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the tithe was to be * Bet out He was always buffing ih your ear , Thfete , liowi be quick ! Bet out the tithe . And he scfearns out , Keen at leart
that law of God winch orders you to pay me tithe ! And wheri he has abstained a little from saws about his tithe-rights , and the pangs of aV&ride fcdhife oii afresli , he ttezes in your ear for ever , and Screams out tfldre spitefully than before , In witti my tithe .
It has been said that literary rjien ^ above all otbers > are entitled to put in their claim as the legislators of a nation . Should the ambition of John Belienden Ker point that i ? aV , he cannot fail
of success in his first speech to a radical audience who may examine his pretensions , if he only asks , as Abernethy was accustomed to do , — -Have you read my book ? . Junius ReeIvivus .
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You are asleep as you gaze r- —broadly awake , btit deliciously dreaming;—there is a wavy calmness in the bliss which is experienced in sailing , fair being the weather and favorurablie the wind , across the Bahama banks ; that is to say , when he who is inexperienced in those seas has overcome the constantly recurring apprehensions , that his floating mansion must inevitably strike
on one of those fmmerous black masses which appear within a foot or two of the water ' s surface ; a clash , a crash , arid the grinding of timbers against them is momentl y expected : but onwafd and onward the bark fedWessly goes , scatheless , as if at her approach the frowning dangers , and the folacH barriers , each successively dissolved and vanished . But , indeed , it does require
repeated assurances , ere the eye cart be convinced that those seeming dangers are nothing more than innocent beds of sponge which are everywhere speckling * like little black clouds , or dark islets , the smooth , delicate , white and yellow sarid , which he sees through the transparent waters , as distinctly as if there were no Other mediutn between his eyes ahid the bottom 6 f that sea , than a plate-glass ; knd , orrty on trying witli the leaxL and line will a stranger be convinced of the feet , that the seeming four or five 1
feet at mokt of depth , is rhore than ti-eble that ntrfnbe ? Of fathoms : that the gold and silver , and aVhetWyst , atid emerald coated finny creatures which he may riee sporting ; and dsLrtfri £ , and flashing , and Btill , uiider hi * etes , Within the re&ch of hte Srrn , &re as safe from h i * fckrtcl ! as if thfey Wtite vd thrf atftfpddfes . Bttt so it is . And , when assured , his heart and mind speemty fcfccorne emVrapt iw drearns of beauty ; klid reverie of bl ^—Metnd he glides along , meanwhile , on hi » pathlcw jd \ irn ^ V , # ifhmit notion " of peril , or sense of toil : — -then and there fashioning the distant solid earth , and the for * ff worlds and all that live and move > and breathe
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SMUGGLE !* , PIRATE , AND — FROU T&K AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEL TSRJUICB .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 786, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/40/
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