In corporal suffering finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
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SNAILS.
Snails, though in England they cannot be mentioned as an article of food
without exciting disgust, are esteemed in many places abroad a delicacy
even for the tables of the great. In Paris they are sold in the market;
they are much esteemed in Italy, and are of so much consequence in
Venice that they are attended and fattened with as much care as poultry
are in England.
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THE BITER BIT.
Zeno, the philosopher, believed in an inevitable destiny, and
acknowledged but one God. His servant availed himself of this doctrine
one day while being beaten for a theft, by exclaiming, "Was I not
destined to rob?" "Yes," replied Zeno, "and to be corrected also."
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PRIDE.
Theophile, the French poet, dedicated a book to James I. of England,
in the hope of being personally introduced to that monarch, but being
disappointed in this expectation he wrote the following lines on the
subject:--
"Si Jacques Roi de grand savoir
N'a pas trouve bon de me voir,
En voici la cause infallible;
C'est que ravi de mon ecrit
Il cout que j'etois tout esprit
Et par consequent invisible.
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