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real and permanent relief to the wants of the times , and whilst the public mind and feelings are being well moulded by many a gifted spirit of our days , and fashioned in purpose , and confirmed in rectitude , by the mighty prowess of the out-pourings of the
periodical press , it is perhaps matter for rejoicing , rather than for sorrow , that in our ancient recollections of the glorious models of bye-gone patriotism , we may be able the more readily to appreciate the great-mindedness of the Pyms , the Hampdens , and the Sydneys , by contrasting them with the pigmy patriots of present times .
We have ever sou ght freedom from antipathies , and hold with Shaftesbury , " that the face of truth is not less fair and beautiful for all the counterfeit vizors which have been put upon her ;"yet , as nothing is wholly useless , we are prone to think that a modern Whig may be among the number of those beacons of deformity in the moral world , by contrast with which it is permissible to mete whatever is just , and honourable , and great .
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A History of British Quadrupeds . Illustrated by a wood-cut of each species ^ and numerous vignettes . By Thomas Bell , r . R . S . F . L . S . It may be superfluous to say that anything of this kind , emanating from the pen of Mr Bell , is valuable to the science of natural history . The wood-cuts and vignettes are excellent for character : we have scarcely ever seen any drawings of the kind , at all comparable to them , and some are inimitable . We especially
refer the reader to the bats in Nos . I and II , where the eccentric expressions in the heads of these odd creatures , seen from different points of view , are most accurately and sharply given , with the decision of a fine draughtsman and close student of nature . The head of the mole , in No . II , is equally fine , and looks as if it had just been thrust up through the ground , and
was sniffing the unencumbered air .
Graphic Illustrations of the Life and Times of Samuel Johnson , LIj . D . Da Johnhon has not so many devout admirers as he tad some twenty years ago , but there are Btiil enough to give this publication a fair chance ; moreover , whatever difference of opinion may now exist about the " great bear , " everybody must take an
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/51/
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