Shells from the Sands of Time (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Our friend, the German poet, historian, metaphysician, and portrait painter, quoted by Burton, but whose name, unfortunately (not to say unfairly), has not descended to posterity, by his revelations about England, reminds us of the debt of gratitude we still continue to incur to "distinguished foreigners," for eternally pointing out to us mines of vice and mountains of virtue which, without their kind intervention, our own indigenous perceptions would neither have been sufficiently elevated nor profound to have discovered; and even when they note a palpable and indisputable fact, they generally prop it up with an auxiliary or mine it with a motive that we natives ignored before.

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