Doctor Austin's Guests
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ISBN13: 9781459066397
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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: III.?PATENT MANIA. PART I. /NE of the guests at Dr. Austin's was a Mr. Cochrane, who had reduced himself from comparative affluence to positive poverty by indulging a passion for patenting his own inventions. He was between fifty and sixty years of age, and a well read and gentlemanly man; and, apart from his malady, which rarely so obtruded itself as to be offensive, he was a most agreeable companion. In disposition he was exceedingly amiable, and of a decidedly religious temperament. On no point did his insanity manifest itself till the subject of his particular delusion was touched on. His infirmity was of an exceedingly ludicrous description. Heimagined that he had discovered the means of burning water as fuel, and the absurdity of his behaviour in carrying on his experiments had been the cause of his coming to stay at Dr. Austin's. I had at first conceived a liking for him, which grew into great friendship; but, in consequence of a dispute we had one day on some philosophical matters, an estrangement took place which kept us for some months pretty much apart. Thanks to the good offices of the doctor, a reconciliation was at the end of that time effected; but we were never again altogether the warm friends we had been before the rupture. The cause of our disagreement was as follows. One fine sunshiny morning we were walking together in the garden conversing very amicably on divers topics unconnected with my narrative, when our talk chanced to turn upon religion. At last the general deluge was spoken of, and Mr. Cochrane dwelt on that for some time, speaking so lucidly and rationally, that it gave me great pleasure to listen to him. It has been a source of great interest to many, I remarked, to speculate as to the manner inwhich the second destruction of the wo...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459066397 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459066391 |
| Weight | 0.34 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 96 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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