Middlemarch vocabulary

Who wants a system on the basis of the four elements, or a book to refute Paracelsus? Do you not see that it is no use now to be crawling a little way after men of the last century — men like Bryant — and correcting their mistakes?— living in a lumber-room and furbishing up broken-legged theories about Chus and Mizraim?”

George Eliot. Middlemarch

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Jessica: When I was with him I have heard him swear

To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,

That he would rather have Antonio’s flesh

Than twenty times the value of the sum

That he did owe him; and I know, my lord,

If law, authority, and power deny not,

It will go hard with poor Antonio.