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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: DICK MIHI, OR CUR, WHY ? Being Vestiges Of The Natural History Of The Creation Of A Highland Terrier; With A New Rendering Of de cespite vivo, And A Theory Of BLACK And TAN. The reader must remember that my work is concerning the aspects of things only.?Ruskin. Vol. 11. THE MYSTERY OF BLACK AND TAN. JE, ?the Sine tj)ud Non, the Duchess, the Sputchard, the Dutchard, the Ricapic- ticapic, Oz and Oz, the Maid of Lorn, and myself, ?left Crieff some fifteen years ago, on a bright September morning, soon after day-break, in a gig. It was a morning still and keen: the sun sending his level shafts across Strathearn, and through the thin mist over its river hollows, to the fierce Aberuchil Hills, and searching out the dark blue shadows in the corries of Benvorlich. But who and how many are we? To make you as easy as we all were, let me tell you we were four; and are not these dumb friends of ours persons rather than things ? is not their soul ampler, as Plato would say, than their body, and contains rather than is contained ? Is not what lives and wills in them, and is affectionate, as spiritual, as immaterial, as truly removed from mere flesh, blood, and bones, as that soul which is the proper self of their master ? And when we look each other in the face, as I now look in Dick's, who is lying in his corny by the fireside, and he in mine, is it not as much the dog within looking from out his eyes?the windows of his soul?as it is the man from his ? The Sine htd Non, who 'will not be pleased at being spoken of, is such an one as that vainglorious and chivalrous Ulric von Hiitten?the Reformation's man of wit, and of the world, and of the sword, who slew Monkery with the wild laughter of his Epistoles Obscurorum Virorum?had in his mind when he wrote thus to hi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217932127 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217932126 |
| Weight | 0.67 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.46 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 202 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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