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Conceive a rugged thick-sided Squire Western, of supreme degree, or this Squire Western is a hot Hohenzollern, and wears a crown royal; conceive such a burly NE-PLUS-ULTRA of a Squire, with his broad-based rectitudes and surly irrefragabilities; the honest German instincts of the man, convictions certain as the Fates, but capable of no utterance, or next to none, in words; and that he produces a Son who takes into Voltairism, piping, fiddling and belles-lettres, with apparently a total contempt for Grumkow and the giant-regiment!
We looked at the apartments, sleeping-cells, dining-rooms, working-rooms, general courts or special and private: excellent all, the ne-plus-ultra of human care and ingenuity; in my life I never saw so clean a building; probably no Duke in England lives in a mansion of such perfect and thorough cleanness.
Interesting to all, were it only as a living fragment of the Grand Epoch, kind of French Fulness of Time, when the world was at length blessed with a Louis Quatorze, and Ne-plus-ultra of a Gentleman determined to do the handsome thing in this world. She is much frequented by high people, especially if of a Literary or Historical turn.
"By newspaper puffs, and newspaper reports, by patent medicines, and portable dressing-cases, wine-merchant's bottles, ne-plus-ultra corkscrews, H -t's corn, C -tt's maize, W -'s blacking, and W -'s champagne "Appear! "By thy professional followers, the fashionable tailors, hairdressers, boot-makers, milliners, jewellers all the auctioneers, and all the bazaars "Come to my aid!
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