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Should this mere travestie of her inspired numbers ever meet her eye, in her stately abode at Granada, may it meet with that indulgence which belongs to her benignant nature.
A Greenock without commerce or warehouses, a Clyde without wharves or ships, or the possibility of either what mere travestie effected by a name! 'A nest of Scottish emigrants, I suppose, said Robert Wynn, as he contemplated 'the town. 'Yes, and they'll push their place up to something, replied Sam Holt: 'if pluck and perseverance can do it, they will.
Frost, who had laughed at first as much at James's distress as at Louis's travestie or Clara's fun, thought it time to check it by saying, 'You are right, Jem, he is not half so strong as he thinks himself. You must keep him in good order. 'Take care, Aunt Kitty, said Louis; 'you'll make me restive. A tutor and governess both! I appeal! Shall we endure it, Clara?
It is true, nature must be obeyed in order that she may he conquered: but then she is to be CONQUERED. It has been too much the fashion of late to travestie that great dictum of Bacon's into a very different one, and say, Nature must be obeyed because she cannot be conquered; thus proclaiming the impotence of science to discover anything save her own impotence a result as contrary to fact, as to Bacon's own hopes of what science would do for the welfare of the human race.
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