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A Married Man % and the Father if a Family. 7it
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present , before it . began , has beefc so well digested , dinee it was done , by the Engli h who were absent , that we ^ re ^ lit tle ( inclined to say more about it ; the less so , as we make holiday this month from politics . The fashion of political dinners Ferris likely to prevail through the recess ; so mueh the better tor the tiewspa- *
pers ; there is cholera also to help them ; they will get very well on through the dead and dining season , and we need ' take no note ; ' nor shall we , except just to quote and put on record the most notable and encouraging words uttered on this occasion ; we mean those of Lord Durham . They are those of the future , premier ; and soon be it so .
* My noble and learned friend ( Lord Brougham ) ha 9 been pleased to give some advice , which I have no doubt he deems Very sound , tb some classes of persons *—I know none such- —who evince too strong a desire to get rid of ancient abuses , and fretful impatience in ^ w ^ iting the remedies of them . Now I frankly confess that I am one of th 6 se persons who see with regret every hour which passes over the existence of recognised and unreformed abuses . I am , however , perfectly willing
to accept the correction of them as deliberately as our rulers , and my Noble Friend among them , can wish ; but on one condition , and on one condition alone—that fcvery measure should be proposed in conformity with those principles for which we all contend . I object to the compro * mise of opinions , not to the deliberation of what they should be . I object to the clipping and paring , and mutilating , which must inevitably follow any attempt to conciliate enemies who are not to be ednciHafced ^—
and who thus obtain an advantage , by pointing out the inconsistencies of which you are guilty in abandoning your friends and your principles } and attribute the discontent felt on this score to the decay or dearth of liberal principle * . Against such policy , I , for one , enter my protest , as pregnant with mischief—as creating discontent where enthusiasm would otherwise exist—as exciting vague hopes in the bosoms of our ? adversaries whioh can never be realized , and as placing weapons in the hands of those who use them to the destruction of Our best interests /
A Married Man , and the Father of a Family . ~ -The moral phi * losophy of the Bench , as expounded from time to time , by judicial and magisterial teachers , ought to be collected and presented ttf the public in a scientific form , traced up to its principles and down to its consequences . We have just been reading the rebuke * administered to the prosecutor of a wretched womari , Whom he * had accompanied , and who robbed him , while in a state bf in- »
toxication . The rebuke turns upon the point of the viciousness of Ms conduct , ' he being a married man . , and the father of a , famil y / which point is enforced with much solemnity . What is the inference but that , if he had been an unmarried man , aiK $ the son of a family , hi $ conduct would have beeja comparatively venial . And this implication is really a prevalent species of Morality . Lard Brougham made a broad distinction between ^ e virtue of a nobleman ' s son , and that < rf a nobtern&n ' * dAughtiri
A Married Man % And The Father If A Family. 7it
A Married Man and the Father if a Family . 7 it
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/65/
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