A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . Soch lines Ggnifie riches and £Oo4Fortsoe* METOPOSCOPY AND BEGGARS AND BEGGING. 77 The arrogant and charlatanic assumption of pretentious scholar-ship of this description is contemptuously exposed by Erasmus inhis Praise of Folly, written in 1511.* But those of them who feel most conscious of their own supe-rior erudition, and regard with peculiar contempt the ignoranceof others, are the mathematicians. These men when engaged inscrawling their mysterious geometrical hieroglyphics, their tri-angles, squares, circles, and so forth, a
A history of vagrants and vagrancy, and beggars and begging; . Soch lines Ggnifie riches and £Oo4Fortsoe* METOPOSCOPY AND BEGGARS AND BEGGING. 77 The arrogant and charlatanic assumption of pretentious scholar-ship of this description is contemptuously exposed by Erasmus inhis Praise of Folly, written in 1511.* But those of them who feel most conscious of their own supe-rior erudition, and regard with peculiar contempt the ignoranceof others, are the mathematicians. These men when engaged inscrawling their mysterious geometrical hieroglyphics, their tri-angles, squares, circles, and so forth, adding to one another in thequeerest manner possible, and concocting at last a sort of eccentriclooking picture, having the appearance of a kind of labyrinth,with letters of the alphabet dotted about it here and there likesoldiers in sentry boxes, first placed in one order and then anonin another, make unsophisticated lookers-on wonder immenselywhat inscrutable conjurations they are up to. They effectuallyaccomplish one object, at any rate, which they have e
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