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    And now the wind beginning to blow fierce 'Gainst the rude box in wjiich these two were thrust , Threatening their instant drowning , Danae Huddling her baby closer to her bosom With her dear hand , and bursting into tears , Said , " Oh my poor baby ! 'Tis hard indeed

    To bear , —this misery ! Yet here thou steepest Soundly , with thy sweet little milky soul , Breathing away against thy mother ' s breast , In this strange cradle , with its ugly nails , And dismal lamp , that makes the night more terrible *? The waters leap over thy head at me , And the winds roar ; yet thou , poor pretty-cheek , Car ' st not , all dry beneath the fine red cloak !

    " Ah ! didst thou know dreadful when dreadful comes , Too sharply wouldst thou lend thy little ear . Sleep on , sleep on : —do as thy mother bids thee , Baby I—Oh ! would that I could bid the seas Sleep also , and my immeasurable grief . "

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    BY EGERTON WEBBE .

    All profess to seek Truth , and doubtless many desire to find her . We have yet , as it were , only seen her footsteps in the sand , but , charmed with

    that sight , we long to trace the nymph over the difficult mountain passes which she loves to thread , till we shall arrive at her secret abode amongst the rocky holds of Nature .

    But though Truth has many ardent followers , she is such a sufferer on all hands as often to have as much reason to complain of friends as of enemies . I therefore once drew out a list

    of the various sufferings which , as it appeared to me , fell to the share of Truth , and a little reflection on this list convinced me that , in fitting' hands , it might be made the ground of a very noble philosophical essay , tending to tKe exposition pf

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    many besetting errors * and full of advantage to the sincere inquirer . The object of this essay would be , to do that for Truth , generally , which all essays seek

    to qo for their particular subjects . Every writer , ill treating a litigated subject , makes it a part of his task to review the writings of his predecessoTS , to expose their defects and investigate all the probable sources of tlieir errors .

    Profiting of their experience , and well read in tlieir mistakes , he proceeds , perhaps , to lay down rules for his own and his reader ' s guidance , and so fortifies himself bn all hands before

    lie sets off on the same road . The method is of course admirable ; but ; when we find it stopping short at entomology pr conchology , nay , even at

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    116 Of ike Sufferings of Truth .

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    OF THE SUFFERINGS OF TRUTH .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 116, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/44/