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...man once, holding out a book, " than for the life I have of late led. Nature has not fitted me for that; knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part." BUFFON, who consumed his mornings in his old tower of Montbar, at the end of his garden, with all nature...

...expressed himself in a letter to his learned friend sir Thomas Bodley, accompanying a copy of his work "I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that 1 have done ; and in absence are many errors, which I willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest,...

...I think no man may more truly say, with the psalm, Mu/tum incolafuit anhna mea,* than my self; for I do confess since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that 1 have done : and in absence are many errors, which I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest,...

...Learning. Sir, I think no man may more truly say with the psalm, " miiltum incola fuit anima mea." For I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my...been absent from that I have done, and in absence errors are committed, which I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest, this great one that...

...THINK no man may more truly say with the psalm, " Multum incola fuit anima mea," than myself; for, I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my...are many errors, which I do willingly acknowledge j and, amongst the rest, this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to...

...man once, holding out a book, " than for the life I have of late led. Nature has not fitted me for that ; knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part." BUFFON, who consumed his mornings in his old tower of Montbar, at the end of his garden, with all nature...

...understanding, my mind hath, in effect, been absent from that I have done, and in absence errors are committed, which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the...to be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, 1 have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation...

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...time when he had ample experience of his fitness for active life and the business of the law : " For I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my...been absent from that I have done, and in absence errors are committed which I do willingly acknowledge. And among the rest, this great one that led...