Punchs Letters to His Son And Punchs Complete Letter Writer
Punchs Letters to His Son And Punchs Complete Letter Writer
Jerrold, Douglas William, 1803-1857
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Fear not, my son ; I am not about to clap in with shallow moralists who would show the nothingness of glory, by showing that which is, indeed, no part of it ; who would put the living Caesar's nose out of joint by displaying his nose " laid bare " in his coffin ; who would prove that it was a vanity of vanities, to paint a fair young German whilst in the flesh, because, when he took his departure from it, and was no longer in any way answerable for any disgrace it might fall into serpents might... gender there. Let us follow out this philosophy. The* Germans, as you know, are a nation of cabbage-eaters. They sophisticate good wholesome worts with vinegar, and Beelzebub alone, who supplies some nations with cooks, knows what beside. This vegetable wickedness they call sauer kraut. Now, let us imagine the immediate descendant of the fair-haired young German, with his napkin tucked under his chin, about to plunge his fist into the dish. He pauses looks serious a tear steals into the corner of his eye : solemnly removing the napkin from his button-hole, he rises, and remembering that the churchyard wherein his ancestor was decently deposited, has been converted into a vegetable garden, he points to the sauer krauts and exclaims, " Behold the vanity of all earthly things ; THE PHILOSOPHY OF GLORY, ETC.
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