The Analectic Magazine, 1814, Vol. 3: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, of Such Articles as Are Most Valuable, Curious, or Entertaining (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0243976062 ISBN 13: 9780243976065

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from The Analectic Magazine, 1814, Vol. 3: Containing Selections From Foreign Reviews and Magazines, of Such Articles as Are Most Valuable, Curious, or Entertaining

War immediately before we sat down to this article; and we read it under the disadvantage of an expectation raised to the verge of enthusiasm, by the recollection of the delight we felt in the pe rusal'of it about twenty years ago. But we read it with augmented pleasure, arising partly, we presume to suspect, from an improved capacity of judging in ourselves, and partly from the contrast it exhibits to the puerile intemperance of modern party-politics. The speech is plain, and easy to be understood. It stoops to conquer, not to flatter. It alppears to move from the heart, and to press towards the heart. Nt in the midst of its warm career it never omits to pay its tribute to truth, and to the understanding. Wisdom with its steady lamp lights it on its way, and renders the sense of every statement and argument luminous and emphatic ally clear. At judicious intervals a rest is given to the mind, wearied with the continuous effort of pursuing a series of resulting propositions: and that rest is always on an eminence, from which the surrounding objects may be contemplated at ease. Above all, we admire and love the manly independence of principle which governs the whole argument, and which with infinite ad dress is made the vehicle of the most refined compliment to his auditors. In a former number we have lamented the poisonous effects of electioneering oratory. We should reverse the obser vation with a pleasure equal to the pain with which we made it, could we see the example of this great person prevail over that coarse and lying spirit which fiatters the insolence of the mob with the name of freedom, and teaches the fatal and ferocious doctrine, that liberty consists in the contempt of authority. Such was not the conduct of Paulus Emilias in his address from the rostrum on being chosen general for the Macedonian war; nor was such the conduct of Mr. Burke in addressing the electors of Bristol. The oceasions were dissimilar, but the conduct in both was both British and Roman in its character. The actions were internally the same.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0243976062
• ISBN 13: 9780243976065
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 542