'Venetian
Life'the
Briticism
'directly'for
'as soon
as.'
Lowell
once told
me that
Quincy had
never had
any
calling or
profession,because
when he
found
himself in
the
enjoyment
of a
moderate
income on
leaving
college,he
decided to
be simply
a
gentleman.He
was too
much of a
man to be
merely
that,and
he was an
abolitionist,a
journalist,and
for
conscience'sake
a
satirist.Of
that
political
mood of
society
which he
satirized
was an
eminent
man whom
it was
