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    deed we felt it to be expected of us , though not insisted on , and the more binding for that reason ) to carry on the spirit

    of its politics , which happened to be our own ; and thus we again found ourselves compelled to speak out , and of course with our old

    sincerity . It was , on one account , very painful to us ; for the personal claims , which we conceive to have been given us upon a reforming government by our pecuniary as well

    as other sufferings in the cause ( not that we ever proposed , God knows , to make a profit of those sufferings , or to complain of them , if unrelieved ; for old soldiers must not do that ) had been met , to

    a certain temporary extent , but at a moment of the greatest importance to us , by the present ministry ; and most unwillingly did we hazard the peril of being thought ungrateful by the least reflecting of their friends , however

    erroneously . Such as know how we have ever set up a principle against all personal ideas of welfare , will not have mistaken us ; and delightful is it to feel assured , that those

    among the ministers themselves , for whom we entertain the deepest respect ( and very deep it ia ) have ample regions in their own nature , in which to find comers of scholarly

    and simple excuse for us ; however simple in a small as well as larger sense they may be induced to think it , by a still more enlarged knowledge

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    in such matters than we fancw ourselves to have arrived atU The Whig friend , alluded toad the commencement of thies

    article , who is himself a mam quite rich enough in heart and ! understanding , and we will add J quite well enough acquainted with us , to give us all the credit we demand in this

    instance , is nevertheless led by the kind interest he takes inJ our welfare to fear that we may do injury to the demands we still think we have the right ; of making , in others . But all . we can say in answer is , that

    his good opinion , and those of other honest men , is our best possession after all , and the best heir-loom , under providence , we can leave to others , where a sense of duty is in the way . It is no foppery in us

    to say so , for we do not partake the ordinary opinions held concerning merit and demerit , but look upon every man as the creature of circumstances and his kindred . And as to any

    expectations which it may ruin , court-wards or ministrywards , it is undoubtedly possible that they may be ruined by circumstances over which individuals have less control

    than is supposed ; but we shall not easily believe , that honourable and reflecting men will feel personally offended with the utterance of honest opinions expressed without discourtesy ; and having nothing but the general good in view , their own included . Mistaken we may be in our mode of advancing it . Who may not

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 2277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/3/