Dr. Anticant’s monthly pamphlet on the decay of the world did not receive so much attention as his earlier works. He did not confine himself to politics in these publications, but roamed at large over all matters of public interest, and found everything bad. According to him nobody was true, and not only nobody, but nothing; a man could not take off his hat to a lady without telling a lie—the lady would lie again in smiling. The ruffles of the gentleman’s shirt would be fraught with deceit, and the ladies’ flounces full of falsehood. Was ever anything more severe than that attack of his on
...more
Thomas Carlyle
Luís liked this
