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tion . When it shall become so , it will be " all over" with oligarchy and aristocracy . Our references have chiefly been to the Essays on € t the Spirit of Whiggism , " which conclude the volume . They are less known , we believe , than the " Letters / ' which occupy the largest portion of it . In these letters there is little of either theoretical
or practical politics ; no national question is argumentatively discussed ; but individuals are cleverly abused , in a smart and pointed style , and there are occasional passages of considerable power . The description to which O'Connell's name is prefixed , is the most concentrated specimen of virulence we ever remember to have met with . And surely the author goes too far in denying him any " learning / ' and more than a " little reading . " The man who discovered the name of the thief that reviled Christ on
the cross , must have some claim to erudition . From the motto on his title page , it might have been supposed that " Runnymede " was very indifferent to detection , and only adopted his pseudonym for the sake of convenience in controversial warfare : —
" Neither for shame nor fear this mask he wore , That , like a vizor in a battle-field , But shrouds a manly and a daring brow . " His letter to Lord Stanley conveys a different impression . He there says that his name , "in spite of the audacious licence of frantic conjecture , has never yet been even intimated , can never be discovered , and will never be revealed . " We 6 hall not be
sorry if this purpose be kept . We affect not to have discovered his secret , nor desire to pry under his vizor . It is no '' frantic conjecture , " but a , sober inference , that he possesses powers whose right direction may confer fame on himself and benefit on his country ; and we wish he may seek them in his own person , with abundant success , leaving- to less-gifted but more congenial minds the hopeless advocacy of a doomed Faction .
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BY ROBERT NICOLL . Infant ! I envy thee Thy seraph smile—thy soul , without a stain , Angels around thee hover in iliy glee A look of love to gpin !
Thy paradise is made Upon thy mother ' bosom , and her voice Is music rich as that by spirits shed When blessed things rejoice {
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 546, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/22/
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