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    a paper of talent and tried honesty , and as ardent in the thick of the fight as ever . Nay ; hardly that either . For the thick of the fight was

    in old times , long before the 'Patriot' was born . Well do we remember it for we are smarting this minute from head to foot with wounds given by it to our health , having been one among a very few who were left to sustain the

    battle b y our friends the Whigs ( without petulance be it said ); and " the archers hurt" us ; and calumny and poverty were upon us ; and imprisonment was one of the least of our evils , though the

    iron entered into our Jiesh . Our " soul" it did not touch , for here we are , as hearty in the cause as ever , and as well able , after the measure of our faculties , to sustain it ; albeit the sharp taste of suffering

    has rendered us less willing to inflict pain , and we have learnt to know that enemies may be as good men as others , and that the great point is , to lift

    the whole world if you can , and trample on nobody . If this is to be p hilosophic , we are glad of it ; but " lukewarm ! " Oh , that we never were . We do not think , that the sort of fighting is needed now that was at that time ; por perhaps at any time ; but there is a warmth that has nothing to do with hostility , * uid this we have in our veins as fresh as ever , and far warmer ; for the heat is unmixed . There was a good

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    deal of mere antagonism in our former efforts ; of the petulance and pride of the will , and of the shew of fancied superiority ; and hence the good that suffering did us , in driving us from selfestimation into the arms of

    the good and beauty to be found any where , and every where , else ;—a possession so infinite , that we have ever since been hot with a zeal to make every body partake of it .

    We should apologise for referring thus personally to ourselves , did not some circumstances connected with the

    objections to our last article render it incumbent upon us to do so , and to do it still further , for the sake of justice both to ourselves and others .

    And to this end , we must explain how it is we came to write politics again , and to edit this magazine . We

    had thought ( to confess the truth ) , that having done what we could formerly to advance the good cause , and seeing that the cause must continue to

    advance , however slowly , we had a right to rest from our old labours , and work out our ordinary salvation as well as we could , in directions more agreeable to our private taste . But the late proprietors of the

    Repository having handsomely consigned the work over to us , in most unworldly fashion , rather than receive money for it in quarters where they were not sure of its being turned to reforming aocount , we thought it our duty ( as in- *

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    226 Explanation and Retrospection —

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/2/