Extracts From a Journal of Travels in North America Consisting of An Account of
Extracts From a Journal of Travels in North America Consisting of An Account of
Samuel L Samuel Lorenzo Knapp
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They look upon the second ckss as interlopers and intruders^ who are encroaching upon their patrimony, corrupting the city manners^ by standing < between the wind and their nobility.^ * Vide the life of R. T. Paine prefixed to his works.
96 The other class are a peaceable well dis. Posed^ and harmless sort of people^ not so high minded as their brethren^ and occasion- ally exhibiting a gleam of independence, The first class assume a loftier gait, and claim an exclusive patent-right to the immu- nities of gentility and fashion ; but the secon< possess full as many qualities of gentlemen. Both are alike slaves of fashion and opinion^ but the second class retains still a few sparks of moral sense not yet extinguished by the power of money.
sr CHAP. XV.
Commencement at Camhr dge — The Exercises — Ameri- can Literature — Causes of its Inferiority — Puffing.
S8 August. Yesterday I went with the multitude to see the grand Comaieneement exhibition at the University. The exercises were performed by those students who, hav- ing finished their term are about leaving the institution and receiving its degrees.
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