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Thus has a power departed from the earth , btit its influence -will not perish . The works remain our common inheritance , though the recollection of the man will be the peculiar treasure of those who had the happiness of beholding him as he lived and moved , and who can still combine the image of the most extraordinary person of our age with the study of the most perfect works of any age * .
* Since the above was written , a more particular account has been received of the circumstances attending the poet's death : as he had lived so he died . He had the evening before been engaged in scientific conversation ; and he died with Salvandy 9 ur les Revolutions in his hand . He has left behind him a valuable collection of works of art , and a great number of manuscripts . By his will he has directed that , till the year 1850 , the house in which he resided is to undergo no change : it will , we presume , therefore , be the residue of his grandchildren and their mother , his
excellent widowed daughter-in-law , the worthy custos of the museum—we had nearly said the fit priestess of a shrine at which pilgrims of taste will not fail to pay their devotions . The earthly remains of the poet have received all the honours which man can give . The body lay in state before the interment—not placed , as usual , supine , but sitting in a curule chair , covered with a satin robe . On one side of him were hung * the various orders he had received ; and on the other the golden laurel crown which the citizens of Frankfort had sent him on the celebration of an
anniversary festival . The body was then deposited , as that of Schiller had been twenty-seven years before , in the grand ducal vault . The ashes of the two poets being destined to repose by the side of the Grand Duke and Duchess , who had felt through life that , in living the friends of the greatest men of their age and countrynature * 8 princes—they enjoyed a prerogative which raised them far above the mere princes of political life , and for which they might be envied by the imperial and regal houses to which they were allied .
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A robe , of seeming truth and trust , Hid crafty observation ; And secret hung , with poison * d crust , The dirk of defamation . A mask , that like the gorget show'd Dye-varying on the pigeon : And for a mantle large and broad , He wrapt him in Religion . Hypocrisy a-la-mode .
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It must truly indeed afford matter for deep gratulation to every friend of Christian liberty , to observe with what zeal j ^ nd ardour a certain party in the state have come forward in determined opposition to the Bill lately introduced by his Majesty ' s government , with regard to the education of the lower classes in Ireland . Meeting after
meeting has been held to denounce the measure 5 pamphlet after pamphlet has issued from the press , and letter has succeeded letter , calling upon the people of Great Britain ' to join hand , to hand , shoulder to shoulder , and heart to heart , ' to support the great principle of Protestantism , —the free and unshackled use of the
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BOB Irish Scripttlrdt Education .
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Ot f IRISH SCRIPTURAL , EDUCATION , BY AN IRISH PRESBYTERIAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1832, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1812/page/20/
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