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Sixty Pounds To The Inch.
SIXTY POUNDS TO THE INCH .
BY JOHN W . SIMONS , I khow not how the title to this paper may strike the reader—and as I desire by all means to conciliate his favour the outset of an undertaking the success of which materially depends on the state of feeling that may he established between the Quarterly and its
patrons—I venture in this place to deprecate a hasty judgment . It is presumable that no man , at least no man of taste—and who would willingly be placed outside of that category ?—would sit down to a single joint , and after eating a sufficiency from that alone , say he had made an excellent repast . The heavy roast , baked or boiled are certainly required to make up the substantials of a feast , but without
the entremets , the Jiors d ' mivres , and the entrees , it is artistically incomplete ; so in this case , surrounded by the productions of the greater lights of Masonry , I merely edge in between , as it were , to act in the capacity of either of the light dishes above specified that the reader may be pleased to assign me . I leave , then , with my coadjutors the " weightier matters of the law , " to look after the " tithes of mint , anise and cumin . "
We are a fast people—velocity is synommous with America , and is the peculiar characteristic of our nationality . Scarcely broken loose from our leading strings as a nation , we have rapidly passed through the various gradations which , in older communities , have required centuries for their development , and taken our stand among the great nations of the earth . Thehistorv of our rise and progress
is peculiarly our own , and we may seek in vain for its parallel in the records of antiquity . As a people , we are mi generis , and all the transactions of our life—whether civil , religious , or military—are whipped through their several stages under the spur of our distinguishing idiosyncracy . We rush into the virgin forest , and in a trice we have laid out towns and cities , established railroads and
stretched the lightning wires that connect us with older civilization , and transport us . with a single bound to the standing and character of a long-settled community . We make a toil of our very pleasures , and give with reluctance a single day once or twice a year to recreation . To " go ahead " with us , is to work out the great end and aim of our creation . Speaking of this peculiarity , Edward Everett
once said , " The Americans , as a people—at least , the professional and mercantile classes—have too little considered the importance of generous , healthful recreation . They have not learned the lesson contained in the very word which teaches that the worn-out man is recreated ( made over * again ) by the reasonable relaxation of the strained faculties . The Old World learped this lesson many years
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Sixty Pounds To The Inch.
SIXTY POUNDS TO THE INCH .
BY JOHN W . SIMONS , I khow not how the title to this paper may strike the reader—and as I desire by all means to conciliate his favour the outset of an undertaking the success of which materially depends on the state of feeling that may he established between the Quarterly and its
patrons—I venture in this place to deprecate a hasty judgment . It is presumable that no man , at least no man of taste—and who would willingly be placed outside of that category ?—would sit down to a single joint , and after eating a sufficiency from that alone , say he had made an excellent repast . The heavy roast , baked or boiled are certainly required to make up the substantials of a feast , but without
the entremets , the Jiors d ' mivres , and the entrees , it is artistically incomplete ; so in this case , surrounded by the productions of the greater lights of Masonry , I merely edge in between , as it were , to act in the capacity of either of the light dishes above specified that the reader may be pleased to assign me . I leave , then , with my coadjutors the " weightier matters of the law , " to look after the " tithes of mint , anise and cumin . "
We are a fast people—velocity is synommous with America , and is the peculiar characteristic of our nationality . Scarcely broken loose from our leading strings as a nation , we have rapidly passed through the various gradations which , in older communities , have required centuries for their development , and taken our stand among the great nations of the earth . Thehistorv of our rise and progress
is peculiarly our own , and we may seek in vain for its parallel in the records of antiquity . As a people , we are mi generis , and all the transactions of our life—whether civil , religious , or military—are whipped through their several stages under the spur of our distinguishing idiosyncracy . We rush into the virgin forest , and in a trice we have laid out towns and cities , established railroads and
stretched the lightning wires that connect us with older civilization , and transport us . with a single bound to the standing and character of a long-settled community . We make a toil of our very pleasures , and give with reluctance a single day once or twice a year to recreation . To " go ahead " with us , is to work out the great end and aim of our creation . Speaking of this peculiarity , Edward Everett
once said , " The Americans , as a people—at least , the professional and mercantile classes—have too little considered the importance of generous , healthful recreation . They have not learned the lesson contained in the very word which teaches that the worn-out man is recreated ( made over * again ) by the reasonable relaxation of the strained faculties . The Old World learped this lesson many years