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here and there and every where , playing in the air with their fantastic jets , till the sweet sound pervades the atmosphere , dews the trees , and seems to fall on us like summer rain-drops . And next morning , broad white waves of mist were overall that vast valley ; the distant hills were based on its curling clouds . Yet we could not part so , the scene and I ; and here and there
the veil was gently raised ; and then it closed again , and the vapours were thickening , and rolling , and in commotion ; and I heard the voice of stern Necessity , who rose up with a black cap on his head , and said , The law is that you return to the place from whence you came ; ' and I felt very much disposed to make the reply of the prisoner at the bar ^ ' My lord , if I do I'll be hanged . '
Summary of Principles illustrated by this Locality . First , that if the reader cannot see that it proves any thing , he has something yet to learn . ' There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in his philosophy ; ' Argal , he would be a greater philosopher if he had more dreams .
Second , that truth , the jewel of the soul , is many-sided at _ the surface , though single-centred . Paradoxes and contradictions may yet be all truths , and the simplest truths may be falsehoods . Minds are prisms . We should be thankful for every contribution towards a spiritual theory of light and colours . Third , that the primary are more satisfactory than the
secondary , A sense of beauty , in a high degree , may be produced by the simplest elements and combinations . The scenery above described has not a single historical association . It has not even a single prominent picturesque natural object . Fourth , that , notwithstanding the conquest of England by the
Normans ; the extinction of the Plantagenet , Tudor , and Stuart Dynasties ; the discovery and independence of the Americas ; the French Revolution , and the passing of the Reform Bill , Oberon and Titania yet reign in Fairy land , as they did in the days of Charlemagne , although many respectable and generally wellinformed persons are not aware of the fact .
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426 Local Logic .
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ON THE CONDUCT OF THE POLICE AT THE LATE MEETING .
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Blood has once more been shed in civil strife , and many human beings have been brutalized , by the stirring up of evil passions ; and for all this the people of England arc indebted to the imbecility
or the dishonest practices of the Whigs , who have evinced no power , save that of turning good to evil , and of bringing into disrepute all who are connected with them . It is scarcely possible to restrain the feelings of indignation , and to reason calmly on their conduct , while we think of the mass of evil to which they have given birth ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/66/
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