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James Howell

Biography

(1594-1666)

Essays by James Howell

from The Familiar Letters of James Howell

A clear, unclouded countenance makes a cottage appear like a castle in point of hospitality, but a beetle-browed sullen face makes a palace as smoky as an Irish hut.

Rambling meditations

I came to repose myself upon the trunk of a tree, and I fell to consider further what advantage that dull vegetable had of those feeding animals, as not to be so troublesome and beholding to nature, nor to be so subject to starving, to diseases, to the inclemency of the weather, and to be far longer lived.

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Essays

by James Howell Rambling meditations from The Familiar Letters of James Howell