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—By Jasus! there is the finest Seminary for the Humanities—.
—There cannot be a finer; quoth I.
CHAP. VIII.
When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in—woe be to truth! and woe be to the vehicle and its tackling (let 'em be made of what stuff you will) upon which he breathes forth the disappointment of his soul!
As I never give general characters either of men or things in choler, "the most haste, the worst speed;" was all the re- flection