This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...flush of money, he buys books; and when it begius to be low with him, he sells them for half what they cost him. The other is a foreigu painter, whu draws women's pictures: he is a great artist; he paints well, draws correctly, and hits a likeness extraordinary well, but does not flatter; and yet is so vain as to think ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...flush of money, he buys books; and when it begius to be low with him, he sells them for half what they cost him. The other is a foreigu painter, whu draws women's pictures: he is a great artist; he paints well, draws correctly, and hits a likeness extraordinary well, but does not flatter; and yet is so vain as to think he should be crowded with business. 'Inter stultos referatur.' How, said the stndent, you speak Latin to a miracle! Onght you to wonder at that? said the devil; I speak all languages in perfection, even not excepting that of Atheus, which I speak a hundred times better than a certain set of men who at present value themselves on speaking well, and yet I am neither the greater fool, nor the vainer for it. Cast your eye into that great house on the left hand, on a sick lady, surrounded by several women who watch with her. It is the widow of a famous rich architect, who is over-run with an affectation of nobility: she has this day made her will, by which she bequeaths her immeuse riches wholly to persous of the first quality; not that she o much as knows any one of them, but only for the sake of their great titles. She was asked whether she would not leave something to a certain person who had done her cousiderable services? Alas, no, auswered she, and I am concerned at it: 1 am not so ungrateful as not to own that I have obligatious to him; but he is but a yeoman, and his name would disgrace my will. Siguior Asmodens, interrupted Don Cleofas, I beg you would inform me whether that old man, whom I see reading so hard in a closet, may not perhaps deserve to be placed here? He deserves it, beyond dispute, auswered the dxmon. He is an old licenciadoin divinity, and is reading a proof of a book he has at the press. The subject must certainly be mora...
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