The illustrated London news . reading. In his early writings, says igs especially noteworthy—hret, the England and English institutions; and, secondly,orseless perspicuity with which he carries out all principles to theirpractical rather than to their logical results. I call his partiality toEngland extraordinary, because itwas so alien to the thought and feelingof those amongst whom he lived. It was not, too, that abstract par-tiality to England which was then the fashion with the French doc-trinairea of the day. What he valued in England, more than all ourforms and ideas of government, was o
The illustrated London news . reading. In his early writings, says igs especially noteworthy—hret, the England and English institutions; and, secondly,orseless perspicuity with which he carries out all principles to theirpractical rather than to their logical results. I call his partiality toEngland extraordinary, because itwas so alien to the thought and feelingof those amongst whom he lived. It was not, too, that abstract par-tiality to England which was then the fashion with the French doc-trinairea of the day. What he valued in England, more than all ourforms and ideas of government, was our national preference of facts to - of what was real to what was abstract. Casual observersavour of inconsistency because, with all his admiration ofhe was an early partisan of the eecond French Empire. A. During his wanderings abroad, which were direct!untries where he found freedom and progress, though san idle traveller, he studied deeply the character, f-~ ent of f
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