...cry of the day, " A True-born Englishman," or as we now should say, England for the English ; nay— "A TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN'S a contradiction: In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A metaphor, invented to express A man akin to all the universe." And he tells us, moreover, that if we...

...of the day, " A True-born Englishman," or as we now should say, England for the English ; nay — ' A TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN'S a contradiction : In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A metaphor, invented to express A man akin to all the universe." And he tells us, moreover, that, if...

...value that which all wise men deride ; For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation, A true-born Englishman's...: A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules ; A metaphor intended to express, A man a-kin to all the universe. FOR...

...admitted there is no " want of national character," though Defoe's description is still exact, — " A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction." In short, separatism is not patriotism, any more than federalism is cosmopolitanism. Perhaps national...

...vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman," and showed in limping verse, but unanswerable logic, that " A true-born Englishman's a contradiction— In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A metaphor invented to express A man AKIN to all the universe." Anything more motley and heterogeneous...

...families descended, but from those who have invaded our shores in earlier times? As Mr. Defoe says — 'A true-born Englishman's a contradiction; In speech, an irony — in fact, a fiction ; A metaphor, invented to express A man akin to all the universe. ' 230 September 9, 1871.] 231 in a castle...

...of the day, " A True-born Englishman," or as we now should say, England for the English ; nay — ' A TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN'S a contradiction : In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A metaphor, invented to express A man akin to all the universe." And he tells us, moreover, that, if...

...inopportune, inasmuch it permits me to halt and make my tail- piece with the words of De Foe : — " A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech...irony, in fact a fiction ; A banter made to be a test to fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules. A metaphor invented to express A man a-kin to all...

...was more, of the scum of foreigners. " For Englishman to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation. A true-born Englishman's...contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. *»**»» And here begins the ancient pedigree That so exalts our poor nobility. "Tis that from some...

...value that which all wise men deride ; For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation, A true-born Englishman's...: A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules ; A metaphor intended to express, A man a-kin to all the universe. FOR...