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Updated: May 2, 2025
Here is the floor of a new wood, yet uncumbered by one year's autumn fall. We Europeans find the Orient stale and too luxuriantly fetid by reason of the multitude of bygone lives and thoughts, oppressive with the crowded presence of the dead, both men and gods.
Our home looked down upon a gentle incline of open grassy land to a broad belt of jungle in the middle distance; here the undergrowth and small trees had been newly cleared away, opening out a dim far view across an uncumbered leaf-strewn floor into the backward gloom of the forest.
He threw others off their guard by thwarting their favourite theories, and then availed himself of the temperance of his own pulse to chafe them into madness. He had not one particle of deference for the opinion of others, nor of sympathy with their feelings; nor had he any obstinate convictions of his own to defend "Lord of himself, uncumbered with a creed!"
He retained his good humor to the last, and to the last discharged all the rites of an elegant hospitality. Said his enemy, Pope, "Seen him I have, but in his happier hour Of social pleasure ill exchanged for power; Seen him, uncumbered by the venal tribe, Smile without art, and win without a bribe."
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