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the welcoming embrace of fathers , mothers , sisters , brothers , wives , and children , whose piercing cries or bitter curses were of no avail , utterly , save to give a piquance to the fiendish enterprise ! All , all were mingled , herded , and barred in that pestiferous , gorge-sickening , soul-blighting den ! In that hole , which
could not be thirty feet in length , by the ship ' s breadth , one hundred and eighty human beings were crammed to eat , drink , and sleep . Every morning the den was emptied of its inanimate filth , except that which was glued on and ingrained in the bodies and rags of its occupants ; who , by divisions of ten or twelve ,
were permitted to ascend to the deck for half an hour , for the purpose of purifying themselves ; or , as the lieutenant coarsely , but most truly expressed it , ' to blow the stink off them . ** These were some of * Old England ' s jolly tars , ' her ' Wooden walls defenders , ' men who sing ,
Britons never , never , never will be slaves !' 'An ounce of civet , good apothecary , to sweeten my imagination .
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Character ; or , Jew and Gentile . 545
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Mrs . Leman Grimstone is a most agreeable companion for an excursion in the regions of fiction . We know of no novelist who combines more of the requisite invention and versatility of talent , with so much of pure , wise , and noble purpose . Both in her former production , * Woman ' s Love , ' and the present , there is a rich vein of originality running through the narrative , such as one rarely meets with . And yet though its presence is felt , it is never obtrusive . Like Miss Martineau , she writes with a didactic
purpose ; but not being restricted to the illustration of a single section of that Moral Economy which is her science , there is less occasion to bank up the narrative , and restrain it from those windings and overflowings which characterise the current of real life . Like Miss Austen , she excels in description , especially that of persons and circumstances which at first appear common place , and incapable of interesting ; and her descriptions have generally the additional merit of conveying some knowledge of character and mind , and answeringjsome further purpose besides that of producing a vivid picture in the reader ' s imagination . Like Miss Edgeworth , she has humour , not so broad and racy , but a quiet lady-like humour , which though it provoke not a laugh , never fails of a smile ; and like Miss Edgeworth too , she rarely loses sight of the subject of education , on which her notions well deserve the attention of parents and instructors . Like Godwin , she is a reformer , political and social , but aiming at changes less total and impracticable than some contemplated by the author of ' Caleb Williams , more in the reform-not-revolution way ; and * A Tale , by Mrs . Lemon Grimstone , 2 volt ) .
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CHARACTER ; OR JEW AND GENTILE . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/33/
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