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...have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone for Queen Victoria, when they were first engaged. My Lord, wishing the watch to be of unexceptionable excellence, had the case made in dear old Ireland [cheers from Irishmen], while the inside works were made on the sunny hills of Germany [cheers from Germans]. The Queen, after refusing many offers for the watch, finally exchanged it with the King of China for Hong Kong. The King of China, having a great respect for our beloved George...
...old Plotinus...
...myself suddenly thrown into the society of some beautiful, unsophisticated country girl, such as one reads about in the back of the speller, - a girl wholly untrammelled by the conventional shackles of society, the communion with whose fresh, ardent soul would nerve me to new struggles with this hard old world...
...fresh - as fresh - as - as a freshly cleaned blackboard on which I shall stamp the imprint of my superior intellect. She must be a country girl, in fact. I will come and board for the summer months at her father's house; daily I will accompany her to the old oaken bucket, and fill and carry her pail to the house; during the day we will roam hand in hand through the woods while I pour sweet poetry in her ear; then at even-time we will go to the meadow and bring the cattle home, and I will stand...
...greeting: Thou mayest well be surprised at the many strange customs of the Americans. Hearken, O magnet of my existence, to the habits I have observed among the learned youth of this great country; for you must know that in this country the youth are very wise, while the old men are they who seek to gain knowledge. I was much pleased and astonished last week when I attended what they call a recitation. The young men, having investigated some branch of learning, enter the room prepared and eager to impart their knowledge to the professor. They seat themselves upon...