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    very common Idea that neither children Wor adults-wili take pteastira ill fading what they cannot tmderstatvd . Trae aid this is with all ?/ v //~ educated people , it certainly does not hold good with respect to the many , and it is only wonderful that observation does not correct

    the mistake . Various motives induce people to read ; and we shall sometimes find a poor person rise up from the pe ~ rusal of a difficult chapter in Romans , or even one in Leviticus , with a fueling of happiness and self-satrsfaetiort not to be surpassed by that with which the scholar- rises from his more successful

    attempts at comprehending an obscure passage . But witfo children it may be thought the case is different . Vet even they will frequently read" over and over , unbidden , the uncomprtfhended thing . Let it be remembered , as was before observed , that it is not the specific importance of any particular branch of knowledge which at this tame mainly occupies , our attention , but merely the general fact , that there has b £€ fia hitfcetto much delusion about the benefit of

    reading to the poor , because instruction has been too much limited to words ; and that one of the reasons why education has not had its expected moral effect , may be because that effect has been nullified by insensibility , which is increased in proportion to the increase of the habit of indolently submitting to what is not understood . No one can

    say how much that hardness and obtuseness of mind complained of may not be increased by the perpetual habit of lulling every inquiry into the meanings of words to rest , or separating the sign so widely from the idea meant to be conveyed by it , that the chances are ten to one against their being ever found united again .

    This separation must indeed ; for the sake of getting on with the specific object of learning , and to prevent perpetual distraction , be made in the early stages of instruction . But it surely should not be allowed a moment longer than is

    absolutely necessary ; and it is in some degree incumbent on those who have been obliged to adopt the artificial arrangements to which we allude , that they should do all they afterwards can to remedy any evil which a course of instruction merely verbal jnay have engendered .

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    Art . IX . n- * . df History of the Court of Chancery , with Practical R& > maths' on the recent GoMMmim ; fya . By Joseph Parkea . 1828 .

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    THe Speech of ff : itfouqham , Esq ., on h % » Motion for inquiring into the Pefccts of the Law . \ 828 . Orders for the Regulation of the Praepce . of the Ooprt of Chancery , kmed 3 rd of Aprilx \ % i % . Lonclou , f 8282

    Th& spirit of legaj reform is abroad , Lawyers , of eminence and integrity are the leaders in the , worfc . Others , after sfotttfy defending as Ipng as they were abje every feature of the old system , are now bending to the storm , and co-operating to a certain extent ; though every now and tfyen throwing in little specimens of their craft \ i \ blemishes of the work .

    Mr . Parkes ' s book is a diffuse exposure of a scene of judicial and historical craft and profligacy , not to be paralleled perhaps ifi the annals of any other country . A more elaborate system of extortion and confusion cpuld not well be devised ; or rather have grown up , for no one would have devised such a machine .

    Mr . Brougham ' s speech is like most of the prodigious efforts which he makes in any cause he undertakes ; bold in all its parts , though ill-judged and extravagant in some . At one time it grasps a comprehensive view of the subject , at another , wearies the reader and weakens its own effect by a laborious dissection

    of trining details . In one point he seems to have missed ^ n obvious , easy , and constitutional mode of redressing the present evils of delay and accumulation of business in the principal Court of Common Law . Mr . Brougham practises in the King ' s Bench . The King ' s Bench has three times as much busiuess as it

    can do properly ; and Mr . Brougham does not seem to wish to break down the ridiculous and mischievous importance of his court by distributing its business . All this nuisance may remain , but we must have additional Judges . All the world knows that at least six out of the present twelve Judges have not a third of their time employed i—why then are

    we ro be saddled with new Judges to prop up the importance of Bench and Bar in Mr . Brougham's Conrt ? There is no more bnsiness ( we defy Mr . Brougham to deny our assertion ) than the present number of Judges }» perfectly competent , with ft few' wholesome practical ref 6 rmjjj to $ o . y ? h have onl y to apportion the classes of businesses on fair principles : a * in feet anciently they were , and without craft and usurpation still

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1828, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2560/page/51/