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Wisdom And Folly.
History of the Strulbrugs . He also proposes that the human species shall be continued without the means at present in use . ' ' The man in socks takes what the other says upon trust ; and does his best to spread the other ' s notions . Not long ago , trying to propagate his creed in a very large company , in which there were many Wi as well as Foolsthe Fools clappedand the Wise hissed : the
-e , , force of the Wise got the better of the number of the Fools ; ancl he and his creed were driven out of the house . ' 1 Pray who are those men , so anxiously emp loyed in currying horses ? " ' ' S . ime of these are statesmen and legislators ; for Fools , when preparing for the senate , often receive their education in the stable : all these , however , are by no means Fools . _ That tall , fine countenance
man , with a black cropt head , and a handsome expressive , is of ' the opposite country , though he has now and then , as indeed almost all the Wise do , taken a peep into the regions of l ' olly . . That slim , genteel old man , with a glass eye , that you see ogling a girl by the stable-door , with a bundle under her arm , though born in the lower parrs of the other country , has spent most of his days in the him native much
domains of Folly : but they who think a , are very mistaken . ' ' If that short thick man , with black eye-brows and capacious forehead , be a Fool , 1 think I may say , nulla fides fronti . ' ' He is , ' said my Guide , ' from the very summit of Wisdom , and has taken a run down , to talk about a horse-race ; but speedily returns to a conference with his friends , Homer and Demosthenes . ' He with a red face anci penetrating eye , that has joined him , goes
most part of the , way with him , and mig ht climb higher , if his industry were equal to his strength . The tall handsome crop is a pupil of both , and a promisiri _; pupil he is . But these , as well as that tall thin man , ' walking arm iifarm with a jolly fellow in a brown wig , who now ancl then amuse themselves , after supper , with taking a look into some of the wine-vaults of Folly , spend most of the clay in their native " with others before
mountains . The thin man , who lives at a pinnacle , you , from ( he same quarter , let us leave for the present , and attend to those that are AT HOME in the land of Folly . ' Observe a man with a very ugly stupid countenance , slight , halftimbered , feeble figure , followed by a sleek , simpering , silly-looking creaturewith reinaikablsmall earshumbly saluting the ugly man ,
, y , as he stands before him . These are two NATIVE FOOLS , though in very different ranks ; the one , from an equerry , having risen to be a senator , ( a dumb one , it must be confessed ) a colonel , a lord ; the other whipper-in and p imp to his lordship , clerk of the kitchen , teacher of psalmody , and tutor to his lordship ' s son , to render him the worthy representative of such a father . This , Sir , is , in short , with his worth
the celebrated Thomas Booby , Lord Bang-wife , y , retainer and pandar . That beautiful woman , thatyou see at some little distance , slvlv kissing the handsome footman , is the mistress whom Booby supposes devoted to himself . The devoirs of Pandar are now exclusively the property of the cook , in whatever family he happens to reside , in any of his honourable occupations . Happy for him , had it always been so 1 then would the apothecary have been unnecessary ; The History of Lord Bangwif'e , a title bestowed upon him on
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Wisdom And Folly.
History of the Strulbrugs . He also proposes that the human species shall be continued without the means at present in use . ' ' The man in socks takes what the other says upon trust ; and does his best to spread the other ' s notions . Not long ago , trying to propagate his creed in a very large company , in which there were many Wi as well as Foolsthe Fools clappedand the Wise hissed : the
-e , , force of the Wise got the better of the number of the Fools ; ancl he and his creed were driven out of the house . ' 1 Pray who are those men , so anxiously emp loyed in currying horses ? " ' ' S . ime of these are statesmen and legislators ; for Fools , when preparing for the senate , often receive their education in the stable : all these , however , are by no means Fools . _ That tall , fine countenance
man , with a black cropt head , and a handsome expressive , is of ' the opposite country , though he has now and then , as indeed almost all the Wise do , taken a peep into the regions of l ' olly . . That slim , genteel old man , with a glass eye , that you see ogling a girl by the stable-door , with a bundle under her arm , though born in the lower parrs of the other country , has spent most of his days in the him native much
domains of Folly : but they who think a , are very mistaken . ' ' If that short thick man , with black eye-brows and capacious forehead , be a Fool , 1 think I may say , nulla fides fronti . ' ' He is , ' said my Guide , ' from the very summit of Wisdom , and has taken a run down , to talk about a horse-race ; but speedily returns to a conference with his friends , Homer and Demosthenes . ' He with a red face anci penetrating eye , that has joined him , goes
most part of the , way with him , and mig ht climb higher , if his industry were equal to his strength . The tall handsome crop is a pupil of both , and a promisiri _; pupil he is . But these , as well as that tall thin man , ' walking arm iifarm with a jolly fellow in a brown wig , who now ancl then amuse themselves , after supper , with taking a look into some of the wine-vaults of Folly , spend most of the clay in their native " with others before
mountains . The thin man , who lives at a pinnacle , you , from ( he same quarter , let us leave for the present , and attend to those that are AT HOME in the land of Folly . ' Observe a man with a very ugly stupid countenance , slight , halftimbered , feeble figure , followed by a sleek , simpering , silly-looking creaturewith reinaikablsmall earshumbly saluting the ugly man ,
, y , as he stands before him . These are two NATIVE FOOLS , though in very different ranks ; the one , from an equerry , having risen to be a senator , ( a dumb one , it must be confessed ) a colonel , a lord ; the other whipper-in and p imp to his lordship , clerk of the kitchen , teacher of psalmody , and tutor to his lordship ' s son , to render him the worthy representative of such a father . This , Sir , is , in short , with his worth
the celebrated Thomas Booby , Lord Bang-wife , y , retainer and pandar . That beautiful woman , thatyou see at some little distance , slvlv kissing the handsome footman , is the mistress whom Booby supposes devoted to himself . The devoirs of Pandar are now exclusively the property of the cook , in whatever family he happens to reside , in any of his honourable occupations . Happy for him , had it always been so 1 then would the apothecary have been unnecessary ; The History of Lord Bangwif'e , a title bestowed upon him on