--O Heaven, it is the most accursed sin of man; and done
everywhere, at present, on the streets and high places, at
noonday! Very seriously I say, and pray as my chief orison, May
the Lord deliver us from it.--
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* On Carlyle, published in _Graham's Magazine_ in March and
April, 1847.
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About a week ago there came your neighbor Hoar; a solid,
sensible, effectual-looking man, of whom I hope to see much more.
So soon as possible I got him under way for Oxford, where I
suppose he was, last week;--_both_ Universities was too much for
the limits of his time; so he preferred Oxford;--and now, this
very day, I think, he was to set out for the Continent; not to
return till the beginning of July, when he promises to call here
again. There was something really pleasant to me in this Mr.
Hoar: and I had innumerable things to ask him about Concord,
concerning which topic we had hardly got a word said when our
first interview had to end. I sincerely hope he will not fail to
keep his time in returning.
You do very well, my Friend, to plant orchards; and fair fruit
shall they grow (if it please Heaven) for your grandchildren to
pluck;--a beautiful occupation for the son of man, in all
patriarchal and paternal times (which latter are patriarchal
too)! But you are to understand withal that your coming hither
to lecture is taken as a settled point by all your friends here;
and for my share I do not reckon upon the smallest doubt about
the _essential_ fact of it, simply on some calculation and
adjustment about the circumstantials.
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