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There never were such letters as those of George Osborne in Vanity Fair that letter from school describing the fight between Cuff and Figs is a masterpiece the letters of Becky, of Rawdon, of Amelia all are perfect reproductions of the writer, as are scores of letters scattered up and down the twenty-six volumes. Nor must we omit, as part of the style, the author's own illustrations.
It is not necessary to enumerate all the fictions that emanated from the brilliant imagination of the Northern Enchanter; the list would be too long, but we must not omit to notice the energy with which he labored. Even illness, that would have broken the spirits of most men, as it prostrated the physical energies of Scott, opposed no impediment to the progress of his compositions.
These words of the Ragged One reminded Don Quixote of the tale his squire had told him, when he failed to keep count of the goats that had crossed the river and the story remained unfinished; but to return to the Ragged One, he went on to say: "I give you this warning because I wish to pass briefly over the story of my misfortunes, for recalling them to memory only serves to add fresh ones, and the less you question me the sooner shall I make an end of the recital, though I shall not omit to relate anything of importance in order fully to satisfy your curiosity."
Such was the legion of sturdy bush-beaters that poured in at the grand gate of New Amsterdam; the Stuyvesant manuscript, indeed, speaks of many more, whose names I omit to mention, seeing that it behooves me to hasten to matters of greater moment.
For the purpose of the present inquiry I also omit all the rites of leaping sportfully, and of driving cattle through light fires. People are said 'pyras circumire et transilire in futuri mali averruncatione' to 'go round about and leap over lighted pyres for the purpose of averting future evils, as in Mannhardt's theory of the Hirpi.
For the Persian accounts do not agree with each other, and for this reason I omit the narration of them. Cabades, in company with Seoses, completely escaped detection, and reached the Ephthalitae Huns; there the king gave him his daughter in marriage, and then, since Cabades was now his son-in-law, he put under his command a very formidable army for a campaign against the Persians.
The States of Holland inspired as it were by the memory of that great martyr to religious and political liberty, William the Silent maintained freedom of conscience. The Leicester party advocated a different theory on the religious question. They were also determined to omit no effort to make the States odious.
His habit and his white band show him to be an ecclesiastic; and his begging, which he does very earnestly, proves him to be of a mendicant order; which, added to his flattery and insinuation, make him supposed to be a Jesuit, and have acquired him the name of Loyola. I must not omit too, that when he breaks wind he smells exactly like the Sultan.
'Why, no, sir, Johnson had decided, 'after the man is dead, for then it is done historically. A biographer that would omit or disguise the relations of Nelson to Lady Hamilton, would be justly suspected of disingenuousness, and Lockhart, especially in his treatment of the political side of his subject, for example in the notorious Beacon incident is but too open to this charge.
I should not omit to say that, in the eagerness of the original advocate, there was much that was amiable; nor must I fail to point out how much there was of blindness. Fired by the ardour of pursuit, he seems to have regarded his immediate clients as the only natives extant and the epitome and emblem of the Samoan race.
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