The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-12-25


large, to the evil If which he was but
a natural pfuduet The evil may defy
all The arts bflugiAlation. But tie
! public veal requires that those arts
should be exhausted Hi attempts To
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WttAr MAY BH DOVE BY PRAoTieR.
The account which Lord Chester
field gives CT the method by which be
required the reputation Of heibg the
most polished man IN England, Is d
strong exantla, In 4 comparatively
tfivial, but not nninportant natter
Of The efficacy Of practice. His ap.
paaranee was much against hitn, and
he had by mature none Of The grace
Which afterwards distinguished him -
II had b sttong DESIRE" he says, $50
please, and was sensible that | had
nothing but The desire. / therefore
resolved, If possible, to acquire tie
lneahs loo. | Studied attentively and
infinitely the dress, the air, the man
nef, the address, aud the turn Of con
versatiun Of all those wh6m | found
to be Tie people Of fashion, aud most
generally allowed to please. When |
heard OF another whose conversation
was agreeable ind ehgagifg, listened
and attended 10 lie turn Of 1t. | al
dressed myself. though De t,es maupais
grtee, to al he most fashionable fine
ladies; confessed and laughed with
them at my own awkwardness and
rawhess, recommending myself as an
object for them to Try their skill il
fottuipg.' Lord Bacon says that 40
attain good mautiers II almost sutIicetb
not to despise them, and tlat II d man
labor loo much 10 express them, he
shall lose their grace, which is to be
natural and ttnaifeele1l'' 10 This we
may add The observation Of La Huebe
foueauld, that ID manners there are no
good copies, for besides that The copy
ID almo | always clumsy OF exaegefs-
ted, the dir which is suited TO one per
son sits i'll upon another.
The greater must hive been The
perseverance, Of Lord Chesterfield to
enable him TO acquire The art by which
aft is concealed, and 10 assitnilaie
borrowed graees 10 himself without
their degeneratiug IL the stiffness and
ineohgtuity Of servile imitation lie
was equally resolved to be an orator,
aud Until be had attained bis aim lie
neglected nothing which could con
lu 10 it. LIZ determined not 10
speak one word in conversation which
was not The litest lie eouid recall, and
he impressed upon his son that he
should never deliver The eommonest
order TO a servant "bht in the best
language he could find md with the
best utterauee.' For many years be-
wrote down every brilliant passage he
met with IN his reading. and either
it into French, or. If In d
'oreign language, into English. A
certain eloquenee became nj last, be
says, habitual 10 him, and il would
rave given him more trouble to ex-
press himself indignantly than ever
lie had taken to avoid The defect. ~
lord Bolihgbroke. who could talk all
lay Just as perfectly as he wrote, told
i'm that he owed the power to the
anne cause--an early and constant at.
euiion to his style. After Pope had
Undertaken to translate the Hind. lie j
vas terrified af the difficulty Of The
ask, had his rest broken by dreams Of ,,
org journeys, through unknown ways, i
nd wished tbat somebody would hang /
i'm. The liarassing occupation be.
anne SO easy by practice, that he Of !
% despatched forty or fifty lines in a
norning before leaving bis bed, and
ould at last compose more readily III
erso than in prose- Quvterty Re.
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