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Keon, Miles Gerald

 
9781331678182: Harding the Money-Spinner, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Now, the doctor was always ready to pay with his guard. In the contests which he maintained around him, to carry various objects, he sought to make his adversary confused - to overwhelm him with shame. The situations into which he dragged the opponent with whom he might have to wrestle, were morally painful - they were insufferable to almost everybody else. But to him, as the intended results of his own deliberate contrivance, they were simply flattering and agreeable.

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Now, the doctor was always ready to pay with his guard. In the contests which he maintained around him, to carry various objects, he sought to make his adversary confused - to overwhelm him with shame. The situations into which he dragged the opponent with whom he might have to wrestle, were morally painful - they were insufferable to almost everybody else. But to him, as the intended results of his own deliberate contrivance, they were simply flattering and agreeable.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Harding the Money-Spinner, Vol. 2 of 3

"The flaming seraph, fearless, though alone, Encompassed round with foes, thus answered bold."

Paradise Lost.

"Genius and art, ambition's boasted wings,
Our boast but ill deserve. A feeble aid!
Dedalian enginery! If these alone
Assist our flight, fame's flight is glory's fall.
Heart merit wanting, mount we ne'er so high,
Our height is but the gibbet of our name."

Young.

"Alack, the change! in vain I look
For haunts in which my boyhood trifled -
The level lawn, the trickling brook,
The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled."

Praed.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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