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COUBTI:.y PREJUDICES. 217cosst:rued, liherallyand notliterally,) andwhichpromissory note hetook care to present, in due time and place, for payment.From thehPf,l:or and surprise tàeappearance of thisdocument excited, the tiri.gate ought to àa,r e, bornetàe name of:Medusa.~ome o~'éth~et~q\l;ette~ of hismajesty)s court are rather whimsical ;th~I'~:fore, perha,ps, 111e morenece~saFY tobekno:wn. The negativepa,rticle no, in plain tenDs, must never be used. ltmust be put in sOlnecircuitous phraseology.,Bl4clc is a term in the same uncourt1y predi..cament. if~ve np..lst be expressed four and one, which wouId appear tovolg~r Cl;llc;\illators tOi;~mount ,to much the same thing. A very ancientradtlga,l i4t.:;Çt is, ,hoW~yer, traceable·here. An imprecation is su pposed toinlt;.~nd weiperceiNe,.though they knowit not, here, thebe çl'DYltjly~dmystic,sYlllboliç~l,,'ll.ldypJJYlSicalallne~atioJo,oif;ideasof power and forceto thehand, thtjliremblem. ;']:1he oHl1ef prejudices are probably,equalJy{leeply seated.used nor alluded to.n~~ely ~t~rted]3utasto the dre,ad,t;ul,word deatll, itmust neither beAn,d if in conversation any s\l;bject is unfortu.whiph Wight. inc}i;rectly lead towards it, the turning the'discourse in adelic;at() WaY" ,an·cl relieving the company tirom its embarrassment,is, considered the very summÏit of good.· breeding and refine';'m()llt~an~ the tact oti thepersoll'who~a~ ..thus had the discretwn t()turn~~YaYJh~ boIt, .is the the~~ of e~pa,.ti~..tipn. This brings tomindthecqnrt!y d~viue pf OUf. own .cpuntry,l..wboknew the rulesof goodbreeding .tooperfectl,y.to intrrd uc~ tht( ... w..ord .. l~elt befo~tea. PQlitecon.grygation. It is remark;e~l;j thft~ ~v()rfc4s~qm of 9:riental des.cent isopposit,e. ;t() what is. Europeall; andit may beAaken as atruth: as forinstance in the case of a .lJeckou to .aperson to come, the Europeanturns his .band upwards towards hi~ fa,.p(), ,the; Oricnta,.l downwards towardshis feet; and this contrariety appears in divers points.Sorne,