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...tic knowledge of literature, (a light in which we are always to regard the writers of the Spectator, Guardian, &c.,) would be likely to have learned a... ...have learned anything he quoted from Macbeth. This we say generally of the writers in those periodical papers; but, with reference to Addison in parti... ...esbury, the author of the Characteristics, was the grandson of that famous political agitator, the Chan- cellor Shaftesbury, who passed his whole life... ...es were sup- plied by the necessities of the times, or by the instincts of political zeal. T wo channels especially lay open between the great central... ...ng importance of the gentry, and the consequent birth of a new interest in political questions, had begun to express itself at Oxford, and still more ... ...es; a verdict, in short, sustained and countersigned by a longer series of writers, many of them eminent for wit or learning, than were ever before co... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco...

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...e south of Europe. A The Universitv of Chica~o Press 4. Generic terms for political divisions: (I) when the term is an organic part of the name, f... ...of Anhalt, state of Illinois, county of Cook, city of Chicago. 5. Numbered political divisions : Eleventh Congressional District, First Ward, Secon... ...tion with the name of the place in which they are located. 7. The names of political parties, religious denomina- tions or sects, and philosophical... ...r (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of... ... (for illustrations of these see 260-63) : The Men Who Made the Nation; The American College-- Its Past and Presmt; the Report of the Committee of N... ..." as part of the title, unless necessary to the sense: the Forum, the North American Review, the Chicago Tribune; but: The World To-Day.) NoTE.-T~~... ...ury Europe-he must not look outside of manuscript tra- dition." NOTE.-Some writers regard this hyphen as an objectionable Teutonism. 195. A hyphen... ...by running a line across the page, or by using ink of different color. Some writers make a perpendicular fold in the paper, using two-thirds of the... ...d logic included, there is abundant room for differences of opinion. Grant writers the privilege of preferring theirs to yours. Make a study of th...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...he number of the public prints that, even if they were a source of wealth, writers of ability could not be found to direct them all. The journalists o... ...h the Americans can only learn from strangers or from experience. If great writers have not at present existed in America, the reason is very simply g... ...ce of their political institutions. America has hitherto produced very few writers of distinc- tion; it possesses no great historians, and not a singl...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...nsecrated function, of publishing and diffusing through the land the great political events, and especially the great 12 Memorials, and Other Papers ... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ...th social philosophy. At Laxton, indeed; it was that I first saw Godwin’s “Political Justice;” not the second and emas- culated edition in octavo, but... ...the shal- lowest, manual of itself. And thus it happens, for example, that writers so laborious and serviceable as Birch are in any popular sense scar... ...broad evidences of the credulity with which we have adopted into our grave political faith the rash and malicious sketches of our novelists. With Fiel... ...etfulness of the realities belonging to the case, has it been possible for writers in public journals to persist in arguing national questions upon th... ...insisted on in 1800; that is, forty years earlier than any of these German writers had turned their thoughts in that direction. Had I, then, really al...

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...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ...ever, was without any effect. I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political principles in which he was edu- cated, and of which he ever retai... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi... ... it exhibits; and we find him men- tioning in that tract, that many of the writers whose testimonies were to be produced as au- thorities, were select... ... play came to be thus graced by the pen of a person then so eminent in the political world. Notwithstanding all the support of such per- formers as Ga... ...d in London, and hung loose upon society.’ His just abhorrence of Milton’s political no- tions was ever strong. But this did not prevent his warm admi... ...iga- tion, by transmitting to me copies of two letters from Dr. Johnson to American gentlemen. On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in Londo... ...as to the justice and wisdom of the conduct of Great-Britain to- wards the American colonies, while I at the same time requested that he would enable ... ...tled, Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress. He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments...

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...f his book, the various public ques- tions of the dissenting sects, of the American alliance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritual- ... ... discussing meta- physics, having derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied metaphysics, and in Mos- cow Levin had had ma... ...pon to do this, and is driven inevitably into war. On the other hand, both political science and common sense teach us that in matters of state, and e...

