One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen
— Cumberland, Richard (1732-1811)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for W. Griffin [etc.]
Date
1772
Metaphor
One may weed out unmanly prejudice from the hearts of his countrymen
Metaphor in Context
MORTIMER
Come, come, 'tis you that should know better; in this poor Highlander, the force of prejudice has some plea, because he is a clown; but you, a citizen that should be of the world, whose heart, philosophy and travel, might have open'd, shou'd know better than to join the cry with those, whose charity, like the limitation of a brief, stops short at Berwick, and never circulates beyond the Tweed: By Heaven, I'd rather weed out one such unmanly prejudice from the hearts of my countrymen, than add another Indies to their Empire.
Come, come, 'tis you that should know better; in this poor Highlander, the force of prejudice has some plea, because he is a clown; but you, a citizen that should be of the world, whose heart, philosophy and travel, might have open'd, shou'd know better than to join the cry with those, whose charity, like the limitation of a brief, stops short at Berwick, and never circulates beyond the Tweed: By Heaven, I'd rather weed out one such unmanly prejudice from the hearts of my countrymen, than add another Indies to their Empire.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "empire" in HDIS (Drama)
Date of Entry
08/16/2004
