Name: Sir Jasper Carew: His Life and Experience (en Inglés)
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Author: Lever, Charles James
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portada Sir Jasper Carew: His Life and Experience (en Inglés)

Sir Jasper Carew: His Life and Experience (en Inglés)

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Lever, Charles James

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Inglés

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172

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Tapa Blanda

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28.0 x 21.6 x 0.9 cm

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0.41 kg.

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9781514735343

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Sir Jasper Carew: His Life and Experience (en Inglés)

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It has sometimes occurred to me that the great suits of armor we see in museums, the huge helmets that come down like extinguishers on the penny candles of modern humanity, the enormous cuirasses and gigantic iron gloves, were neither more nor less than downright and deliberate cheats practised by the "Gents" of those days for the especial humbugging of us, their remote posterity. It might, indeed, seem a strange and absurd thing that any people should take so much pains, and incur so much expense, just for the sake of mystifying generations then unborn. Still, I was led to this conclusion by observing and reflecting on a somewhat similar phenomenon in our own day; and indeed it was the only explanation I was ever able to come to, respecting those great mansions that we Irish gentlemen are so fond of rearing on our estates, "totally regardless of expense," and just as indifferent to all the circumstances of our fortune, and all the requirements of our station, -the only real difference being, that our forefathers were satisfied with quizzing their descendants, whereas we, with a livelier appreciation of fun, prefer enjoying the joke in our own da