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'Now, mamma, said Katie, 'if you laugh once while you are reading it, you'll spoil it all. 'I'll do the best I can, my dear, but I'm sure I shall break down; you have made it so very abusive, said Mrs. Woodward. 'Mamma, I think I'll take out that about official priggism hadn't I better, Linda? 'Indeed, I think you had; I'm sure mamma would break down there, said Linda.
"How vain is human GREATNESS! What avail superior abilities, and a noble defiance of those narrow rules and bounds which confine the vulgar, when his best-concerted schemes are liable to be defeated! How unhappy is the state of PRIGGISM! How impossible for human prudence to foresee and guard against every circumvention!
"I am an old army man, and have been as staunch a believer in army traditions as any man, but I tell you fairly that I am disgusted at the amount of routine work, delay, and, if I may use the word, priggism, that I see going on. I am not surprised that the Colonials to a man are convinced that they would manage matters infinitely better if they were left to themselves.
Recurring, however, for one moment to classical antiquity, I cannot but think that Catiline, Clodius, and some of that coterie, would have made first-rate artists; and it is on all accounts to be regretted, that the priggism of Cicero robbed his country of the only chance she had for distinction in this line. As the subject of a murder, no person could have answered better than himself.
What remains, therefore, for us but to resolve bravely to lay aside our priggism, our roguery, in plainer words, and preserve our liberty, or to give up the latter in the preservation and preference of the former?"
When, however, I have completed this plaguy work on which I am engaged, I hope to be able to devote more attention to them." After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, "I must now leave you". "Whither are you going?" "I do not know."
Priggism, or whatever the substantive is, is as essentially a Teutonic vice as holiness is a Semitic characteristic; and if an Italian happens to be a prig, he will, like Tacitus, invariably show a hankering after German institutions. The idea, however, that the Italians were ever a finer people than they are now, will not pass muster with those who knew them.
'Mamma, I'm sure you would never get over the official priggism. 'I don't think I should, my dear, said Mrs. Woodward. 'What is it you are all concocting? said Captain Cuttwater; 'some infernal mischief, I know, craving your pardons. 'If you tell, Uncle Bat, I'll never forgive you, said Katie.
When, however, I have completed this plaguy work on which I am engaged, I hope to be able to devote more attention to them.’ After some further conversation, the subjects being, if I remember right, college education, priggism, church authority, tomfoolery, and the like, I rose and said to my host, ‘I must now leave you.’ ‘Whither are you going?’ ‘I do not know.’
It is an attempt of the pedagogue to assert a jurisdiction over grown intellects, and hence such books naturally develop in flagrant exaggeration the pragmatical priggism which is the pedagogue's characteristic defect.
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