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sincere friend of your lordship, and the perpetual disciple 

 of your doctrine, prevents himself to pay his duty and make 

 liis reverence even to the earth.&quot; In Western societies, 

 less despotically governed, professions of liking and soli 

 citude have been less exaggerated; and they have decreased 

 as freedom has increased. In ancient France, at the royal 

 table, &quot; every time the herald cried The king drinks! 

 every one made vceux and cried t Long live the king! 

 And though both abroad and at home the same or an allied 

 speech is still used, it recurs with nothing like the same fre 

 quency. So, too, is it with the good wishes expressed in 

 social intercourse. The exclamation &quot; Long life to your 

 honour! &quot; may, indeed, still be heard; but it is heard 

 among a people who, till late times under personal rule, arc 

 even now greatly controlled by their loyalty to representa 

 tives of old families. And in parts of the kingdom longer 

 emancipated from feudalism and disciplined by industrial 

 ism, the ordinary expressions of interest, abridged to &quot; How 

 do you do? &quot; and &quot; Good-bye,&quot; are uttered in a manner 

 implying not much more interest than is felt. 



Along with phrases in which divine aid is invoked on 

 behalf of the person saluted, as in the &quot; May God grant you 

 his favours&quot; of the Arab, &quot; God keep you well&quot; of the 

 Hungarian, &quot; God protect you &quot; of the Xegro; and along 

 with those which express sympathy by inquiries after health 

 and fortune, which are also widespread; there are some 

 which take their characters from surrounding conditions. 

 One is the oriental &quot; Peace be with you,&quot; descending from 

 turbulent times when peace was the great desideratum / 

 another is the &quot;How do you perspire?&quot; alleged of the 

 Egyptians; and a still more curious one is &quot; How have the 

 mosquitoes used you? &quot; which, according to Ilumboldt, is 

 the morning salute on the Orinoco. 



397. There remain to be noted those modifications of 

 language, grammatical and other, which, by implication, 



