Unluckily, he broke both of them.

Alas! his fate was most miserable.

The journalists of that country, witnessing his misfortune, said: "See to what misery this ability to exchange has reduced him! Really, he was less to be pitied when he lived alone." "What!" said the physician; "do not you consider his two broken arms?
Do not they form a part of his sad destiny?
His misfortune is to have lost his arms, and not to have been cured of leprosy.

He would be much more to be pitied if he was both maimed and a leper." _Post hoc, ergo propter hoc_; do not trust this sophism.
IX.
ROBBERY BY BOUNTIES.
They find my little book of _Sophisms_ too theoretical, scientific, and metaphysical.

Very well.