Height of Aristocratic Pride
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Astronomy, Discovery, Status |
Reports that an aristocratic astronomer 'declines to inspect Leverrier's new planet' because 'it is a parvenu'. | |
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