The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-12-03

bite by the ear,
! awoke and found the sermon donc and the
people going out of church. A waggsh boy, pass
| ing by, had twched me by the ear, and reused me
from my dream; but for this, should have suf
iered the greatest catastrophy which can befal Il
knight of the trencher-;hat Of losing his dinner on
Thanksgiving Day!
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
From Caryles "IIeroes Hero Worship mud the Heroic
History"
JOHNSON.
! Like Hercules with TIE burning Nessus' shirl
on him, which shoots in Oh him duh ncuruble mis-
cry; The Nessus shirt not to be stript off, which is
his own natural skin In this manner he had to
live. Figure him there, with his scroulous dis
cases. with his great greedy heart, and unspeaka-
bic chaos Of thoughts; stalking nIournlully as Il
stranger in this earth: eagerly deyouIlng what
spiritual thing he could come at; school-angunges
and other merely grammatical stuff, il there was
nothing better The largest soul that was in all
England; and provision made for it Of "iourpence
half penny day" Yeta giant invncibIe soul;
Il true mans. One remembers always that story
of the shoes at Oxford: The rough scamy laced,
rawboned College SGrvitor stalking about, in win
Ter season, with his shoes WON out; how the char
| liable gentleman COmmOner secretly places new
pair at his door; and the raWlonad Scrvitor, lift
ng thcm looking ut them near. with his dim eyes,
with what thoughts pitches Them out Of the win
d.w! Wet feet, mud frost, hunger, or what YOU
will; but not beggary; we cannot stand bcggary!
Rude stubborn sef-hep here; Il whole world! Of
squuor, rudencss confused misery and want yet
of noblcncss and manlullncss withal. 1t is a type
of the mans life, this pitching away of the
shoes. An original mRll-nol a second hand bOr
rowing or begging mnn. Let us stand on our own
J basis at any rate. On such shoes as we ourselves
! can get On frost and mud, if yon will, but hon
csly on lhat-on the reality and substance which
nature gives Us, not on the scnhlance, on tie
thing she has given another than us! And yet
with all this ragged pride of manhood and self
help, was there ever soul more tendery affection
ate, LOYALTY submissive to what was really higher
than he: Great souls are always Loyalty submlss.
i've, rcvercnt TO what is over them; only snail
mean souls are otherwise.
ROUSSEAU.
A morbid, cNci,ubc, spasmodic man; AT best,
intense rather than strong lie had not the 'taent
of silence,' an invaluable talent; which few
! lrenchmen, or indeed men or any sort in these
times, excel in! The suffering man ought really
" to consume his own SmOhe;' there is hO good III
emitting smoke till YOU have made it into II fire.
which, in the me,agorcnl sense too, all smoke is
rapablc ofbecomna. RosseNu has not depth or
.;d,h ma, o,ln, c,rco c,r d,icrI,y. tho f,,, ,h,r
,o,or;,,;c If ,ruo ,,reo,ness 4 fundamental n,is-
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"no ~ NO." &, ,hornh
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J.. ,bo s,,onrnan W. mood Cnrover rs1ccoIIy in
these loud shlickng days, to remind ourselves Of
| that. A man who can0t hold his peace till The
time comes for Speaking and acting is no right man.
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