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...vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life. He is one of those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should...
...desire for a thorough cultivation of both mind and body. And these are the leading characteristics of culture. He is none the less a type of culture because he sneers at the word. Culture, regarded as a means, becomes the developer of all that is good in a man. Culture, considered as an end, runs into egotism, self-conceit, and a "learned ignorance," which Socrates was the first to expose. It is of the first that Kenelm Chillingly is a type. It is the second that he takes pains to deride. We have no room to speak of the other...
...Brown went in on the ninth inning with twelve to tie, and thirteen to win the game, and nearly succeeded in doing this; for it was not until they had made eleven runs, and Tyng had been placed in the pitcher's position, that the last man went out on an easy fly to Richards at first base...
...nice sensibility, indeed, must lose much of his spirit of independence, by sacrificing honest convictions to the demands of party; granted that the populace often prefer a superficial pretender (without capacity, acquirement, or character, and possessing only sagacity in pandering to the inclination of the hour) to a man of integrity and knowledge, - it does not on these accounts follow that no young man who aspires to a high standard of excellence should venture into public life. If the republic is now suffering from maladministration, the fault is theirs (if such a class there be) who, while having the wisdom...
...important caution there is, however. Let no young man limit his hopes of usefulness to the obtaining of office. Office is indeed "vantage and commanding ground," and therefore to be desired and sought for with reasonable zeal; but the ruinous effects of an exclusive struggle to gain it have been advertised forever in the life of Lord Bacon...