Ascham's days, when, for aught I know, the accounts of the beer-cellar were kept in hexameters, and people scanned every line as narrowly as if it were a bill of exchange. At present, every thing is simplified — essences, salts, abridgements : — we... The Continental Traveller's Oracle; Or, Maxims for Foreign Locomotion - Pàgina 115 per Sir Thomas Wyse - 1828 Visualització completa -
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