Addison (Classic Reprint)

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The commercial and professional classes, from whom the Whigs derived their chief support, of course predominated in the towns, and their larger opportunities of associa tion gave them an influence in affairs which compensated for their inferiority in numbers. They lacked, however, what the country party possessed, a generous ideal of life. Though many of them were connected with the Presby terian system, their common sense made them revolt from its rigidity, while at the same time their economical prin ciples failed to supply them with any standard that could satisfy the imagination. Sir Andrew Freeport excites in us less interest than any member of the Spectator's Club. There was not yet constituted among the upper middle classes that mixed conception of good feeling, good breed ing, and good taste which we now attach to the name of gentleman.

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