[NSP] Re: No kind of knowledge of the expressive power ....

2009-05-29 Thread Christopher.Birch
It certainly did this time! c -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 11:06 AM To: phi...@gruar.clara.net Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: No kind of

[NSP] Re: No kind of knowledge of the expressive power ....

2009-05-29 Thread Francis Wood
Interesting stuff, Christopher! I'll look at this more carefully. Burney's significant date of publication (1789) reminds me of another quotation, this time from Oscar Wilde's character, Lady Bracknall: To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems