Show THESE BOOKS WERE DIGESTED history furnire Furni hels he instance of authere doing being compelled compell dl literally toral y to eat their words T to morally lt ally digest a book Is on an accomplishment sow comell I 1 sho which f few co can to boast I 1 of 0 having performed a good deal of literature has be been it destroyed UI 1 la in this way at a one time or anther another Bar barnaclo nalo visconti compelled two papal delegates to eat the bull of ex c which they had brought him together with its 10 silken cords and lea leaden an seal As A th ill trull bull was written on ins parchment it we was all 11 the a more difficult to digest A similar anecdote is related of an An austrian general who had big signed cod a note for 2 florins florans flor ins and when it fell due compelled hla his creditors to eat t it t lore A scandinavian tiiu writer the author 0 of a P political m 1 book we vaa compelled to choose between being be headed ar eating his manuscript boiled in broth isaac volmar who wrote I 1 some satires agal t bernard duke of saxony was waa not net allowed the courtesy of the mt la I 1 en but we was forced to swallow the them uncooked still worse was the fate of philip old b ge a jurist of great renown who was waa condemned e condemned not at only to eat but a pamphlet of hit his ori writing tIng but also to be flogged during his repast |