How different must they be from the females of other countries! Deeply imbued with the great distinctive principles of your system, devoted to the education of their children in the same sublime truths, and indefatigable in their discrimination, among the meanest of their households!" "Hum!" "Now, sir, even in England, a country which I trust is not the most debased on earth, you will find women, beautiful, intellectual, accomplished and patriotic, who limit their knowledge of these fundamental points to a zeal for a clique, and the whole of whose eloquence on great national questions is bounded by a few heartfelt wishes for the downfall of their opponents;--" "It is very much so at Stunnin'tun, too, if truth must be spoken," remarked Noah, who had been a listener.
"Who, instead of instructing the young suckers that cling to their sides in just notions of general social distinctions, nurture their young antipathies with pettish philippics against some luckless chief of the adverse party;--" "Tis pretty much the same at Stunnin'tun, as I live!" "Who rarely study the great lessons of history in order to point out to the future statesmen and heroes of the empire the beacons of crime, the incentives for public virtue, or the charters of their liberties; but who are indefatigable in echoing the cry of the hour, however false or vulgar, and who humanize their attentive offspring by softly expressed wishes that Mr.Canning, or some other frustrator of the designs of their friends, were fairly hanged!" "Stunnin'tun, all over!" "Beings that are angels in form--soft, gentle, refined, and tearful as the evening with its dews, when there is a question of humanity or suffering; but who seem strangely transformed into she-tigers, whenever any but those of whom they can approve attain to power; and who, instead of entwining their soft arms around their husbands and brothers, to restrain them from the hot strife of opinions, cheer them on by their encouragement and throw dirt with the volubility and wit of fish-women." "Miss Poke, to the backbone!" "In short, sir, I expect to see an entirely different state of things at Leaplow.

There, when a political adversary is bespattered with mud, your gentle monikinas, doubtless, appease anger by mild soothings of philosophy, tempering zeal by wisdom, and regulating error by apt and unanswerable quotations from that great charter which is based on the eternal and immutable principles of right." "Well, Sir John, if you speak in this elocutionary manner in the house," cried the delighted Noah, "I shall be shy of answering.

I doubt, now, if the brigadier himself could repeat all you have just said." "I have forgotten to inquire, Mr.Downright, a little about your Leaplow constituency.

The suffrage is, beyond question, confined to those members of society who possess a 'social stake.'" "Certainly, Sir John, They who live and breathe." "Surely none vote but those who possess the money, and houses, and lands of the country ?" "Sir, you are altogether in error; all vote who possess ears, and eyes, and noses, and bobs, and lives, and hopes, and wishes, and feelings, and wants.

Wants we conceive to be a much truer test of political fidelity, than possessions." "This is novel doctrine, indeed! but it is in direct hostility to the social-stake system." "You were never more right, Sir John, as respects your own theory, or never more wrong as respects the truth.