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Whereupon John went forth, and pawned his gold watch under the assumed name of John Froggs, 85 Pleasance. This was a shrewd knock. "A piece of business had been neglected." He heard these words in his father's trenchant voice, and trembled, and then dodged the thought. After all, who was to know?
Oh! when the generall arraignment of Poets shall be, to give an accompt of their higher soules, with what a triumphant brow shall our divine Poet sit above, and looke downe upon poore Homer, Virgil, Horace, Claudian; &c. who had amongst them the ill lucke to talke out a great part of their gallant Genius, upon Bees, Dung, froggs, and Gnats, &c. and not as himself here, upon Scriptures, divine Graces, Martyrs and Angels."
Nicholson picking up the pawn-ticket: 'John Froggs, 85 Pleasance, he read; and then turning upon John, with a brief flash of passion and disgust, 'Who is John Froggs? he cried. 'Nobody, said John. 'It was just a name. 'An ALIAS, his father commented. 'Oh!
I would do a good deal more for you. Whereupon John went forth, and pawned his gold watch under the assumed name of John Froggs, 85 Pleasance. This was a shrewd knock. 'A piece of business had been neglected. He heard these words in his father's trenchant voice, and trembled, and then dodged the thought. After all, who was to know?
Nicholson picking up the pawn-ticket: "John Froggs, 85 Pleasance," he read; and then turning upon John, with a brief flash of passion and disgust, "Who is John Froggs?" he cried. "Nobody," said John. "It was just a name." "An alias," his father commented.
Similarly, he disposes of the idea that the embryonic parts derive from some part of each part of the parent's body or an assemblage of parts. This possibility is eliminated, he contends, by the occurrence of spontaneous generation. If a collection of parts was necessary, he asks, "how could vermine breed out of living bodies, or out of corruption?... How could froggs be ingendered in the ayre?"
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