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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...s are found in theological gardens. Under the head of “Grammar” the little scholars furnish the following information: Gender is the distinguishing no... ...This line of hieroglyphics was for fourteen years the de spair of all the scholars who labored over the mysteries of the Rosetta stone: [ Image not ... ... death. That was the twenty forth translation that had been fur nished by scholars. For a time it stood. But only for a time. Then doubts began to as... ...t; and whether his law court procedure is correct or not, and whether his legal shop talk is the shop talk of a veteran practitioner or only a machin... ...nted with the manners and customs of members of the Inns of Court and with legal life generally. “While novelists and dramatists are constantly making... ...to the law to avoid dis playing their ignorance if they venture to employ legal terms and to discuss legal doctrines. “There is nothing so dan gerou...

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