OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL.D. POET LAUREATE, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, CHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, OF THE METROPOLITAN RESPICE, ASPICE, PROSPICE.-St. Bernard. WITH PLATES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXIX. RD LIBRARY Ἢ ζητῶ ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκειν ;-GALATIANS, I. 10. Ωστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν;-GALATIANS, IV. 16. LONDON: PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. DEDICATION. TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVEREND HERBERT HILL, FORMERLY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD: SUCCESSIVELY Not upon marble or sepulchral brass Such tribute, were I rich in this world's wealth, Its deep and inmost sense. But what I can Before thy birth by Holbein's happy hand Prefigured thus. It is the portraiture |