� for that is british law but not a shall they dare make in america but buy their nails in england � for that also is british law and the fact that british commerce was to be re created by the independence of america took them all by surprise in short i am afraid that english nature is so rank and as to be a little with every other the world is not wide enough for two but beyond this it must be admitted the island offers a daily worship to the old god celebrated among our forefathers for his eloquence and majestic air the english have a steady courage that fits them for great attempts and endurance they have also a petty courage through which every man delights in showing himself for what he is and in doing what he can so that in all companies each of them has too good an opinion of himself to imitate any body he hides no defect of his form features dress connection or for he thinks every circumstance belonging to him english comes recommended to you if one of them have a bald or a red or a green head or bow legs or a or mark or a or a or a voice he has persuaded himself that there is something and becoming in it and that it sits well on him but nature makes nothing in vain and this little of self regard in the english brain is one of the secrets of their power and history for it sets every man on being and doing what he really is and can it takes away a secondary air and a frank and manly bearing so that each man makes the most of himself and loses no opportunity for want of pushing a man s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself if he makes light of them so will other men all find in these a convenient of character since a little man would be ruined by the vexation i remember a shrewd in one of our western cities told me that he had known several successful made by their and another an ex governor of said to me if a man knew any thing he would sit in a corner and be modest but he is such an ignorant that he goes bustling up and down and on extraordinary discoveries there is also this benefit in that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal him by all means draw it all out and hold him to it their culture generally the travelled english to avoid any ridiculous extremes of this self pleasing and to give it an agreeable air then the natural disposition is by the respect which they find entertained in the world for english ability it was said of louis xiv that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch yet would have been ridiculous in another man so the of the english name a certain confident bearing which a frenchman or could not carry at all events they feel themselves at liberty to assume the most extraordinary tone on the subject of english merits an english lady on the hearing a german speaking of her party as foreigners exclaimed no we are not foreigners we are english it is you that are foreigners they tell you daily in london the story of the frenchman and englishman who quarrelled both were unwilling to fight but their companions put them up to it at last it was agreed that they should fight alone in english traits the dark and with pistols the candles were put out and the englishman to make sure not to hit any body fired up the chimney and brought down the frenchman they have no curiosity about foreigners and answer any information you may with oh oh until the makes up his mind that they shall die in their ignorance for any help he will offer there are really no limits to this conceit though brighter men among them make painful efforts to be candid the habit of runs through all classes from the times newspaper through and poets through mill and smith down to the boys of in the on political economy in a philosophical essay in books of science one is surprised by the most innocent exhibition of in a tract on corn a most amiable and accomplished gentleman writes thus � though britain according to bishop s idea were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand in height still she would as far the rest of the globe in riches as she now does both in this secondary quality and in the more important ones of freedom virtue and science william the english dislike the american structure of society whilst yet trade mills public education and are doing what they can to create in england the same social condition america is the paradise of the is the favorable exception invariably quoted to the rules of ruin but when he speaks directly of the americans the forgets his philosophy and remembers his anecdotes ut this childish patriotism costs something like all the english sway of their colonies has no of they govern by their arts and ability they are more just than kind and whenever an of their power is felt they have not the affection on which to coarse local distinctions as those of nation province or town are useful in the absence of real ones but we must not insist on these accidental individual traits are always over national ones there is no fence in greek or english or spanish science and and are men of the world and to wave our own flag at the dinner table or in the university is to carry the boisterous of a fire club into a circle nature and destiny english traits are always 