Merrie England in the olden time / by George Daniel.

  • George Daniel
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Merrie England in the olden time / by George Daniel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 ])ompous ignorance, which is dear at any price !) to make ourselves “ cheap,” rather than be set down as exclusive and unkind. Disappointments we have had, and sorrows, with ample experience of the world’s ingratitude. But life is too short to harbour enmities; and to be resentful is to be unhappy. This may have cast a transient shade over our lucubrations, which let thy happier humour shine upon and dispel ! Wilt thou accept us for thy Cicerone through a journey of strange sights ? the curiosities of nature, and the whimsicalities of art. We promise thee faster speed than steam-boat and railroad : for thou shalt traverse the ground of two centuries in two hours ! With pleasant companions by tire way, free from the perils of fire and flood. Fancy, like the finger of a clock. Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. B z
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