The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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ISBN13: 9780217282840
Paperback|9780217282840
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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: Calc. Sod. Phosph. Mag. Sulphur, Mang. (?) Alumin. (?) Cuprum, (?) Such as man is made of. Born of stream galvanic, with it he had perished There is no Do Sauty now there is no current Give us a new cable, then again we'll hear him Cry, AU right De Sauty. Back again ?A turtle?which means a tortoise?is fond of his shell; but if you put a live coal on his back, he crawls out of it. So the boys say. It is a libel on the turtle. He grows to his shell, and his stiell is in his body as much as his body is in his shell.?I don't think there is one of our boarders quite so testudineous as I am. Nothing but a combination of motives, more peremptory than the coal on the turtle's back, could have got me to leave the shelter of my carapace; and after memorable interviews, and kindest hospitalities, and grand sights, and huge influx of patriotic pride, ? for every American owns all America, ? Creation's heir, ? the world, the world is his, if anybody's, ? I come back with the feeling which a boned turkey might experience, if, retaining his consciousness, he were allowed to resume his skeleton. Welcome, O Fighting Gladiator, and Recumbent Cleopatra, and Dying Warrior, whose classic outlines (reproduced in the calcined mineral of Lu- tetia) crown my loaded shelves Welcome, ye triumphs of pictorial art (repeated by the magic graver) that look down upon me from the walls of my sacred cell Vesalius, as Titian drew him, high- fronted, still-eyed, thick-bearded, with signet-ring, . as beseems a gentleman, with book and carelessly- held eyeglass, marking him a scholar; thou, too, Jan Kuyper, commonly called Jan Praktiseer, old man of a century and seven years besides, father. of twenty sons and two daughters, cut in copper by Houbraken, bought from a portfolio on one of t..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217282840 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217282849 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 234 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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