CONSOLATION, 



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fain cripple \m anergic in a sublime, yet eminently 

 practical sphere of usefiilness, — witli those who, of 

 mere malict!, would rnisrep resent pure motives, falsely 

 characterise a well-directed entbusifusm, and throw back 

 upon itself every patriotic purpose, jnortified by suspicion, 

 and fnistrated through mistrust I 



I doubt whether J for areneAvcd pcrsecutiouj all Englsmd 

 Avill tnuster so many as the la^3t Parliarnentary nineteen ; 

 but ho\ve%'er tlm may be, my friend may comfort himself 

 with tho considoratLon that " Vermin do ever devour 

 the purest corn ; and moths eat into the finest cloth ; 

 and the cantliarides blast the sweetest flowers ; and the 

 vulture di'awcth sickness from a perfume," 



We have as yet heai^d only two of Mr. Ilume'a 

 witnesses to the truth ; but tijey are of stich a different 

 stamp from those who are to follow that tliey shall have 

 this chapter to thcmselvesi. 



