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Few of the results of recent expeditions of discovery have been so interesting to the public as their contributions to zoological history. Many important additions to geographical science have also been made by these journeys into countries hitherto unexplored, or but imperfec...
These two sentences are taken from different parts of the writings of Burke, but they are the same in tendency, though not in expression; they imply simply, that duty is a restr...
3. Chapter 3By the way, there is a nice little anecdote connected with the sign of the _Queen's Head_ at Epsom,[9] which the editor of this volume would do well to insert in his next impres...
1. Chapter 1Few of the results of recent expeditions of discovery have been so interesting to the public as their contributions to zoological history. Many important additions to geographic...
4. Chapter 4_Eccentric Preaching_[13].--Mr. Tavernour, of Water Eaton, in Oxfordshire, high sheriff of the county, came, it is said, in pure charity, not out of ostentation, and gave the sc...