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Mr Wakley was right in insisting updn having the Reform Principle recognised in immediate co-existence with the first honours paid to the Throne ; and are sorry that Ministers had not the address to do it
themselves , or wanted , like their brother aristocrats , the inclination . The plea of unanimity is not even so plausible as it claims to be , even though
a Burke were to stir up his profundities in its favour . For the unanimity itself is but a show of Unanimity , not the substance . Everybody knows that the Lords are not unanimous
in approving the Queen ' s Government ; therefore what is the use of making a show as if they were otherwise ? Why , the use is this ;—it sets show itself above substance ; and herein is an instinct of abuse
against use , —of irrational assumptions against rational amendments *— of the Few against the Many . We are sorry for this conviction of our minds . We would fain see the
poetry of the state ( or whatever is imaginative and ornamental in it ) better able to vindicate its being of the right sort , and not afraid of honest prose and its critical inquiries . We would have a Sovereign of England
able to speak as candidly and as kindly abroad as an Anlei * icari President;—able to make a & true a speech , and not be the organ of a convention of nothings , — or worse than nothings ,- ^ -ah elaborate avoidance of * truth ahoV implication of fitbeHdod sMft Mft A « trifck "
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( in tfhich Johnsoif tikfS " thfcfre is always something flesjridatble" ) , at worst and too oftetty a sovereign lie . We do iibt say that all this objection applies to the preterit Speecn ; but a good deal of it does . It is one of the regular family o * f royal speeches ; and vvho is ii that really wish well to royalty ; —those who would have ii go
on paltering as of old , in ^ J ) ite of the frightful lessftns givlifl ( above all ) to its insincerity ) or those who would h & ve it loved for its candour by the natural propensity to admire it in the mind of man , especially in the person of # yoking alid
blooming woman ? The " ih 8 M es" perhaps have yet to learii that they do really & dnlire thfe pomp and graces or- sovereign power as much as they af & afraid they do ; and that Such admiration is in the nature df the
imaginative arid beauty-ldviiig creature called matij whatever republicans may thiiik . Why will not those who undertake to lead theinu make them love
this truth , instead of Seeing theift perplexed with the useless falsehoods mixed up with lt $ atid every now ana then getting angry with it , and tearing it front its altar ? If the graces
of royalty would not be displaced all over the iVbrl ^ bv the sullenness or insipidity of the Quaker part df uhfitarlMiism , it xiiMi cea ^ e tti tialtef with the coiiiinon uhdergtand * iii ^ and not thrust updn ii k tie for an oracle ; Sorry are ft & td fiii &^ iAo & sdlrt , —tfeAt titte n ^ thi % ttf i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/7/
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