I have no genius to disputes in religion: and have often thought it wisdom to decline them, especially upon a disadvantage, or when the cause of truth might suffer in the weakness of my patronage—Sia THOMAS BROWNE, Every man is not a proper champion for truth, nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity; many, from the ignorance of these maxims, and an inconsiderate zeal unto truth, have too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth—Sm THOMAS
BROWNE, It the principle of interest rightly understood had nothing but the present world in view, it would be very insufficient; for there are many sacrifices which can only find their recompense in another; and whatever ingenuity may be put.forth to demonstrate the utility of virtue, it will never be an easy task to make that man live aright who has no thoughts of dying—ALExIS DE TOCQUEVILLE. cee Gold always worn in the same purse with silver loses both of the colour and weight; and so to converse always with inferiors, degrades a man of his worth. Such there are that love to be-the lords of the company, whilst the rest must be their tenants; as if bound by their lease to approve, praise, and admire whatsoever they say. These, knowing the lowness of their parts, love to live with dwarfs, that they may seem proper men. To come among their equals, they count it an abridgement of their freedom, but to be with their betters, they degm it flat slavery—TnoMas Fou cee Englishmen of education, and more competent judges than I can be myself of the nicer shades of express sion, have frequently assured me that the language of the educated classes in the United States is notably different from that of the educated classes in Great Britain. They complain not only that the Americans have brought into use a number of new words—the difference and the distance between the two counties might suffice to explain that much—but that these new words are more especially taken from the jargon of parties, the mechanical arts, or the language of trade. They assert, in addition to this, that old English words are often used by the Americans in new acceptations; and lastly, that the inhabitants of the United States frequently intermingle their phraseology in the strangest manner, and sometimes place words "together which are always kept apart in the language of the mother-country—ALExrm po Tocquevitte (1840).
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