Mary Wollstonecraft comments about a fire;
A collection of the dresses, arms, and implements of the Laplanders attracted my attention, displaying that the first species of ingenuity which is rather proof of patient perseverance, than comprehension of mind. The specimens of natural history and curiosities of art, were likewise huddled together without that scientific order which alone renders them useful; but this may partly have been occasioned by the hasty manner in which they were removed from the palace, when it was in flames. (Wollstonecraft, 112)
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