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absorbed the most glorious understandings . The office of a great general does not differ widely from that of a great mechanician , whose husineaa it is to frame new combinations of physical forces , to adapt them to new circumstances , and to remove new obstructions . Accordingly great general 8 , away from the camp , are commonly no greater men than the mechanician taken from his workshop . In conversation they are often
dull . Works of profound thinking on general and great topics they canaot comprehend . The conqueror of Napoleon , the Jiero of Waterloo , undoubtedly possesses great military talents , but we have never heard of his eloquence in the 8 en ate , or of his sagacity in the cabinet ; and we venture to say , that he will leave the world without adding one new thought on the great themes , on which the genius of philosophy and JegisJature has meditated for ages . ' *
True , the hero has , since these remarks were written , accomplished some achievements which men of more mind but less will would have shrunk from ; but nothing that we know of , to raise him to the intellectual level of Charles Matthews , who probably would have emancipated the Catholics , and who probably would
mot have declared war against parliamentary reform . Let us hope to hear no more of this parasitical servility . Destroy the monopoly , and the actor , unless by his own choice , is only dependent upon the public . He must chiefly blame himself , should that continue to be a debasing dependence .
It is time to come to the work before us , which is a merited tribute to one of those ( for such there have been , and are ) who have signally triumphed over the evil influences to which we have adverted . Of such success , Mrs . Siddons was an illustrious example . While she fascinated or overwhelmed by the blaze of her talents , she was also diligently working out her pecuniary
independence , and commanding the respect due to an unquestionable and dignified character . It is alike due to her memory , to her art , and to society , that there should be some permanent record of what she was and did , so far as they are capable of being recorded . Glad were we to find that her biography was confided to such hands as those of the poet Campbell .
* Mrs . Siddons ' s maiden name was Kemble . She was the daughter of "Roger Kemble , the manager of a theatrical company that performed chiefly in the midland and the western towns of England ; and of Sarah Ward , whose father was also a strolling manager . * The y had a large family , and it was their earnest desire that their children should not follow their own avocation . As
to most of them , this wish was baffled ; a disappointment which we find continually occurring in theatrical nistory . Robert Owen tells us that we may do what we please with the characters of the next generation ; we have only to arrange the circumstances b y vhtch those characters are formed . But € there ' s the rulp * Hoger KLemWe would have thanked him for his secret ; Afimljwli Xd tb * Character of JUpofooft Bfittaparto .
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£ 86 CampbeW * btfk qf Mrs . Siddon * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1834, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2636/page/8/
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