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In doing this he took occasion to animadvert on the base adulation of the artists of France in the age of Louis XIV.; or rather of the dishonour which the patronage of that monarch has drawn upon himself, by the unworthy manner in which he required the artists to gratify his personal vanity. He then proceeded to give some professional advice.
On one occasion the boy said: "In like manner, as you inspect my duties, also animadvert on my tendency to vice, in order that if you discern any immorality in my behavior, which has met my own approbation, you can warn me against it, that I may correct it." He replied: "O my child! propose this task to somebody else; for the light in which I view you reflects nothing but virtue."
While I agree with him that the only cure for rebellion is suppression by force, yet I must animadvert upon certain phrases where I seem to see a coincidence with a popular fallacy on the subject of compromise.
Now, child, you know you have grievously offended him. I wish not to animadvert on your conduct. You fancied yourself in love, and so on, and you were rash. The less said of it the better now. But you must now it is your duty now to do something to do everything that lies in your power to show him you repent. No interruptions! Listen to me. You must consider him. Austin is not like other men.
"Your worship is pleased to be jocular," answered the parson; "but I do not only animadvert on the sinfulness of the action though that surely is to be greatly deprecated but I fear his unrighteousness may injure him with Mr Allworthy.
What excuse could I make for begging a breakfast with an inn at hand and silver in my pocket? I stopped, accordingly, and breakfasted. The landlord was remarkably attentive and obliging, but his bread was stale, his milk sour, and his cheese the greenest imaginable. I disdained to animadvert on these defects, naturally supposing that his house could furnish no better.
If he wants `a share in the government, why, he should help to support it: that's what I say!" And the vicar then went off into a tirade against class legislators and radical politics, not forgetting to animadvert, too, on the "Manchester School" his great bete noir. "I wonder what Mr Mawley would say, to hear you run down his favourite party so!"
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