A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
A LIST OF BOOKS - JScholarship
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162 LETTEES.<br />
the stranger from colder latitudes.<br />
This<br />
amiable trait, which smooths away so<br />
many of the asperities incident to social<br />
intercourse, and increases so vastly the<br />
aggregate of minor but no less important<br />
sources of human enjoyment, is one no<br />
training can impart, and no system of<br />
manners secure.<br />
It is an urbanity born of<br />
feeling; it is a sympathy that comes not<br />
from observation but consciousness; it is<br />
the golden rule, exercised not according to<br />
any abstract theory of human<br />
rights, but<br />
a refined and sensitive ideal of human<br />
emotions.<br />
" He jests at scars that never felt<br />
a wound," says the lover; the same truth<br />
may be as appropriately uttered by the<br />
friend and associate. " Gentleness" and<br />
"consideration," whose coming the great<br />
poet so aptly compares to that of an angel,<br />
are usuaUy practised by none so habitually<br />
as those who have the greatest occasion for
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