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Travellers have told us through unquestionably through mistake.
Travellers however have told us, or a notion of savages to stupid, that their utmost
knowledge of number extends not beyond three. Of the umber of any greater multitude,
be inquired after, the hairs of the head are pointed to as the representative of it
Cath "Catch Yalnnee?" how many places of Worship is a question that, in a Turkish
town upon the Danube (which being marked as a village in the map had surprised
me by its magnitude) I take I took the liberty of addressing to the great man of the place the chief
Officer of the Revenue — "Chuck" — with a significant toss of the head —
"chuck" — was the answer — plaing "plenty". This was all the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Of Russiag Ruszug knew, or seemed to think it worth any-bodys while to know, about the
matter. The dipon degree of information, have how opposite so were to Turkish intelligence
is not unfortunately not peculiar to Turkish ground. Come back to England – Address
yourself to those who undertake to feed the hungry – them in in a mass, – feed them
in a new stile – and as it were with mannage from the Clouds – ask them how many
mouths there are to feed – chuck – is still the answer: – chuck – is the sum of
knowledge. So much for real conversation now for an imaginary dialogue.
John —
come, Mary — the Children be hungry — Come bustle about get 'em their dinners,
Mary. – from Mary, Dinner. — Aye, that's, what I want — But, look ye did, ye see, how
many children be their there of them, John — I say — how many children have usto two got? For For
For my part, I don't know, — not I — Dost thee know?
Were a dialogue of this stamp to be produced upon the Theatre, and the scene too
in cottage it would be spurned spurned at as unnatural. In the humblest – in the worst informed
time line of life – ignorance (it would be said) doth does not sink thus low. Among individuals
such language would be too silly for the merist simpleton. But government —
has never held — has never enabled itself to hold any other.
In the year 177 and 178 Acts of Parliament were passed; under the notion of
furnishing the legislator with the a stock of information requisite for a new a
complete plan of provision for the Poor, – Every thing Accordingly.
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