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quency of crimes to the denial of that best education which is 

 given by the sympathy that should exist between high and low, 

 by the active kindnesses and the gracious admonitions that 

 ought to bind us more nearly to classes from which English 

 habits of reserve keep us now too proudly aloof. He was 

 speaking that which he knew, and his breath, after the grave 

 utterance of that warning, could not expire in a strain more 

 sweetly .accordant with the whole life's music that had gone 

 before. 



1 That such shmdd be the end was the Will of God ; and 

 never did robed and ermined judge, dying thus in open court 

 in fulfilment of his duty, meet a death so like that of a hero. 

 With Talfourd's name the memory of that last hour will never 

 cease to live. It will remain on earth and be a fruitful source 

 of Good : and there is a pause in sorrow when we think that it 

 will be remembered too in Heaven.' 



[END OF THE FIRST SERIES.] 



