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Excerpt from The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 33: May to August, 1838
Why then this long apathy? Why, when ministers saw the mine a-digging - why, when they saw the train a-laying - wh y when they saw Guy Fawkes preparing his matches and lighting his lanthorn, they were perfectly quiescent - not to say acquiescent! But when an unlucky accident caused a partial explosion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.