Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-11-10
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Men Of the World.

Your man Of the world is very bustling
body, and generally looks as if the Whole
weight of this globe was incumbent on his
shoulders. No man has right to question
any opinion which passes from those
oracles of human wisdom, his lips for any
thing he says is necessarily the result of
eagle-cyed observation and philosophical |
analysis. He has perfect contempt for
inferior understandings and his honor
| flows in sublime rage if impertinance dare
| contest his right to monopolize the know
ledge of the world. He is great bigot,
and hurls his withering anathemas at the
heads of all those who manifest their
heresies by uttcring lnaxirns. which are in
opposition to his own philosophical code
He is man who uses old saws with a wink,
which implies as much as the sword of
solomon; and those whom he chooses to
bless with squint, arc in duty bound to
cheer bin with smile. He is a general
repository Of all those fragments of wisdom
which have escaped the shipwreck of ages,
and foated down to us on the stream Of
time, and is of course marvellous stickler
Tor precedents and antiquity. He gathers
together all the bits and ends of maxms
which go to make up the traditionary lore
OF country, and which have not been, and
cannot be. booked. In fine, your man of
the world is very great man, and is to be
respected whether he discourses of the
evangellsts at a horse-race, or f1ourishes no|
itics and that Helicon of state wisdom q
beer mug, in the unquict recesses of some
venerable alehonse.
This Is an outline sketch of the man OF
the world when the shadows of fifty wears
or SO, are upon him, and after he has got
through with the exc esses of passion, and
exhausted the fountains his wild blood.
and turned out philosopher atlast. A man
must run narrow and labyrinthine gaunt
let before he can pretend 10 be man of the
world. He must have had experience Of the
darker kind, before he has right to. set
himself up for the oracle Of a neighborhood.
1t is the strongest evidence that man can
give OF follyto usurp the throne of wisdom,
before his shoulders have been legiSimately
invested with the purple of sin. Such a
man is shocking specimen of lawless hu-
manity, which allthe true blue are called on
to despise. The true right to rule, is only
purchased by a youth of prostitution, a
manhood of degradation, and an old age OF
penitence aoss &
Gentle reader, you may perhaps have seen
man of the world sitting under the shad-
ow of the portico of village inn, discours-
ing sublime wisdom with fuency to the
astonlshed aid simple-hearted villagers.
tie has the true mark of a great man upon
his face-a nose, the bulbous and ihdented
excresencc of which, glowing like flaming
beacon, is the sole memento Of sundry. bar
reis of fourth proof. The fire-waters which
he has swallowed, have given a remarkable
Qualification to the emanations of his intel.
lect, as is discorerable in. the yiyidness
with watch his wisdom glares on the under.
standings of his auditors. Well, there he
sits, the man without a competitor, with
the flppant attorney at his side, discussing
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