The Evening book Or Fireside Talk On Morals And Manners With Sketches of West
The Evening book Or Fireside Talk On Morals And Manners With Sketches of West
Caroline M Caroline Matilda Kirkland
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Stern old Johnson, who confessed that it was difficult for him to pity the choice sorrows of a fine lady, says, to be fastidious is to be 4 insolently nice delicate to a vice squeamish disdainful. ' Do these seem amiable adjectives ? Impertinent dictionary-maker ! Unaccommodating, obdurate, Saxon tongue ! Is there no unique name for that fine essence that impalpable sina qua non which is the life and soul of the genteel ? No ! none but itself can be its parallel. Let us then not seek to define ...but to examine it. Personal fastidiousness is said to be the characteristic of a condition of high refinement. If refinement were a matter of physics, this might be admitted. The Israelitish ladies ' could not set the sole of their foot to the ground for delicateness and tenderness, ' but were they, therefore, refined women ? There is an implication even of impiety in the scriptural notice of them. Poppaea must have a bath of asses' milk ; somebody of old wept because a rose-leaf was doubled under him.
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