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Iliff's Select Readings for Public and Private Entertainment Volume 2; Containing Choice Selections of the Most Pathetic, Gay, Humorous ... Accompanied by Explanatory Notes Together with Appropriate Elocutionary Instructions ...

Iliff's Select Readings for Public and Private Entertainment Volume 2; Containing Choice Selections of the Most Pathetic, Gay, Humorous ... Accompanied by Explanatory Notes Together with Appropriate Elocutionary Instructions ...


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ... boots and roared to Marden: '. Nantucket's sunk, and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett's garden!' JAMES T. FIELDS. OUR GUIDE IN GENOA AND ROME. European guides know about enough English to tangle everything up so that a man can maike neither head nor tail of it. They know their story by heart--the history ot ivery statue, painting, cathedral, or other wonder they show you. They know it and tell it as a parrot would, and if you interrupt, and throw thern off the track, they have to go back and begin over again. All their lives long, they are employed in showing strange things to foreigners and listening to their bursts of admiration. It is human nature to take delight in exciting admiration. It is what prompts children to say "smart" things, and do absurd ones, and in other ways "show off" when company is present. It is what makes gossips turn out in rain and storm to go and be the first to tell a startling bit of news. Think, then, what a passion it becomes with a guide, whose privilege it is, every day, to show to strangers wonders that throw them into perfect ecstacies of admiration! He gets so that he could not hy anv possibility live in a soberer atmosphere After we discovered this, we never went into ecstacies any more--we never admired anything--we never showed any but impassable faces and stupid indifference in the presence of the sublimest wonders a guide had to display. We had found their weak point. We have made good use of it ever since We have made some of those people savage, at times, but we have ncver lost our serenity. The doctor asks the questions generallv, because he can keep his countenance, and look more like an inspired idoit, and throw more imbecility into the tone of his voice than any man that lives. It co...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150002038
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150002034
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr

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