The Americans / By an American in London.

  • Calvin Colton
Date:
1833
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Americans / By an American in London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    utterly incomprehensible, than this irritable na- tionality The British Critic has also honoured us with the following1 pleasant, and considering that he is a Theologian, dignified comparison:—While they (the Americans) are provided with some- thing analogous to the bristling apparatus of a certain animal, which has been described by the epithet f fretful,’ they nevertheless have about them some places, so soft and tender, that (if) f man but rush against them,’ the whole body is instantly thrown into convulsions!’’ And even our excellent friend and advocate, the Edinburgh Review, has not acquitted us on this count:—“ These things (the provocations of the English press) must not be taken so seriously at heart. While the license of remark on his comings-in and goings-out is confined within the proper limits of pleasantry and good feeling, (well said) should our run-away child continue to fret and sulk about it, we (even) shall be always ready to join in chiding the childishness of such behaviour. He is too big a fellow now, and ought to be too much of a man to mind such trifles. A provincial soreness of this kind is un- worthy of his present greatness.”
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