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 clock in it's decay, than I could have done in its flourishing condition

—And so away I posted to the college of the Jesuits.

Now it is with the project of getting a peep at the history of China in Chinese characters—as with many others I could mention, which strike the fancy only at a distance; for as I came nearer and nearer to the point—my blood cool'd—the freak gradually went off, till, at length I would not have given a cherry-stone to have it gratified—The truth was, my time was short, and my heart was at the Tomb of the LoversI wish to God, said I, as I got the rapper in my hand, that the key of the library may be but lost; it fell out as well