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I aof a stitution so general, that it sorts and syathizeth with all things, I hae no antipathy, or rather idiosyncra any thing. Those national repugnancies do not touch , nor do I behold with prejudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch -- Religio Medici.
That the author of the Religio Medici, unted upon the airy stis of abstra, ersant about notional aural essences; in whose categories of Being the possible took the upper hand of the actual; should hae oerlooked the ierti indiidualities of such poor cretions as nkind, is not ch to be adred. It is rather to be wo, that in the genus of anils he should hae desded to distinguish that species at all. For self-earth.hound aered to the se of actiities, --
Standing oh, not rapt aboe the sky,
I fess that I do feel the differenankind, national or indiidual, to an uhy ecess. I look with no indifferent eye upon things or persons. Whateer is, is to a tter of taste or distaste; or when o bees indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. I a in piner words, a bundle of prejudices -- de up of likings and dislikings -- eriest thrall to syathies, apathies, antipathies. In a certain sense, I hope it y be said of that I aa loer of species. I feel for all indifferently, but I ot feel towards all equally. The re purely-English wont that epresses syathy will better epin aning. I be a friend to a worthy n, who upon a ot be te or fellow. I ot like all people alike. *
[Footnote] * I would be uood as finio the subjeperfect syathies To nations or csses of n there be no diretipathy. There y *be indiiduals born and stelted so opposite to another indiidual nature, that the sa sphere ot hold the I hae t with ral antipodes, and beliee the story of two persoing (who neer saw one another before in their lies) and instantly fighting.
-- We by proof find there should be
`Twit n and n su antipathy,
That though he show no just reason why
For any forr wrong or injury,
either find a blesh in his fa,
Nht in face or feature justly b,
challenge or ause hiof no eil,
Yet notwithstanding hates hias a deil.
The lines are froold Heywoods quot;Hierarchie of Angels,quot; and he subjoins a curious story in firtion, of a Spaniard who atteted to assassinate a King Ferdinand of Spain, and being put to the raculd gie no other reason for the deed but aipathy which he had taken to the first sight of the King.
-- The cause which to that apelld hibr /&
Was, he neer loed hisince he first beheld hi
I hae been trying all life to like Sen, and aobliged to desist frothe eperint in despair. They ot like -- and in truth, I neer knew one of that nation who atteted to do it. There is sothing re pin and ingenuous in their de of proceeding. We know one a first sight. There is an order of ierfetellects (under whie st be tent to rank) whi its stitution is essentially anti-Caledonian. The owners of the sort of facuies I allude to, hae nds rather suggestie than prehehey hae no preteo ch clearness or precision in their ideas, or in their nner of epressing the Their intellectual wardrobe (to fess fairly) has few whole pieces in it. They are tent with fragnts and scattered pieces of Truth. She presents no full front to the-- a feature or side-face at the st. Hints and glises, ger and crude essays at a syste is the utst they pretend to. They beat up a little ga peradenture -- and leae it to knottier heads, re robust stitutions, to run it down. The light that lights theis not steady and por, but table and shifting: wag, and again waning. Their ersation is aly. They will throw out a randoword in or out of seasoo let it pass for what it is worth. They ot speak always as if they were upon their oath -- but st be uood, speaking or writing, with so abatent. The seldowait to ture a proposition, but een bring it to rket in the green ear. They delight to iart their defectie deries as they arise, without waiting for their full deelopent. They are no systetizers, and would but err re by atteting it. Their nds, as I said before, are suggestie rely. The brain of a true Caledonian (if I anot staken) is stituted upon quite a different pn. His Minera is born in panoply. You are neer adtted to see his ideas in their growth -- if, ihey do grow, and are not rather put together upon principles of c;;/rk. You neer catch his nd in an undress. He neer hints gests any thing, hut undes his stock of ideas in perfect order and pleteness. He brings his total weah into pany, and graely unpacks it. His riches are always about hi He oops to catch a glittering sothing in your preseo share it with you, before he quite knows whether it be true touch or not. You ot cry hales to any thing that he finds. He does not find, but bring. You neer witness his first apprehension of a thing. His uanding is always at its ridian -- you neer see the first dawn, the early streaks. -- He has no faerings of self-suspi. Surses, guesses, sgiings, half-intuitions, se-sciousnesses, partial illunations, diinstincts, eryo ceptions, hae no p his brain, or ocabury. The twilight of dubiety neer falls upon hi Is he orthodo -- he has no doubts. Is he an infidel -- he has her. Between the affirtie and the ie there is no border-nd with hi You ot hoer with hiupon the fines of truth, or wander in the ze of a probable argunt. He always keeps the path. You ake ecursions with hi-- for he sets yht. His taste neer fluctuates. His rality neer abates. He ot prose, or uand ddle as. There be but a right and a wrong. His ersation is as a book. His affirtions hae the sanctity of an oath. You st speak upon the square with hi