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...you !" You will scarce guess how I employ my time ; chiefly at present in the guardianship of embryos and cockleshells. Sir Hans Sloane is dead, and has...He valued it at fourscore thousand ; and so would any body who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! It is a rent-charge,...

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...shows that Pope did not here intend to sneer at him. Of Sloane (born 1660, died 1753) Walpole says : "Sir Hans Sloane is dead and has made me one of the...it at fourscore thousand, and so would anybody who loved hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese. It is a rent-charge to keep...

...to sneer at him. Of Sloano (born I860, died 1758) Walpole says : "Sir Hans Sloauc is dead and lias made me one of the trustees to his museum, which is...to the King, the Parliament, the Royal Academies of Petersburg!], Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. He valued it at fourscore thousand, and so would anybody who...