David Claypoole Johnston
Published: 2015-07-04
Total Pages: 244
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Excerpt from The Aurora Borealis: Or Flashes of Wit; Calculated to Drown Dull Care and Eradicate the Blue Devils When Mr. Joseph Lancaster had finished hit lecture, from the chair of the house of representatives in the U. S., Mr. Clay, the speaker, complimented him, saying that the chair had never before been filled so well. Mr. Lancaster very modestly replied, that man, in his purest aspect, was but a very humble instrument in the hands of a higher Power; the chair he had just filled, exalted as it was had not been filled with any thing better than Clay. An elderly lady, expressing her surprise at the present fashions, observed that, now-a-days, there was not any display of dress, the present mode tending only to show the shape not to set off the attire, and wondered that the ladies should ever have relinquished hoops and stiff brocade, for muslin dresses, like tinder. A gentleman remarked, this was done probably to catch the sparks. When Mrs. Robinson published her Sappho and Phaon, she wrote to Mr. Boaden, the newspaper editor - "Mrs. Robinson would thank her friend Boaden for a dozen Puffs for Sappho and Phaon." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.