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The Shakspeare Gqllcry . Part'II ,
Helena , Ophelia , and Perdita , are the heroines of this number . The Ophelia is , tcf our fancy , a failure ; and the only failure yet made . Helena is good and characteristic ; and Percnta is a prize , fit !! of graceful rusticity and unconscious regality . "We have &S ? v * t seen an imaginary portrait more finely conceived , < n feli-< £ toti * ly < ldlineated . F .
The History of Rome . By Thomas Keighdy . It Is injustice to the merits of Mr Keightly's ' History of Home to cotftpare it with Goldsmith ' s or other compilations on the same sublet , the inefficacy of which , for purposes of communicating any correct historical views , he notices with perfect truth . Not
qjjJy fc > r the sake of education , but for general readers , the present V ^ irjk Vill be found valuable . The progress of Rome , "from the time when she was an obscure village on the Palatine to that W& # p $ he became the mistress of the world / ' is traced by no meagre detail of events , true or false , as the case may ch&nee to pie , out with the care of an authentic historian ; authorities are largely given , and causes connectedly worked out to their results . We may mention , as illustrations , the exposition of the rise of the republican constitution on the downfall of kingly power ; the effort * < rf the Gracchi to maintain it , and the dying struggles of \ 1 MMy incite time of Caesar . - ' Hid Mr Ketehtly confined himself to tlie office of a correct
&Vft fnttelfigetit historian , we should have given him nnmixed jtfSS ^ e , ' but he is fond of " pointing a moral /' and he does not &&& £ j ^ ove himself to be a safe guide towards judgments on idbwtaH ftctions , and results . Thus , in observing- on the loss of ititefUtta by , " tt * e Romans , he takes occasion to tell all states to
* filNtf # ttoN 3 of democracy , " altogether overlooking the many causes # kicfe combined to destroy the constitution , and which he tad jatt befote enumerated . These causes beings—the neglect to Mftrefe the agrarian law ( we quote Mr Keightly ' s ideas without comment ); the want of a middle class ; the want of' commerce ; the constant foreign wars ; the pernicious system of slfrmy ; Ac £ ^ tortt of amassing wealth offered to the nobility by the conqtiered i > rovinc < H i the comparative poverty of the people , and thencfc
weir liability to corruption . Notwithstanding * this formidable iir ^ r . of enemies to freedom , poor democracy has to- l > ear mil the OWB $ , vf b « r fall ; thouorh not one of ti > e evils enmneimtcd i& iliKg > Xaifl y connected witb , or implied in suoli a form of govern ^ igmt * ^ Moreover , the constitution of Rome wm ru > t a democracy . | fWL introduction indeed prepares us for » uck mtatolwik , The $ * $ ** twre prodaima himself an advocate of a mixed form of g ov ^ iftunent , and hints at a desire to write history wteka view U > elucidate his theory . Such is not the true aim of an historian—
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 522, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/62/
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