Is made to create an idea of his physique. And so, not only are the moral and intellectual endowments of the candidate heralded to the world of voters but an attempt Nay, the thing has been carried further and in the first of each “Life” there is found what is termed a “counterfeit presentment” of the subject of the pages which follow. His enemies will know enough to attack his friends must know enough to defend.-Thus Jackson, Van Buren, Clay, and Polk have each a biography published while they live.
His life, up to the time when his reluctant acquiescence in the wishes of his friends was wrung from him, by the stern demands of a self-immolating patriotism, MUST be written. Take, by way of illustration, the case of a candidate for office-for the Presidency we'll say.
Tabitha Tibbetts in making such a remark, would be impelled by a principle which exists in a majority of human minds-a principle which makes the idea revolting, that every body should know all about us in our life-times, notwithstanding our characters may present something better even than a fair average of virtue and talent.īut “there is no rule without an exception,” and notwithstanding that it is both unusual and improper, generally, to publish biographies of remarkable personages during their lives, for the reason already explained, as well as because such histories must, of necessity, be incomplete and require post mortem additions-notwithstanding all this, we say, there are cases and persons, in which and to whom, the general rule cannot be considered to apply. If it were not for the concomitant little boys and rotten eggs? Certainly: and Mrs. Tibbetts tell all her neighbours, that she would just as soon they had put Mr. Tibbetts almost die of bashfulness? And would'nt Mrs.
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Tibbetts, to hold him up before the full gaze of “the community,” with all his qualities, characteristics, and peculiarities written on a large label and pasted to his forehead! Would'nt Mr. Were it otherwise, who could estimate the pangs of wounded modesty which would result! Who could say how keen would be the mortification, or how crimson the cheek of Grocer Tibbetts, for instance, should we present him to the world in all the resplendent glory of his public and his private virtues!-dragging him, as it were, from the bosom of retirement and Mrs. The pious task of commemorating the acts, and depicting the character of the great or good, is generally and properly deferred until they are past blushing, or swearing-constrained to a decorous behaviour by the folds of their cerements. IT is not often that the living worthy furnishes a theme for the biographer's pen. INTRODUCTION-SIMON PLAYS THE “SNATCH” GAME.