-25T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nanavati.eu\/weblog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T08:39:39","slug":"horace-walpole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/25\/horace-walpole\/","title":{"rendered":"Horace Walpole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am not usually given to quotes and quoting. I very rarely read biographies though some notable human beings are worth knowing about and many who are not well known should come more to our attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Horace probably isn&#8217;t a man I would have known well. He loved things Gothic and whilst his father was a famed British politician, Horace didn&#8217;t go looking for causes, they rather found him. And he was a member of the British aristocracy which means he was probably highly educated and not much else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But when I first read this quote, it struck a chord with me and I have never forgotten it. It comes from a book of quotations we have here printed in the 1900&#8217;s, filled with thousands of people&#8217;s ideas none of which I ever recall, save this by Horace Walpole, son of Sir Robert Walpole and 4th Earl of Orford from a letter to Anne, Countess of Ossory, on 16 August 1776:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel \u2013 a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not usually given to quotes and quoting. I very rarely read biographies though some notable human beings are worth knowing about and many who are not well known should come more to our attention. Horace probably isn&#8217;t a man I would have known well. He loved things Gothic and whilst his father was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[782],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-walpole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}