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The Works of Henry Mackenzie; With a Sketch of the Author's Life
The Works of Henry Mackenzie With a Sketch of the Author's Life Author:Henry Mackenzie General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Original Publisher: T. Cadell Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE MAN OF FEELING. CHAPTER XI. "/ baahfulne. -- A character. -- Hit opinion on that subject, rpHERE is some rust about every man at the be- - ginning; though in some nations, (among the French, for instance,) the ideas of the inhabitants, from climate, or what other cause you will, are so vivfidous, so eternally on the wing, that they must, even in small societies, have a frequent collision: the rust therefore will wear off sooner; but in Britain it often goes with a man to his grave; nay, he dares not even pen a hie jacet to speak out for him after his death. ' Let them rub it off by travel,1 said the baronet's brother, who was a striking instance of excellent metal, shamefully rusted. I had drawn my chair near his. Let me paint the honest old man: 'tis but one passing sentence to preserve his image in my mind. The reader will remember, that the Editor is accountable only for scattered chapters, and fragments of chapters; the curate must answer for the rest. The number at the top, when the chapter was entire, he has given ai it originally stud, with the title which its author bad affixed to it. He sat in his usual attitude with his elbow rested on his knee, and his fingers pressed on his cheek. His face was shaded by his hand; yet it was a face that might once have been well accounted hand, some; its features were manly and striking, and a certain dignity resided on his eye-brows, which were the largest I remember to have seen. His person was tall and well made; but the indolenpe of his nature had now inclined it to corpulency. His remarks were few, and made o...« less