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how about the rock of ages? (does any one know where that is? i saw a book as a child, that had 'famous places', (all of them were in england, of course,)and one was an illustration of the rock of ages, cleft for me, where the author of the hymn hid out a heavy rainstorm!
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I think that was what shanks was referring to..
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WHY ARE WE WHISPERING?
Palate...
Is that 'tastes good 'n plenty' or 'good 'n plenty taste'.
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In Somerset in England, is an area known as Burrington Combe. It is in the vicinity of the Mendip Heights (hills, really) and the Cheddar Gorge. It is here that Toplady received the inspiration for his hymn.
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How can a him be named Top Lady??
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The Revered Augustus Montague Toplady, the fiercly Calvinist yet Anglican author of "Rock of Ages", was named Toplady because his father, Major Richard Toplady, who was killed at the seige of Carthagena, was named Toplady. It worked that way in England, then.
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S'funny how things strike people. Cheddar inspired Toplady to write a hymn despite being named as a her. When I was there in December last year, I distinctly remember being inspired towards a pint. And, having succumbed to that inspiration, to repeat the experience to be sure that it really was an inspiration rather than just a whim. It wasn't. If I'd stayed, I'd have become a Mendipsomaniac. Tough cheese, I say!
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a him be named Top Lady
The lady kneads the bread and the lord guards it. That these roles have generally become sex-linked does not preclude the notion that a male can be a lady.
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