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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1726. it into a fact or thing done. Yet her Human Narrative, in that wide waste of merely Pedant Maunderings, is of great worth to us. A green tree, a leafy grove, better or worse, in the wilderness of dead bones and sand, ? how welcome Many other Books have been written on the matter; but these to my experience, only darken it more and more. Pull Wil- helmina straight, the best you can; deduct a twenty-five or sometimes even a seventy-five per cent, from the exaggerative portions of her statement; you will find her always true, lucid, charmingly human; and by far the best authority on this part of her Brother's History. State-Papers to some extent have also been printed on the matter; and of written State-Papers, here in England and elsewhere, this Editor has had several hundred-weights distilled for him: but except as lights hung out over Wilhelmina, nothing yet known, of published or manuscript, can be regarded as good for much. 0 Heavens, had one but seven-league boots, to get across that inane country, ? a bottomless whirlpool of dust and cobwebs in many places; ? where, at any rate, we had so little to do Elucidating, rectifying, painfully contrasting, comparing, let us try to work out some conceivable picture of this strange Imperial Much ado about nothing; and get our unfortunate Crown-Prince, and our unfortunate selves, alive through it. CHAPTER VII. TOBACCO-PABLIAMENT. Is these distressing junctures, it may cheer the reader's spirits, and will tend to explain for him what is coming, if we glance a little into the Friedrich-Wilhelm TaJbagie (Ta- baks-Collegium or Smoking College), more worthy to be called Tobacco-Parliament, of which there have already been incidental notices. Far too remarkable an Institution of the country to be overlooked by us here. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217313117 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217313116 |
| Weight | 1.24 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.85 In |
| List Price | $26.25 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 382 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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