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That "great creature," like some other "great creatures," happened, as almanacs say, "about this time" to be somewhat "out at elbows;"--not in the way of costume, for the very plenitude of his wardrobe was the cause which produced this effect, inasmuch as the word "received" i...
Whilst we were pluming ourselves upon the snugness of our situations, and the attendant good fortune of being easy partners in the business of the day, and thus freed from the v...
3. Chapter 3Philosophers and anatomists have quarrelled for centuries as to the residence of the soul. Some have vowed that it lived here--some there; some that, like a gentleman with sever...
4. Chapter 4To drink, or not to drink? That is the question. Whether 'tis nobler inwardly to suffer The pangs and twitchings of uneasy stomach, Or to take brandy-toddy 'gainst the colic, An...
1. Chapter 1That "great creature," like some other "great creatures," happened, as almanacs say, "about this time" to be somewhat "out at elbows;"--not in the way of costume, for the very p...