I am of a constitution so general, t it consorts and sympatipational repugnancies do not toucalian, Spaniard, or Dutch -- Religio Medici.
t ted upon tilts of abstraction, conversant about notional and conjectural essences; in ook tual; sinent individualities of sucions as mankind, is not muco be admired. It is rato be , t in to distinguis species at all. For myself-earttered to tivities, --
Standing on eart rapt above the sky,
I confess t I do feel tional or individual, to an un eye upon tever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste; or , it begins to be disrelis to sympatipatain sense, I may be said of me t I am a lover of my species. I can feel for all indifferently, but I cannot feel to t expresses sympatter explain my meaning. I can be a friend to a cannot be my mate or fello like all people alike. *
[Footnote] * I ood as confining myself to t of imperfect sympato nations or classes of men t antipatellated so opposite to anoture, t t ipodes, and can believe tory of ting (ly fighting.
-- e by proof find there should be
`t man and man sucipathy,
t t reason why
For any former wrong or injury,
Can neither find a blemish in his fame,
Nor augure justly blame,
Can challenge or accuse him of no evil,
Yet notanding es him as a devil.
t;; and ory in confirmation, of a Spaniard ed to assassinate a King Ferdinand of Spain, and being put to t an inveterate antipataken to t sighe King.
-- to t act compelld him
as, beheld him.
I rying all my life to like Scotco desist from t in despair. t like me -- and in trut nation ed to do it. t first sig intellects (under ent to rank) itution is essentially anti-Caledonian. t of faculties I allude to, ive tences to mucellectual o confess fairly) . tent s and scattered pieces of truts no full front to ture or side-face at t. s and glimpses, germs and crude essays at a system, is tmost tend to. t up a little game peradventure -- and leave it to knottier constitutions, to run it do t lig steady and polar, but mutable and sing: ion is accordingly. t a random of season, and be content to let it pass for is speak al must be understood, speaking or ing, ement. t to mature a proposition, but een bring it to market in t to impart tive discoveries as t ing for t. tematizers, and err more by attempting it. tive merely. true Caledonian (if I am not mistaken) is constituted upon quite a different plan. ted to see rat togetcs or suggests any t unlades ock of ideas in perfect order and completeness. otal o company, and gravely unpacks it. oops to catctering someto s e knorue touc. You cannot cry o any t find, but bring. You never ness appreanding is al its meridian -- you never see t dareaks. -- erings of self-suspicion. Surmises, guesses, misgivings, uitions, semi-consciousnesses, partial illuminations, dim instincts, embryo conceptions, ive and tive t rut. make excursions s you rigaste never fluctuates. y never abates. compromise, or understand middle actions. t a rigion is as a book. ions ity of an oat speak upon tops a metaped person in an enemys country. quot;A ; -- said one of rymen to me, o give t appellation to Jo;did I catcly e of body, but I do not see epit can be properly applied to a book.quot; Above all, you must be expressions before a Caledonian. Clap an extinguis . Remember you are upon your oat of a graceful female after Leonardo da Vinci, er minutely, I ventured to ask Y (a foolis goes by among my friends) -- ; for my cer and talentsquot; (so o say), quot;but given about tensions.quot; tion staggered me, but did not seem muco disconcert ion are particularly bond of affirming a truts. t so properly affirm, as annunciate it. to rutue, it self) t all trution t contains it be need, or suco become a subject of disputation. I not long since at a party of Nortons, is I ead of tarted up at once to inform me, t quot;t icable off t of ter, namely truting y t necessarily confines to tediousness of tainly provoking. I ire one anote fondness for try of Burns. I imes fooliso ingratiate myself rymen by expressing it. But I a true Scot resents your admiration of riot, even more tempt of ter es to your quot;imperfect acquaintance ; and tion makes it a presumption in you to suppose t you can admire o ten. Smollett tten nor forgiven for ion of Rory and introduction to our metropolis. -- Speak of Smollett as a great genius, and tort upon you ory compared inuation of it. if torian inued humphrey Clinker?
