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for the inscription , and there we would have them graven . They are full of sound sense , right feeling , and useful admonition . In the concluding three months as many stories are introduced , characterised , severally , by adventure , pathos , and fancy . Eatfh has much merit in its way . We have only to add , that we feel a little apprehension , in concluding this critique , lest the exceptions
which have been taken should , notwithstanding our encomiums , convey an erroneous notion of our estimate of the book itself . We have been led to take these exceptions by our strong perception of its general interest and utility . Most books of this class have very much more that is exceptionable , while they lack those qualities which have , in the present case , induced us to write at all upon the subject , and the possession of which constitutes a strong and universal recommendation .
And now , go thy ways , young Adam , and if heedful of thy father ' s lessons , thou mayest become a ' first man * in thy time . Doubtless he may have taught thee sundry errors , but he has also taught thee to think for thyself , and done his best to cherish in thee a self-corrective and improving intelligence . Be thou , like him , an independent working man . Remember his prophecy ,
Avoid all intimacy with fools and coxcombs . You will probably sec strange times in your native land ; and then those silly empty creatures will be huffed and buffeted about like the drones in a hive , when the bees have stored up all their honey , that they have been labouring to collect through the winter . ' Be on the side of the bees , Adam , whenever the drones want to
cheat or rob them of their honey ; even though the drones should positively declare that brimstone will be burned under the hive , unless the enjoyment of the honey a id the command of the labourers be given up to them . Live on ' the southern coast of our island / Adam , if yovi like ; but get a London newspaper down there to read ; and write up a petition for its being untaxed . Come up yourself , when wanted ; we hope your neighbours will
be wise enough to send you up , instead of some prating or propertied fellow , who has ( or means to sell himself to buy ) large estates in the neighbourhood , and whose manual of representative duty consists in sticking to a party , and staving off taxation from his own class . They must engage to work your garden , Adam , while you are seeing after their interests in the legislature ;
and if they find you in board and lodging beside , they will have a much better bargain of you , than the poor bribe-takers have of their deceivers , corrupters , and plunderers . You may have time , Adam , during the session , sometimes to hear a little of Mozart and Handel from your ( young friend Clara N—¦— , * and high as her voice , taste , and science may then have raised her , you may perhaps still * be delighted with some of her French ballads / for it is a vulgar blunder , that the sublimest artist does not appre-
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154 Adam the Gardener .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/70/
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