. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER LIII. MAN IHS MONARCH OF CREATION—TBE VIOLET AND ITS PROPRIETORS. Man pretends to be the king ot all nature. When I look at things closely, this monarch, so vain of his power, appears to me to have a singular resemblance to certain bishops, styled in partibus infidelium—that is to say, whose bishoprics, in the power of infidels, are so situated, that if chance should offer them an opportunity of appearing in them, they could not avoid being broiled, hung, quartered, or impaled. I do not here speak of animals, who, if man ventures too near to t
. A tour round my garden . Natural history. LETTER LIII. MAN IHS MONARCH OF CREATION—TBE VIOLET AND ITS PROPRIETORS. Man pretends to be the king ot all nature. When I look at things closely, this monarch, so vain of his power, appears to me to have a singular resemblance to certain bishops, styled in partibus infidelium—that is to say, whose bishoprics, in the power of infidels, are so situated, that if chance should offer them an opportunity of appearing in them, they could not avoid being broiled, hung, quartered, or impaled. I do not here speak of animals, who, if man ventures too near to their den, eagerly avail themselves of the opportunity of regaling upon a monarch raw, or in his own gravy. I mean the innocent pretenders, who share with man the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Karr, Alphonse, 1808-1890; Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. London : F. Warne ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
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