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---- Rf-J-Rf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I hope that my translation hereafter is accurate ...
> Franck Frydman
>
> Who could exhaust all the different kinds of curious ones ? Would you
> guess, by hearing this one speaking about his leopard *, his feather **,
> his music ***, praising them as what is most unique and wonderful on
> earth , that he wants to sell his shells? Why no if he buys them by the
> weight of gold?
>
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> Cc: "Rf-J-Rf" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 1:20 AM
> Subject: Re: Re : Famous collectors
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> From a translation site:
>
> Who could exhaust all the different kinds of curious one? Would you guess,
> to hear to speak this one of his leopard *, of his feather **, of his music
> ***, to praise them as this that there is on the earth of more unique one
> and of more wonderful one, than it wants to sell its shells? Why no itself
> it buys them to the weight of the now?
>
> don't know how accurate.
>
> site: http://ets.freetranslation.com/
>
> TONI
>
>
> ---- Rf-J-Rf <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > La Bruyère ( French writer , XVIIIth century ) was not a shell collector
> > but in " Les Caractères " ( Chapitre XIII , " de la Mode " , 2 ) he wrote
> > ( sorry for those who do not read French ) : << Qui pourrait épuiser tous
> > les différents genres de curieux ? Devineriez-vous, � entendre parler
> > celui-ci de son léopard *, de sa plume **, de sa musique ***, les vanter
> > comme ce qu’il y a sur la terre de plus singulier et de plus merveilleux,
> > qu’il veut vendre ses coquilles ? Pourquoi non s’il les achète au poids de
> > l’or ? >> . I guess that somebody on the list could give a good
> > translation in XVIIIth century English ?
> > Most probably the mentioned seashells are : * Conus leopardus , ** Conus
> > pennaceus , *** Voluta musica .
> >
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