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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    THE SELF-SWEARING-IN the country, not to see, that Captain Hall ear- nestly sought out things to admire and commend.” muc‘h for 11 at we have thought proper to call the self-swearing-in of the witnesses. Why, it may be asked, should not these tourists have been contented with a straight forward, simple story ? Y\ hy turn aside so frequently to affirm, that they are telling truth ? Did themselves doubt the truth of their accounts ? Or, did they ap- prehend that their readers would have cr0od leason to doubt ? By showing themselves sus- picious, they have roused suspicion—and that, in- dependent of their startling—we had almost said—- creations. But for the present, call them stories. I heir true character is yet to be made out. Even those who have shown themselves not unwilling to accept them as true, have already, in various foims, yielded to the admission of their exacmera- tion of their prodigality ot colouring—and in regaid to some parts, ot their just claims to rank uitli caricatures. A little more respect, it is true, and we think in justice, is paid to Basil Mall • although we shall find yet more occasion to ob- serve the approximations they make to each other. In their paintings, they might be sup- posed to have taken lessons from the same
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