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IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? the week after, they will say it. Why, it is just like being the past tense of the compound reflexive adverbial incandes cent hypodermic irregular accusative Noun of Multitude; which is father to the expression which the grammarians call Verb. It is like a whole ancestry, with only one posterity.

To resume. Next, the young Bacon took up the study of law, and mastered that abstruse science. From that day to the end of his life he was daily in close contact with lawyers and judges; not as a casual onlooker in intervals between holding horses in front of a theatre, but as a practicing lawyer—a great and successful one, a renowned one, a Launcelot of the bar, the most formidable lance in the high brotherhood of the legal Table Round: he lived in the law's atmosphere thenceforth, all his years, and by sheer ability forced his way up its dif- 112