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True, it is a position not to be sought not to be looked for it is one which, for many, very many reasons there is no occasion for me now to explain, maybe thought to involve disgrace or discredit.
Not a gleam of sunshine burst forth to dispel the clouds which hung lowering over the fair fame of poor Ellis. He was either too proud or too indifferent as to what was said of him to take any notice of the various tales different versions of the same story flying about the school to his discredit.
But we had no possible authority for trying to get the letters, although Sperry was anxious to make the attempt. "Although I feel," he said, "that it is too late to help her very much. She is innocent; I know that. I think you know that, too, deep in that legal mind of yours. It is wrong to discredit her because I did a foolish thing." He warmed to his argument. "Why, think, man," he said.
It is unnecessary to say that a fling at a person's previous occupation, or that of his parents an attempt to discredit him, in consequence of his having, at some period of his life, been a mechanic or manufacturer or dropping, or altering a letter in his name, does not amount to much, as an impeachment of his character and credibility, as a man or an author.
"Well, be it so would'st thou dun my father's son in the face of the revellers in St. Mark?" "I would do no discredit to any come of that illustrious race, Signore, and therefore we will say no more of the matter; always relying that, at the proper moment, you will not question your own hand and seal." "I like thy prudence, Hebrew.
It thus happens that savage peoples largely base their often admirable enforcement of asceticism not on the practical grounds that would justify it, but on religious grounds that with the growth of intelligence fall into discredit.
He composed a complete system of the earth, in three books physical, mathematical, historical accompanied by a map of all the parts then known. It is only of late years that the fragments remaining of his "Chronicles of the Theban Kings" have been justly appreciated. For many centuries they were thrown into discredit by the authority of our existing absurd theological chronology.
Nor does it appear that they suffered any discredit in the church to which they belonged, and to whose revenues they continued to contribute out of the plunder by which they had impoverished and ruined so many. The church had not sufficient moral sense to reprove and denounce this iniquity.
I expressed my disapproval of the whole affair, as likely to bring discredit on religion, to a councillor of parliament, M. de St. Marc; but he told me gravely that it was an excellent thing, as it brought no less than a hundred thousand francs into the town on the single day. I could find no reply to this very weighty reason. Every day I spent at Aix I thought of Henriette.
There was a degree of extravagance, waste and corruption, varying greatly with localities and times, but sufficient to leave a permanent discredit on the Southern Republican governments as a class. To judge accurately of the merits and demerits of these governments is perhaps as difficult a task as historian ever undertook.
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