They have invariably shown the most advanced free-trade spirit in preferring to take somebody else's ready-made articles rather than to try to produce any brand-new conceptions themselves.

They continue to follow the same line of life.

A hearty appreciation of the things of others is still one of their most winning traits.

What they took they grafted bodily upon their ancestral tree, which in consequence came to present a most unnaturally diversified appearance.

For though not unlike other nations in wishing to borrow, if their zeal in the matter was slightly excessive, they were peculiar in that they never assimilated what they took.