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    hereditary privilege on the other *? The natural sources of power are talent and virtue . Formerly the wealthy and the noble monopolized the former ,, if not the latter ; but now it is not so ; they are found in every class and station , without any reference to the accidental advantages of birth or good fortune . Nature is therefore striving for the mastery over prejudice ; the old powers retreat with reluctance , and hence the trembling of

    which we are sensible , though it would be difficult to point to any one spot and say , " Lo , here it is !" Vet are there bright hopes of the future . Like the sea which is freshened b y the very storm that vexes it , society will come forth with redoubled rigour and renewed health from the agitation which we now witness ; like goodly wine it will

    be refined by fermentation , and then it will be purer and brighter than it was ever before . Ours is the age of transition . We see the dangers and difficulties of the change without reaping

    its benefits , but it is not the less our duty to assist its progress and hasten the march of events so big with blessings to generations yet to come . What obstacles there may be between mankind and the goal to which their wishes and their steps are directed , what backslidings may delay the time of triumph , what errors too much ardor or too little knowledge may have in store for us , it is impossible to prophesy . But the victory ,

    if distant , is certain . Right will assuredly prevail over might . Nature will assert her prerogative ; society will be set upon its proper and natural basis , and then , and not till then , may we expect to see governments framed for the good of the many , not for the immunity and benefit of the few , and the sole end of every law and every institution the greatest happiness of the greatest number . Taunton . E . W . B .

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    Sd 6 Specimen * of Italian Poets .

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    SPECIMENS OF ITALIAN POETS . BY THE TRANSLATOR OF " HECTOR TlEnAMOSCA . "

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    No- I . MANZONI . *

    " S ' ode a deatra uno squillo di tromba , &c , &e . " A trumpet ' s bluet ou the right is heard , On the left a startling blast replies ; Re-echoes the earth , an < l crush'd is the sward ' Neath the tramp of the horse , and the infantry ' s throng ; Here a gny pennon flutters and flies ; * The following poem is introduced by the author in Ins Tragedy of " Count Carmagnola , " after the manner of the choruaes of the ancient Greek Drama . The subject is the Battle of Maelodio , forming unrt of the action of the abov « mentioned Tragedy , and which >> otfle was fought m the 15 fh century between tb « Milanese and Venetiau St » te » ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1836, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2656/page/34/