 how it could exalt the low and amplify the little. To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the frogs of Homer; the gnat and the bees of Virgil; the butterfly of Spenser; the shadow of Wowerus; and the quincunx of Browne. ' Cardinal de Richelieu, amongst all...  Chambers's Pocket Miscellany - Page 61by William Chambers - 1854Full view - About this book
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