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    < When , man arrives * -olt -the * a < ge ^ thi rty ' Ve " a * fc Hi& ^^\ i 6 P \ H talk fo ( biitiaalfc-V . He delivers'U v € M ^ 3 t > r ( otts <<< ktr %# Wl ^ W ^ f& his own * soul whenmhe is lak ) rte . r » Hd » ayV'itt ' a tflelartf-hoft ^ aftfl impres&ivo tone , addressing himself-by : ftattfe , ' - ^ Who- &t 4 y ^? ** This is difficult to answer in any satisfactory ¦ tnariirrer . u PPHcti

    are you ?' - No feasible repl y occurs / He then tries th&equivocal interrogative , ^ Are you not a serious noodle ? ' * At tbrs u voice within leaps up as from a conjurors box , with " That you are ; and I'll prove it ! " That will do , that will do , Mr . Essence ; I am quite ^ convinced about my pomatum . What am I with my five ' senses ? I am nothing" less than a hoax-podge !'

    In this fashion , is a man liable to talk to himself after he is turned thirty ; so that if a greater fool than himself should chance to overhear him , the corporal would fancy himself a general , and declare the captain to be mad . But even thus , a man may soliloquizes as he advances upon his meridian , whether he b £ wa-lkitig in a neat garden , in a wild forest , or sitting by the fire . He la apt , to Sparley in the same style , at various hours of the ntgfht when in bed ; ami-he often inflicts a bodily penance by kicking off tiler

    clothes , followed by hurling his night-cap ; that hang-dog insignia € xf the chord of the sharp seventh ; right deros ^> th £ ro 6 rrtj and looking fixedly up at the ceiling in a very pectiliar mating . The fact is ; he is not satisfied with himself at all ; nor entirely so with his dear friends : he is not quite contented ( perhaps this is only reasonable ) with his condition ; he hates' his trt ^ uairttance 5 as so many duns , and he despises the world for a viciotts seourtdrel and an ignoramus ! ' \\_

    Several "voices were now heard to whisper ' Here ' s a pretty speech for a court mechanician ?** But Mr . Pivot continued '; hi § abstraction deepening till he seemed to realize the solitary tkon t * i logue he was describing . V ' Pleasant it is in the single life of man , to sit and do 2 e b y the winter ' s fire after dinner , as the shades of niMit advance . Btft

    gradually the somnolency becometh a magnetic iortix of anirnal being , and he dealeth with the future as surely as with thepa ^ t . Sometimes he is startled by portentous sounds , and deeply \ \ tdpressed by wondrous insignia . It reminds htm in a very torching manner of " Cunningham ' s Dissertation on the Seala antj Trumpets of the Apocalypse . * Sometimes he rolls on in

    redtrhdant joyousness , amidst all manner of ideal possessions * and suddenly , perhaps , he is arrested by the dire sense of th £ practical . * He gradually comes to a conviction of his earthly condition , and all the past trials of his humanity . He beholds the kettle on the hob , and listens to the low guttural murmurs of its exhauated circulation . He apostrophizes the fire-irons , ttte fender ; but chiefly certain face * in the fire . His peroratiort is * Vide Beaumanoir and Thanmassier , on the Assizes of Jerusalem , from a MS by Le Cuinte de Jnphe et d'Astslb ^^ BiMitfth ^ lW Vktka £ e .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/45/