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blunders , and vices , wmcn , with , ^ e ^ ea ^ er , blindness , we attribute t& the blind goddess , to the fates , to the stars , to any one , in short , but ourselves . " ^ . llpWSi ^ Sfreniay ~ defcnu * to thifc , aa an universal conclusion , We ci ^ ot but admit what follows to be true ; nor fail to' enjoy fiftrfiptniss of the illustration . " Not a word of the fates or the stars when we ate getting ^ rich ^ Atid every thing goes on prosperously . So deeply rooted in our nature id the tendency to make others responsible for our own misdeeds , that we lapse into the process almost unconsciously . An infant being brought to christen to a country curate / at a time when he was somewhat overcome by early potations , he was unable to find the service of baptism in the book , and i
after fumbling for some time , peevishly exclaimed , Confound the brat wlfift ^ ibeniatteT with it ? I never in all my life knew such a difficult cmHo cWtsten ! ' " \ o \^ 4 )!< i ^ re is both a ludicrous and true philosophy irj the above . 3 Ekfctomwtng V capital . X ? i&--&tof " A r& * yuijftor »~ - grammatical Adam , being a relative without i& ftlit ^ fedetot $ —something that is ap p to nothing * , and comps after ^ WlS outt 3 tflteWing from . Of this figure there are various zorfa ; hmi t \ & J&Hbc&fc&r&n form is putting the cart before the horse , or taking the tdffecVf ^' fcbfc fcause . The industrious , prudent , and enlightened people
t ^ P > liWw ^©« aitfy have thriven and grown great and rioh , not always in t ^ g ^ qt ^ ftefe df good , but in spite of bad government . When , therefore , < tk& $ { & 4 l&mct * & to reverence the mis-governed and unrefonaed inetitu * ^ M ^ 4 d % vMch > alone they are told to consider themselves indebted for all tfle a&tatftfcfe ^ r tHey eajoy , one cannot help recalling the non saquitur ^ tfc ^ Gartttilite Friar , who instanced , as a striking proof of ^ he , » ujpexifttfenAehce arid roodne 88 of Providence , that it almost invariably made a Mtf&vfatti' ( toftitpittely through the middle of every laxge city . " - ^—VoL ii , ^ 47 / - ' ; " ; " »• ¦ ¦ : . - ^ fiP ^^ aS ^ & ^^ - ^^^ P ^ y our quotations almost to the extent of wif 'I ^ ^ J ^ PPfl ^* ^ ^ contains littl e whic h is not good- It ft difl& ^ ult i udeed to select ^ so much offers itself in almost every
&TC < Contrast , or the History of a Day ¦ ¦
S " ' - ^ - ; . . .. ¦ . . ¦ . -A ^ br 6 buction that has all the appearance of being a reprint * df ' "tae of th « antiquated puerilities adininifttered of yore , and f rrYttpi to ' this day , as a present to young folks , by the least icHlgfent 6 f ^ gmridmammas . The wood-outs are equally oldihfon ^ d in earecutidn and spiritless in design . gjfcfa ' Cfimc Atmaneck for 1837 . J 3 j ? * l ( alJum dfutttiCbtt ^ « e nt * ^^^ i /^ inp rinted for Chablei Tilt , Bibmopolist .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 776, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/60/
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