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men have now . And such was the case with the Examiner . It had little political ability in detail , no statistics , nothing that Cobbett , for instance , had , except purpose and greater courage . We may say so
without immodesty , or even self-reference ; for one of its proprietors ( if it be not an egotism in a brother to say so ) was a man of an heroical nature , prepared for any sufferance , and proving it through sickness and trouble , by
imprisonment on imprisonment , with tranquil readiness ; for which he deserves well of his country . We never knew a fault in him but reserve , and
a zeal for justice towards individuals so great , as sometimes made him not quite mindful enough of the claims of those whom he thought opposed to them . As to ourselves , with
but half his courage ( for , to give it no harsher term , which might be thought a vanity , we ever had a tendency to the luxurious and self-indulgent , which it required some excessive principle of friendship or
cosmopolity to overcome ) , we had great animal spirits , an extraordinary equipoise of sick feelings and healthy , or levity and gravity ; and between us both , the Examiner , by its combination of a love of
literature' with politics , and its undoubted honesty , introduced a regard for Reform in quarters that otherwise would not have thought of it , and became the father of many a journalist of the present day , especially in
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the provinces . It was the Robin Hood of its cause , plunder excepted ; and by the gaiety of its daring , its love of the green places of poetry , and its sympathy with all who
needed sympathy , produced many a brother champion that beat it at its own weapons . Hazlitt , in its pages , first made the public sensible of his great powers . There Keats and Shelley were first made known to the lovers of the beautiful .
There Charles Lamb occasionally put forth a piece of criticism , worth twenty of the editor ' s , though a value was found in those also ; and there we had the pleasure of reading the other day one of the earliest
addresses to the public of a great man , who , with a hand mighty with justice , has succeeded in lifting up a nation into the equal atmosphere , which all have a right to breathe , — Daniel O'Connell .
Let no friend , who ever mentions our having suffered for a " libel" ( a word we hate ) on the Prince Regent , forget to add , that it was occasioned by the warmth of our sympathy with that nation , and our anger at seeing the Prince break his
promises with it . Well ; such was the Examiner of that day , such as it was ; and yet so great is the tendency of any cause to be acted upon by the common appearances of worldly prosperity , and to forget their own old soldiers , " famoused
for fight , " that a reform publication the other day complimented its present editor with
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The ** Examiner" twmty yean ago * 231
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/7/
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