On this page
-
Text (1)
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
tion of this nick-name would have maddened him , but as he was an usher in a school , he sftw nq reason why he should not be called " Sheep-dog . " It pleased him to think that in his bwn humble person he strikingly exemplified the " fitness of things . ' * Poor White ! IJf I were to live a thdtifcahd years—a millenium crowded with incident—I do not think that I should
ever forget him . We used to say that he had once been a post-boy , which was ribt otherwise true , than that his parents had kept the Post-office in Exeter , or iti some other West-of-England town . He came to Dr R , ' s as a very young
man , with a truly Shakspearian knowledge of the classics ; he bad , " small Latin and less Greek ; " but he had a mine of pure gpld wittun him , hot less precious because it wsts tmcdified . Tne little that he knew was Self-taught ; he had received tid other than the commonest education , but he had the Will ' fttia | H& power to learri ; he had the germs of knowledge ; t he asbired noblv ; and , putting : forth nis strength , lie gt £ btiled .
With his padt ignorance until , in a few mdiiths , the neglect &tid 01 rdl ^ riess of His many boyish years tvds atoned for by the iiy-ahd-nigii £ labours of his intellect , nbw vigorous in its ffi || urity . now beautiful and how grand is the triuinph 8 F pi ^ i ye power over the antagonisms of circumstanced , and yet ftor little was it appreciated , ridy , how scortied it wasl iri pile , the "Sheep-dog . " Fao . wt think thai there tvas a boy in the i ^ fchool Who sa # anything : to admire in White : itideed , it wists the fashion
tp despise Tiini . Breiathing a fcoriventiorial atmosphere £ k # e W $ l ^ iir ^ all ihe sel f-inflation of puerile aristocrats , We tossed iij ^ i , ojax Beids at the unforttitiate ' * sheep-dog /* and hsWitig ypifed | feat he was no gentleman , We tacitly agreed to vlctiiriiize Kiih . There was hothirig actiially ridiculous in the man , bbt ^ S boqH mad ei hitii ajp p ^ at rldiculoui 3 . How We did this Will ^ Speedily di vined by all who eVer have bfefeh tb schodl .
tjfil numerous were the tip-settings of his de&k , al \^ ayi 5 coh-: i | iyeii / s 6 U tb . deluge it ^ cbhtentia with ink , thfc sdp ^ lenieiitary * JilfJI ajid cobblers-Wax appended to his di ^ at , the ^ i-ailiitQ ii s insertions of tnanV strange attifcleS iii the rila ^ azin ^ or his cbattioijKels . the carifeatiire ^ aha this dowrel ver ^ iefi 6 dtifc 6 rfaipe : him
ymffik in alt the likelidkt piafees , the &ufcked-6 raripil Whifeh f ^ ujai laliite him oh the fabe and be ^ blogjiied for' ^ intetiaed k ^ fcae oiie els ^ ; all thefefe , Wnd miAAf Hi&H ) ififlictjlohs of a Tike nStllre , Was lie feted to isfadiife . Not thAVhe Mb ^ pd piaeiT , for hb Wa& fidth ^ ktikd hbr exiting ; Md He ^ bg ^ n ^ W w ^ te ^ t ^ e ' -dAttd to ifedt hlift thuSj biit that he 'fb ) Wciit ^ s , M featit m thd % ht hini to , * MiVM ttie ffogfW £ t ^ P it Wfe fihe fWi td us althbugh it m % mm
Untitled Article
i # shckp . mg .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 1, 1837, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1829/page/14/
-