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586 Mirabeau .
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The spirit of utility has seized upon the harp of poetry , and strikes it with as bold and with a truer hand than did any of the Passions whom the inspired eye of Collins saw at their revelry amid the inyrtle groves of Music . In plain English , poetry is no longer a plaything , or a mere drawing-room ornament . . As in times of popular commotion , any implement of labour , or article of
furnimture , may become a weapon of strife ; so , in the great struggle for improvement , much may be done for the good cause by a species of composition which has been generally cultivated merely for amusement . Here is a little volume of light and satirical verse , which yet has in it much pith and substance ; which , while it moves to risibility , impels to stern reflections also ; and , while
it touches the feelings , engenders r thoughts which lie too deep for tears / These things are signs of the times , and good signs too . They are indicative of that extended mental co-operation by which the barriers to human improvement must be overthrown , and the condition of society , especially in the lowest and most numerous classes , be permanently ameliorated . These are no times for trifling . All intelligent and benevolent men , whatever the peculiar faculty which organization may have endowed them with , or circumstances developed in them , have a common mission . They are all called to work at the re-edification of that
social temple which can no longer be left in its old feudal or Gothic form , but at the imminent peril of c all that it inhabit . ' They should all labour to destroy the mutual ignorance , antipathies and prejudices of the different classes of society , to discover to them their common interest , unite them in its pursuit , and point out the means of its attainment . * By a Country Curate . London : Smith ; Elder wad Co .
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a Roman , a Cornelia , and her sons would have been brought up like the Gracchi . Her Private Memoirs are admirable . ( p . 200 . ) The courage of this celebrated woman , in her adversity , will be banded down to posterity ; the unshaken constancy of her soul , in the presence of her murderers ; her unalterable attachment to those principles to which she gave her testimony by an heroic death , —a noble example , as a legacy to all who may hereafter be called upon to live in stormy times , and who have the soul to feel it .
If the examination of a book gives us an insight into the character of the author , so , on the other hand , do the life and opinions of the historian assure us of the degree of confidence which his work is likely to deserve . In this production of Mr . Dumont , we find him , as he was ever , a philosophical writer , and a man of talent and information , whose opinions were always those of a good citizen , and a sincere and constant friend of liberty .
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THE VILLAGE POOR-HOUSE . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/32/
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