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Identifier: americanencyclop00blak (find matches)
Title: The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: (Blake, William O.) (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history Biography
Publisher: Columbus, Published by J. & H. Miller
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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left the table, and shortlyreturned from the kitchen with a piece of raw beef-steak, peppered andsalted in the Abyssinian fashion, and said to the gentleman, Sir, you willeat that, or fight me ; the person addressed chose to do the former, whenBruce calmly observed, Now sir, you will never again say it is impos-sible. Major Head also relates the following anecdote : Single-speechHamilton, who was Bruces first cousin, one evening said to him, that toconvince the world of his power of drawing, he need only draw somethingthen in as good a style as those paintings which it had been said were donefor him by his Italian artist. Gerard ! replied Bruce, very gravely, you made one fine speech, and the world doubted its being your own com-position ; but, if you will stand up now here, and make another speech asgood, we shall believe it to have been your own. He used to teach his daughter, who was scarcely twelve years old, theproper mode of pronouncing the Abyssinian words, that he might leave,
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