On Silence
Jacobus
Genre: | Letter, Drollery |
Subjects: | Machinery |
The writer considers the 'unrestrained motion' of the tongue to have been productive of much mischief, and has devised 'a plan to tame this turbulent engine, and render it as harmless as an uncharged gun'. | |
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