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"Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832"


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_Ecstacy of Michael Angelo._--When the bronze gates of the baptistry of
the church of Florence were produced, Michael Angelo cried out with
emotion, at the sight of them, "that they deserved to be the gates of
Paradise." Casts of these gates may be seen in the Royal Academy, London.
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_Power of Knowledge over Brute Force._--There is a popular story, that a
student from Oxford was attacked by a wild boar, which issued from the
adjoining forest of Shotover, when he escaped by cramming down the throat
of the brute, a volume of Aristotle.
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