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BORROW'S LAVENGRO. * WASRTICGTON IRVING ; in one of his pleasant essays, writes—"I have seen a fine lady, remarkable for beauty, weary a philosopher with flimsy metaphysics ;......

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England in 1837 as an adven- turer to seek his fortune. He says that "blighted hopes and ruined affections," but the context would rather imply the impossi- bility of finding......