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84 THE LANDSCAPE ANNUAL.
tive feeling of personal impression. In speaking to his
confidential friends on the subject of his first speech
in parliament, all his anxiety seems to have been ex-
pended on the impression of his own powers which that
speech conveyed; not a word, not a thought is wasted
on the suffering artisans whose interests were connected
with it. In society the perpetual consciousness of his
personal appearance haunted him and influenced every
movement; while even in that most momentous step of
his whole life—his unhappy marriage—the overwhelming
idea of self was still predominant. It is only by the aban-
donment of every such weak, and vain, and unworthy
feeling, by mortifying and subduing the falsely selfish
principle, that a truly ambitious man will hope to gra-
tify his pride, exalted in the exaltation of those whom
his hand has contributed to raise, and happy in the hap-
piness which he himself has created.
tive feeling of personal impression. In speaking to his
confidential friends on the subject of his first speech
in parliament, all his anxiety seems to have been ex-
pended on the impression of his own powers which that
speech conveyed; not a word, not a thought is wasted
on the suffering artisans whose interests were connected
with it. In society the perpetual consciousness of his
personal appearance haunted him and influenced every
movement; while even in that most momentous step of
his whole life—his unhappy marriage—the overwhelming
idea of self was still predominant. It is only by the aban-
donment of every such weak, and vain, and unworthy
feeling, by mortifying and subduing the falsely selfish
principle, that a truly ambitious man will hope to gra-
tify his pride, exalted in the exaltation of those whom
his hand has contributed to raise, and happy in the hap-
piness which he himself has created.