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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2 : school days and early ventures (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 7 : Whittier as a social reformer (search)
Chapter 8: personal qualities
That acute, if not always impartial, observer, Mr. George W. Smalley, says of the most famous of modern English Quakers, John Bright, There was no courtlier person than this Quaker, none whose manners were more perfect. ... If there had been no standard of good manners, he would have created one. . . . Swift said, Whosoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best-bred man in the company.
London letters, I. 124.
Tried by this last standard, at least, Wh hey would have listened just as attentively if Balaam's animal had spoken?
The element of humour, which early showed itself in Whittier, was undoubtedly one influence which counteracted whatever element of narrowness was to be derived from his Quaker training.
One sees how a fine mind may be limited in influence through the want of humour when considering such a case as that of the Rev. Dr. William Ellery Channing, for instance, whose writings, otherwise powerful, have gradually diminished i
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)