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Eliph' Hewlitt found the page, and pointed to the heading with his finger. "'Five Hundred Ennobling Thoughts from the World's Greatest Authors, including the Prose and Poetical Gems of All ages," he read. "There they were-sixty-two solid pages of them, with vingetty portraits of the authors. I read No. 285: "As Thou has made Thy world without, Make Thou more fair my world within, et cetery."
Or I indulge in conversation, in which what better guide than is to be found on page 662, 'The Polite Conversationalist, including gems of wit, apt quotations, how to gain and hold the attention, how to amuse, instruct and argue, et cetery?
"It tells all about it on page 562 of Jarby's 'Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, who invented; when first used; name of every city, town, village and station in the U.S. that has a telegraph office; complete explanation of the telegraph system, telling how words are carried over a slender wire, et cetery, et cetery.
And though the happy wedded swans floated considerable easy a good deal of the time, yet occasionally they had their wings rumpled by storms, thunder storms, sudden squalls, and et cetery, et cetery. And I knew the divine harmony of wedded love, though it is the sweetest that earth affords, I knew that, and my Josiah knew it the very sweetest and happiest strains that earthly lips can sing.
His ma's money that she had left him made him fairly luxurius as to comfort, and he had plenty of money to go sight seein' as much as he wanted to. He went to all the theatres, and operas, and shows of all kinds, and museums, and the Brooklyn Bridge, and circuses, and receptions, and et cetery, et cetery.
"'The pen is mightier than the sword, page 233, Apt Quotations for All Occasions," said Eliph', "this being one of three thousand quotations, arranged alphabetically according to subject, as 'Bird in the hand, Bird of a feather, Bird killing two with one stone, et cetery, including 'Leap look before you, and 'Sure be sure you're right, then go ahead. What do you mean to print?"
"Not while I was around." "Yes," persisted the other, "but what was they after." "Oh, an extry pair of boots, and a shirt, and some tobacco, et cetery," replied Buck Barry contemptuously. "Let's see them," shouted several voices. After a moment's delay two ragged and furtive Mexicans were dragged before the assembly. A contemplative silence ensued.
I wish I'd fetched you the letter she wrote; if it wasn't the spiciest piece of literature I ever read by anybody. 'She'd have me understand she wasn't a barmaid nor a Quaker; and if I didn't know what was due a lady in her position, I'd better find out before I aspired to her hand, et cetery. Oh, I tell you, she's grit; no end o' mettle.
The advent of a book like Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art, containing, as it does, selections from the world's best literature, hints and helps for each and every day in the year, recipes for the kitchen, the dying words of all the world's great men, with their lives, et cetery, ought to be noticed.
Or I read a good book, a list of five hundred of which may be found on page 336, 'The Reader's Guide, giving advice in selecting fiction, history, philosophy, religious works, poetry, et cetery, the whole selected by eight of the most eminent professors of literature in our colleges and universities, both at home and abroad.
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