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I accepted the offer; and immediately found that they had been talking in terms of gardening; and that the kings and generals they had mentioned were only so many tulips; to which the gardeners; according to their usual custom; had given such high titles and appellations of honor。。 最好的txt下載網

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I was very much pleased and astonished at the glorious show of these gay vegetables; that arose in great profusion on all the banks about us。 Sometimes I considered every leaf as an elaborate piece of tissue; in which the threads and fibers were woven together into different configurations; which gave a different coloring to the light as it glanced on the several parts of the surface。 Sometimes I considered the whole bed of tulips; according to the notion of the greatest mathematician and philosopher that ever lived; as a multitude of optic instruments; designed for the separating light into all those various colors of which it is posed。

I was awakened out these my philosophical speculations; by observing the pany often seemed to laugh at me。 I accidentally praised a tulip as one of the finest ever saw; upon which they told me; it was a mon Fool’s Coat。 Upon that I praised another; which it seems was but another kind of Fool’s Coat。

I had the same fate with two or three more; for which reason I desired the owner of the garden to let me know which were the finest of the flower; for that I was so unskillful in the art; that I though