Fray Luis de León, the great humanist scholar of the Spanish Golden Age, one of the sages of Salamanca University, was condemned by the Inquisition for translating the Song of Solomon and spent four years in prison before being allowed to return to his lectern, where he began his first lecture with the phrase, "Decíamos ayer": "As we were saying yesterday..."
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
'They make it up. They lie'
Ed Broadbent: I've never seen the leader of a Conservative party, certainly not Bob Stanfield, certainly not Joe Clark, lie -- I choose the word deliberately -- the way Mr. Harper has... I'm concerned I have a prime minister who lies to the people of Canada and knows it. It's one thing to exaggerate, it's another to deliberately tell falsehoods... They make it up. They lie. They pay people to destroy things.