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- But to come back to my little friends . Though I think that for them amusement may always be found in occupation , I am ever delighted to see them furnished with amusement in the purest sense of the word ; but I would give the preference to such as promoted sympathetic rather than emulative feeling , and active rather than sedentary entertainment . Thus , I would
say a word in favour of the old English country-dance ; and when the alternation , or other circumstances , render a quiet amusement desirable , I would also say a word in behalf of Chess . This will be very startling to many , but I would have them remember , that in chess , as in " violin-playing , there are three degrees : play not at all—play very well—play very bad i" and that those players who have attained but the last
degree may feel both pleasure and interest in the game . It is not the Phillidores alone who enjoy chess . I have known yery young children who enjoyed a game of chess excessively 5 and there are few better opportunities than it affords of pointing out to them the danger of precipitation—the necessity of forethought—the moral dignity of losing a game with temper , and gaining one without triumph—and the folly of despair , since a very hopeless state of affairs may be retrieved by circumspection * M . L . G .
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( From the Note-book of a Tourist ) * What is that wild and flickering light , flashing over the long line of palaces of the Corso , from St Carlo to the Colonna ? - —that train of torches , and the loud and solemn chant of the 9
masked procession ?—would be the anxious questions of a stranger . It is a Roman funeral ; a distinguished citizen of the eternal city is going to mingle his dust with " the illustrious dead . " All is wrapt in the stillness of night , save the chant and responses of the long line of friars , who advance -with measured tread , each bearing a taper , and joining with
deep-toned voice in the loud " misericordia" ! Now the coffin passes , covered with an ample pall of black velvet , embroidered in silver with the emblems of death and fleeting titne ; upon the top lie a hat and sword , how lately borne in the gay saloon , now the appanage of the grave !—The procession arrives at the church , tne coffin is placed beneath a canopy in the centre , and the friars as they enter place their tapers around , till all is one blaze of light ; then rises , vibrating
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ROMAN FUNERALS AND BRITISH BURYING GROUNDS ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/57/
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