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| | English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson : Arthur's Classic Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | It was a tardy recoil of these invasions, when, in 1801, the British government sent Nelson to bombard the Danish forts in the Sound; and, in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the entire Danish fleet, as it lay in the basins, and all the equipments from the Arsenal, and carried them to England. |
 | | Sense and economy must rule in a world which is made of sense and economy, and the banker, with his seven per cent, drives the earl out of his castle. |
 | | English stories, bon-mots, and the recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the French. |
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