The book The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, volume 9 was written by author Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Here you can read free online of The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, volume 9 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, volume 9 a good or bad book?
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135 without making any effort to recall it, — and presently the mind evolves it by its own involuntary and uncon- scious action, while you were pursuing another train of thought, and the name rises of itself to your lips. There are some curious observations I should like to make about the mental machinery, but I think we are getting rather didactic. — I should be gratified, if Benjamin Franklin would let me know something of his progress in the French language. 1 rather liked that exercise he r...ead us the other day, though 1 must confess I should hardly dare to translate it, for fear some people in a remote city where I once lived might think I was drawing their portraits. — Yes, Paris is a famous place for societies. I don't know whether the piece I mentioned from the French author was intended simply as Natural His- tory, or whether there was not a little malice in his description. At any rate, when I gave my translation to B. F. to turn back again into French, one reason was that I thought it would sound a little bald in English, and some people might think it was meant to have some local beaiing or other, — which the author, of course, did n't mean, inasmuch as he could not be acquainted with anything on this side of the water.
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