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    14 MrSerjeantTalfourdhCopyrightBill

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    MR SERJEANT TALFOURD'S COPYRIGHT BILL.*

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    The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...

    the world _, pect must But rest , upon this for some prostime doubt the awful at anyrate , from arising from all that is hitherto known of the unhappy chances of royal spoiling ; which chances , however , should not prevent us from hoping and thinking the best , as long as we are prepared for disappointment , and commit no offences ourselves , either of

    adulation or the reverse . Her Majesty ' s position , at all events , is a very serious one , both as regards us and herself ; and her youth , her sex , her manifest sensibility ( whether for good or evil ) , her common nature as a fellow-creature , and all those circumstances which will make her reign so blest beyond ex-

    The Accession Of Queen To The Throne Ayo...

    ample , if she turn out well , and so very piteous and unpopular if otherwise 3 but of which neither she nor any one else will , or can , have been responsible for the first causes ( those lying hidden in the mystery of

    all things ) , combine to make every reflecting heart regard her with a mixture of pitying tenderness and hopeful respect , and cordially to pray , that it may be consistent with the good of mankind , and best for it ,

    whatever be their particular opinions meanwhile , to see her fair figure continue hovering over the advancing orb , like the embodied angel of the meaning of her name . L . H .

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    Mr Serjeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill.*

    MR SERJEANT _TALFOURD'S COPYRIGHT BILL . *

    Mr Serjeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill.*

    There is a class of persons who , to feebler minds , are singularly provoking ; to stronger minds they are insignificant . After a long train of argument , to which they attend merely

    with their ears , and which they < cannot comprehend , they recur with a but' to the premiss , and iwant the whole battle fought cover again for their own pecuniar satisfaction . Of such is the iwriterof the pamphlet before us .

    Mr Serjeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill.*

    Mr Talfourd _' s admirable speech , —admirable alike for its practical character the persuasive warmth of its not intemperate language , and the liveliness of its illustration , was received in the House in which

    it was delivered with enthusiastic applause from all parties Perhaps no body of men could be more disinterested in a question of the kind than the House of Commons ; a very

    inconsider-* Remarks on the Speech of Mr Serjeant Talfourd , on moving for leave to bring in Bill to Consolidate the Laws relating to Copyright , and to extend the term of its uraiioiu By Thomas Teggy Bookselter _. —pp . 23 . Thomas Tegg and Son .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/12/