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* "The Diaboliad," P. 18. It was Selwyn's fate and in every generation we find some one of whom the same may be said to have his characteristics or foibles exaggerated.
We recognize ourselves in her, and find all the characteristics of our own humanity there developed into a theism so divine, clothed with a personification so exquisite and poetical, that the Hellenic mythology seems still to live in our hearts, a silent and shadowy religion without ceremonies or altars or sacrifices.
Tyranny and gloomy suspicion are the characteristics of the one, openness and sociability strongly mark the other when to the gay portico succeeded the sullen drawbridge, and to the lively corridor, a secret passage and a winding staircase.
There was something severe in his aspect and a rigidity throughout his person characteristics that caused him generally to be taken for a schoolmaster; which vocation, in fact, he had formerly exercised for several years.
Hence comes the need for the kindly race of barbers, a race dear to literature. Their shops were the earliest clubs, their conversation was all the ancient world knew in the way of society journals. Horace, George Eliot, Beaumarchais, Cervantes, and Scott have appreciated the barber, and celebrated his characteristics.
"Those children will not listen to reason," said a friend whom I discovered in an agitated state of mind one afternoon, when I came to make a call; and she was by no means the first to make this observation. Indeed, it is one of the characteristics of children that they will not listen to reason, that is, our reason.
We have now a National character to establish, and it is of the utmost importance to stamp favorable impressions upon it; let justice be then one of its characteristics, and gratitude another.
The dragon as a political power represented Rome before her overthrow by the barbarians; the beast as a political power represents new Rome. A careful study of the characteristics of this beast, however, will show that he represents more than a civil power.
'To whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. ACTS i. 3. The forty days between the Resurrection and the Ascension have distinctly marked characteristics.
As you approach nearer to it, you observe the figure to slide down from the gate, to desist from whistling, to uncock its hat, to become tender of foot, to depress its head and elevate its shoulders, and to present all the characteristics of profound despondency. Arriving at the bottom of the hill and coming close to the figure, you observe it to be the figure of a shabby young man.
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