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...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...or being the toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the politi... ... in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocational, familial or politi... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...is often valued by the newsmen. But is press freedom more valuable to a Muslim whose prophet has been defiled? It is religious values versus politi... ...ion in literature and to popular songs and other media. Psychologists have recently separated the real roots of love from the images romantic writer... ...l violence is frowned on throughout our society. And we keep out of our media the Hollywood emphasis on violence for entertainment. Our media writer...

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... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...amous roads became unsafe, and barbarians threatened on every border. Its political and financial systems were foundering. By 410 AD, the empire ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...nnia, Gutenberg‘s print technology did the following:  Opened paths to political, scientific, and industrial revolutions.  Formed the basis of ... ...‖—common citizens who could afford to hurl their ideas into a democracy’s political ring. Flexible in size, pamphlets could communicate expressi... ...inions about religion. She introduced the king to the books of Protestant writers, such as William Tyndale, and tried to persuade him to let Bibles b...

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...THE POST-OFFICE .................................................................................................................... 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS................................................................................................................. 290 CHAPTER XV: LITERATURE ........................................................................

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............................................................ 273 CHAPTER XIV: AMERICAN HOTELS............................................................... ...hington, a prestige suffi- cient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. ... ...fused to back the general’s choice. New York and Philadelphia, without any political power, have become great among the cities of the earth. They are ... ...o believe in the one or in the other. For myself, I have much faith in the American character, but I cannot believe either in Washington City or in th... ... no politi- cal power, as power is counted in the States. They vote for no political officer, not even for the President, and return no member to Cong... ...” and I must say she was very nice, pretty, and clean. I have always found American sailors on their men- of-war to be clean and nice looking—as much ... ...s expressed in my first volume, be- cause I still see it stated by English writers that the se- cession ordinance of South Carolina should have been a... ...American of- fice has not taken upon itself the task of returning to their writers undelivered and undeliverable letters. This it is now going to do. ... ...uch inclined to regard the question as one appertaining exclusively to the writers of books—not ac- knowledging as we should do that the literary char...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Political Power. Firstly, it having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children, nor dominio...

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...Contents CHAPTER I OF POLITICAL POWER............................................3 CHAPTER II OF THE STATE OF NATURE.....................................5 CHAPTER III OF THE STATE OF WAR......................................12 CHAPTER IV OF SLAVER...

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...o this purpose, I think it may not be amiss to set down what I take to be political power. That the power of a magistrate over a subject may be disti... ...r of a commonwealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. 3. Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties ... ...nd Essay – Locke CHAPTER II OF THE S TATE OF N ATURE 4. To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider w... ...annot be a clearer demonstration of any thing than several nations of the Americans are of this, who are rich in land and poor in all the comforts of... ... Essay – Locke the first commoners of the world look after—as it doth the Americans now—are generally things of short dura tion, such as if they ar... ...em. They are of no more account by her standard than the Wampompeke of the Americans to an European prince, or the silver money of Europe would have b... ...eader to Bracton, Fortescue, and the author of the “Mir ror,” and others, writers that cannot be suspected to be ignorant of our government, or enemi...

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...of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force....

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...ction and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the... ...udged than that in- tolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to... ...ss the following interesting particulars: The utility of the union to your political prosperity The insufficiency of the present confederation to pres... ...: It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed) seldom adopt and steadily persever... ...ent countries and ages, and has received the sanction of the most approved writers on the subject of politics. The opponents of the plan proposed have... ...cord, and the miserable objects of universal pity or contempt. Some of the writers who have come forward on the other side of the question seem to hav... ... their most specious declamations. The valuable improve- ments made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cann... ... with painful solicitude. They foresee the dangers that may threaten their American dominions from the neighbor- hood of States, which have all the di... ...d, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exceptionable principle may, as truly as emphatically, be sty...

