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noble actions Lave beei * treated worse than sacrilege and " cuttings and maiming / 1 as though truth and humanity were mere cSatch-words for kings , " priests , and nobles ; or havinir no practical apnlicsUjoji except under the interpretation of design ^ hypocrisy aii 4 wholesale rapacity . 1 hat moral and political freedom whim
is tg& Bijih ^ nght of man , has been regarded as the darigermrn dre ^ ui b ^ jpi ^ gieejhwalker , and charity has become a laughingstock i % ^ roj ^^ fqa tathe degree to which it was awakened and the broa 4 nes $ of ita . walks abroad . The diadem of Vice and Folly h ^ T ^ ejj . Jieid saered in the eyes of many a whole nation * even wfeen furled at the head of Christianity by a brutalized contempt °£ jf ] Lw precepts of virtue . jEi&t employed himself during- his imprisonment in composing a ' wijrk which he has called the ' Monarchy of Man /* This ciirio ^ is ' production has never been published , and with k fiiasteriy ab » atjr ^ 9 t of Its contents Mr Fo rster closes his biography . Tfce present vojunie also contains a biography of the Earl of Strafforri , which yr $ do not purpose to review , partly because the ipanis not so mticli to our mind as Sir John Eliot , but rather because we
con fe r the volume as a stock-book which everybody must read , and" we h ^ ve only sought to give a specimen of its valuable centent ^ r But of the treatise written ty Eliot , something' mere skoujkibe said . We shall probably present our readers with a s&jrt articjte , » ext month , on this noble work of a man , the tofun ^ s of ^^ c > se mind and practical conduct is almost equalled b y tl ^ c ^ ry ifriw he endured , and the meanness of his oppressor . * ,,.- /» - . K- H . H . ' y v : i i
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tS » To the Memory < : $ J ? rSech £ * h Schiller .
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'• ' 'iNHfiUFTOR o' the stern man ' s reverence And love deep sunken in the human heart , \ * And that hig'h meed , which , burning o er the grave , jBtnirtUng it * hollows with fix'd radiance ;—y A * did thy sjwirit o ' er life ' s flint-strewn bounds , , \ frWhere dragons old , in slumberous quietude u Jjpld couckant watch : —and , like the solar beam ,
-: , 18 p | ac'd beyond all mortal gratitude ; Schiller , thy name ia graven on Fate ' s tomb 1 TnuB , by the conqueror ' s g-lorious chain time-linkM ^ Sairfog * that giant from oblivion . And thou , whose hand his lofty course hath trae'd With rare magnanimous * humility , ' Wilt live therein enshrin'dY while emprrsg 4 bA& < Slow thro * the melancholy g-loem of night- f '
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TO THE MEMORY OF FRIEDRICH SCHILLER .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/8/
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