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ment the sailors of both countries used to play gambols in si g ht-of each other , and for some time one of the Mynheers far outwent any of his competitors by being able to stand upon the truck of the mayi top-gallant mast , heels uppermost . At length an English tar , indignant at the idea of being excelled in any way by a Dutchman , resolved to retrieve the national character ; alas , poor Jack ! as mi ght have been in the
expected , . attempt he pitched clean over , and came down , as the sailors call it , by the run ; providentially , however , in his fall he caught hold of some , part of the ri gging , and landed sound wind and limb upon the deck . He instantl y ran to the shi p ' s side , and , without any apparent alteration of countenance , or change of voice , loudl y dared any Dutchman to follow his lewiselyhowever
examp ; , , this was evaded ; and thusfortune , by permitting him to make one slip , enabled Jack , as lie thought , not only to retrieve the English character , but to acquire for himself immortal honour . ¦ ° > _ ' I was informed ( says Mr . Pennant ) by very good authority , thatin the beginning of this century , some gentlemen and ladies bein » - on a party of pleasure-under a shade of trees the banks of river in
, on a Bengal , observed a ti ger preparing for its fatal ' spring ; one cf the ladies , with amazing presence of mind , took up an umbrella , and instantaneousl y opened it full in the face of the animal , which directlyretired , and gave the company an opportunity of withdrawing frQm so . dreadful a visitor . " .
Mr. Tasker's Letters
MR . TASKER'S LETTERS
CONTINUED . LETTER THE SIXTH . ' ' ON ANCIENT NEUROLOGY , AND THE MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE OF HORACE AND VIRGIL .
HOMER certainly knew little or nothing of the nervous system , which was not discovered in ancient Greece in his earlv ( hv and therefore if he did know it at ail ( and it 'does not appear in his works that he did ) , he must have borrowed this knowled ge Some of he E gyptian sages during his abode in their country , which was at that ume the fruitful of universal science Vimil
nursery . - * ron-ri dermg the age in which he lived , ought to have learned that the * ^ Vj . 'S ' , studietI at Athens , and understood Greek so well it is h ™ il „ SwS eSllOU , llPOt " »™ , ed ' l »»« lf Pf the ^ ediXie ^ S ' S Ttj
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Select Papers On Various Subjects, . Read Before A Literary Society In London.
ment the sailors of both countries used to play gambols in si g ht-of each other , and for some time one of the Mynheers far outwent any of his competitors by being able to stand upon the truck of the mayi top-gallant mast , heels uppermost . At length an English tar , indignant at the idea of being excelled in any way by a Dutchman , resolved to retrieve the national character ; alas , poor Jack ! as mi ght have been in the
expected , . attempt he pitched clean over , and came down , as the sailors call it , by the run ; providentially , however , in his fall he caught hold of some , part of the ri gging , and landed sound wind and limb upon the deck . He instantl y ran to the shi p ' s side , and , without any apparent alteration of countenance , or change of voice , loudl y dared any Dutchman to follow his lewiselyhowever
examp ; , , this was evaded ; and thusfortune , by permitting him to make one slip , enabled Jack , as lie thought , not only to retrieve the English character , but to acquire for himself immortal honour . ¦ ° > _ ' I was informed ( says Mr . Pennant ) by very good authority , thatin the beginning of this century , some gentlemen and ladies bein » - on a party of pleasure-under a shade of trees the banks of river in
, on a Bengal , observed a ti ger preparing for its fatal ' spring ; one cf the ladies , with amazing presence of mind , took up an umbrella , and instantaneousl y opened it full in the face of the animal , which directlyretired , and gave the company an opportunity of withdrawing frQm so . dreadful a visitor . " .
Mr. Tasker's Letters
MR . TASKER'S LETTERS
CONTINUED . LETTER THE SIXTH . ' ' ON ANCIENT NEUROLOGY , AND THE MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE OF HORACE AND VIRGIL .
HOMER certainly knew little or nothing of the nervous system , which was not discovered in ancient Greece in his earlv ( hv and therefore if he did know it at ail ( and it 'does not appear in his works that he did ) , he must have borrowed this knowled ge Some of he E gyptian sages during his abode in their country , which was at that ume the fruitful of universal science Vimil
nursery . - * ron-ri dermg the age in which he lived , ought to have learned that the * ^ Vj . 'S ' , studietI at Athens , and understood Greek so well it is h ™ il „ SwS eSllOU , llPOt " »™ , ed ' l »»« lf Pf the ^ ediXie ^ S ' S Ttj