“There will not always be scientific men, perhaps, but there always will be poets.” : Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon (ca. 1869) Literature Text for the Office of

Text for the Office of the Dead [Vigilie mortuorum] with sections rubricated for the antiphon and psalms

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Written by Joannes de Leit

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“There will not always be scientific men, perhaps, but there always will be poets.” : Jules Verne - Five Weeks in a Balloon (ca. 1869) Literature Text for the Office ofVERNE, Jules. Five Weeks in a Balloon; or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen. Translated by William Lackland, New York: Hurst & Co. 1883. (185 x 120 mm) pp. 345. Frontispeice and three illustrations. Candidate for BINDING COPY. Though dated 1869, it is the 1883 edition An early American version suffering from the typical Anglophone treatment of Verniana publishers believed that the English reading audience would assume the