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Curious Account Of The Dump Philosopher.
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE DUMP PHILOSOPHER .
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]\ / fr friend had scarce finished ihe sketch of his history , which I AvA g-a . you in my last , when a servant came to tell iiira dinner was ready for us : ; we thereupon returned to the pleasant apartment we had breakfasted in , where , finding but two covers on the table , I took the liberty of asking-if 1 might not hope to enjoy the agreeable conversation of the ; person who had managed the tea-table in the morning ? My . friend's -answer wasshe was but a servant ; that
,, indeed , as she had been a faithful one for many years , and was a woman of very good sense aud parts , he usually admitted her to his table when alone ,, but never allowed her to come "into the company of s-tivrngers , excepting at the tea-table ; however , as 1 desired it , he would for once break into that rule , and thereupon ordered her to be called in , ; a-nd bid her sit down . . Having succeeded in this point , I-
vent . tired to go farther , and-asked him whether the learned physician I had been informed he . ke . pt in the house was not allowed that liberty ? This quest-ion putmy hos : into something more than a smile , and madam in a horse-laugh , which put me almost out of countenance , not being apprehensive tiiere was any thing ludicrous or ridiculous in what I had asked : bu ! ihe former soon rid me at once of my . doubts and fears . ' The Physician , ' said he , ' whom you are pleased to "
honour with the epithet of learned is no other than my identical self ; and I have a disguise for that purpose , through which it would not be-easy for the nearest friend to discover me .. ' Our . dinner was plentiful-and elegant , not so ridiculously superfluous as is but too common here , as well as in Bremen ; but what pleased- me most wasj that almost every tiling was of his own produft ; h . sh out or" his own pondsfowls from his barn-door and fruit
, , greens out of his own garden : and though our host offered me variety of * he most exquisite , wines , I was pressed to drink no more than I ilio-ig ht fit to call for . Oui- discourse at table was serious , and yet diverting ; merry' without levity ; and I may truly say of my friend , With Tully , in en faceliee crant , qua nulla arte fradi possuiit . In , snort , it would be almost impossible not to be pleasant , where the host
is such a one . As soon as the table was cleared , and we had drunk two or three glasses a-piece of excellent Champaign , my friend 'old me I must excuse a weakness he had contracted during bis long residence in Italy , which he had never been able to sh . ike off since , - jjitft of sleeping- an hour or two after dinner , offering me at the same ' t'n . e an apartment where I mi ght tlo the same . 1 told him . it was VOL . xi . y '
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Curious Account Of The Dump Philosopher.
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE DUMP PHILOSOPHER .
f c-OA- | -IV ' . / I-n -FM 1 M I' . 00 . ]
]\ / fr friend had scarce finished ihe sketch of his history , which I AvA g-a . you in my last , when a servant came to tell iiira dinner was ready for us : ; we thereupon returned to the pleasant apartment we had breakfasted in , where , finding but two covers on the table , I took the liberty of asking-if 1 might not hope to enjoy the agreeable conversation of the ; person who had managed the tea-table in the morning ? My . friend's -answer wasshe was but a servant ; that
,, indeed , as she had been a faithful one for many years , and was a woman of very good sense aud parts , he usually admitted her to his table when alone ,, but never allowed her to come "into the company of s-tivrngers , excepting at the tea-table ; however , as 1 desired it , he would for once break into that rule , and thereupon ordered her to be called in , ; a-nd bid her sit down . . Having succeeded in this point , I-
vent . tired to go farther , and-asked him whether the learned physician I had been informed he . ke . pt in the house was not allowed that liberty ? This quest-ion putmy hos : into something more than a smile , and madam in a horse-laugh , which put me almost out of countenance , not being apprehensive tiiere was any thing ludicrous or ridiculous in what I had asked : bu ! ihe former soon rid me at once of my . doubts and fears . ' The Physician , ' said he , ' whom you are pleased to "
honour with the epithet of learned is no other than my identical self ; and I have a disguise for that purpose , through which it would not be-easy for the nearest friend to discover me .. ' Our . dinner was plentiful-and elegant , not so ridiculously superfluous as is but too common here , as well as in Bremen ; but what pleased- me most wasj that almost every tiling was of his own produft ; h . sh out or" his own pondsfowls from his barn-door and fruit
, , greens out of his own garden : and though our host offered me variety of * he most exquisite , wines , I was pressed to drink no more than I ilio-ig ht fit to call for . Oui- discourse at table was serious , and yet diverting ; merry' without levity ; and I may truly say of my friend , With Tully , in en faceliee crant , qua nulla arte fradi possuiit . In , snort , it would be almost impossible not to be pleasant , where the host
is such a one . As soon as the table was cleared , and we had drunk two or three glasses a-piece of excellent Champaign , my friend 'old me I must excuse a weakness he had contracted during bis long residence in Italy , which he had never been able to sh . ike off since , - jjitft of sleeping- an hour or two after dinner , offering me at the same ' t'n . e an apartment where I mi ght tlo the same . 1 told him . it was VOL . xi . y '