Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOES FOR CHAPTER IM, We are, ?we kr)ow r)ofe what ; light.«sparkles floafcirjg ir| febje efcVjep of Deity. Sarior Resartus, Book I., Chap. 8. Ve children of mar),W^hjose life is a span, J^aked ar)d featherlesg,Feeble ar)d garrulous, Sickly, calarrjitous creatures of clay. Aristophanes : The Birds. ^pusfe to your phjilosophy, my njasterg ; ar)d brag tljat you tjave found tlje bear) in the cake ; -what a rattle is tjere ?witt) §o rqany p
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . MOTTOES FOR CHAPTER IM, We are, ?we kr)ow r)ofe what ; light.«sparkles floafcirjg ir| febje efcVjep of Deity. Sarior Resartus, Book I., Chap. 8. Ve children of mar),W^hjose life is a span, J^aked ar)d featherlesg,Feeble ar)d garrulous, Sickly, calarrjitous creatures of clay. Aristophanes : The Birds. ^pusfe to your phjilosophy, my njasterg ; ar)d brag tljat you tjave found tlje bear) in the cake ; -what a rattle is tjere ?witt) §o rqany pt)ilosopV)ical Ijeads. Montaigne : Essays, Chap. 54, His talk -was like a strearn, -wl^ich rur)s With) rapid cb|arjge fpon^ pocks to poses J It skipped fpon) politics to puns, It passed fponj N|ab)on]et to IS^oses ; ^eginnir)g witt) ithe la-ws wtjich keepT^lje planets in tbjeip radiant coupgeSr .?)d endiijg iq songe precept deep Fop dressii^lg eels op shoeing horses. *Praed: The Vicar. 336. CHAPTEE XXY F it sTiould please the reader todenominate tHs a chapter ofaccidents , I should quarrel nei-ther with his definition nor histaste. Eeflecting upon the lines ofBen Jonson, beginning Boast not these titles of your youth, I ran on the other day, to thinkingof Saxes comical verses: Of all the notable things on earth,The queerest one is pride of birthAmong our fierce democracie;A bridge across a hundred years,Without a prop to save it from sneers,—Not even a couple of rotten peers,—A thing for laughter, fleers and jeers,.Is American aristocracy, English and Irish, French and Spanish,German, Italian, Dutch and Danish, { Crossing their veins until they vanish : In one conglomeration. i So subtle a tangle of blood, heraldry-Harvey will ever succeed In finding the circulation.* *T?ie Proud Miss McBride. 327 328 ANCESTOR-WORSHIP. But no queerer is this disposition among our fierce dem-ocracie than among the still fiercer aristocracy of the oldworld. Pr
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