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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    extend, of some of the atrocious calumnies, which have been but too largely circulated by this and other congenial publications. Captain Hall had confessedly monopolized the appropriate influence of all his predecessors, absorbed the grand topic, and assumed undi- vided empire, in relation to Ins own and their specific calling. Scarcely an individual of the same stamp, that went before him, has since been heard, or thought of. It would be lost time, therefore, and lost labour, to call them back from their oblivion. And although the gallant Captain has been for a little space in total eclipse, by the unexpected transit ot his twin sister, over his broad, full, and luminous disk, he still occupies and fills his place ; there is ) et a certain fixed and undefinablq substantiality about him—we mean in public regard—which makes him worthy of our attention; and which has en- titled him to the honour of being ranked by us, side by side, with his more recent, and for the present, more notorious, if not more illustrious, fellow-labourer. Such are some of our reasons for introducing only these two witnesses theii endorsers at home only excepted, who of couise have borrowed their testimony from these and
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