George Woodcock Quotes
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
The line was a quotation from Chaucer.
Describing Vice President Aaron Burr, 1756-1836:
Austin died of pneumonia in 1836 just after losing the Texas Presidency to Sam Houston. Houston ordered all in his government to wear black armbands
George Woodcock was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a poet and published several volumes of travel writing. In 1959 he was the founding editor of the journal Canadian Literature which was the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing. He is most commonly known outside Canada for his book Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962).
