And therfore, my Lord, it ſeems very much to the purpoſe, ſince you govern and preſide in all ſignal Actions, that you never content your ſelf with a Mediocrity in things which are good and laudable; and ſince you have nothing of mean and vulgar, that you ſhould alſo cheriſh, above all others, the honour and reputation of poſſeſſing a Bibliotheque, the moſt perfect, the beſt furniſh’d and maintain’d of your time.[…]But you, my Lord, who have the reputation of knowing more then can be taught you, and who deprive your ſelf of all ſort of contentments, to enjoy, and plunge your ſelf, as it were, in the pleaſure which you take in courting good Authors; to you it is that it properly attains, to poſſeſs a Bibliotheque, the moſt auguſt, and ample, that hath ever been erected: to the end it may never be ſaid hereafter, that it was only for want of a little care which you might have had, that you did not beſtow this Piece upon the Publique; and of your ſelf, that all the actions of your life had not ſurpaſſed the moſt heroick exploits of the moſt illuſtrious perſons.
It was the seemingly total transplant of her personality from a sweet, pie-baking granny to a septuagenarian hooligan.
He supposed Pangborn was around someplace, and pretty soon old Bill Fullerton would get him on the honker and tell him who was back in town. Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here.
The plaintiffs here are third persons, and cannot be made responsible for the inadequate judgment or the improper exercise of power by the defendant's wife.
