The Caxtons — Volume 09 by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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"I have said nothing," resumed my father, slightly bowing his broad temples, "of the Book of books, for that is the lignum vitm, the cardinal medicine for all. These are but the subsidiaries; for as you may remember, my dear Kitty, that I have said before,--we can never keep the system quite right unless we place just in the centre of the great ganglionic system, whence the nerves carry its influence gently and smoothly through the whole frame, The Saffron Bag!" (1) Cicero's joke on a senator who was the son of a tailor: "Thou hast touched the thing sharply" (or with a needle, acu). (2) Rubruquis, sect. xii. CHAPTER VI. After breakfast the next morning I took my hat to go out. when my father, looking at me, and seeing by my countenance that I had not slept, said gently,-- "My dear Pisistratus, you have not tried my medicine yet." "What medicine, sir?" "Robert Hall." |
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