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The Whole Forming A Slight Souvenir Of The Season, 1845-46. With 13 Plates And 43 Illustrations In The Text. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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...a host of other qualities. He should have the bold- ness of a lion, the cunning of a fox, the shrewdness of an exciseman, the calculation of a general, the decision of a judge, the purse of Squire Plutus, the regularity of a railway, the punctuality of a time-piece, the liberality of a sailor, the patience of Job, the tact of an M. P. , the wiliness of a diplo- matist, the politeness of a lord, the strength of an Hercules, the thirst of a Bacchus, the appetite of a Dando, the digestion of an ostrich, the coolness of a crocodile, the fire-enduring powers of a salamander or of Mons. Chabot, the Fire King, with a slight touch of the eloquence of Cicero, and temper as even as the lines in a copj'-book. Lor bless us, what a combination of qualities ! John Austin, the peripatetic show- man's happy united family in the body of a foxhunter ! Money ! money ! money ! like Mr. Wilberforce's reiterated cry of Sugar ! sugar ! sugar ! is, however, perhaps, the most important thing after keenness and...

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