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The life of Cardinal Mezzofanti

Note 74 — MEMOIRS OF EMINENT LINGUISTS.

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Thus amusingly “Englished” in Wanley’s “Wonders of the Little World,” p. 285:—

“A young man have I seen, At twenty years so skilled, That every art he knew, and all In all degrees excelled! Whatever yet was writ, He vaunted to pronounce (Like a young Antichrist) if he Did read the same but once.”

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