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Updated: June 17, 2025
Enough has been said of this raree-show to weary the reader's patience, but not more than enough to show the docile and enervated nature of this portion of a people who had lost everything for which men cherish their fatherland, but who could still find relief after thirty years of horrible civil war in painted pageantry, Latin versification, and the classical dictionary.
"What impertinence is this?" said he in a tone that, though very calm, made the steward quake in his shoes. "I don't know, really, your honour; there be so many grand folks come to see the house in the fine weather, that " "And you permit your master's house to be a raree-show? You do well, sir."
He understood very little of their movements, which had all the regularity and ceremony of a raree-show.
They would have done so, doubt it not, if they belonged to the many who gaze on those very triumphs as on a raree-show to feed their silly wonder, or use and enjoy them without thankfulness or understanding, as the ox eats the clover thrust into his rack, without knowing or caring how it grew.
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