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Brympton , Somersetshire ; part of the Church of St . Catharine Cree , Leadenhall-street ? , a Bridge of Gwydder , in Wales ; Drumlanrig Castle , Dumfriesshire ; Heriot ' s Hospital , Edinburgh ; and the more modem part of Glamniis Castle , T ' orfarshire , & c .
The Signs Ov England;
THE SIGNS OV ENGLAND ;
BY ONE WHO HAS PAINTED MANY . SIGN THE FOURTH . — -PUBLIC PLACE-HUNTERS AND JOBBERS IN GENERAL .
Men " , really , in these latter days , would almost seem , to go out of the way to give themselves trouble : they do this in their vices ; they
do it in the wrong they commit . A good , honest , straightforward life is supposed to be conducive to health and long continuance in this pleasant mortal being . People who are not always setting traps to catch their neighbours , must be less fixed in ugly work , and less engrossed uncomfortably , than those who have their hands full of wires whose meaning is mischief , and whose success is some person ' s undoing . "We never thought a rat-catcher a happy man ; we never
imagined that those who dig pits for others , found much pleasure in admiring the mere fresh , natural green grass with which they cover the hole . Actual strabismus is accounted an unsightly thing ; but there is so much moral squinting , or wilful aversion from the positively true aspect of things , that , neither in political nor private circles , is anything thought about it as disadvantageous ; it is rather , we think , looked upon as an ornament , and it is praised , with the usual approval of what this good tolerant world calls success , as
" sharp sight . " Now , we are disposed to quarrel with this universal winking . "We question its righteousness , though it runs through the public world and through private society . Human life is not to be altogether made up of dodges . Our governors shall not make ninepins of us . It is not at all necessary that we—every man of us—should be straining with prolonged neck round a corner , and that , with eager eyes , we should watch an opportunity of taking our fellows at a disadvantage . "We are not to he like the Clown in the Pantomime ; placing blandly in , and closing the fist of our friend upon , a worthless stone , while we
are smuggling , behind us , that money-box which we have deluded out of the gripe of his other unconscious hand . We are not , with all that suavity—our face prying affectionately into his—to inquire , with all apparent interest , how that respectable parent " his mother * is ; whilst , like the wicked Motley in gay chalk and red dots , with our hands embracing him , we strip the very coat from off the passenger ' s back . It is against the law of right so to " smile and smile , and be a villain . ' And , besides , it is very clumsy work , avd
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Brympton , Somersetshire ; part of the Church of St . Catharine Cree , Leadenhall-street ? , a Bridge of Gwydder , in Wales ; Drumlanrig Castle , Dumfriesshire ; Heriot ' s Hospital , Edinburgh ; and the more modem part of Glamniis Castle , T ' orfarshire , & c .
The Signs Ov England;
THE SIGNS OV ENGLAND ;
BY ONE WHO HAS PAINTED MANY . SIGN THE FOURTH . — -PUBLIC PLACE-HUNTERS AND JOBBERS IN GENERAL .
Men " , really , in these latter days , would almost seem , to go out of the way to give themselves trouble : they do this in their vices ; they
do it in the wrong they commit . A good , honest , straightforward life is supposed to be conducive to health and long continuance in this pleasant mortal being . People who are not always setting traps to catch their neighbours , must be less fixed in ugly work , and less engrossed uncomfortably , than those who have their hands full of wires whose meaning is mischief , and whose success is some person ' s undoing . "We never thought a rat-catcher a happy man ; we never
imagined that those who dig pits for others , found much pleasure in admiring the mere fresh , natural green grass with which they cover the hole . Actual strabismus is accounted an unsightly thing ; but there is so much moral squinting , or wilful aversion from the positively true aspect of things , that , neither in political nor private circles , is anything thought about it as disadvantageous ; it is rather , we think , looked upon as an ornament , and it is praised , with the usual approval of what this good tolerant world calls success , as
" sharp sight . " Now , we are disposed to quarrel with this universal winking . "We question its righteousness , though it runs through the public world and through private society . Human life is not to be altogether made up of dodges . Our governors shall not make ninepins of us . It is not at all necessary that we—every man of us—should be straining with prolonged neck round a corner , and that , with eager eyes , we should watch an opportunity of taking our fellows at a disadvantage . "We are not to he like the Clown in the Pantomime ; placing blandly in , and closing the fist of our friend upon , a worthless stone , while we
are smuggling , behind us , that money-box which we have deluded out of the gripe of his other unconscious hand . We are not , with all that suavity—our face prying affectionately into his—to inquire , with all apparent interest , how that respectable parent " his mother * is ; whilst , like the wicked Motley in gay chalk and red dots , with our hands embracing him , we strip the very coat from off the passenger ' s back . It is against the law of right so to " smile and smile , and be a villain . ' And , besides , it is very clumsy work , avd