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Updated: June 28, 2025


His reasons of state begin to falter, and change their aspects, as that little party draws nearer; and he finds himself within its magnetic sphere. For this is the pattern-man, for the man of mere impression and instinct.

Had I room for all that might be said upon the subject, I might illustrate this intellectual religion from the history of the Emperor Julian, the apostate from Christian Truth, the foe of Christian education. He, in whom every Catholic sees the shadow of the future Anti-Christ, was all but the pattern-man of philosophical virtue.

Ah, Master Walter! there be two sorts of villains in the world: one with a broad, bronzed face, a bold loud voice, a drinking look, and an unsheathed dagger and him men avoid and point at, and children cling to their mother's skirts as he passes by: the other is masked from top to toe; his step is slow, his voice harmonised, his eye vigilant, but well-trained; he wears his dagger in his bosom, and crosses his hands thereon as if in piety, but it is, in truth, that his hold may be firm and his stab sure; yet the world know not that, and they trust him, and he is singled out as a pattern-man for youth to follow; and so but we all play parts all, all!

He has taken the pattern-man in the private affections, the noble man of mere instinct and passion, and put him in the chair of state; the man whom nature herself had chosen and anointed, and crowned with kingly graces. 'As waves before a vessel under sail So men obeyed him, and fell below his stern, 'If he would but incline to the people, there never was a worthier man.

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