. Thackerayana;. g horseand nothing is plainer than that he who towers to the fifth story iswhirled through more space by every circumrotation than anotherthat grovels upon the ground-floor. If you imagine that I ascribe to air and motion effects whichthey cannot produce, I desire you to consult your own memory,and consider whether you have never known a man acquire repu- 394 THACKERAYANA. tation in his garret, which, when fortune or a patron had placedhim upon the first floor, he was unable to maintain; and whonever recovered his former vigour of understanding till he wasrestored to his origi
. Thackerayana;. g horseand nothing is plainer than that he who towers to the fifth story iswhirled through more space by every circumrotation than anotherthat grovels upon the ground-floor. If you imagine that I ascribe to air and motion effects whichthey cannot produce, I desire you to consult your own memory,and consider whether you have never known a man acquire repu- 394 THACKERAYANA. tation in his garret, which, when fortune or a patron had placedhim upon the first floor, he was unable to maintain; and whonever recovered his former vigour of understanding till he wasrestored to his original situation. That a garret will make every man a wit I am very far fromsupposing. I know there are some who would continue block-heads even on the summit of the Andes and on the peak ofTenerifTe. But let not any man be considered as unimprovabletill this potent remedy has been tried ; for perhaps he was formedto be great only in a garret, as the joiner of Aretseus was rationalin no other place but his own The Rambler.—Vol. II. No. 124. To range in silence through each healthful wood,And muse whats worthy of the wise and good. To those who leave the public places of resort in the fullbloom of reputation, and withdraw from admiration, courtship,submission, and applause, a rural triumph can give nothing equi-
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