Chapter 3

“In the power of saying rude truths, sometimes in the lion’s mouth, no men surpass them.”

“The more hearty and sturdy expression may indicate that the savageness of the Norsemen was not all gone.”

Emerson: National Traits.

“That man speaksIs nature’s prompting, whether thus or thusShe leaves to you, as ye do most affect it.”—Dante.(Quoted fromFarrar’s Chapters on Language.)

“That man speaksIs nature’s prompting, whether thus or thusShe leaves to you, as ye do most affect it.”—Dante.(Quoted fromFarrar’s Chapters on Language.)

“That man speaksIs nature’s prompting, whether thus or thusShe leaves to you, as ye do most affect it.”—Dante.(Quoted fromFarrar’s Chapters on Language.)

“That man speaks

Is nature’s prompting, whether thus or thus

She leaves to you, as ye do most affect it.”—Dante.

(Quoted fromFarrar’s Chapters on Language.)


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