Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — The Englishman. [ARTICLE]

The Englishman.

Max O’Kell’B leeture. The Englishman is a singular mixture ot the lion, the mule and the octopus. In the temple he is a publican—a miserable sinner; out of it a Pharisee. When he prays he makes a grimace and hides his face. Heine said that a blaspheming Frenchman was more pleasing Jo God than a praying Englishman. In politics he always knows where to lay the blame if anything goes wrong, and keeps the Irish, the Scotch and the Welsh conveniently at hand for the purpose. Both French and English are self satisfied; but the Frenchman is a braggart, while the Englishman is provokingly sure of his superiority and thinks it so incontestable that he will not raise his voice to assort it. He pities us poor foreigners, and thanks God that -a _ — .tU r>n - vwx» qp jft Slot ftS O'nrr is h“l