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particular sphere , be up and doing . Organize yourselves ^ if yoit be not already organized . Find your man , if you have not already found him . Secure the victory , if it be not already secured ; and do not reckon upon that too hastily . Prepare to show the world what a Reformed Parliament is ; and make
despots tremble and nations do reverence before the free choice of a free people . Show them such an assemblage of honest and able men , the master-spirits of the age , as has never yet been collected together , for a like purpose , at any time or in any country . If the first Reformed Parliament be a failure ; if it be filled with spendthrifts , dandies , and adventurers ; spouters of froth , and men whose brains are in their pockets ; the soulless minions of aristocracy , the impudent nominees of peers , the practised hacks of office , th 6 timid slaves of circumstance ; if these , and such as these , are to be found in any number within the walls of Saint Stephen ' s , then indeed , for the present generation , all is over ; you will be eternally disgraced , and the cause of representative government and human freedom and improvement will be thrown back throughout Europe . I will not believe it possible . You "will avert so fearful a calamity . You will wisely use the powers you have so honourably acquired ; and , to use the expressive language of our poet and-patriot Milton , you will ' not let England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live . '
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'To form , according to the best evidence within out reach , our conclusions as to the sincerity of his objects , their tendency , and extent , —as to the exigencies which may have justified , and the wisdom and moderation with which he pursued them , —is what surely may be undertaken , if not with a mind altogether uninfluenced by preconceived impressions , at least in a spirit not to
be betrayed by them into injustice . Nor is it an occupation uninteresting , to such as have any desire to deal truly with the memory of a person who acted a great part in one of the greatest events that ever befell England . ' Such Lord Nugent declares to have been his object in the composition and publication of this work , which will connect his name in the literature of his country
with that of one of her worthiest children . Much novelty we did not expect to find . Hampden ' s was a race which , though short , was too glorious , and too much placed before the eyes of all men , not to have made it necessary thut we should , long ere this , have known all that could be known concerning his history , his thoughts and his opinions . Accordingly , with the exception of ft ? Some Memorials of John Hampden , his Party and hia Times . By Ixwrd Jftqpnt ,
avois . Ovo , London : Murray , 1832 .
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On Parliamentary Pledges 443
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HAMPDEN * . 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 443, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/11/
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