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Article EXCERPT A ET COLLECTANEA. ← Page 2 of 2
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Excerpt A Et Collectanea.
them , took the libraries as part of the bargain and booty ; reserving of those library books , some to serve their jakes , some to scour their candlesticks , and some to rub their boots with ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-boilers , and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders , not in small numbers , but , at times , whole ship-fulls , to the wondering of forei gn nations . I know a merchant-man , who at this time shall be namelessthat bought the contents of two noble libraries
, for forty shillings a-piece—a shame it is to be told . This stuff hath he used for the space of more than te ! .- years , instead of grey paper , to wrap up his goods with , and yet he ' hath enough remaining for many years to come : —a prodigious example indeed is this , and greatly to be abhorred of all men who love their country as they ought to do . "
An elegant method of paying a compliment is certainly not peculiar to any country : the following instance , in a Russian , is little known . The celebrated General Romanzow , after his great successes over the Turks , wrote to Mouskin Pouskin , then ambassador at the Court of Great Britaindeclaring his intention of retiring as soon as he had
, conducted the army home ; and desiring that Pouskin would send him the best plan he could procure of an English gentleman ' s farm . In his answer , Pouskin promised to get it ; but added , that , at the same time , he should send the Empress a PLAN OF BLENHEIM .
CONQUEST OF FRANCE BY THE ALLIES IN 1792 .
[ FromaLetter of Mr . Gibbon , to Lord Sheffield . Vide Memoirs , vol . i . p . 247 . ] " How dreadfully , since my last date , has the -French road been polluted with blood ! And what horrid scenes may be acting at this moment , and may still be aggravated , till the Duke of Brunswick is master of Paris ! On every rational principle of calculation , he must succeed ; yet sometimes , when my spirits are low , I DREAD THE BLIND
EFFORTS OF MAD AND DESPERATE MULTITUDES FIGHTING ON THEIR OWN GROUND . " The history of the last four years has proved that the historian ' s dread was well founded .
CLERICAL SAGACITY .
That great divine , Dr . Smallridge , was once in company where he was asked to explain the miracle of the devils going into the herd of swine : this he engaged to do satisfactorily '; but upon comparincr the number of them with the number of the Roman legion , at different periods , ( for the devils are said to be * \< r _ * ) he found he could not clear up the point without dividing themand this he did
; , allowing devils and fractional parts to each swine . How far the Doctor ' s explanation mi ght be just , cannot be determined ; but certain it is , that , from that time , he obtained among his friends the name of Parson Split-Devil VOL , VI . 3 F ' ¦ ¦
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Excerpt A Et Collectanea.
them , took the libraries as part of the bargain and booty ; reserving of those library books , some to serve their jakes , some to scour their candlesticks , and some to rub their boots with ; some they sold to the grocers and soap-boilers , and some they sent over sea to the bookbinders , not in small numbers , but , at times , whole ship-fulls , to the wondering of forei gn nations . I know a merchant-man , who at this time shall be namelessthat bought the contents of two noble libraries
, for forty shillings a-piece—a shame it is to be told . This stuff hath he used for the space of more than te ! .- years , instead of grey paper , to wrap up his goods with , and yet he ' hath enough remaining for many years to come : —a prodigious example indeed is this , and greatly to be abhorred of all men who love their country as they ought to do . "
An elegant method of paying a compliment is certainly not peculiar to any country : the following instance , in a Russian , is little known . The celebrated General Romanzow , after his great successes over the Turks , wrote to Mouskin Pouskin , then ambassador at the Court of Great Britaindeclaring his intention of retiring as soon as he had
, conducted the army home ; and desiring that Pouskin would send him the best plan he could procure of an English gentleman ' s farm . In his answer , Pouskin promised to get it ; but added , that , at the same time , he should send the Empress a PLAN OF BLENHEIM .
CONQUEST OF FRANCE BY THE ALLIES IN 1792 .
[ FromaLetter of Mr . Gibbon , to Lord Sheffield . Vide Memoirs , vol . i . p . 247 . ] " How dreadfully , since my last date , has the -French road been polluted with blood ! And what horrid scenes may be acting at this moment , and may still be aggravated , till the Duke of Brunswick is master of Paris ! On every rational principle of calculation , he must succeed ; yet sometimes , when my spirits are low , I DREAD THE BLIND
EFFORTS OF MAD AND DESPERATE MULTITUDES FIGHTING ON THEIR OWN GROUND . " The history of the last four years has proved that the historian ' s dread was well founded .
CLERICAL SAGACITY .
That great divine , Dr . Smallridge , was once in company where he was asked to explain the miracle of the devils going into the herd of swine : this he engaged to do satisfactorily '; but upon comparincr the number of them with the number of the Roman legion , at different periods , ( for the devils are said to be * \< r _ * ) he found he could not clear up the point without dividing themand this he did
; , allowing devils and fractional parts to each swine . How far the Doctor ' s explanation mi ght be just , cannot be determined ; but certain it is , that , from that time , he obtained among his friends the name of Parson Split-Devil VOL , VI . 3 F ' ¦ ¦