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For the spirit of play having overspread the land likebook28 a pestilence raged to such a degree of madness and desperation that the unhappy people whobook72 were infected laid aside all thoughts of amusement economy or caution and risked their fortunes upon issues equally extravagant childish and absurd. Fathom accordingly gave him to understand that he had studied physic and taken his degrees at Padua rather for his amusement than with any view of exercising medicine as he then could not possibly foresee the misfortunes which had since happened to his family and by which he was now compelled to have recourse to a profession that was very much beneath the expectations of his birth.... read all
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