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London Platitudes.
inasmuch as it only measured sixty minutes to the hour . The hour-hand seemed awfully to creep , and even the minute-hand , I thought , might be quicker over his work . I could not understand why pendulums should be so deliberate . Beingmade to go , I calculated that they ought to go in good earnest . ' delihted when
Never was I so g as once I impatiently removed the dead-headed weight to an old clock of my grandmother ' s , and had the pleasure to see the hands twirling round , and the cords running down , and the bells striking as brisk as you please ! The day was done in no time , for there were twelve hours marked on the dial as having been
circumvolved . Coupled with this impatience of time , the leverage which sets most travellers in motion , was a desire to penetrate into remote spots . My marbles insinuatingly rolled away between palings , and would penetrate into unknown backyards . I have actually severed the strings of some kites , and
permitted some of the most inestimably painted to " Down the wind , " in order that , though I might not attain to those extraordinary spots to which my kite found access , at least my representative could . I have left " parents and guardians , " nay , I have turned a deaf ear to the objurgations of
nurserymaids . Intent on my darling project , that of unveiling some of the mysteries of this lower world—of visiting regions which haunted my imagination as the song of birds , reminding them of home , provokes the memory of languishing pilgrims , I committed myself in various escapades which had much of luck and little of sagacity to recommend them .
PLATITUDE THE SECOND . CURIOSITY is a noble faculty . The glorious fault of angels and of men , it leads up to wonderful effects . That vexingwonder which besets the quick-witted sent Columbus measuring his leagues of sea until the three juts of the sunny Trinidad
hove up out of that brilliant western blue . Curiosity tempted Schwartzo , the Monk of Cologne , until the very caves in which he wrought grew blacker with the thick mysteries which he sought to cause to flash . Who would have imagined a holy man , whose nose , one would suppose , only ought to have dipped down between the leaves of some sublimely
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London Platitudes.
inasmuch as it only measured sixty minutes to the hour . The hour-hand seemed awfully to creep , and even the minute-hand , I thought , might be quicker over his work . I could not understand why pendulums should be so deliberate . Beingmade to go , I calculated that they ought to go in good earnest . ' delihted when
Never was I so g as once I impatiently removed the dead-headed weight to an old clock of my grandmother ' s , and had the pleasure to see the hands twirling round , and the cords running down , and the bells striking as brisk as you please ! The day was done in no time , for there were twelve hours marked on the dial as having been
circumvolved . Coupled with this impatience of time , the leverage which sets most travellers in motion , was a desire to penetrate into remote spots . My marbles insinuatingly rolled away between palings , and would penetrate into unknown backyards . I have actually severed the strings of some kites , and
permitted some of the most inestimably painted to " Down the wind , " in order that , though I might not attain to those extraordinary spots to which my kite found access , at least my representative could . I have left " parents and guardians , " nay , I have turned a deaf ear to the objurgations of
nurserymaids . Intent on my darling project , that of unveiling some of the mysteries of this lower world—of visiting regions which haunted my imagination as the song of birds , reminding them of home , provokes the memory of languishing pilgrims , I committed myself in various escapades which had much of luck and little of sagacity to recommend them .
PLATITUDE THE SECOND . CURIOSITY is a noble faculty . The glorious fault of angels and of men , it leads up to wonderful effects . That vexingwonder which besets the quick-witted sent Columbus measuring his leagues of sea until the three juts of the sunny Trinidad
hove up out of that brilliant western blue . Curiosity tempted Schwartzo , the Monk of Cologne , until the very caves in which he wrought grew blacker with the thick mysteries which he sought to cause to flash . Who would have imagined a holy man , whose nose , one would suppose , only ought to have dipped down between the leaves of some sublimely