[Footnote] * tly acquit tertain ting facts of no consequence, not at all out of ts as ly among ts tion, o omit test circumstances of time or place; a little relieved by terms and p and gesture peculiar to t country, oion.
I ract, no disrespect for Jeubborn antiquity, compared ones nonage. te beyond t I s care to be in s of familiar intercourse nation. I confess t I to enter t me. I cannot sory of uries of injury, contempt, and e, on tion, and e, on t, and ougo affect t believe it can run clear and kindly yet; or t a fe of a nineteentury, can close up to me. distasteful on `Cile spirit levels all distinctions, as all are beauties in t I do not relision of Jeical and unnatural in t like to see tures of an affected civility. If ted, o us altogetion, table, understand tites. Je Quaker. t of tially separative. B----- to be of ---- Cians. t is strong in e of ism. conquer t breaks out, ; tors, for t, are as Egyptians to riumpaking rong expression of sense in enance, and it is confirmed by ion of anding, as Kemble delivered dialogue. s, and give an appropriate cer to eacion. ion, in general, ever-sensible countenances. you seldom see a silly expression among t of gain, s being -- but rembling. Jael able eyes.
In tenance you en meet rong traits of benignity. I yearnings of tenderness to kindly upon one in casual encounters in treets and Fuller beautifully calls -- t;images of God cut in ebony.quot; But I s like to associate o ss hey are black.
I love Quaker does me good for t of t any of turbed by any occurrence, t, or quiet voice of a Quaker, acts upon me as a ventilator, ligaking off a load from t I cannot like t;to live ; I am all over sopicated -- ures, tres, c-c, scandal, jokes, ambiguities, and a taste can do . I sarve at tive banquet. My appetites are too o Evelyn) Eve dressed for to too excited
to sit a guest his pulse.
t anso return to a question put to t tion, t to evasion and equivocating turally look to tious of committing ter to keep up on tand in a manner upon ty. A Quaker is by laed from taking an oatom of resorting to an oatreme cases, sanctified as it is by all religious antiquity, is apt (it must be confessed) to introduce into t of minds tion of truto tice, and to tercourse. As trut trutions of t-place a latitude is expected, and conceded upon questions ing t. Sometrutisfies. It is common to ;You do not expect me to speak as if I ; deal of incorrectness and inadvertency, s of falseo ordinary conversation; and a kind of secondary or laic-trutolerated, ruture of tances, is not required. A Quaker knoinction. ion being received, upon t sacred occasions, any furtest, stamps a value upon to use upon t indifferent topics of life. o turally, y. You can tripping in a casual expression, be forfeits, for least, o tion. icular ced against a person, endency to produce indirect ansing of tion by means, migrated, and tice justified, by a more sacred example to be adduced upon torious in Quakers upon all contingencies, migraced to tc did not seem rat old stock of religious constancy, ered, in tive Friends, or gave o tion, to trials and racking examinations. quot;You ions till midnig; said one of t Justicers to Penn, lety. quot;ter as t; retorted tonisimes ludicrously displayed in ligances. -- I ravelling in a stage-coactoned up in traitest non-conformity of t. e stopped to bait at Andover, ea apparatus, partly supper, before us. My friends confined to tea-table. I in my ook supper. in t of my companions discovered t sed. Mine ess ive. Some mild arguments of ted mind of t recipient. tory notice. t tendered it -- so mucea -- I, in ation, tendering mine -- for taken. S relax in ly put up t of t and gravest going first, I could not do better table personages. e got in. teps up. tess, not very indistinctly or ambiguously pronounced, became after a time inaudible -- and noced, in t some justification ice of t. to my great surprise, not a syllable . te as mute as at a meeting. At lengt of t neig; t t; and tion operated as a soporific on my moral feeling as far as Exeter.