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The Collector.
of dots m a pack of cards , there are three hundred and sixty-five ; so many days are there in a year . When I count bow many cards are in a pack , I find fifty-two ; so many weeks are there in a year . When I reckon how many tricks are won by a pack , I find there are thirteen ; so many months are there in a 3 * ear . So that this pack of cards is both bible , almanack , and prayer-book to me . ' The mayor called his servants , ordered them to entertain the soldier well , gave him a piece of money , and said he was the cleverest fellow he ever heard in his life .
A COPT OF AN ORIGINAL LETTER , " ¦ 'BITTEN BYMR . SOLOMON DA COSTA , AND SENT TO TIIE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM , WITH A PREStUT OF N < iAR 20 » i CURIOUS MANUSCIIirT VOLUMES IN Tilt' HKBIIEW LANGUAGE , WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY INTENDED ASA PRESENT TO KING CHARLES II .
GO , I pray , see the presence of those in whom there is wisdom understanding , and knowledge ; behold they are the honourable personages appointed and made overseers of the great and noted treasury called by the name of the British Museum . The Lord preserve them !
Amen—Saith the man Solomon , son to my lord and father , the ancient , honourable , devout , meek , and excellent Mr . Isaac Da Costa , surnamed Athias , of the city of Amsterdam , ' of rhe people scattered and dispersed among all nations ; of the captivity of Jerusalem , which . is in Spain . I have already dwelt fifty-four years in ease and rest , in quietness and in confidence , without fear , in this city of London , the crowning
city ! that is full of people , great among the nations , and princess among the provinces ; a city great for wise and learned men ; the mother of sciences and arts ; there is not one science too difficult for them , either in medicine , or astronomy , or philosophy , or any art of skilful and cunning artists , the work of cunning workmen , such as have not been seen in all the earth , nor in any nation . And much more so nowthat they have built a tower for them alland a palace
, , full of all good things , the wonders of nature , which God created and made ; and things of great value , both by reason of their being singular , there being no ether like them , and by reason of the costliness of the work , it being done with the utmost comeliness and beauty , or by artists whose fame has gone forth through the world . There are they depositedand there are they to be met with in
thou-, sands and tens of thousands , where they will be for ever for a sign and wonder ; and spacious rooms full of books , both modern and ancient , printed and manuscript , in innumerable languages ; the like was not seen in ail the earth , since the foundation thereof , till now that the men of government ex , : ended abundance of money to purchase , them , and to gather them within the great treasury , that it might be for the
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The Collector.
of dots m a pack of cards , there are three hundred and sixty-five ; so many days are there in a year . When I count bow many cards are in a pack , I find fifty-two ; so many weeks are there in a year . When I reckon how many tricks are won by a pack , I find there are thirteen ; so many months are there in a 3 * ear . So that this pack of cards is both bible , almanack , and prayer-book to me . ' The mayor called his servants , ordered them to entertain the soldier well , gave him a piece of money , and said he was the cleverest fellow he ever heard in his life .
A COPT OF AN ORIGINAL LETTER , " ¦ 'BITTEN BYMR . SOLOMON DA COSTA , AND SENT TO TIIE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM , WITH A PREStUT OF N < iAR 20 » i CURIOUS MANUSCIIirT VOLUMES IN Tilt' HKBIIEW LANGUAGE , WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY INTENDED ASA PRESENT TO KING CHARLES II .
GO , I pray , see the presence of those in whom there is wisdom understanding , and knowledge ; behold they are the honourable personages appointed and made overseers of the great and noted treasury called by the name of the British Museum . The Lord preserve them !
Amen—Saith the man Solomon , son to my lord and father , the ancient , honourable , devout , meek , and excellent Mr . Isaac Da Costa , surnamed Athias , of the city of Amsterdam , ' of rhe people scattered and dispersed among all nations ; of the captivity of Jerusalem , which . is in Spain . I have already dwelt fifty-four years in ease and rest , in quietness and in confidence , without fear , in this city of London , the crowning
city ! that is full of people , great among the nations , and princess among the provinces ; a city great for wise and learned men ; the mother of sciences and arts ; there is not one science too difficult for them , either in medicine , or astronomy , or philosophy , or any art of skilful and cunning artists , the work of cunning workmen , such as have not been seen in all the earth , nor in any nation . And much more so nowthat they have built a tower for them alland a palace
, , full of all good things , the wonders of nature , which God created and made ; and things of great value , both by reason of their being singular , there being no ether like them , and by reason of the costliness of the work , it being done with the utmost comeliness and beauty , or by artists whose fame has gone forth through the world . There are they depositedand there are they to be met with in
thou-, sands and tens of thousands , where they will be for ever for a sign and wonder ; and spacious rooms full of books , both modern and ancient , printed and manuscript , in innumerable languages ; the like was not seen in ail the earth , since the foundation thereof , till now that the men of government ex , : ended abundance of money to purchase , them , and to gather them within the great treasury , that it might be for the