. Patriotic addresses in America and England : from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . orcedominant for the time within him. This trait is the complement of the one noted in ourfirst chapter (page n) as the chief element of the manslife—his sensitiveness to truth. To prevaricate, to give ashifty, double-sensed answer, was something that in fortyyears of acquaintance and twenty of close personal, lit-erary, and business association with him, as his publisher,I never knew him to do: nor do I believe it was possiblefor him.* He cou
. Patriotic addresses in America and England : from 1850 to 1885, on slavery, the Civil War, and the development of civil liberty in the United States . orcedominant for the time within him. This trait is the complement of the one noted in ourfirst chapter (page n) as the chief element of the manslife—his sensitiveness to truth. To prevaricate, to give ashifty, double-sensed answer, was something that in fortyyears of acquaintance and twenty of close personal, lit-erary, and business association with him, as his publisher,I never knew him to do: nor do I believe it was possiblefor him.* He could be silent; no man more utterly at times, when pursued by questions that he did notwish to answer, he would pass into silence, not only, butan impassibility of countenance that gave no more signof understanding or of response than the face of theSphinx. When he spoke at all, in public or in private, hespoke the truth, as it was given to him to see the truth. * In this chapter it will occasionally be simpler and more fitting for thewriter to speak in his own person, as the material is, to some extent, in thenature of personal
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