Sound. a Course of Eight Lectures Delivered At the Royal Institution of Great Britain
Sound. a Course of Eight Lectures Delivered At the Royal Institution of Great Britain
John Tyndall
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Wherever the women are at work, it is either washing, or, at their primitive distaff, spin- ning flaxen thread. The great art is to give it the requisite whirl; but there is an art, and not an easy one, in every acquirement, however easy or common it may seem : we have but to try it, to be convinced ! We gallop about the world and do nothing. Could we but hit the art intuitive, of admiring in the right place, it would be something to say ; for as to facts, there is little new to be struck out: ...it must lie in the telling. We had Murray's book with us ; but who can read 1 Digitized by LnOOQlC 174 TAXES ON SIGHT-SEEING. those who forget, must consult it ; but, were I equal to it, a repetition here would be, indeed, stale as a twice- told tale: but I know nothing — I could not even cram for the occasion. After all we are poor weak creatures — weak every way. I felt an ecstatic relief on alighting from my uneasy seat in the carriage, washing the dust out of my eyes, and in the quiet absence of the worrying of the whole day's pleasure !
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