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    anomaly neutral ) likes , and m what manner ; and those that are left * to * some of them , or someof the live parts of them , it pensions for life on the proceeds of taxes—laid upon merenant ^ sailors , &c . &c . &c *

    This is a very uneasy view of things ; it spoils the picture ; it places us at a point of view whichyif the picture have any beauty in it , cannot be the

    riffhti It is unpleasant to have oOe-s imaginations torn up by the foots * just as they are taking hold of a kindly soil , and drawing from the embraced earth the i colours and the shade of

    bud and blossom . This forcible divorcement of the vision and the interwoven thought is hard ; and the web of our pleasure is irreparably rent and tangled in the separation . What must be , must ; so we turn to another Ideal ,

    and find it in the various specimens of mutilated organizations , —thanks to man ' s rancourous spoiling of God's workwhich here , by whatever way , find $ he rest of old age , companions of like habits , and no care for the morrow ; - — '

    Mundus viettts , non deficiente crumenfi "— or Gumczna either ; for tihe various reading is authorised by sonfie clear pipes among them , whteh can send forth ^ & (( so » g that shall make a ttfbaceo-reekingr back ~ pariour redolent *> f * sal t w&ter .

    AtiA * what > do 6 s one ifind ?~ Ob fw a fully sophisticated sentimentalist ^ who keeps * his j i ¦ . : i ( . . ' I /

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    poetry to his papisir l * - *~ Take him warm in his Ideal of the Greenwich Pensioner , and force him into actual j uxta-position with a specimen of the verita * ble race . ; ^ ,

    Greenwich pensioners are wonderfully alike . —Some have the instincts of the class stronger than others . I have seen a great many , and closely ; but think that the vis formativa , or virus formativum of their characters acts instantaneously ;

    hangs in the cornices of the building ; withstands whitewashing ; holds its ground against thorough draughts ; and having an affinity for blue coats of the cut , takes possession , like seven devils , of every new inmate at once . For , whether in the case of new comer or

    veteran , the force of the characteristic was independent even of time and standing ; but bore the completest and most regular relation to the lines of the Idiosyncrasy .

    The power of distortion is too strong for any mind ; its influence penetrates every fibre . A psychological philosopher , from half an hour ' s convexsa ^ tion with a Greenwich beh ^

    sioner ^ might gather an > ex- * ample of every evil influence which has gone to his Educa * - tion ; and my sentimentalist owns , that just so ' much ; was sufficient to obliterate a every mark of his Ideal . - > - / - ; ,, ;

    I was backing on the deal bench in the Park tdiich commands the best view of the ¦ < ¦ »

    * Do not seamen in the navy ( future pensioners !) pay them a . tap also ? - — Edit . M R .

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    236 Greehwich ~~ lt $ Pensioners and its Pictures .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/12/