Scott, Dixon, 1881-1915 · London, Adam [and] Charles Black · leaf 19
that wisdom and laugiitcrand romance could be enclosed in a little bundle of be-scribblcdj)archment seemed merely fanciful. And it was therefore onlyafter an interval that seems to us now at once trajjic and ludicrousthat mankind, like an incredulous licir, consent(Ml to make use ofits colossal… … tweiitietli-cenlmy jniblic is sonie-wliat less obslinato than thesee})lieisni of tlie Middle Aijes.It is certainlv a delay, at allevents^ whieh every wise orliinnaue observer will desirt toreduce as imieh as possible. Noteven the most iinai>inative ofthose who stood at Caxtoiiselbow, watehing,…
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