The Desire of Reputation; An Address, Before the Phoenix And Union Societies of Hamilton College, July 28, 1841
The Desire of Reputation; An Address, Before the Phoenix And Union Societies of Hamilton College, July 28, 1841
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3 18 turned away from what is true and right by flattety Or fear; by the dread of contempt for sifl^4ilarity or of persecution; by the hope of life or the apprehension of death. It is that which, strong in conscious rectitude, is not humbled and abashed though it stands alone; which, secure in the belief of uprightness of intention, can follow out its own convic- tions, though the world may smile or frown« You would not select the duellist for a man of independence. It is his want of it that le...ads him into the field — for he oftenest goes there against his own convictions of right, sacrificing his in- dependence to a law of honour, whose wrong and folly he ad- mits, and to the fear of a charge of cowardice from his friends* Hamilton left his recorded sentiments against the practice which cost him his life ; and fell a sacrifice to the custom, because even such a brave man did not dare to avow that sentiment openly, and to meet the scorn of one portion of mankind. " My religious and moral principles," says he in a paper found after his death, " are strongly opposed to the practice of duelling, and it would ever give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws."* To stand' up against pre- vailing but bad customs ; to brave the smile of contempt and the finger of scorn when one knows that he is right ; to bid the world laugh ( n while we pursue " the even tenor, •of our way," often requires a rarer courage than to face the cannon's mouth, or to expose the life to the fire of a skilful marksman.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
3 18 turned away from what is true and right by flattety Or fear; by the dread of contempt for sifl^4ilarity or of persecution; by the hope of life or the apprehension of death. It is that which, strong in conscious rectitude, is not humbled and abashed though it stands alone; which, secure in the belief of uprightness of intention, can follow out its own convic- tions, though the world may smile or frown« You would not select the duellist for a man of independence. It is his want of it that le...ads him into the field — for he oftenest goes there against his own convictions of right, sacrificing his in- dependence to a law of honour, whose wrong and folly he ad- mits, and to the fear of a charge of cowardice from his friends* Hamilton left his recorded sentiments against the practice which cost him his life ; and fell a sacrifice to the custom, because even such a brave man did not dare to avow that sentiment openly, and to meet the scorn of one portion of mankind. " My religious and moral principles," says he in a paper found after his death, " are strongly opposed to the practice of duelling, and it would ever give me pain to be obliged to shed the blood of a fellow-creature in a private combat forbidden by the laws."* To stand' up against pre- vailing but bad customs ; to brave the smile of contempt and the finger of scorn when one knows that he is right ; to bid the world laugh ( n while we pursue " the even tenor, •of our way," often requires a rarer courage than to face the cannon's mouth, or to expose the life to the fire of a skilful marksman.
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