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In the next letter, written in April, she descants on the universal prejudice against color, "a prejudice," she says, "which will in days to come excite as much astonishment as the facts now do that Christians some of them I verily believe, sincere lovers of God put to death nineteen persons and one dog for the crime of witchcraft."
The only branch of natural history, on which the author descants, is mineralogy and geology. Itinerarium Magnæ Brittaniæ, oder Reise Beschrievbung durch Engel. Schott. und Irland. Strasburg, 1672. 8vo. Reise durch England. Von Volkman. Leipsic, 1781-2. 4 vols. 8vo. Arts, manufactures, economy, and natural history. Der Lustand der Staats, der Religion, &c. in Gros Britanien. Von Wendeborn.
Whereupon the little Portuguese Commandant struck his sword firm down on the pavement of the ramparts, looked very big, and then ordered them to prison for further examination. As every one descants upon the want of comfort in a prison, it is to be presumed that there are no very comfortable ones.
The two peculiar customs on which Herodotus descants at length the public auction of the marriageable virgins in all the towns of the empire, and the religious prostitution authorized in the worship of Beltis were wholly incompatible with the restraints to which the sex has commonly submitted in the Eastern world.
Unfortunately, instead of doing so, it is M. Taine himself, it is his analytical method, it is the witnesses whom M. Taine chose as his authorities, that Prince Napoleon preferred to assail, as a scholar in an Academy who descants upon the importance of the genuineness of a text, and moreover with a freedom of utterance and a pertness of expression which on any occasion I should venture to pronounce decidedly insulting.
I have full oft In singers' selves found me a theme of song, Holding these also to be very part Of Nature's greatness, and accounting not Their descants least heroical of deeds.
One writer claims that black flies' bites are but the temporary inconvenience of a pin-prick; another tells of boils lasting a week as the invariable result of their attentions; a third sweeps aside the whole question as unimportant to concentrate his anathemas on the musical mosquito; still a fourth descants on the maddening midge, and is prepared to defend his claims against the world.
I exist too much, if I may be allowed to use the expression." In another letter, he descants still more poetically upon his gardener with the enlarged soul.
With this view he withdraws along with Pylades. The subject of the next choral hymn is the boundless audacity of mankind in general, and especially of women in the gratification of their unlawful passions, which it confirms by terrible examples from mythic story, and descants upon the avenging justice which is sure to overtake them at last.
A comparison of the words just quoted with the text of De Monts' commission will serve to illustrate the strength of Champlain's geographical instinct. The commission begins with a somewhat stereotyped reference to the conversion of the heathen, after which it descants upon commerce, colonies, and mines.
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