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justly commanding . Mr Forster has a heart at the core of his own , to which this tendency does not always give fair play ; and he is young enough to be told by an
older man and a purchaser of experience , that the more he encourages the sunshine of the former to come out , warming all alike who deserve it , and not waiting upon the gusts and fitfulness of the will ,
or adding the sum of more To that which hath too much—" he will make all his readers as sensible of his worth and power , as the
friends are that know him . A great man , we allow , is a man who influences ; but the greatest men are those who influence lastingly and serenely .
The History of England . By Thomas Keightley , author of the " Histories of Greece and Rome , " " Outlines of History , " " The Crusaders , " &c . &e . 8 vo . Longman . ( Vol . the First . )
We have bo hesitation in saying that this History of England , though written " chiefly" for the use of schools , is the best man ' s history of the nation that has yet appeared , —the one most combining impartiality and zeal , an exposition of the real characters
concerned , with a humane consideration of the causes that produced them , and a superiority to the fleeting and party interests that have injured histories of the greatest pretension . Mr Keightley ' s sympathies with the world of
poetry and fable have stood him in exemplary stead , giving him a large and loving view of truth , such as might shame the halfphilosophies of those who affect to despise it ; though we find a singular omission tor such a pen , — that of the fabulous part of the
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history itself , which Milton so weM knew how to give and yet givw up * But what history is perfect ii The disingenuous tricks of Dj ) j Lirigard ( the more to be regrettecc
in so able a writer ) may be gra * dually seen provoking Mr Keightrtr le . y out of his more dispassionate * judgment about Protestants ancc " Papists . " He is a little tocc anxious for the maiden fame oi
Elizabeth ; and has , we thinks made an " invidious " contrast at ( page 396 , between "Woburn Abbey and Drayton Manor ; " for the " contempt" on the one side is surely assumed in that instance ,,
and the " diligence " in the heaping ; of lucre vainly sublimated intoi something fine in the other But it is highly indeed to Mr Keightley ' s credit , that the reader only guesses him to have been bred up in one side of politics .
Literary Leaves ; or Prose and Verse . By D . L . Richardson . 8 vo . Calcutta . The collected essays and poems of a most amiable man , formerly connected with the London press , now professor of the language in the Hindoo college of Calcutta ; which could not have selected an
individual more fitted to make young people love every thing belonging to his native country . Mr Richardson , by his intense admiration of genius in others , may really be said to have hurt his own , for the production of originality ; as may be curiously , and somewhat pro < -
vokingly seen , in the things he has written about love , and children , and beauty , and domestic enjoyments ( see pp . 34 and the two following , 40 , 309 , 374 , &c . &c ) , which are so good , and the result of such graceful and cordial thinking of his own , that we would fain have had the whole volume made
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1837, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1835/page/77/
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