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    makes them necessary is merciless ; to the perpetrator the act which endangers the existence of hundreds is not dreadful ; it must be made so , and the motives which induce to the risque and sacrifice of life must be converted to its

    preservation . Their ledgers would soon teach these steamboat proprietors and conductors the policy of purchasing larger or newer engines , of leaving a few more inches between the fire and the decks .

    of keeping the water in their boilers at the proper level , and their safety-valves unloaded with an excessive pressure . Let an account be opened with humanity and a love for their neighbour , let profit and loss be debited or credited according to the security of passengers , and how stanch

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    The appearance , in a recent publication , of some affecting and noble-minded verses by Mr Spring Rice , in which he looks towards the Evening of his days With a fkce lit up by its solenta

    but animating sunset , and aspirefc to exalt whatever has been vteak or negligent in his life iiito a Spirit of activity for the general good of hisfelknV-creatures , has reminded us of other terses written by statesmen , and manifesting & like survival of tmwcttldly feelings .

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    would be the philanthropy of steam companies ! Such a measure is at once necessary and unobjectionable * The salary of the inspectors could be paid out of a tax

    laid upon steam-boats , which they could well afford , —witness the fines ( obviously inadequate ) which they so contentedly and continually pay at the Thames Police office

    for racing * In fact , it would be ultimately paid by passengers , and would thus be no more than a premium for insurance , —of all taxes the least disliked . The duties of

    inspector would not be heavy , and , in all but a few principal ports , might , with a slight increase of salary , be added to the duties of some of ths public officers whose time is not fully occupied .

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    The love of moral beauty , and retention of the Spirit of youth , implied by the indulgence of a poetical taste , however occasional , is pleasing in any man , and argues Well foir the largeness of his mind in til

    other respects : for this is the boast of poetfy Above fell other arts , that sympathizing with whatever has any beauty of feeling in the universe , that is , with every tiling , it teaves no corner of wisdom Ot knowledge unrecognised ; which caimoibe

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    Of Statesmen who have written Verses . 279

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    OF STATESMEN WHO HAVE WRITTEN VERSES

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/54/