John Watkins Holdern – A Wizard’s Wanderings

A Wizard's wanderings from China to Peru / by John Watkins Holden. 1886

Excerpt from A Wizard’s Wanderings: From China to Peru

Bacon says: Lon g speeches are ?at things, and carry little weight.’ So are long prefaces. The Spartans have been praised as the most eloquent of the races of Greece – and why? Simply because laconic brevity was their peculiar forte.

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