Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects by Earl of Caithness John Sutherland Sinclair
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to learn to look on nothing as private, but on everything as a part of
a great whole, of which we ourselves are units; so shall we feel everywhere at home, and a sense of kinship with the remote as well as near within the round of existence. FOOTNOTES: [C] The Highlanders are said to be able to offer it a stout defiance, for they can stand an immense quantity; and I have heard of an innkeeper in the north, who, when remonstrated with on account of his excessive drinking, so far admitted the justice of the charge implied, but pled that he could not be accused of undue indulgence the night before, as, whatever he might have drunk during the day, he had, after supper, had only seventeen glasses! THE END. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. EDINBURGH AND LONDON. |
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