text:  Too busy to watch the feelings of others and too earnest to moderate our own that true politeness which pays respect to age which strives to put the most insignificant person in company on a level with the most considerable--virtues which our neighbours possess in an eminent degree --are except in a few favoured instances unknown among us; while affectation in other countries the badge of ignorance and vulgarity is in ours even in its worst shape when it borrows the mien of rudeness and impertinence and effrontery the appanage of those whose station is most conspicuous and whose dignity is best ascertained