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- The Irish Sketch-book
The Irish Sketchbook
Author:
William Makepeace Thackeray
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MORAL OF GOSLYNE GREENE: WHO WAS BOEN TO A FOKTUNE. That man is a maral. He is historically complete—a hero who has achieved his climax and has surv
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ived his catastrophe — one of those luckless wights who outlive themselves, and tarry on the stage when their drama is over, posthumous to the action of the piece. Nothing can be more poetically ungraceful than to exist too long, and to go slouching down the world on the wrong side of your crisis, like the stupid stalk of an exploded rocket. To be a moral — Morals, in their plurality of number, are entitled to respect; but make it, gentle reader, ambitious though you chance to be, a matter both of solicitude and solicitation, that you may never, in the singular point of view, obtain the sad pre-eminence of being elevated to the rank of a moral, to be stuck with a pin upon a card in the cabinet of ethical entomology, as a theme for lectures. The moral deducible from one's own experiences, is in some sort antagonistical to himself. It rises at the other end of the plank, and soars to importance as a text, just as he declines from the equipoise of a true balance. When, for instance, we are in the mire, our moral is at its superlative height of interest; and, generally speaking, the individual is capable of affording the most impressive moral when his morals are in their extreme state of dilapidation. It is too much to ask, even of a philanthropist, that he should himself be a moral; but,, luckily,,there are volunteers enough to supply the demand. As'we said before— That man is a moral. You may see it in the sad dejection of his visage — in his pallid check and in his vacant aspect. There is also that indescribable air of shabby gentility in his well-worn garments, which belongs almost-exclusively t© the man who is...
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ISBN-13:
9780559060243
ISBN-10:
0559060246
Publication Date:
4/29/2009
Pages:
426
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BiblioBazaar
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