Hawthorne
Hawthorne
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Hawthorne and his party had gone into the President s room, annexed, as he says, as super numeraries to a deputation from a Massachusetts whip -factory, with a present of a splendid whip to the Chief Magistrate : " By and by there was a little stir on the staircase and in the passageway, and in lounged a tall, loose-jointed figure, of an exaggerated Yankee port and demeanor, whom (as being about the homeliest man I ever saw, yet by no means repulsive or disagreeable) it was impossible not to re...cog nize as Uncle Abe.
" Unquestionably, "Western man though he be, and Ken- tuckian by birth, President Lincoln is the essential repre sentative of all Yankees, and the veritable specimen, physi cally, of what the world seems determined to regard as our characteristic qualities. It is the strangest and yet the fittest thing in the jumble of human vicissitudes, that he, out of so many millions, unlocked for, unselected by any intelligible process that could be based upon his genuine qualities, unknown to those who chose him, and unsus pected of what endowments may adapt him for his tre mendous responsibility, should have found the way open for him to fling his lank personality into the chair of state, where, I presume, it was his first impulse to throw his legs on the council-table, and tell the Cabinet Ministers a story.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Hawthorne and his party had gone into the President s room, annexed, as he says, as super numeraries to a deputation from a Massachusetts whip -factory, with a present of a splendid whip to the Chief Magistrate : " By and by there was a little stir on the staircase and in the passageway, and in lounged a tall, loose-jointed figure, of an exaggerated Yankee port and demeanor, whom (as being about the homeliest man I ever saw, yet by no means repulsive or disagreeable) it was impossible not to re...cog nize as Uncle Abe.
" Unquestionably, "Western man though he be, and Ken- tuckian by birth, President Lincoln is the essential repre sentative of all Yankees, and the veritable specimen, physi cally, of what the world seems determined to regard as our characteristic qualities. It is the strangest and yet the fittest thing in the jumble of human vicissitudes, that he, out of so many millions, unlocked for, unselected by any intelligible process that could be based upon his genuine qualities, unknown to those who chose him, and unsus pected of what endowments may adapt him for his tre mendous responsibility, should have found the way open for him to fling his lank personality into the chair of state, where, I presume, it was his first impulse to throw his legs on the council-table, and tell the Cabinet Ministers a story.
What to read after Hawthorne?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Thomas Fields to read onlineMoreLess
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