I have just returned from home where I spent the holidays frolicking with the girls and laughing almost constantly either at my ow...n folly or that of others. Like most youngsters whose time has been spent at school where we have little society of any kind, and none of the ladies, I am quite bashful when in company, and of course very awkward. This, instead of causing me mortification, affords me an infinite deal of amusement. I know my deficiency and, instead of lamenting over it, I make it a subject of sport both for myself and others who observe it. In this way I avoid all of those painful feelings which torture "the bashful man," and while counterfeiting an indifference to the opinions of others which I do not feel, I often find that I have overcome the embarrassment which at first oppressed me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A counterfeiting law-factory, standing half in a slave land and half in a free! What kind of laws for free men can you expect from... that?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety; ...but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God gave the righteous man a certificate entitling him to food and raiment, but the unrighteous man found a facsimile of the same ...in God's coffers, and appropriated it, and obtained food and raiment like the former. It is one of the most extensive systems of counterfeiting that the world has seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »