Tupper's Poetical Works: Containing "proverbial Philosophy", "a Thousand Lines", Etc
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{w) " The strange shin garments cast upon the shore suggest another hemisphere."" Page 92. An anecdote I have somewhere heard of Columbus, who, having sailed as far as Flores, one of the western islands, was induced to pro- ceed further from hearing that savage robes and weapons had been cast up by the sea, after the prevalence of westerly gales. It will probably be met with in Washington Irving's Life of Columbus. (x) " TJie lichen , . . dying, diggeth its own grave.''^ Page 93. One of the gre...at uses of these pioneers of vegetation is to corrode and fret the smooth surface of the rocks, by an acid which they generate during decomposition. (y) « Ridicule — the test of truth.''* Page 95. One of the weakest points in the Shaftesbury philosophy, which would weigh principles against puns. {z) ''^And being but men, as men, ye own to all the sympathies of man. hood:' Page 107. The noble and masculine sentiment of Terrence, which of old elec- trifled the whole theatre : " Homo sum, human!
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