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But he was certainly gifted by nature withlouboutins most extraordinary He once had occasion to travel to Norwich. When the coach arrived there, he was beset by se¬veral porters, one offering to carry his portmanteau to his lodging for eighteen-pence, another for a shilling, another for ninepence: upon which, Porson shouldered the portmanteau, and marching off with it, said very gravely to the porters, " Gentlemen, I leavechaussures louboutin you to settle this dispute among yourselves."¡ª When, however, he went to stay with a friend for only a couple of days or so, he did not encumber himself with a portmanteau: he would merely take a shirt in his pocket, saying, " Omnia mea mecum porto The time he wasted in writing notes on the mar¬gins of books,¡ªI mean, in writing them with such beauty chaussures christian louboutinof penmanship that they rivalled print,¡ªwas truly lamentable. And yet he used those very powers of memory. Dr. Dauney, of Aberdeen, told me that, during a visit to London, he heard Porson declare that he could repeat Smollett's Roderick Random from beginning to end:¡ªand Mr. Rich¬ard Heber assured me that soon after the appearance of thelouboutin soldes Essay on Irish Bulls (the joint production of Edgeworth and his daughter), Porson used, when somewhat tipsy, to recite whole pages of it ver¬batim with great delight.¡ªED. Such was his rage for calligraphy, that he once offered to letter the backs of some of Mr. Richard Heber's vellum-bound classics. books most cruelly, whether they were his own, or belonging tolouboutin pas cher others: he would let them lie about his room, covered with dust and all sorts of dirt.¡ª He said that " he possessed more bad copies of good books than any private gentleman in England."