| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781419151408 | | Publisher: Kessinger Publishing | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 39944262 | | Item#: BK5KED | | Pages: 128 |
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| | | The council of Twenty-Eight being assembled in a great hurry, Fika-kaka sat about five seconds in silence, having in his countenance, nearly the same expression which you have seen in the face and attitude of Felix on his tribunal, as represented by the facetious Hogarth in his print done after the Dutch taste. After some pause he rose, and surveying every individual of the council through a long tube, began a speech to this effect: "Imperial Got-hama-baba, my ever-glorious master; and you, ye illustrious nobles of Japan, Quanbukus, Quos, Days, and Daygos, my fellows and colleagues in the work of administration; it is well known to you all, and they are rascals that deny it, I have watched and fasted for the public weal.
| Author Bio| Tobias Smollett | | Born at Bonhill, the Smollett family estate in Scotland, Tobias Smollett was apprenticed to a Glasgow doctor at 14, then studied medicine more formally at Glasgow University. He served briefly as a ship's surgeon, spent some time in Jamaica, then settled in London, where he tried without success to have a play produced, though he did also begin to write and publish political satires. His first novel, the picaresque RODERICK RANDOM was published in 1748. A huge success, it was followed with four more novels, culminating in HUMPHREY CLINKER, published in 1771, not long before Smollett's death. In poor health in middle age, he had moved to Italy by then, and died in Livorno at 50. |
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