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Eloquent high-lacquered pinchbeck specimens these, expert in the arts of Belial mainly; fitter to be markers at some exceedingly expensive billiard-table than sacred chief-priests of men! "Greeks of the Lower Empire;" with a varnish of parliamentary rhetoric; and, I suppose, this other great gift, toughness of character, proof that they have persevered in their Master's service.
What excellences are in England, thought Voltaire; no Bastille in it, for one thing! Illustrious Mr. Pope, of the Essay on Man, surely he is admirable; as are Pericles Bolingbroke, and many others. Even Bolingbroke's high-lacquered brass is gold to this young French friend of his.
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