John Harington Quotes
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
John Harington of Kelston, 1560?-1612, English Writer & Courtier, Epigrams: Of Treason
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The revolution turned on many of its initiators including Vergniaud. He was guillotined along with other Girondists.
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Oz ofent wrote very effective scathing criticism of the policies of the right wing governmetns of Israel and the ultra orthodox who argued that God gave the Jews Judea and Sammaria which is now the West Bank and has been occupied by Arabs for more than 1500 years.
Sir John Harington, of Kelston, Somerset, England, but baptised in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet. He became prominent at Queen Elizabeth I's court, and was known as her "saucy Godson", but his poetry and other writings caused him to fall in and out of favour with the Queen. The description of a flush-toilet forerunner installed in his Kelston house appears in A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (1596), a political allegory and coded attack on the monarchy, which is nowadays his best-known work.
