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and make holiday m . ttyoabora sufficiaut to call a muster of the ' gown /) lie fcas wii ^ aWl he has a tail which , like the scorpion ' s , * uiay doi $ i $ business for him — -his creditors . He has a governor ' 16 dun ; he has a tutor to cut : he has a character to he made ,
^ but adopts the * set ; ' ) he has this world of love and difficulty before "him \ and , alas ! he disqualifies by low debauchery , swinish sloth , and the egotism of caste . I'he apprentice , whether for handicraft trade or a profession , is thfe unbroken drudge for the high road of life , father ' s purse ' was a tail which is to be docked ; habits of industry are to be taught in the drag ; but he comes vicious to hand ; he must feel the lash and the bit , and still he will kick and plunge ; he injures
himself in these vain attempts , and is sent to a lower employment , or he must be taken tighter in hand , and stamps and kicks , and champs and frets , and starts and stops , and at last takes to his wprk and earns his manger . The place-man is a thin g from college , or one cast in a profession , ( of course I do not allude to parish beadles , wood rangers , and house porters , who all hirve the principal characteristics of their brethren , ) andi is made to grow sleek , and to balance
hetwron a bow to authority and a disdain of the industrious . He Itnows nothing of the sphere ia which he is a satellite . The will of a . Sovereign , or an Act of Parliament , may bring all to a full stop ; hut he will not know about it , until he feels the jolt which shakes him into space . Yet he continues amid inquiries , and re--pmts , and murmurs from without , and motions from within , as proud , and vain , and . useless , as if he were only contracting college-debts to keep up the glory of the gown ; and ' the governor '
were the basis on which all maintained its equilibrium . iW Fhe tvkolesalp dealer was a prince at Florence ; a luxurious great house and garden holder at Genoa ; a very Turk in Turkey . Jput why should Mustapha have been so eager to enlarge his tent aijd fill it with gold , and jewels , and odorous woods , and silver lan ^ ps ? after all it is but imprisoned moonshine ; he rises from his surfeit to taste the veritable hour of dews and the influences
of the crescent amid her starry path . ' Vanity , all is vanity . ' So said the preacher in the gardens of the spot now occupied as you see in Burford ' s Panorama . Playthings of an hour , at the best . Who cometh meekly riding upon an ass towards the gate of that Jerusalem ? Oh ! Christian man , seek thy God , and lovo thy
feUatrst , The rftoii dealer fought the battle of Reform in despite of intignkfotiqg customers . Persevere ! But I hope you don ' t reform qn ^ rin ^ i I pfos of trade . . know you do not . But have a guard » fKfl (\ thy n > on « y *^ itingiie 88 ; it begins on a rough unmade , road : # W ^{ £ phg ^ bi * $ r and stumblin g forward ! what wearing of the wMbQWi aad > rv * i 8 in ^ of . t ^ he pjiins ! It is a pleasure to recollect it ? ft . If ** W , ( h ^^ keg , memento of day * of > it ;
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710 Definition of Classes
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 710, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/18/
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