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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
seven ages of man

The divisions of life, best known in English in the version recounted by Jaques in *As You Like It. In the speech beginning 'All the world's a stage', he says that each of us plays many parts and that the acts of our play are seven ages: the puking infant; the whining schoolboy; the lover, sighing like a furnace; the soldier, full of strange oaths; the round-bellied justice; the lean and slippered pantaloon; and finally second childishness, 'sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything'.
 








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