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thufe abuaed . Not onty the 6 &tahmim *> t fBi sitae Steals « f COMMON during such a peH&idedtfoVfcd tftfi feiDJMSt ^ i 6 ^ tWeeh the peOpW and thfeitf fe ^ ffcfce ii tatiVeS ) attd laid fcjiiili t $ fc tetter Without responsibility to the corruption which W& Mfc $ lf denied to |> r <* vail—but the principle Of efcfemptiofci from fciM process made needy atid worthless men sedtofe Agfcitilt ttl ^ lt Editors , and desirous t > f a sMt ill p&Hfometit M a complete s&f $ gdard to fraud mid injustice /'—tialtafn ' s Cvm HiUory W
Erpmd , Vol . iii . p . Thia pa ^ raph may be placed by the sidfe Of th ^ cfelebrat ^ d ctittiiilMive dknttnciatioii of profetie sp ^ tsfckiiig , as- ^ - " N&t &ftt $ immoral , but extl-fehiely low /' Of the use Of Hi&tOry in enlarging attd liber | ali ^ itt | oti * Sympathies with general man , much might be said which I have not roOto to say ; and much of the noblest ettitildtioh Whidh it
tends to foster—emulation of the idfeal perfection of ch&lftbtefc ;* --by presenting instances of high attainments and energetic ifri& lofty purpose , clear of the detracting influeiicJefc which discOthpose eur views of contemporaries , yet appealing to otlr a # ^ &-tiofls with all the impressiveness which the fconvictioii of ^ te&H ^ r and comtnon nature c&h ialotte bestow . In a ^ oniiderfttion t » F
the uses of tlistory , however cursory , it must be obsferV ^ d th 4 t the information concerning the preseht ^ tate of the ^ oHd , which is indispensable for the formation of any jiidgmteiit concferditife it * is > to a great extent ^ unattainable , except through the history of the pas ^ The oligarchical effusions of & Conservative dinhef ,
reported in this evening ' s Standard , dfe records of the pa « t ^ s absolutely as the elegies of Theogiiis ; aud in the tecOtfitei Of the establishment of the feudal system in England there is cOtitained much that is as literal a statement of exigting eviil as anything in the True Stin . Many are the events ttoflr J&g&iftW abound us ( but beyond the restricted litaits of our perfeort ^ l
intercourse ) of which We Shall in vain endeavour ftilly to understand the scopes or even to surmise the exi&tehCe , unies& by the adsistance of the delineations ^> f th ^ dh&dowa whifch ^ As coming events , they cast before them across the pathway of Otir ancestors . Whether the course of political conduct to be determined , may consist of a series of parliamentary Spfeechfefe and VOf ^ S ^ -
of electoral suffrage and parochial agilatioh- ^ -or mtofct b ^ TOttfined within the field which alone is open to # o large ft . frropOttidiS of those whose feelings and interests are strongly connected with the fluctuations of national progress ( the atomic contribution to the great current of public opinion by the expression of fire-side opinion— "the casting of loose arguments on the stagnant waters of private and obscure life )—nothing is of such vital importance , after a clear recognition of the philosophy of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1837, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1831/page/32/
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