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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. 1891 Excerpt: ...with axe or saw or any such thing, but simply with the breath of his mouth; which implement, if the Apostle of Truth be really Prof. Blackie, I can quite believe to be sufficient. What is the result t The four potent roots, and (we must suppose) the trunk also and the branches, are sent flying, with a single puff, into that vacuum on the edge of which the Apostle of Truth is standing. This picture, one may venture to say, is worthy of John Martin in his most inspired moments, or perhaps even of William Blake. And who can regret that our Professor should have drawn it t Not even they who cling, with nnreasoning fondness, to the long attenuated a of their childhood; and certainly not those who have been privileged to sit with the Professor, not on the edge of vacancy, but in far pleasanter places, and to enjoy the youthful energy, the boyish ardour, with which he can discourse of things that he likes--and of things that he does not like. A. J. M. "the Castle," Paternoster Row (7lb S. xii. 228).--"The Castle" was a tavern kept by a family named Young; they removed there from "The Queen's Head" tavern,in the same locality. At both houses they made considerable profit by concert-giving. James Young, the head of the family, was celebrated as a maker and retailer of violins; his place of business was " The Dolphin and Crown," St. Paul's Churchyard. A catch in the ' Pleasant Musical Companion,' ii. 1726, runs as follows:--You scrapers that want a fiddle well strung, You must go to the man that is old while he's Young. But if this same fiddle you would play bold, You must go to his son, who'» Young when he 's old. There's old Young and young Young, both men of renown: Old sells and young plays the beat fiddle In town. You...
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