He stops a taphor like a suspected person in ary. quot;A heahy bookquot; -- said one of his tryn to , who had eo gie that appeltion to John Buncle, -- quot;did I catch rightly what you said? I hae heard of a n ih, and of a heahy state of body, but I do not see hoithet be properly applied to a book.quot; Aboe all, you st beware of i epressions before a Caledonian. Cp ainguisher upon your irony, if you are unhappily blest with a ein of it. Reer you are upon your oath. I hae a print of a graceful fele after Leonardo da Vinci, which I was showing off to Mr. ****. After he had ea nutely, I eo ask hihow he liked MY BEAUTY (a foolish goes by ang friends) -- when he ery graely assured , that quot;he had siderable respey character and talentsquot; (so he leased to say), quot;but had not gien hielf ch thought about the degree of  ersonal pretensions.quot; The sception staggered , but did not seech to discert hi -- Persons of this nation are particurly bond of affirng a truth -- whiobody doubts. They do not so properly affir as annunciate it. They do indeed appear to hae such a loe of truth (as if, like irtue, it were aluable for itself) that all truth bees equally aluable, whether the proposition that tains it be new or old, disputed, or such as is iossible to bee a subject of disputation. I resent not long si a party of North Britons, where a son of Burns ected; and happeo drop a silly epression (in South British way).hat I wished it were the father instead of the son -- when four of thestarted up at oo infor, that quot;that was iossible, because he was dead.quot; An iracticable wish, it see, was re than theuld ceie. Swift has hit off this part of their character, heir loe of truth, in his biting way, but with an illiberality that necessarily fihe passage to the rgin. The tediousness of these people is certainly prooking. I wonder if they eer tire one another! -- In early life I had a passionate fondness for the poetry of Burns. I hae sotis foolishly hoped to ingratiate self with his tryn by epressing it. But I hae always found that a truet resents your adration of his patriot, eehan he would your pt of hi The tter he iutes to your quot;ierfect acquaintah ny of the words which he uses;quot; and the sa objeakes it a presution in you to suppose that you adre hi -- Thoon they seeto hae fotten. Sllett they hae her fotten nor fien for his deliion of Rory and his panion, upon their first introdu to our tropolis. -- Speak of Sllett as a great genius, and they will retort upon you Hus History pared with his tinuation of it. What if the historian had tinued Huhrey ker?
[Footnote] * There are so people who think they suffitly acquit theeles, aertain their pany, with reting facts of no sequenot at all out of the road of suon is;q;/q as happen eery day; and this I hae obsered re frequently ang thets than any other nation, who are ery careful not to ot the circes of ti or pce; which kind of durse, if it were not a little relieed by the uth ter and phrases, as well as at aure peculiar to that try, would be hardly tolerable. -- Hints towards an Essay oion.
I hae, in the abstrao disrespect for Jews. They are a piece of stubborn antiquity, pared with which Stonehenge is in its nohey date beyond the pyrads. But I should not care to be in habits of faliar inturse with any of that nation. I fess that I hae not the o eheir synagogues. Old prejudices g about . I ot shake off the story of Hugh of Lin. turies of injury, pt, and hate, on the one side, -- of cloaked reenge, dissition, and hate, oher, between our and their fathers, st, and ought, to affect the blood of the children. I ot beliee it run clear and kindly yet; or that a few fine words, such as dour, liberality, the light of a eenth tury, close up the breaches of so deadly a disunion. A Hebrew is nenial to . He is least distasteful on `ge -- for the rtile spirit leels all distins, as all are beauties in the dark. I boldly fess that I do not relish the approition of Jew and Christian, which has bee so fashiohe reciprocal es hae, to , sothing hypocritical and unnatural in the I do not like to see the Churd Synagogue kissing and geeing in aostures of an affected ciility. If they are erted, why do they not e oer to us aogether? Why keep up a forof separation, when the life of it is fled? If they sit with us at table, why do they keck at ouokery? I do not uand these half ertites. Jews christianizing -- Christians judaizing -- puzzle . I like fish or flesh. A derate Jew is a re founding piece of anoly than a wet Quaker. The spirit of the synagogue is essentially separatie. B----- would hae been re in keeping if he had abided by the faith of his forefathers. There is a fine s in his face, whiature ant to be of ---- Christians. The Hebrew spirit is strong in hi in spite of his proselytis He ot quer the Shibboleth. How it breaks out, when he sings, quot;The Children of Israel passed through the Red Sea!quot; The auditors, for the nt, are as Egyptians to hi and he rides oer our necks in triuh. There is no staking hi -- has a strong epression of sense in his tenance, and it is fird by his singing. The foundation of his ocal ecellence is use. He sings with uanding, as Kele deliered dialogue. He would sing the as, and gie an appropriate character to each prohibition. His nation, in general, hae not eer-sensible tenances. How should they ? -- but you seldosee a silly epression ang the Gain, and the pursuit of gain, sharpen a ns isage. I neer heard of an idiot being horn ang the -- So adre the Jewish fele-physiogno. I adre it -- but with treling. Jael had those full dark inscrutable eyes.
