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UMlOtgr evory season , the directors would «»« ure the correct working oat of a reformed itage . The mai » of the people will ? # ry quickly appreciate the change : * the aristocracy will be the
laat ; for the present series of vulgar amusements approaches &r nearer to their favourite pastimes of horse-racing , dreeing * for court ^ days , gaming , and unredeemed sensualities , and would not easily be relinquished fpr anything better . That such a change would produce incalculable benefit to the community , and considerable wealth to those who were interested in its
aucceaa , as a pecuniary consideration , we do not doubt for a moment ; but to endeavour elaborately to explain how , and by what variety of means this reform is to be effected , would be a most fruitless and thankless task when addressed to men like those who are now at the head of these establishments ; while
those who may be competent to hold Hiich a position , will not need telling 1 . They must be well aware that there is no lack of sterling authors , composers , actors , and singers , besides those already before the public ; aud they will moreover feel and know that with these and other " appliances and means , " while man is man , the true drama must be indestructible , because it is based on indestructible principles of human nature R . . H . H .
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( translated from schiller ' s pragment . ) The European West , although divided into so many different states , presents in the eleventh century a very uniform aspect . Tak in in bnations
en possession every part y , which at the time of their settlement were in precisely the same degree of social civilization , which universally bore the same generic character , and which , by the occupation of the country , found themselves iii precisely the same situation , it should have offered to its new inhabitants a markedly varied local s since , ia the course of time mighty differences must have been developed among them .
But the same fury of devastation with which thege nations conducted their conquests , made all the countries which were the theatre of it — however differently peopled —• however differently settled—alike to each other ; inasmuch as that all these conquerors in a similar manner trod down and destroyed every thing they found therein , and established their new condition almost totally without connexion with that in which Aey found them . AUuough , indeed , climate , ( juality of aoil , relative position , geographical situation , maintained a per *
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A REVIEW OF THE STATE OF EUROPE AT THE TIME OF THE FIRST CRUSADE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/10/
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