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... to call them what they still call themselves) have lost confidence in the political creeds which they nominally profess, while neither side appears t... ...he impress, more or less exclusive, of two conflicting theories respecting political institutions; or, to speak more properly, conflicting conceptions... ... institutions; or, to speak more properly, conflicting conceptions of what political institutions are. By some minds, government is conceived as stric... ...tual occurrence. Nothing but foreign force would in duce a tribe of North American Indians to submit to the restraints of a regular and civilized gov... ...ns at all in the repre sentative body. It is an admitted fact that in the American democracy, which is constructed on this faulty model, the highly c... ...ne suggested itself to the en lightened and disinterested founders of the American Re public, the federal and state assemblies would have contained ... ...riority of the individuals composing it, and the multitude of thinkers and writers who are at all times engaged in pressing useful ideas upon their no... ...he lesson.”—(Article in Fraser’s Magazine for April, 1859, headed “Recent Writers on Reform.”) 8 Not always, however, the most recondite; for one of...

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... of the ideal to the present sufferings of men, which has enabled powerful political movements to grow out of the hopes of solitary thinkers. It is th... ...world. The ideals have been elaborated, in the first instance, by solitary writers of books, and yet powerful sections of the wage-earning classes hav... ...ism the same combination of ideal and organization as we find in Socialist political parties. It is from this standpoint that our study of these movem... ...ence to the Syndicalist revolt against Socialist emphasis on the State and political action, and to certain movements outside France which have some a... ...n der Sozial-Demokratie.’’] Bernstein’s work, as is common in Broad Church writers, consists largely in showing that the Founders did not hold their d... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ... And among those who would be classed as idlers might be included artists, writers of books, men devoted to abstract intellectual pursuits—in short, a...

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...ly, of course, on the “picture book” quality that contemporary English and American prose appears more and more destined, by the conditions of publica... ...“rendering.” What I have been most aware of asking myself, however, is how writers, on such occasions of “revision,” arrive at that successful resista... ... to reach its maximum, no doubt, over many of the sorry businesses of “The American,” for instance, where, given the elements and the essence, the lon... ...tion of several shorter pieces. Inevitably, in such a case as that of “The American,” and scarce less indeed in those of “The Portrait of a Lady” and ... ...moothly working man, each in his way a lubricated item of the great social political administrative engrenage—claimed most of all Castledean himself, ...

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...VIII. procured his divorce from Katharine of Arragon to the pleas on which American wives obtain divorces (for instance, “mental anguish” caused by th... ...erious news and replacing it by vapid tittle- tattle, and substituting for political articles informed by at least some pretence of knowledge of econo... ...ch is quite a different matter. The comparatively few men who work at home—writers, artists, and to some extent clergy- men—have to effect some sort o... ...ze marriage. The common notion that the existing forms of marriage are not political contriv- ances, but sacred ethical obligations to which everythin... ...be ruled by such public opinion as that, she would have been wiped off the political map long ago. The modern notion that democracy means governing a ... ...h parties as in Sweden, not to mention the experiments made by some of the American States, would have shaken society to its foundations. Yet they hav... ...ust not blind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even tho... ...lind us to the fact that he is (to use the word coined by certain American writers to describe themselves) something of a Varietist. Even those who sa...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ... a bare name be thus influential on the minds and affections of men, and a political aggregation blind them to the nature of facts? The story of the A... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...ent; and soon after the time of which I write, he made a showy speech at a political dinner, was cried up to heaven next day in the Courant, and the d...

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...ent the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this repo...

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...Action 126 4.5 Searching for Fresh Options 134 5. AL QAEDA AIMS AT THE AMERICAN HOMELAND 145 5.1 Terrorist Entrepreneurs 145 5.2 The “Planes O... ...r stairwell with deviations p. 312 The Twin Towers following the impact of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Penta... ...1 and United Airlines Flight 175 p. 313 The Pentagon after being struck by American Airlines Flight 77 p. 313 American Airlines Flight 93 crash site, ... ...rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility toward us and our values is limitle... ...he story of eccentric and violent ideas sprouting in the fertile ground of political and social turmoil. It is the story of an organization poised to ... ...c selectively draws from multiple sources—Islam, history, and the region’s political and economic malaise. He also stresses griev- ances against the U... ...ndisputably in charge of what remained of the MAK and al Qaeda. 27 Through writers like Qutb, and the presence of Egyptian Islamist teachers in the Sa...

