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CHAPTER XLIV. THE COMING ELECTION
Now they who are concerned in the manufacture of newspapers are well aware that censure is infinitely more attractive than eulogy,—but
Mr. Alf had a powerful committee. By this time an animus in regard to the election had been created strong enough to bring out the men on both sides, and to produce heat,
Michael Watson liked this
To give up not only her love, but her wrath also;—that was too much for her!
Not, however, that the Ballot was just now regarded by the party as an unmitigated evil, though it was the last triumph of Radical wickedness.
In the enthusiasm of the moment, the attacks made on his character were answered by eulogy as loud as the censure was bitter.
The more arrogant he became the more vulgar he was,
his position is a sign of the degeneracy of the age.
that he is what he is because he has been a swindler greater than other swindlers. What follows as a natural consequence? Men reconcile themselves to swindling.
dishonesty of itself is no longer odious to them.
they who grumble at the times, as Horace did, and declare that each age is worse than its forerunner, look only at the small things beneath their eyes, and ignore the course of the world at large."
The truth is they don't know what to make of me;—and I don't intend that they shall.
It was so probable that such a man should have done something horrible! It was only hoped that the fraud might be great and horrible enough.
preaching with reference to his commercial transactions the grand doctrine that magnitude in affairs is a valid defence for certain irregularities.
A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.
It is not that Age is ashamed of feeling passion and acknowledging,—it but that the display of it is without the graces of which Youth is proud, and which Age regrets.
