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This site contains CWNY’s works from 3/3/12 through 7/31/21, when CWNY ceased writing, as noted by his family in The Minstrel Sleeps. To download a pdf of all posts from this time period, go to About this site. (You may also download individual posts and pages, using a plugin we’ve made available.)
Please note that this site includes all posts from his previously de-platformed blog, which were completely restored as of 6/10/22. Should you wish to view only those restored posts, use the category link: Older posts (pre-April 2019).
For CWNY’s writing from 5/25/06 to 2/25/12, visit his older blog, still available here.
More content on this site is also available on the Remembrances page, which includes his final, albeit unfinished, Christmas story, and To His Readers (4/21/19), which he posted after his return from being deplatformed.
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Tag Archives: Walter Scott
Which Is Given Unto Us
Men are rarely without some sympathy in the sufferings of others; but in the immense and diversified mass of human misery, which may be pitied, but cannot be relieved, in the gross, the mind must make a choice. Our sympathy … Continue reading
Shall Satan Rule Unchallenged?
There is a courageous wisdom: there is also a false reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. Under misfortunes it often happens that the nerves of the understanding are so relaxed, the pressing peril of the hour … Continue reading
The Light Beyond Rationalism
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God … Continue reading
Doubt and Faith
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. – Matthew 5: 4 What are we to make of, “Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus”? When Jesus said that He intended to go into Judaea again, His disciples … Continue reading
As You Would Oppose the Devil
Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long … Continue reading
The Liberals’ Metamorphosis
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. –1 Peter 5: 8 __________ Pope Francis the blasphemer is always very forthright and uncompromising when he condemns white pietas, … Continue reading
The Precious Cornerstone
Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge … Continue reading
The Vision of His Europe and His People
Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne’er be quiet;For every pelting, petty officerWould use his heaven for thunder,Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven,Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oakThan the soft myrtle. … Continue reading
Our Faith is Our Destiny
The original purpose of poetry is either religious or historical, or, as most frequently happens, a mixture of both. – Sir Walter Scott ___________________ Prior to the 20th century, the European bards wrote about the trials and travails of a … Continue reading
The Folly of God
‘Twas the hour when rites unholyCall’d each Paynim voice to prayerAnd the star that faded slowlyLeft to dews the freshen’d air Day his sultry fires had wasted,Calm and cool the moonbeams shone,To the Vizier’s lofty palaceOne bold Christian came alone. … Continue reading