No patriotism in him

A certain smell taint of having consulted authorities.—

The English dread of being _^quizzed or laughed at—a [illegible]_^—a certain formality & limit— ne as of one who has never lost a clergyman's restraint metes & bounds—

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Of course _^the amount of what Emerson gives us is better than the old conventionalism of literature, but the da

Instead of _^the Storm beating, the wind blowing, free, the the savage throat, the ecstasy and abandon of the prarie, the dashing sea, we have always a polite person, amid a well-dressed assembly, in a parlor, talking about Plutarch, Astronomy, ? ? good behaviour, the impropriety of laughing &c. and evidently dominated by the English

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A certain snobbishness even—

what is the good if _^after all it _^really only substi- tutes another conventionalism

We want freedom, strength faith, self-support, cleanness

What have we?