... The Politics of Poets. No. V. Attend— For now I speak of things which ye can comprehend.” The following sentiment from the pen of Dr Porteus is well worthy the attentive consideration of mankind. Hero-worship, and king and priest-worship, have long enough ...

... leed short, 147; when in affairs, r, must be exhibiting ad existing .sserting its rhich there igo, man harged the rmer, for speak ■jury, who the judge’s lard Lovell i, what ver* justice and aod up, and ,ly Lords, My Lord, I judge grew ;oniempt f the whole ...

... our lives are full of its inspiration. We can worship at her shrine in the broad blaze of open clay—we are not compelled to speak her thrilling accents only when night and silence are abroad. It has descended from these who have poured out their lives willing ...

... but not the freedom of his thoughts and words, where God and conscience leave him at liberty, cr require he should think and speak. The attempt to restrain this Pashur of old is found to be the means of enhancing and accelerating his own doom and no autho:ity ...

... of earthly sovereign, of an eastern tyrant.” Here his reverence is at fault. The Lord says nothing of eastern tyrantshe is speaking of kings, or rather of the effects of a kingly government, and we should be happy to suppose that the deeds, he ascribes ...

... her husband’s presence, that he had, long before the time we speak of, become insensible, or generally professed to he so, to noise of any sort that did not equal in power an ordinary speaking-trumpet, or his wife’s scolding tones ; and this was the reason ...

... as many of their readers are gullible—cannot get over it. Most of them keep silent on this head altogether, while those who speak out are constrained to allow what they are pleased to term the abstract right of Universal Suffrage,” that is, the justice ...

... still possesses the power to the same. The franchise, like the atmospheric air, is equally valuable, though equally enjoyed. Speaking of the air—suppose, for instance, that any class of individuals were powerful enough to shut up the rest of their fellow-men ...

... their opinions; and as each man is right in his own estimation, it becomes a difficult matter to decide who is wrong. Legally speaking, however, man is considered infidel when he disbelieves the creed established by law, in the country where he is pro tempore ...

... class of the people who were called upon to exercise the right, but dll they that be there present.” Sir W. Jones, while speaking of the feudal svstem, instituted by William the Conqueror, says, narrow and base it was, and confined exclusively to landed ...

... the result. By it the popular excitement was kept up, and the agitation appeared to be at its most flourishing epoch. In speaking of petitioning as a means of carrying the Charter, we would not, however, be understood to say that the mere act of petitioning ...

... of the great deep.”— it not strange that there are some who, in- of rejoicing, mourn at these things—these I symptoms which speak us of brighter ...