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Perhaps even the inability which he mentions to do anything when hurried , admits of a similar explanation . For what is the feeling of hurry , but a belief that an unusual exercise of vigour , a great gathering of power , must be put in requisition , in order to accomplish some desired object ? And one whose uniformity of
temperament gives no experience of such occasional expansion of power , has no faith in its possibility , or its effect : and hence he despairs , when the man of impulse becomes inspired . We throw out these brief hints with great diffidence : they can be of no further use , than to suggest something better than themselves to
more competetit thinkers . Our main object in the remarks which have been made on Priestley , has been to revive the memory of a great man , at a period more favourable than any since his death , to a just estimate of his character ; to furnish a faithful delineation of his whole mind ; to aid in determining his true position among the benefactors of mankind ; and define his claims on the
veneration of his country . If we have in any degree succeeded in these objects , it will be no slight satisfaction to have performed some little part of the act of posthumous justice due from this generation .
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The Beautiful . 241
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' I love all beauty . ' I love the beautiful that never dies—Whether it maketh in the human breast Its dwelling , or , diffus'd o ' er earth and skies , 'Tis seen or felt—in motion or in rest . Whate ' er can melt the heart , or lure the eyes In sound , form , hue , I love with keenest zest—The beautiful that all abroad doth shine I feel to be immortal and divine !
The home-affections , sweet , and pure , and rniid—How beautiful are they !—the links of heart That brethren bind—the parent arid the chiJd—The wedded souls no power can tear apart . How beautiful is conscience undenTd , And truth , and courage that sustains the dart Of suffering meekly !—Beautiful the love That naught can force from its firm hold above ! Oh , there is much of beautiful within The deep recesses of the human mind , — Yea , glorious traces of its origin
Remain—bright feelings of the pure and kind ; And God-like power to counterbalance sin , And truth the eyes of error to unblind—
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THE BKAUTIFUL .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/25/
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