Chambers's Pocket Miscellany
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ISBN13: 9780217456067
Paperback|9780217456067
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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: often served to obviate the offence which would have otherwise been taken against him. Cumberland tells in his Memoirs, that, having four persons one day at dinner, and one having gone behind a screen, Foote, conceiving he had left the house, began to play off his jokes against him; whereupon the subject of his ridicule cried out: ' I am not gone, Foote; spare me till I am out of hearing; and now, with your leave, I will stay till these gentlemen depart, and then you shall amuse me at their cost, as you have amused them at mine.' With such a man it was vain to fall into a passion. He was a being to be laughed at or with?serious censure would have been thrown away upon him, and playful sarcasm would have only vexed him, without teaching him from his own to pity another's pains. If it be thought proper to condemn poor Foote upon the score of principle, we frankly own that ours is not the pen which can frame the verdict. THE DEAD-HOUSE OF PARIS. La Morgue?or the Dead-house?of Paris is a retired gloomy building, situated on that part of the left bank of the Seine which lies between the city quay and that of Orfevres. The object of the establishment, as its name partly implies, is to receive the bodies of all those who have come to a violent end, by land or water, and either to retain them till they are claimed by friends, or to bury them if they remain unknown. It is strange how the existence of this building influences the district in its immediate vicinity. La Morgue is the centre-point of attraction, the source of news and novelty. The neighbours there talk not of politics or revolutions. ' A fine corpse was that brought in this morning.' ' He was fair, wasn't he?' 'Did you see the girl to-day?' 'What long black hair she had It trailed on the ground as she passed on the hurdl..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217456067 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217456065 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.49 In |
| List Price | $21.42 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 216 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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