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Making allusion to the width of Florida, a simple peninsula between two seas, they pretended it would not resist the shock, and would be blown up the first time the cannon was fired. "Very well! let it be blown up!" answered the Floridans with a laconism worthy of ancient times. The astronomical, mechanical, and topographical difficulties once removed, there remained the question of money.
The just and elegant laconism of Byron, by substituting the past for the present tense, may now be adopted as a faithful and brief summary of what was George Canning. Biographical Memoir of Mr. Canning, with a Portrait, MIRROR, Vol. iv. "Canning was a genius, almost an universal one: an orator, a wit, a poet, and a statesman."
After the noise, the mirth, the riotous songs, and the gay, elastic good humor of his French comrades, the silence and the calm of the Emir's "house of hair" were welcome to him. He never spoke much himself; of a truth, his gentle, immutable laconism was the only charge that his comrades ever brought against him.
That the projectile would not even go six miles, and would fall a few seconds after its discharge, 5,000 dols. It will be seen that the captain was risking an important sum in his invincible obstinacy. No less than 15,000 dols. were at stake. Notwithstanding the importance of the wager, he received on the 19th of October a sealed packet of superb laconism, couched in these terms:
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