Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
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Wisdom while you wait : $b Being a foretaste of the glories of the 'Insidecompletuar Britanniaware' ...
Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Encyclopaedia Britannica -- Humor; English wit and humor
Christian De Wet writes:--‘I should never have escaped so frequently
if the English troops had not been so engrossed in the pages of their
ramparts.’
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The Kaiser writes:--‘As a barrier against Polish arrogance, I know of
no more impregnable fortification than your mammoth volumes.’
* * * * *
General Viscount Kitchener writes:--‘During the earlier phases of
the guerilla war, the inferior quality of the corrugated iron used
in constructing the blockhouses was a constant source of anxiety to
me. But directly your Supplement became available, I heard no more
complaints. Though slight breaches were made, none of the enemy,
however persistent, ever managed to get right through.’
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N.B.--We recommend the volumes also as ballast for war balloons. They
not only regulate the movement of the balloon, but when thrown out from
a point immediately above the head of an enemy or a hostile battleship,
invariably prove fatal.
To the Navy.
As backing for targets the volumes of the INSIDECOMPLETUAR
BRITANNIAWARE are without an equal.
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Captain Percy Scott writes:--
‘_Lee Scuppers,_
_H.M.S. ‘Terrible.’_
‘A single volume of your interesting and improving work recently
stopped an 8·937 projectile, the point of which was found buried in M.
de Blowitz’s article on Lesseps, which otherwise was pointless.’
No Class of Society can do without our Mammoth Work.
SEE THE FOLLOWING PAGES FOR PARTICULARS OF HOW IT HITS EVERY WALK OF
LIFE.
YOU MUST HAVE THE ‘INSIDE. BRIT.’
LORD KNOLLYS writes: ‘His Majesty commands me to say that he is so
pleased with your INSIDECOMPLETUAR that he has decided to establish a
new Order of Merit, to be conferred upon the few persons who have not
contributed to its pages.’
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The DUKE OF FIFE writes: ‘An excellent publication, but dear. Might I
suggest a cheaper edition for the members of the starving aristocracy?’
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LORD ROSEBERY writes: ‘In spite of certain trifling inaccuracies in the
article on Napoleon, I like your work, into which I have dug deeply. I
have a set at each of my houses, and should have kept one on my yacht,
but it is only a 1000-ton boat. By the way, in your article on dialect
you should have given some specimens of the Tabernacular.’
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