. My study windows . turally call a good understanding. Thecommon blood, and still more the common language, arefatal instruments of misapprehension. Let them giveup trying to understand us, still more thinking thatthey do, and acting in various absurd ways as thenecessary consequence, for they will never arrive at thatdevoutly-to-be-wished consummation, till they learn tolook at us as we are and not as they suppose us to old long-estranged mother-in-law, it is a great manyyears since we parted. Since 1660, when you marriedagain, you have been a step-mother to us. Put on your 82 ON A C
. My study windows . turally call a good understanding. Thecommon blood, and still more the common language, arefatal instruments of misapprehension. Let them giveup trying to understand us, still more thinking thatthey do, and acting in various absurd ways as thenecessary consequence, for they will never arrive at thatdevoutly-to-be-wished consummation, till they learn tolook at us as we are and not as they suppose us to old long-estranged mother-in-law, it is a great manyyears since we parted. Since 1660, when you marriedagain, you have been a step-mother to us. Put on your 82 ON A CERTAIN CONDESCENSION IN FOREIGNERS. spectacles, dear madam. Yes, we have grown, andchanged likewise. You would not let us darken yourdoors, if you could help it. We know that perfectlywell. But pray, when we look to be treated as men,dont shake that rattle in our faces, nor talk baby to usany longer. • Do, child, go to it grandam, child; Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig!. A GREAT PUBLIC CHARACTER. IT is the misfortune of American biography that itmust needs be more or less provincial, and that,contrary to what might have been predicted, this qual-ity in it predominates in proportion as the countrygrows larger. Wanting any great and acknowledgedcentre of national life and thought, our expansion hashitherto been rather aggregation than growth; reputa-tions must be hammered out thin to cover so wide aBurface, and the substance of most hardly holds out tothe boundaries of a single State. Our very historywants unity, and down to the Revolution the attentionis wearied and confused by having to divide itself amongthirteen parallel threads, instead of being concentredon a single clew. A sense of remoteness and seclusioncomes over us as we read, and we cannot help askingourselves, Were not these things done in a corner %Notoriety may be achieved in a narrow sphere, butfame demands for its evidence a more distant and pro-longed reverberation
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