Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-08-24
The run1n CAkuLtsA STANDARD.

Be it known then, that the human species are i
divided into two sorts Of people to wit high PEG.
pie and low people. As by high people gould
not be understood to mean persons literally born |
higher in their dimensions than the rest Of thsspe
ces, nor metaphorically those Of exalted
or alb lities; SO by low people, l cannot % sca. |
strued to intend the reverse High people signify
no other than people of fashion. Nov this word
fashion hath by long use lost its original meaning
from which at present it gives US very different
idea for am deceived, if by persons OF fashion
we do not generally include . conception OF birth
and Accomplishments superior to the herd Of man.
kind; whereas in reality, nothing more was orig
inaliy meant by person of fashion, than person
who drest binself IN the fashion Of the times and
the word really and truly signifies no more at this
day. Now the world being thus divided into PEG
pie of fashion and people of no fashion, ferce
contention arose between them: nor would those
Of one party, to avoid suspicion, be seen publicly
to speak to those Of the other, though they often
held very good correspondence in private. In
this contention, it ia difficult to say which party
succeeded for whilst the people Of fashion seized
several places to their own USE such courts, as
semblles, operas balls &C. !; the people of nofash-
ion, besides one royal place, called His Majesty's
Bear-garden, have been in constant possession Of
all hops, fairs, revels, &C. Two places have been
agreed to be divided between them, namely, thu
church and the playhouse; where they segregate
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ner: for as the people Of fashion exalt themselves
at church the heads of the people of no fash.
ion; so IN the playhouse they amuse themselves
in the same degree under their feet This distfuc-
ton have never met with any one able to account
for: it is sufficient, that so far from looking on
each other as brethren in the christian language,
they seem scarce to regard each other as ofthe
same species. This the TERMS Strange persons,
one people does not know, the creatures, wretches
hanSt hr1t Nr6r 9TH o1lofsn
IDENTIFY demonstrate; which Mrs. Slipslop having
often heard her mistress USE thought she had also
right to use in her turn ; and perhaps she was
not mistaken; for these two parties especially
those bordering nearly on each other, to Wit, the
lowest Of the high, and the highest of the low, Of
ten change their parties according to place and
time; for those who are people of fashion in one
And with regard to time. it may not be unpleasant
to survey the picture Of dependence like kind of
ladder as for instance early in the morning arises
the postilion, or some other boy, which great fam
ies no more than great ships, are without and
falls to brushing the clothes and cleaning the shoes
of John the foot man who being drest himself
applies his bands to the same labpur for Mr. Second
hand, the squire's gentleman; the gentleman in
the like manner, little later in the day. attends the
squire the squire is no sooner equipped, than he
attends the levee of my lord which is no sooner
over, than my lord himself is seen at the levee Of
tho favotite, who. alter the hour of homage is at
end appears himself to pay homage to the lie.
wee of his sovereign. Nor is there perhaps in
this whole ladder of dependence any one step at a
greater distapce from the other than the first from
the second; so that to philosopher the question
might only seem, whether you would choose TO- be
great mar at six 10 the morning, or at two in
the afternoon. And yet there are scarce two Of
these who do not think the least familiarity with
the persons below them condescension, and il
they were to 50 one step farther, degradation
Feldiny's .Jossph Anlrews