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...F THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK MR. SILAS Q. SCUDDAMORE was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his cr... ...n of title. Madame Zephyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a w... ...en he was safely alone with a few males. The room on the other side of the American’s – for there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel – was tenan... ...under a more serious obligation.” And he then put some questions as to the political condition of America, which Silas answered with sense and proprie... ...hall only add that Mr. Scuddamore has already begun to mount the ladder of political fame, and by last advices was the Sheriff of his native town. THE... ...is purpose. “These old gentlemen,” thought he, “are no doubt very valuable writers, but they seem to me conspicuously ig- norant of life. Here am I, w... ...11 New Arabian Nights One day he received a note from a well-known firm of Writers to the Signet, requesting the favour of an immedi- ate interview wi...

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...any other. He always belongs to a Corresponding Society of Begging Letter Writers. Any one who will, may ascertain this fact. Give money to day in re... ... never write these letters. Nothing could be more unlike their habits. The writers are public robbers; and we who support them are parties to their de... ...ny. They spoke little to each other, and looked as if they might have been politically discon tented if they had had vitality enough. Once, we overhe... ...void us!’ We have never overheard at street corners such lunatic scraps of political and social discussion as among these dear countrymen of ours. The... ... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...ing were possible. Mine are no new views of the noble savage. The greatest writers on natural history found him out long ago. Buffon knew what he was... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...by the whole assembly that this happy statement of our honourable friend’s political views ought, immediately, to have settled Tipkisson’s business an... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

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... Powers who are also free nations would take to tearing each other in pieces, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong, on ours it would have been a war in alliance with, and, to practical purposes, in defence and propagation of, slavery. We had, indeed, been wronged....

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...s, both the one and the other in a bad and odious cause. For while, on the American side, the war would have been one of reckless persistency in wrong... ... a conspiracy of slave own ers, who have broken their connection with the American Federation on the sole ground, ostentatiously proclaimed, that the... ...el ings which have been manifested since the beginning of the 5 J S Mill American contest—the judgments which have been put forth, and the wishes wh... ...ur attitude towards the contending parties (I mean our moral attitude, for politically there was no other course open to us than neutrality) has not b... ...d on “rabid and fanatical abolitionists” across the Atlantic, and on those writers in England who attach a suffi ciently serious meaning to their Chr... ...rent aggres sion, but by the previous anti British effusions of newspaper writers and stump orators. It is hardly worth while to ask how far these ex... ...en, without reference to these jars, or to the dec lamations of newspaper writers on either side of the Atlan tic, examine the American question as ... ... any persons, as organs of the will of the people, to dispose of the whole political existence of a country, I ask to see whether their credentials ar...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...ffered in a manner unex pected.* One of the pieces in our newspaper on some political point, which I have now forgotten, gave offense to the Assembly... ...’d and strengthen’d the clamor for more money, and they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition slacken’... ...h in my reading, I found the catalogue more or less numer ous, as different writers included more or fewer ideas under the same name. Temperance, for... ...view frequently reprinted in it extracts from the Spectator, and other moral writers; and sometimes publish’d little pieces of my own, which had been ... ... found useful, and flour ishes to this day; and I do not remember any of my political manoeuvres, the success of which gave me at the time more The A... ...merica. My plan, with my reasons in sup port of it, is to be found among my political papers that are printed. Being the winter following in Boston, ...

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... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...; it will take longer to appreciate the moral bias of Carlyle. So with all writers who insist on forc- ing some significance from all that comes befor... ...- ciple of growth that carried his first book beyond the books of previous writers, carries his last book beyond his first. And just as the most imbec... ...s which arose from his sympathy with the great French Revolution. His only political feeling had been hith- erto a sentimental Jacobitism, not more or... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...domontade, but filled with living indignation, to de- clare his right to a political opinion, and his willingness to shed his blood for the political ... ... and between friends of the same sex, but in the field of the less intense political sympathies; and his ideal man must not only be a generous friend ... ... of them are drawing-room exercises and the rest seem made by habit. Great writers are struck with something in nature or society, with which they bec...