47.
It is only to teach his children Geography, that G—— wears a boot the picture of Italy upon the map.
48.
In his great Dictionary, Webster seems to have had an idea of being more English than the English—“plus Arabe qu’en Arabie.”[[3]]
49.
That there were once “seven wise men” is by no means, strictly speaking, an historical fact; and I am rather inclined to rank the idea among the Kabbala.
50.
Painting their faces to look like Macaulay, some of our critics manage to resemble him, at length, as a Massaccian does a Raffäellian Virgin; and, except that the former is feebler and thinner than the other—suggesting the idea of its being the ghost of the other—not one connoisseur in ten can perceive any difference. But then, unhappily, even the street lazzaroni can feel the distinction.
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