We do not consider it low-bred in her to pronounce her own speech, and should prefer it so to hearing it from any other person, or reading it.

His Grace and his Lordship exhibit themselves very often for popularity, and their houses every day for money .-- No, if a man shows himself other than he is, if he belittles himself before an audience for hire, then he acts unworthily.

But a true word, fresh from the lips of a true man, is worth paying for, at the rate of eight dollars a day, or even of fifty dollars a lecture.

The taunt must be an outbreak of jealousy against the renowned authors who have the audacity to be also orators.

The sub-lieutenants (of the press) stick a too popular writer and speaker with an epithet in England, instead of with a rapier, as in France .-- Poh! All England is one great menagerie, and, all at once, the jackal, who admires the gilded cage of the royal beast, must protest against the vulgarity of the talking-bird's and the nightingale's being willing to become a part of the exhibition! THE LONG PATH.
(Last of the Parentheses.) Yes, that was my last walk with the SCHOOLMISTRESS.