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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: CHAPTER II. It was a little past one p.m. when Sheffield, passing Charles's door, saw it open. The college servant had just entered with the usual half-commons for luncheon, and was employed in making up the fire. Sheffield followed him in, and found Charles in his cap and gown, lounging on the arm of his easy-chair, and eating his bread and cheese. Sheffield asked him if he slept, as well as ate and drank, accoutred as he was. I am just going for a turn into the meadow, said Charles; this is to me the best time of the year: nunc formosissimus annus; everything is beautiful; the laburnums are out, and the may. There is a greater variety of trees there than in any other place I know hereabouts; and the planes are so touching just now, with their small multitudinous green hands half-opened; and there are two or three such fine dark willows stretching over the Cherwell; I think some dryad inhabits them: and, as you wind along, just over your right shoulder is the Long Walk, with the Oxford buildings seen between the elms. They say there are dons here who recollect when it was unbroken, nay, when you might walk under it in hard rain, and getno wet. I know I got drenched there the other day. Sheffield laughed, and said that Charles must put on his beaver, and walk with him a different way. He wanted a good walk; his head was stupid from his lectures; that old Jennings prosed so awfully upon Paley, it made him quite ill. He had talked of the Apostles as neither deceivers nor deceived, of their sensible miracles, and of their dying for their testimony, till he did not know whether he himself was an ens physiologicum or a totum metaphysicum, when Jennings had cruelly asked him to repeat Paley's argument; and because he had not given it in Jennings' words, frie...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217144742 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217144748 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.64 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 282 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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