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the Rev . Signor Spinella that I was desirous he should encounter the dangers of & journey to Bologna V Pray did I ? They would have thrown , you , had you gone after us , into that ugly tower of theirs , * which , like their politics and religion , is ready to crush those who should attempt to put it upright .
You now must have seen , by my last letter , that they made Bologna too hot for us . We did not go to Bergamo nor to Ferrara , but strait on for Gomo . What matters that ? We sent your two books from Parma , the Messer Ludovico and the Messer Torqaato . Write away , write away ; or we must hear you talk on our return .
f tEV , PARROCO SPINELLA TO MR RA 1 KES . lllustrissinous ! Nothing is so delightful to a generous heart and elevated mind , as to commemorate those actions of our countryman which throw a lustre on all the country , and rjeconduct her noble sons amongst
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the most glorious of her ancestors . And nothing , it appears to me , can do this so effectually and so signally , as displaying that self-devotion ,
that forgetfuliiess of personality and family , of which we are delighted to read so frequently among the ancient Romans . I find an example no less memorable in the more
recent paggs of our Tuscan annals . Prince Borghese had received from the Emperor Napoleon the vice-royalty of Piedmont , and acquired under the auspices of that Emperor , in estates and money , about two million crowns . Yet such
was his regard for his cquntry , such his reluctance to displease its rulers , that he forbore to put on even the habiliments of mourning at the decease of his brother
and benefactor . Such magnanimity , united with such delicacy , was greatly applauded in our Tuscany . Our beloved country , we trust , can
still furnish many similar examples , and there is no despair or doubt of their deficiency in future . I kiss Sec .
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Church Mates . 261
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CHURCH RATES .
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One Rufus Rigge—a peppery prig , Whose little face look ' d very big , Consisting of a pent-house bfow , Crown'd by a carrpt-coloiir'd thatch , ' Two ferret eyes o ^ ajigry glow , Red whisker " ^ and a nose to match , ? The Garisenda .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 261, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/36/
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