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...very like the Greeks, as, in short, we are elegant, cultivated, and handsome men, with a decided taste for beauty of form, - and for good form, too, - and as we live together in small and purely democratic communities, sufficiently like each other in tastes and interests to be eternally at war, it really seems a pity that we have not yet adopted that admirable feature of Greek polity, - ostracism. It is my fortune to be a member of a certain society, in its elegance and refinement truly Attic, or, to use the current slang of the days of the Regent...
Beautiful Country, close to the lakes; good grouse-shooting, c moderate terms. - Augill Castle, Brough, Penrith...
...gods and the giants. And then I imagine myself walking off, and saying, "So, so, Mr. Swiddle, you'll cut a dash in the streets of Athens no more; but off you'll go to the barbaric regions of the North, or perhaps to show your ideas of good form to the great king" - the monarchy of Persia, by the way, I shall compare to Yale; it was a place where loud-dressed and loud-talking people lived, who never accomplished much, and who wore jewels and charms of quaint, mysterious, and barbaric shapes. But, to come back...
...While a torrent of abuse is poured out upon us by such degraded and disgraceful sheets as the Yale Record, whose only duty, it appears, is to scandalize and drag down the pure and good, how cheering it is to receive letters like that from which we make the following extract...
Many of our exchanges have not great admiration for the Record, but few have realized its exact purpose as clearly as the Westminster Monthly, - the "pure and good...