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a simplicity worthy of Sir Roger de Coverly , plumes himself on being rather latitudinarian , on account of his doubts whether it be expedient to restrain opinion by law ( p . 30 . ) ; we recommend him
to quit the character of her critic , for that of her pupil , and he may find that she is as able to expound the rights of conscience as the rights of property , the principles of morality as those of prosperity , and can lecture not less ably on the causes of happiness than on the sources of wealth .
We have said thus much because the public is interested , and strongly too , in the course pursued by those who minister to its entertainment and instruction . According to our own taste , it is somewhat premature at present to submit Miss Martineau ' s intellectual and moral character to a public analysis , but we cannot quietly witness an attempt to do so , which tends , as appears to
us , to mislead both herself and the public . The time will come for assigning her permanent rank amongst the writers of our age and nation ; when not only her native faculties , but the diligence of her cultivation of them , the consistency of her career , the moral qualities of her literary achievements , and the extent
of her benefactions to society , must all be strictly scrutinized and impartially estimated ; on that decision the future as well as the past must have its influence , perhaps a preponderating influence . May it be such as her warmest admirers anticipate in their most sanguine moments .
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Poor Laws and Paupers . 381
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It has been said , that one of the severest punishments entailed upon those persons who are addicted to the vice of lying , is not being believed even when they speak the truth . Even thus , the lavish waste of a nation ' s resources , so recklessly pursued for a long term of years byan interested and improvident faction , who held the reins
of government without responsibility , will work still further evil , in the necessary revulsion which must come after it . He who has been a spendthrift in his youth , and has wasted his substance in riotous living , not uncommonly becomes a miser in his age , and denies himself even the necessaries of existence . The English nation , having seen that a bad government and profusion have constantly gone together , have gradually acquired the notion , that
economy and good government must be synonymous ; that the M . P . who will promise to vote for all that is cheapest , must thereby make sure of all that is wisest . Unfortunately , the disposition to acquire property at the public expense is so prevailing a vice in public men , and one in which they are so often but too successful , that it will keep up the suspicions of the people for a great length of time , and their urgent clamours for economy will degenerate into parsimony in really useful things , upon which the econo-
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PROPOSAL FOR A NATIONAL COLLEGE OF LANGUAGE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/21/
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