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8 upH * ammfited terminologies , and altogether yery unlike what the German language ( not only in grammatical const ruction , but in it *' idiom more particularly ) la at present , and indeed has Ween for many years past , —is , nevertheless , to my owri private judgment , a very correct copy from the original manuscript . In it ,
that is , the copy displayed before me , I discover a multitude of impersonations , each distinguished by what is called ' a name . * And there are also many things' as well as abstract qualities , whereunto a name , and indeed various names , might very feasibly be appended . Now it seems to me , that to these names , things * and qualities , three distinct classes of identificational terms ,
( social , theological , and metaphysical , ) or one class combining ail , ( socio-theologico-metaphysical , ) may very aptly be applied . It may be the best , and the shortest way , also ; for that which is most elaborately accurate is the shortest , inasmuch as it saves the necessity of going over the same ground twice , or , perhaps , a thousand times ; to deal with all these four classes ( three distinct ,
and one combinative ) carefully separative ; and even unsympathetically so , if that be possible ; the which latter I consider provocatively dubious . And first of the social probability . This class may be given in three distinct forms , or nomenclatural identifications with his * - torieal characters ; past , present , and future , inclusive . I shall confine myself , till a fitting opening- and clearance is arrived at , in this primary class , solely to the first form .
Judging then , with the divisional and complicated understanding aforesaid , by his rank and talent in the piece ; ( entitled Nutcracker ;) by his consummate courtliness and gallantry ; by his half-sentimental consciousness of amatorial fealty , towards the Princess Pearl-o-price , which should not have been compromised to another , even though he was thrust out of the hope of alliance with the house of * **; ( q . e . d . ) by his prominence in the '
kingdom of puppets / his birthplace being at Tonbridge Wells ; his affection for Sugar-candy Place , and his affinity , real and ideal , with the castle of Alicumpane ; 1 cannot do otherwise , in this first form of the primary class , than identify the said Nutcracker , or hero of the fantasie , with his most confectionery and jewelscruled nnaiestv . George IV .. Fidel Dpfrnxnr . A- /? Tn the anmp
first form , first class , I shall place ' little Mary / as the amiable Mrs . Fitzherbert ; ( being Britannia in the second , social and political , form ;) of whom touching her marriage with * a celebrated and most respected barrister , residing in Bedford Sq uare , * more shall be ttnon propounded . ' General Punch' is most undoubtedly
His Grace of Wellington ; the nose and hump being part real , part metaphorical , ( q . e . d . ) The Princess lVarl-o-prico is no les # a personage than thfc Princess Von Halizwhacksteuichenhausen ; t ) i « Queen , her mother , or the pudding-cooker , is the PriiMttft * LkveQj aa . I view her in fint form , first class \ and the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/38/
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