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... not. For my own part, I could just as soon have talked Celtic or Sclavonian to them, as astronomy, and they would have understood me full as well: so I resolved to do better than speak to the purpose, and to please instead of informing them. I gave...

The Quarterly visitor, conducted by W. Passman - Page 147
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Letters from Catalonia, and other parts of Spain, by Rowland Thirlmere, Volume 2

John Walker - 1905 - 482 pages

...the gentleman was a tenor or a baritone. He reminded me of Lord Chesterfield — " I gave them only an historical account of Calendars from the Egyptian...attentive to the choice of my words, to the harmony and soundness of my periods, to my elocution, to my action. This succeeded, and ever will succeed. They...

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