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good use of it . But he who robs me of knowledge , blights the very well-spring of all happiness ; he poisons every source from which enjoyment might be extracted . But to return . Colonel Macerone is quite right in his principles of stone pavement . As Count Romford says of the setting of stove-grates , 4 first get a clear foundation . ' Having a solid bedding beneath , stones should be put on it large
enough for each individually to resist the greatest pressure that can come upon it . The Solomons of Fleet Street , those feeding Croesuses of the good city of London , thought nothing so good as a lime cement bedding ; and then , in their sapience , after suffering it to set and get hard , broke it in pieces by ramming . The absurd jolterheads ! They
thought lime cement was like turtle-soup requiring- exercise to make it lie quiet . But seriously , the superabundant energy of Colonel Macerone might be advantageously employed in the founding of colonies , to which the spirit of the age seems tending ; and those who have any thing to do with them , would do well to ' use him up ' accordingly—as the military phrase goes , speaking of human beings as materiel .
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Magisterial Biography . 861
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Patronage of Art . —Mr . Haydon has written a long letter to the * Times , ' criticising the * Quarterly Review . ' He says that no royal , or any other patronizing academy can do any thing to promote the Fine Arts ; and that the present one is , on the contrary , a considerable detriment to them . Mr . Haydon , however , forgets to point out the only available source of efficient patronage—the great body of the
public . I wish he and his brethren would open their eyes and brains to this fact . Painters and sculptors ought to be radicals , when they think that , in the palmy state of the arts in the classic world , the professors of them worked for the public . Let them reflect what an educated British public could do for their recompense , with all the ' appliances and means to boot / of modern skill and wealth . 'Twill come ! ' twill come ! ' twill come !
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Magisterial Biography . —The insolence , coarseness , and ignorance of Mr . Laing , and others of the London magistracy , have grown into something like a proverb : * as coarse as Laing , ' is simply an intimation that a man is thought to have topped perfection in the science of coarse cruelty and ignorant injustice . The thing which astonishes people is , not that Mr . Laing should continue to act after his nature ,
but that his masters should continue him in his employment . There is but one answer to it . His masters are Whigs . So long as Mr . Laing will do their work after their fashion , he may work his own wiLl in all else . Is not Colonel Rowan still in employment after the Calthorpe brutality ? why then should Mr . Laing be molested ? The people must have more power , ere this evil will be remedied . In
the mean time , some good might be done by the penny press , by publishing the birth , parentage , and education , life , character , and behaviour , seriatim , of all the Ltondon magistrates , after the Btyle of Fielding ' s 'Jonathan Wild . ' Let it be the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . ' Tell truth , and shame the devil / and Mr . Laing to boot . His father could furnish many particulars of his
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 861, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/57/
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