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friend die of despair at the street door , than move to open it . Here is material for mirth ., if that be the mood ; or matter for reflection , if philosophy be the vein . Let us test things by their fitness for the purposes of human happiness , and their true nature will soon appear . The man , cast on some strange and almost desolate shore by shipwreck , does not degrade himself when , if
he has built a hut , he keeps it clean—if , when he has killed g ame , he cooks it with skill , and serves it with as much nicety as his means allow ; of all these operations , to kill is the only one we allow a gentleman to perform . Yet I have had the honour of knowing one , who to the most general knowledge united the simplest manners and the most kindly usefulness ; he brought the grandest principles to bear upon the meanest things , and thus ennobled every thing he did . Surely he had only learned
the lesson which nature sets us throughout her works . There is an humble pair , in my own neighbourhood , whom I am silently observing with peculiar interest . He does not rise to the dignity of making boots , he only mends them . Their little place , which a large window leaves open to the street , is in good order , and
while he sits at the lapstone , she sits at her needle . How delighted should I be to see her reading to him a philosophical treatise or a fine poem , and then , when the book was laid aside and the needle resumed , hear them digest in happy converse the mental aliment they had thus participated .
The hope that the principle which recognises universal humanity , and its happiness , as the grand object and rallying point of all reform , is advancing , surely , if slowly , is a hope of which I drink as a cordial . Day by day men and women will feel that their power is in proportion to their perfectness individually , and to their justice and benevolence socially : when the practical hand , and the cultivated head , are combined—the magic lanterns of a thousand fallacies will be broken , and the shadows which they bring upon the scene will pass away for ever . M . L . G .
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'Man shall not live by bread alone . ' Those who with Mr . Cobbett understand this phrase literally , like to add beef to their bread . Even so the mind of man must sometimes turn from the search after wisdom , and seek for its condiment laughter . It * s good to laugh . An hour ' s hearty laugh is as good gymnastic exercise to the body as a ten miles walk ,, nay better , for walking No rivalry with Parr or his wig is intended , though there is a parallel in the cases , and our Bellendenus finds hit ' Cicero princeps * in a wig ; or did , before the * 'gs were all in the fire . The learned work of our author is thus entitled , * Essay on Jfte Archaiology of Popular English Phrases and Nursery Rhymes . * By John Bel-
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Preface to the New BeUendenu * . 777
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PREFACE TO THE NEW BELLENDENUS . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 777, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/31/
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