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Updated: May 11, 2025
As the "O" revealed Giotto, as the one word "moi" betrayed the Stratford atte-Bowe-taught Anglais, so all a man's antecedents and possibilities are summed up in a single utterance which gives at once the gauge of his education and his mental organization. Possibilities, Sir? said the divinity-student; can't a man who says Haow? arrive at distinction?
Why, the aboriginal bipeds, to be sure, he answered, the red-crayon sketch of humanity laid on the canvas before the colors for the real manhood were ready. I hope they will come to something yet, said the divinity-student. Irreclaimable, Sir, irreclaimable! said the Little Gentleman. Cheaper to breed white men than domesticate a nation of red ones.
Their character will depend on many accidents, a good deal on the particular persons in the company to whom they were addressed. It so happens that those which follow were mainly intended for the divinity-student and the school-mistress; though others, whom I need not mention, saw to interfere, with more or less propriety, in the conversation.
Their character will depend on many accidents, a good deal on the particular persons in the company to whom they were addressed. It so happens that those which follow were mainly intended for the divinity-student and the school-mistress; though others, whom I need not mention, saw to interfere, with more or less propriety, in the conversation.
The divinity-student could not deny that this was what might be called opening the subject to the discussion of intelligent people. But, he said, the greatest objection is this, that persons who have not made a professional study of theology are not competent to speak on such subjects.
I think, Sir, said the divinity-student, you must intend that for one of the sayings of the Seven Wise Men of Boston you were speaking of the other day. I thank you, my young friend, was my reply, but I must say something better than that, before I could pretend to fill out the number. The schoolmistress wanted to know how many of these sayings there were on record, and what, and by whom said.
When the divinity-student had gone, and the Little Gentleman found himself alone with Iris, he lifted his hand to his neck, and took from it, suspended by a slender chain, a quaint, antique-looking key, the same key I had once seen him holding.
There is one thing more, said the divinity-student, that I wished to speak of; I mean that idea of yours, expressed some time since, of depolarizing the text of sacred books in order to judge them fairly. May I ask why you do not try the experiment yourself? Certainly, I replied, if it gives you any pleasure to ask foolish questions.
However, I suppose it's foolish to tell such things. It is pleasant to be foolish at the right time, said the divinity-student; saying it, however, in one of the dead languages, which I think are unpopular for summer-reading, and therefore do not bear quotation as such. Well, now, said I, suppose a good, clean, wholesome-looking countryman's cart stops opposite my door.
The young fellow sitting near me winked; and the divinity-student said, in an undertone, Optime dictum. Your talking Latin, said I, reminds me of an odd trick of one of my old tutors. He read so much of that language, that his English half turned into it. He got caught in town, one hot summer, in pretty close quarters, and wrote, or began to write, a series of city pastorals.
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