Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials

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: no harm. It would do her good for ever after. It is good to love the unknown. I only give this as a specimen of E. B. and his modest way of doing a concealed kindness. Good-morrow to my Valentine, sings poor Ophelia; and no better wish, but with better auspices, we wish to all faithful lovers, who are not too wise to despise old legends, but are content to rank themselves humble diocesans of old Bishop Valentine and his true church. IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES. I am of a constitution so general, that it consorts and sympathizelh with all things. I have no antipathy, or rather idiosyncrasy, in anything. Those national repugnances do not touch me, nor do I behold with predjudice the French, Italian, Spaniard, or Dutch.?Rdigio Medici. That the author of the Religio Medici, mounted upon the aiiy stilts of abstraction, conversant about notional and conjectural essences?in whose categories of being the possible took the upper hand of the actual?should have overlooked the impertinent individualities of such poor concretions as mankind, is not much to be admired. It 4s rather to be won- deied at, that in the genus of animals he should have condescended to distinguish that species at all. For myself, earth- bound and fettered to the scene of my activities, Standing on earth, not rapt above the sky, I confess that I do feel the differences of mankind, national or individual, to an unhealthy excess. I can look with no indifferent eye upon things or persons. Whatever is, is to me a matter of taste or distaste; or when once it becomes indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices?made up of likings and dislikings? the veriest thrall to sympathies, apathies, and antipathies. In a certain sense, I hope it may be said of me that I am a lo...