Vulgar words in The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed (Page 1)
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But men, foolishly overjoyed hereat, laid this present of the gods upon an ass, who, in returning back with it, being extremely thirsty, and coming to a fountain, the serpent who was guardian thereof would not suffer him to drink but upon condition of receiving the burden he carried, whatever it should be.
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The silly ass complied; and thus the perpetual renewal of youth was for a sup of water transferred from men to the race of serpents."