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      lators , as you would have done the reverend knights , and marquiases , and dukes of the past ages . They must neither meddle with your will 3 nor take the tenth of your corn ; they must neither tax you to maintain houses in which to preach against you and read your damnation in creeds of which no one really knows the origin ; nor persecute you , nor seize your goods for Easter offerings and smoke-money .

      The system by which they tax you at your entry into the world , tax you at your marriage , tax you at your death , suffer you not to descend into your native earth without a fee ^ must be abolished . The system by which you are made to pay for every thing , to have a voice in nothing , not even in the choice of a good minister , or the dismissal of a vile and scandalous debauchee ; by which you are made the helpless puppet of some obtuse squire , and the prey of some greedy and godless priest , must have an end .

      ' On this age the happiness of centuries , the prosperity of truth depends ; let it not disappoint the expectations , and mar the destinies of millions . ' pp . 275 , 276 .

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      c Of history , the most honoured , if not honourable species of composition , is not the whole purport biographic ? History , it has been said , is the essence of innumerable biographies . Such , at least , it should be : whether it is , might admit of question . But , in any case , what

      hope have we in turning over those old interminable chronicles , with their garrulities and insipidities ; or still worse , in patiently examining those modern narrations , of the philosophic kind , where philosophy , teaching by experience , must sit like owl on house-top , seeing nothing , understanding nothing , uttering only , with solemnity enough , her

      perpetual most wearisome hoo , hoo ;—what hope have we , except the for most part fallacious one of gaining some acquaintance with our fellow-creatures , though dead and vanished , yet dear to us ; how they got along in those old days , suffering and doing ; to what extent , and under what circumstances , they resisted the devil , and triumphed over him , or struck their colours to him , and were trodden under foot by

      him ; how , in short , the perennial battle went , which men name life , which we also in these new days , with indifferent fortune , have to fight , and must bequeath to our sons and grandsons to go on fighting , till the enemy one day be quite vanquished and abolished , or else the great night sink and part the combatants ; and thus , either by some Millennium or some new Noah ' s Deluge , the volume of universal

      historywind itself up ! Other hope , in studying such books , we have none : and that it is a deceitful hope , who that has tried knows not ? A feast of widest biographic insight is spread for us ; we enter full of hungry anticipation : alas ! like so many other feasts , which life invites us to , a mere Ossian ' s feast of shells , the food and liquor being all emptied out and clean gone , and only the vacant dishes and deceitful emblems thereof left ! Your modern historical restaurateurs are indeed little * History of Europe during the French Revolution ; embracing the period from the Assembly of the Notables in 1789 , to the establishment of the Directory in 1796 . By Archibald Alison , F . R . S . E . Advocate . In 2 vols . 8 vo . 1833 .

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      ALISON'S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION *

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      The French Revolution . 507

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 507, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/67/