This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...and whose vices do not degrade them to the lowest. But I would ask, what can be the character of the body depending from such a head, and communicating movement to the joints of such a tail? The circumstances in which the individuals who form such a body are placed must suggest the answer; and it can be but of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...and whose vices do not degrade them to the lowest. But I would ask, what can be the character of the body depending from such a head, and communicating movement to the joints of such a tail? The circumstances in which the individuals who form such a body are placed must suggest the answer; and it can be but of one kind, when they are taken as a whole. I would avoid even the appearance as well as the reality of uncharitableness, and therefore I will leave them in your hands. Consider the facts of the case, and then pray deal with them gently; for you yourselves will feel that they have need of all your charity in deciding what sort of characters they must have. The mode I have taken of communicating with you, my dear friends of the world, leads me to fancy you sitting about me as in the old times, when I was one of you; and though your kind and friendly faces seem to my imagination to be somewhat beclouded from time to time, yet I think you do not grow angry with me. I am constrained, however, to endow you, my visionary companions, with voices as well as faces, and I think I hear you say, that in spite of all my talk about charity, and my asking for delay, I must plead guilty to the uncharitableness of including all actors and actresses in a sweeping condemnation because of the acknowledged delinquencies of some, or of many. I hear some of you bring forward the name of one eminent instance of respectability amongst performers, and others speak of another; here a friend puts me in mind of a living "ornament to the profession," and there another echoes the eulogium of one who is no longer in this world. I am truly glad, dear friends, to hear you speak of these instances of respectability; but you must allow me to direct your charge of want...
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