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- ¦ . ¦ . ¦ .- t- i . t . ¦ . . ¦ . - ¦ > . - ' v < , ¦¦¦' :: . ' , •¦ u narrow , selfish policy of blending wages with parochial relief /* Masters ought , of their own accord , to remunerate iheir labours , by paying them sufficiently to maintain a moderate
family ; but while the market for labour is overstocked , this can scarcely be expected ; and the inevitable con * sequence will be a lamentable depression of the labouring classes . It seems , therefore , to be a choice of evils , and all that can be done is to choose the
least . . - ¦ ; ¦ // ¦ ' ¦ w Iii order at the same time to eti ~ courage industry , Mr , Edmeails would keep up a distinction « between the good and the worthless servant . * He takes it for granted , that the most
deserving will generally obtain employment ; and proposes that such labourers " should constantly be entitled to a much higher rate of wages , than ( hose who were thrown on parishes for employment and support /'
On some few , but important points , we differ materially from our author . The national debt , for instance , he calls a " natural fiction . " Alas ! , the taxes which have been levied to pay
the interest of that debt , we should have thought would have been-sufficient to convince every one , that whatever views might be entertained of it , it was at least no fiction .
Notwithstanding these differences of opinion , however , we consider the pamphlet before us as a valuable addition to all the suggestions which have bedb hitherto offered , with respect to the state of the poor . The views which it exhibits * are novel and
important ; and the subject is treated with considerable ability .
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taiK : $ ! && < Skm * * f >! 4 in London by Mawmao , &Ci . 1818 .
« MELSHAZZ ^ ITtfeast , * is a J | jl > poetical' s ^ fcj ^ ct , and Mr * Hughes ' s verses upon it * if they do not give him a place amongst the acknowledged English poets , will at least secure him a respectable rank
amongst the successful competitors for the Seatonian Prized The stbry , with much titf the imagery , is taken of course frotn the Jewish prophets , whose figures always delight the imagination . In copying these great models , bur author has shewn gieat truth , ' riot without iris ^ niiity ; "
The few digressions from the story are so pleasiiig , that we 1 ar 0 led t 6 Wish they had been more . / ; " The selection of images in the fol lowing lines is truly poetical : " O what is human joy I A transient beam Of mobnlig'lit quiv ' ring on the cbec « quere < d stream ; ... An early dew-drop sparkling on ike
¦ . ¦ . rose ; . : ; . , : ;¦ ¦ ¦ - . - ¦ : ,. •; . - ¦ .. ^ : \ - ; . A silver cloud which frolic zephyr Wows . " The following reflections on the fall of greatness , are in unison with the subject : , ;
"We reverence Virtue when she so * re sublime , Yet feel for Greatness , tbo * It fall , from crime . r Tiie low lie down , and none lament thfcir - lot : ¦ • . : - " ' -: ; Who mark « the rains of t ^ ie hnmble cot ? But when UT embattled tower or lofty ¦¦ ¦ ¦ fane - ; - ¦ .-. ' . v . ; ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ -i ¦ ¦ ¦ ' > ¦ ¦ : . f Strews with huge fragments the resound-¦
. unr plam , v The awe-struck traveller , as he lingers near ¦ .. :, ; _ -. t „ . . * .,:. Heares the sad iigb , nor checki the falling tear . The Notes ^ re appropriate . We perceive that the author is preparing for ^ the press , «< Travels in Greece and AJhaniau "
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• ¦ Art . IV . —Behhazzar ' s FeatU A Seatoiiian Prize Poem , with Notes relative to the History of the Babylonian and Assyrian Empires . By T . S . Hughes , A . M . Fellow of Emmanuel College , and Junior Proctor of the University . 8 vo . pp . 58 . Cambridge , priated for Deigh-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1818, page 276, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2475/page/52/
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