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    lame or blind , they maimed or mutilated themselves in compii * ment to kingship J Behold our passion for calling everything after some reigning name , soon as universally and deservedly forgotten as it was universally ^ nd undeservedly adopted , « &re

    where it brands a park or a street , and then it remains blending the record of our weakness and our strength—out p&smiff servility with our imperishable spirit of enterprise , SucE weaknesses , such servilities are , it is true , common to other countries ; but in them they are more consistent with the other national characteristics . But slavishness and flippancy in the

    English !—they who have struck so many hard blows in the cause of freedom , and among whom , after all , the pulse of liberty beats as it beats scarcely anywhere else—they who have proved themselves capable of the sublimest reach of mind , the profoundest powers 01 thought , for them to let themselves down into the slough of servility , and the slipslop of gossip—

    -In faith ^ ' tis strange , ' tis passing strange , 'Tis pitiful , ' tis wonderous pitiful !" Clackman and Co . went on for some years with little molestation , and an increasing stock of froth , falsehood , venom , and invention . Now and then , perhaps , they received a check from

    the correcting hand of some injured , insulted , and indignant creature ; and , at such times , mendacious excuses and abject expressions of regret were offered up with much the same effect as attends " a pardon after execution . " The foul arrow had sped , and it often struck the innocent without recoiling on the guilty . But the days of impunity at length past away , and the time of panic , though long prior to 1825 , arrived . Fortune , who often seems perversely to favour the false , the petty , and the vile , for no apparent reason than because they are of the reptile kind which can creep through her dirty subterranean ways , suddenly forsook the ingenious Mr . and Mrs . Clackman , and that , too , when by long habit and persevering practice , they had formed for themselves a little goshen of gossips , who ,

    when they fell short of foreign prey , kept their hands in , aft the phrase is , by backbiting each other in the most anonymous manner possible ! Sometimes , in full divan , these people , with Mr . or Mrs . Clnckman in the chair , held committees upon character , and think what a world this must be when this

    immaculate junto never found themselves able , in any case , to pronounce a verdict of acquittal ! Perfectly were they convinced of the " deceitfulness of the human heart , " and most indubitable authority unquestionably they had for such a

    conviction . The usual source of their information as regarded thfc motives and conduct of others , were the " They-saya "—a very numerous and very ancient family , and , like many such , having

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    Sketch ** qf Domestic Life , 17

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/47/