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tke last shilling , m front of his ^ nicely bai ^^^ ipu ^; ^ pnuf ' of thy hbnesty , steady in thy pr&ctfce , ati £ tnoiijgb ; fortilfc ^ rtlake thee a railway and puff ihee by steam , think thbu 'ftk ^ s \ iffider ^ t if it be so , and be liberal of the superfluity . ! f The learfied . Learning is wit spelt backward . * MqtHer . 'Wit ' makes his way in the wortd ; learning does riot . ShakspeareftL
Milton ' s , Byron ' s , wit goes through to the inner m&h ; learning spreads himself into huge proportions , and sympathy fckys tnej-e is Ho rooiji for you here . But , stop ! is this learning , or the ' so professed ? We were forgetting ourselves . How often have v / e been annoyed by these pretenders , who would be nothing but tpr those panders or pimps to publicity , the Mecaenases without taste ,
the middle men , apothecaries , parish clerks , blue-stockings , booksellers , attorneys , and all who brighten up this brazen sun which reflects its burnished rays on impudence , imposture , and eniikii . Oh ! that learning would shine forth in even a tithe of one mantti ' s share of the yearly publications . But why so stint our wistiea ?
The poor Icelanders are all learned—all masters of more than their mother-tongue in languages , and more than their tractecraft in science . Why do the stars rise and set ? wh y is science so lovel y at the desk of Faraday , and Brande , and Cuvier ? vvlw old classics such dear friends to all who know them ? and why should not the world be a wider college ? G . S .
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Who may teach like the sufferer—the one chartered by dalamity to claim attention ? Who may hope to command sympathy like the mourner—the one bowed by griefs which all of ^ ohi im born may , perhaps must , bear ? The transition of feelirtg , oi
rttther its extension , which from passionate devotion to the memory of one has made me capable of turning to the many , the mdtty who like me suffer , or may suffer , urges me to speak , not W dictate but to warn . Dictate ! alas , in the prostration of sdrrbw I am but like the monument of the good , which , insigiilficttit fri itself , is interesting only for what it covers , and for iHttttk rAcorda . ' f L
Do any who are blessed with a father—more than that , h \ ikb » ther ^ -wixh any being bearing the tendeir natne of telAtlte ' and friend , pause over this page ? Let them tarry <>« e thdTfte > htlldftl ( l ^ r and hear me— -hear mfe tell them to turn with new l 6 VC ^ lifeWriittrtifestations of that love , to that father , that mdthei ; that irfelWi ** , that friend . Let me remind them that hab ^ WAI htWttWu ^ 1 s apt t * lowet- the ton * of feeling , and tf&t ldve beb 6 iit ^ itftylfed , hote ^ resse d . L * t me rertrfttii thrtrr < tharttiose things * W wh ^ tti 3 D 2
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THE MOURNER'S MORAL . ' BY MRS . LEMAN OR 1 MST 0 NE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/19/
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