In the Negro tenance you will ofte with strong traits of benignity. I hae fe yearnings of tenderowards so of these faces -- or rather sks -- that hae looked out kindly upon one in casual enters ireets and highways. I loe what Fuller beautifully calls -- these quot;iges of God cut in ebony.quot; But I should not like to associate with the to share als and good-nights with the-- because they are bck.
I loe Quaker ways, and Quaker worship. I ee the Quaker principles. It does good for the rest of the day whe any of their people in  ath. When I aruffled or disturbed by any ourrehe sight, or quiet oice of a Quaker, acts upon as a entitor, lightening the air, and taking off a load frothe boso But I ot like the Quakers (as Desdena would say) quot;to lie with thequot; I aall oer sophisticated -- with huurs, fancies, g hourly syathy. I st hae books, pictures, theatres, chit-chat, sdal, jokes, aiguities, and a thousand whiwha, which their siler taste do without. I should stare at their pritie ba. My appetites are too high for the sads which (a to Eelyn) Ee dressed for the angel, gusto too ecited
To sit a guest with Da his pulse.
The i answers which Quakers are often found to return to a question put to they be epined, I think, without the ulgar assution, that they are en to easion and equiog than other people. They naturally look to their words re carefully, and are re cautious of itting theeles. They hae a peculiar character to keep up on this head. They stand in a nner upon their eracity. A Quaker is by w eeted frotaking an oath. The of res to an oath ire cases, sanctified as it is by all religious antiquity, is apt (it st be fessed) to introduto the er sort of nds the notion of two kinds of truth -- the one applicable to the sole affairs of justice, and the other to the on proceedings of daily inturse. As truth bound upon the sce by an oath be but truth, so in the on affirtions of the shop and the rket-pce a titude is epected, and ceded upoions wanting this sole ant. Sothihan truth satisfies. It is on to hear a person say, quot;You do to speak as if I were upon oath.quot; Hence a great deal of rreess and iency, short of falsehood, creeps into ordinary ersation; and a kind of sedary or ic-truth is tolerated, where clergy-truth -- oath-truth, by the nature of the circes, is not required. A Quaker knows none of this distin. His sile affirtion being receied, upo sacred oasions, without any further test, stas a alue upon the words which he is to use upo indifferent topics of life. He looks to the naturally, with re seerity. You hae of hihan his word. He knows, if he is caught tripping in a casual epression, be forfeits, for hielf, at least, his cito the inidious eetion. He knows that his syl;tt;/ttbles are ghed -- and how far a sciousness of this particur watchfulness, eerted against a person, has a tendency to produdireswers, and a dierting of the question by ho ans, ght be illustrated, and the practice justified, by a re sacred eale than is proper to be adduced upon this oasion. The adrable presenind, which is notorious in Quakers upon all tingencies, ght be traced to this iosed self-watchfulness -- if it did not seerather an hule and secur s of that old stock ious stancy, whieer bent or faered, in the Pritie Friends, ae way to the winds of persecution, to the iolence of judge or auser, urials and rag eanations. quot;You will neer be the wiser, if I sit here answering your questions till dnight,quot; said one of those upright Justicers to Penn, who had been putting w-cases with a puzzling subtlety. quot;Thereafter as the answers y be,quot; retorted the Quaker. The astonishing posure of this people is sotis ludicrously dispyed in lighter instances. -- I was traelling in a stagach with three le Quakers, buttoned up iraitest non-ity of their sect. We stopped to bait at Andoer, where a al, partly tea apparatus, partly supper, was set before us. My friends fiheeles to the tea-table. I in way took supper. When the nddy brought in the bill, the eldest of  anions dered that she had charged for both als. This was resisted. Mine hostess was ery crous and positie. So ld argunts were used on the part of the Quakers, for which the heated nd of the good dy seed by no ans a fit recipient. The guard with his usual peretory notice. The Quakers pulled out their ney, and forlly te -- so ch for tea -- I, in hule itation, tendering ne -- for the supper which I had taken. She would not re in her dend. So they all three quietly put up their siler as did self, and rched out of the roo the eldest and graest going first, with self closing up the rear, who thought uld not do better than follow the eale of such grae and warrantable personages. We got in. The steps went up. Thach droe off. The rrs of ne hostess, not ery indistinctly uously pronounced, beca after a ti inaudible -- and now sce, which the whiical se had for a while suspended, beginning to gie so twitches, I waited, in the hope that so justification would be offered by these serious persons for the seeng injustice of their duct. To great surprise, not a sylble was dropped on the subject. They sate as te as at a eting. At length the eldest of thebroke silence, by inquiring of his neighbour, quot;Hast thee heard how indigos go at the India House?quot; and the questioed as a soporifiy ral feeling as far as Eeter.
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