Who, having by their ancestors declared and won their Independence,
because they would not bend the knee to certain Public vices and
corruptions, and would not abrogate the truth, run riot in the Bad,
and turn their backs upon the Good; and lying down contented with the
wretched boast that other Temples also are of glass, and stones which
batter theirs may be flung back; show themselves, in that alone, as
immeasurably behind the import of the trust they hold, and as unworthy
to possess it as if the sordid hucksterings of all cr hci paroxetine paxil their little
governments--each one a kingdom in its small depravity--were brought
into a heap for evidence against them. Martin by degrees became so far awake, that he had a sense of a terrible
oppression on cr hci paroxetine paxil his mind; an imperfect dream that he had murdered a
particular friend, and couldn't get rid of the body. But he did not; for with the apt closing words above recited, Mr
Slyme; of too haughty a stomach to work, to beg, to borrow, or to steal;
yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed, begged or stolen for, by any
catspaw that would serve his turn; too insolent to lick the hand that
fed him in his need, yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark;
with these apt closing words Mr Slyme fell forward with his head upon
the table, and so declined into a sodden sleep. 'Was there ever,' cried Mr Tigg, joining the young men at the door,
and shutting it carefully behind him, 'such an independent spirit as is
possessed cr hci paroxetine paxil by that extraordinary creature? Was there ever such a Roman as
our friend Chiv? Was there ever a dating of such a purely classical turn of
thought, and of such a toga-like simplicity of nature?
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Was there ever a
man with such a flow of eloquence? Might he not, gents both, I ask, have
sat upon a tripod in the ancient times, and prophesied to a perfectly
unlimited extent, if previously supplied with gin-and-water at the
public cost? '
Mr Pinch was about to contest this latter position cr hci paroxetine paxil with his usual
mildness, when, observing that his companion had already gone
downstairs, he prepared to follow him.
'You are not going, Mr Pinch?
ñ.52 ñ.53 ñ.54
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