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No person , of even common sensibility , has ever perused the magic tale of Ellen Wareham without feeling the very soul of passion and imagination aroused and stirred up within him , as at the sound of a trumpet . " And it 's not mesilf ye wud have to be bate in the purliteness ; so I made her a bow that wud ha ' broken yur heart altegither to behould , and thin I pulled aff me hat with a flourish , and thin I winked at her hard wid both eyes , as much as to say , " True for you , yer a swate little crature , Mrs. Tracle , me darlint , and I wish I may be drownthed dead in a bog , if it 's not mesilf , Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt , that 'll make a houl bushel o ' love to yur leddyship , in the twinkling o ' the eye of a Londonderry purraty . He is likewise celebrated , as every one knows , for writing three several hands ; one only he himself can read , another nobody but his clerk can read , and a third neither himself , clerk , nor any body else can read . Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilise both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency . Mr. L. speaks about Sir John Herschel 's perceiving flowers ( the Papaver rhoeas , & c ., ) and even detecting the color and the shape of the eyes of small birds . The vortex of thoughtless [ page 428 :] folly into which I there so immediately and so recklessly plunged , washed away all but the froth of my past hours , ingulfed at once every solid or serious impression , and left to memory only the veriest levities of a former existence . The first of these extracts is on a subject too long overlooked , and too much neglected in all our schools . It is , perhaps , scarcely necessary to add , that all the suggestions attributed to Brewster and Herschel , in the beginning of the article , about " a transfusion of artificial light through the focal object of vision , '' & c ., & c ., belong to that species of figurative writing which comes , most properly , under the denomination of rigmarole . So while beliefs are incredibly different , in fact , both Europeans and Americans live in relatively fluid societies . Some feeble and ill-directed efforts resulted in complete failure on their part , and , of course , in total triumph on mine . At present , if one looks at levels of investment or at research output or at the prestige of leading institutions , the US is clearly leading in the life sciences . I was neither astonished nor horror-stricken . When the great excitement occurred about the forgery on the house of Gutsmuth & Co ., suspicion was directed toward Von Kempelen , on account of his having purchased a considerable property in Gasperitch Lane , and his refusing , when questioned , to explain how he became possessed of the purchase money . At length , my schemes being ripe , I met him ( with the full intention that this meeting should be final and decisive ) at the chambers of a fellow-commoner , ( Mr. Preston , ) equally intimate with both , but who , to do him justice , entertained not even a remote suspicion of my design . Over the course of the past 50 years , political institutions in Latin America have been much less permanent than in the U.S. and Europe . These things may in fact be either good or bad depending on whether or not you care more about economic growth or whether you care more about economic equity . The result is that as the Iraq war approaches its fourth anniversary , the Department of Veterans Affairs is buckling under a growing volume of disability claims and rising demand for medical attention . " And it 's not meself ye wud have to be bate in the purliteness ; [ page 185 :] so I made her a bow that wud have broken yur heart althegither to behould , and thin I pulled aff me hat with a flourish , and thin I winked at her hard wid both eyes , as much as to say — " Thrue for you , yer a swate little crature , Mrs. I was making up me mind whither it would n't be the purlite thing to sind a bit o ' writing to the widdy by way of a love-litter , when up cum 'd the delivery sarvant wid an illigant card , and he tould me that the name on it ( for I niver cud rade the copper-plate printing on account of being lift handed ) was all about Mounseer , the Count , A Goose , Look-aisy , Maiter-didauns , and that the houl o ' the divilish lingo was the spalpeeny long name of the little ould furrener Frinchman as lived over the way . Although this little volume is obviously intended for no other eyes than those of the ' Oxford and Cambridge scholar , ' and although it is absolutely impossible for any American to enter fully into the spirit of its most inestimable quizzes , oddities and eccentricities , still we have no intention of quarrelling with Carey & Hart , for republishing the work on this side of the Atlantic . I think it ’ s important to make sense of these differences without necessarily passing judgment on which one is more or less important .