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jiifgebn 6 t physician iiiay { ilrefy mend a state as well as i ( Jottoii-spinner , or even a servant ( for courtiers are servants , md the ori g in of the family of ; he person we allude to was a iiiisfcessful cultivator of the
lUttiours of Henry the Eighth . ) Fhe fcotton-spiriner may mend t State also : we do not deny it ; > r a servant either , provided ie is a bit of an JEsop . Dodsley , who was a footman , vould have made as good a ninister as the Duke of
Newastle . Rousseau , who was a matchmaker ' s son , absolutely tbod in livery , at one period
> f his life , behind a gentlelan's chair ; which he quitted , s Hafclitt said , " to go and hake all the thrones in Euope . " What becomes then of ided jokes about powders and ecipes ! poorly anticipated by
ertain monarchs , not a whit ibliier , with quips upon " spinhig-j entries" ? We should ke to know what a great and bod Tory wit of tis time , hysician and politician withal , Dir Arbuthnot ) would have iid it such an answer had been
iven to the chapters of his History of John Bull . ' The liadical speakers let i £ se pleasantries go by in ^ otnfttl or smiling silence . ^ lr Hume was not so wise in lllpwmg that he had committed a little bull , " when he spoke IF thbse who were " backward II cdming forward . " Mr Hume jrtiiore iolid than quick ; other-| tee he might have vindicated ih phrdBe by good classical
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arid poetical authority ; and By the common feeling of his hearers too ; for who is not aware , that people do often come forward in a mariner that
hangs back ! vide the Tories in their pretended zeal for Reform . Non progredi est regredi , says the Latin proverb ( Not to advance is to recede );
—a good memorandom for the Whigs , and the subject of all the present complaint against them . A Roman historian talks even of people going backwards to war , —entering a fight with their backs
turned—Tergiversanter pugnam ineuntes . And see what Dante says of the strange shapes , who once having emphatically professed to look forward , ended in having their faces turned horribly the
other way ( a sort of Burdettites ) ; which the great English poet has applied to tlie very personification of Ignorance , —a dotard who could see nothing but in times past : —
' For as h 6 forward mov'd his footing old , So backward still was turn'd hia wrinkled face . " Spenser . Faerie Queenr .. Book I . Canto 8 .
Full of significance is the advice of Mr Wakley , that if the wishes of Reformers are to meet with scorn or neglect from the new Parliament , they had better be laid before the Queen . We say , Yes ; even if in no better Fashion tlian the
Address was laid , which the Working Men ' s Association wrote . We say to that eicel-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/10/
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