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You have seen the Cnidian Aphrodite, anyhow; now I want to know whether you have also seen our own Aphrodite of the Gardens, the Alcamenes. Poly. I must be a dullard of dullards, if that most exquisite of Alcamenes's works had escaped my notice. Ly. Poly. Frequently. Ly. That is really enough for my purpose. But I should just like to know what you consider to be Phidias's best work. Poly.
Momus must have been blear-eyed, to have such ideas about men; but you have sharper eyes than Lynceus, and pierce through the chest to what is inside; all is patent to you, not merely any man's wishes and sentiments, but the comparative merits of any pair. Her. You trifle, Lycinus. I made a pious choice, and do not repent it; that is enough for me. Ly.
It is not my fault, if I am unable to point to any classical model for the portrait: the records of antiquity afford no precedent for a culture so highly developed. May I hang this beside the other? I think it is a passable likeness. Ly. Passable! My dear Polystratus, it is sublime; exquisitely finished in every line. Poly.
Well then, we have got to live a hundred years, and go through all this trouble? There is no other road to philosophy? Ly. No, none; and we need not complain; as you very truly said, ars longa, vita brevis. But I do not know what has come over you; you now make a grievance of it, if you cannot before set of sun develop into a Chrysippus, a Plato, a Pythagoras. Her.
A M. we came up with Drewyer who had seperated from us yesterday evening and lay out all night not being able to find where we had encamped. he had killed 5 deer which we took on board and continued our rout. the river is still divided by a great number of islands, it channels sometimes seperating to the distance of 3 miles; the current very rapid with a number of riffles; the bed gravel and smooth stones; the banks low and of rich loam in the bottoms; some low bluffs of yellow and red clay with a hard red slate stone intermixed. the bottoms are wide and but scantily timbered; the underbrush very thick consisting of the narrow & broad leafed willow rose and Currant bushes principally. high plains succeeds the river bottoms and extend back on either side to the base of the mountains which are from 8 to 12 miles assunder, high, rocky, some small pine and Cedar on them and ly parallel with the river. passed a large creek on Lard. side 20 yds. wide which after meandering through a beautifull and extensive bottom for several miles nearly parallel with the river discharges itself opposite to a large cluster of islands which from their number I called the 10 islands and the creek Whitehous's Creek, after Josph.
Well, well; are we to give up philosophy, then, and idle our lives away like the common herd? Ly. What have I said to justify that?
You trap me, and drive me into a corner, Lycinus; yet I never provoked you; it is all envy, I know, because I have made some progress in my studies, whereas you have neglected yourself, when you were old enough to know better. Ly. Seest, then, thy true course? never mind me, but leave me as a lunatic to my follies, and you go on your way and accomplish what you have intended all this time. Her.
How I wish I could, have spoken in her own presence! that would have been far better; but I must do it by proxy. However, if you will report me to her as well as you did her to me, I will adventure. Poly. Trust me to do justice to the defence; but put it shortly, in mercy to my memory. Ly. So severe an indictment should by rights be met at length; but for your sake I will cut it short.
"And he left no letter?" "No, sir; no letter. He had no letter; but he was very eager about it. It was something of importance sure ly."
While pouring out the water into the wooden bowls, with which every beggar is provided, they exclaim "Sebyl Allah, ya atshan, Sebyl!" "hasten, O thirsty, to the ways of God!" and then break out in the following short song of three notes only, which I never heard without emotion. Ed-djene wa el moy fezata ly Saheb es-sabyl "Paradise and forgiveness be the lot of him who gave you this water!"
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