Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, 1812, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, 1812, Vol. 7

Chesterfield to find how soon all its laws are discovered, and with what delicacy and exactness they are practised, even among thou who pass under the appellation of savages. The same rejection of all direct oontmdietion,~-the same avoidance of all topics that are personally painful to any of the hearers, - the same temperance in milla'y, - the same patient listening-and more than the same deference to age, that are prescribed by the veteran observer of courtly marnera, are practised and enforced, not merely in the cottage of the Highlander, but in the tent of the wandering Arab, and the Wigwam of the American Indian.

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Excerpt from Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, 1812, Vol. 7

It would be easy, in like manner, to show, that the politeness by which the higher ranks are distinguished, arises almost en tirely from their possessing, though no doubt in a higher degree, those very advantages which seem in earlier times to have be longed to the whole community-abe self-estimation produced by the consciousness of being on a level with what is highest in society - the variety of occupation which enriches and enlivens the faculties - the leisure which enables, and indeed compels them to seek amusement in society-their dependance upon the esteem of their associates for all that is left them to desire - and the impossibility of obtaining, by the help of law or public an: thority, those objects that are most essential to their happiness. But it is more to the purpose to apply all this to the character of our Highlanders.

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