基本信息
at his head was byronic; but he was a bearded, tranquil
byron, who might live on a thousand years without growing old.
certainly an englishman, it was more doubtful whether phileas fogg was
a londoner. he was never seen on `change, nor at the bank, nor in the counting-rooms
of the `city'; no ships ever came into london docks of which he was the
owner; he had no public employment; he had never been entered at any of
the inns of court, either at the temple, or lincoln's inn, or gray's inn;
nor had his voice ever resounded in the court of chancery, or in the exchequer,
or the queen's bench, or the ecclesiastical courts. he certainly was not
a manufacturer; nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer. his name was
strange to the scientific and learned societies, and he never was known
to take part in the sage deliberations of the royal institution or the
london institution, the artisan's association or the institution of arts
and sciences. he belonged, in fact, to none of the numerous societies which
swarm in the english capital, from the harmonic to that of the entomologists,
founded mainly for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects.
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