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name , as they ought , while such is the policy of its Government , and acquiesced in by the people . Our talk of Reform is but shy pocritical paltering while such procedures are tolerated simply because they belong to the department of foreign policy . The principle of our policy , home and foreign , is one and indivisibe ; it is conducted by the same hands , and in the same spirit ; nor can it be expected that the abettors of a treacherous and violent
attempt to establish one House of Lords , should be very favourable to peaceful attempts at the reformation of another House of Lords . It may be premature to censure what has passed , strong as are the appearances , without such explanations as may hereafter be given ; but the people are not careful of their own interests , if they demand not ample explanations . No nation is secure , nor deserves to be so , of its own rights , which is not jealousl v watchful of the cause of liberty " all the world over . "
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The Library of Anecdote and Table Talk . Vol . I . C . Knight . The first volume of this work , entitled ' The Book of Human Character , ' by Charles Bucke , Esq ., may be considered as an excellent commencement of the series . Taking this as a spe cmen of what is to follow ( and we sincerely trust the publisher will be most careful in maintaining the same degree of
intellectual stamina ) the present work bids fair to rival the ' Percy Anecdotes , ' and in some important respects to excel them greatly . The error to which we mainly object in the present volume , is the author ' s occasional disposition to say a disagreeable or anomalous fact by halves , as though a solecism or a paradox in human character required introducing with some apology . Are we not all more or less paradoxical ? Mr Bucke sometimes states a fact concerning an individual with " it is said , "
when we know that it was so ; and where we have every reason for being satisfied of an extreme instance , he occasionally eases it off by observing that the individual was " a little inclined " that way . Yet our author can be sufficiently positive when he pleases , as in the repeated assertions of his conviction that Mary Queen of Scots was " an adulteress , and the assistant murderer of her own husband . " In a few instances , also , the writer ' s opinions on celebrated men are contradictory . Thus : at page 162 , he considers it a just criticism on Rochefoucault , — " he is a philosor
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/9/
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