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EXTRACTS, FACTS, AND OPINIONS, RELATING TO

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SOCIETY.

Prospects of Society. EE CLARENDON, vol. 1, part 2, p. 498. Concerning the arts and activity of factious men.

"So most men are deceived in being too reasonable; concluding that reason will prevail upon those men to submit to what is right and just, who have no other consideration of right or justice, but as it advances their interest, or complies with their humour and passion."-Ibid. p. 1043.

ONE who had hurt his foot by paring a nail to the quick, laughed on being told there was danger of a mortification, and replied, "the foot is a long way from the heart." But the mortification found its way there.

BACON observes," it is not incredible that it should have come into the mind of such an abject fellow (as Lambert Simnell) to enterprize so great a matter, for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons, especially when they are drunk with news and talk of the people."-Henry VII. p. 20.

BACON says that in the Statute of 19 Henry VII. against vagabonds, there may be noted "the dislike the parliament had of gaoling of them, as that which was chargeable, pesterous, and of no open example. And he notices that in all the statutes of this king there are ever coupled the punishment of vagabonds, and the for

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"THE Othomacas, one of the rudest of the Orinoco tribes, suppose themselves descended from a pile of stones upon the top of a rock called Barraguan, and that they all return to stone as they came from it; so that this mass of rock is composed of their forefathers.

THE system of lying was not practised more impudently by Buonaparte's government, than by the Opposition papers and the Opposition speakers.

JOHNSON Once said of Derrick, "he may do very well as long as he can outrun his character, but the moment his character gets up with him, it is all over." Alas! character now goes for nothing with the mob, or even the people in this country.

“Est enim metus magister longè optimus maximequè opportunus."-GREG. NAZIAN

ZEN.

ALFRED's police.-TURNER, vol. 2, p. 304. WORKS of fiction monstrous in kind, devilish in feeling, damnable in purpose.

EVERY man his own king, his own priest, and his own God.

THE American war destroyed that amicable feeling which till then had for half a century prevailed between the Church and the Dissenters. In Abp. Secker's days,

e. g.

"MAIS on feint de ne rien croire, afin de tout permettre," was said of the Dragonnades in Poictou, and may be said of the Catostreet Conspiracy, &c.

A. D. 1821. In the course of thirty-nine years the Catholics in England are said to have increased sevenfold. Their present

numbers are about 500,000.

I suspect this is a line from the Carmen de l'itá suá, v. 47.

Φόβος γὰρ ἦγεν, ὃς μέγας διδάσκαλος.

Tom. ii. p. 678. Ed. Fol. 1840.
J. W. W.

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END of all disputed successions with the factures a new class. Servants an altered Union of the Roses.

THE old denominations of small coin becoming too small.

MANUFACTURING populace in Flanders. But the higher classes in those days, Comines says, were good people, and sorely disliked the mutinous spirit of the community. Our mischief lies with the half-educated class, the agitators.

CONSEQUENCE of the struggle for Reformation in different countries. The League. Accidental effect of the Inquisition.

No one put to death for heresy while Sir T. More was chancellor.

DESTRUCTION of buildings began with the Reformation, when stronger passions were at work than in the successive war of which Comines speaks.

A GOOD remark of Marlborough's upon Lord Halifax, "if he had no other fault but his unreasonable vanity, that alone would be capable of making him guilty of any fault."

GROWTH of good government through the wreck of its institutions. Difference in Iceland.

one.

Tradesmen.

Condition of women. Quoad marriage, worsened, and quoad education, not so good as in Henry VIII.'s time.

Dr. Johnson, Boswell says, แ was willing to speak favourably of his own age: and indeed maintained its superiority in every respect, except in its reverence for government; the relaxation of which he imputed as its grand cause to the shock which our monarchy received at the Revolution, though necessary; and secondly, to the timid concessions made to faction by successive administrations in the reign of his present Majesty, George III."-Vol. 3, p. 3.

"THERE is a strange rout made about deep play," said JOHNSON; "whereas you have many more ruined by adventurous trade, and yet we do not hear such an outcry against it."

OPINIONS Concerning the mercantile profession by Cicero, and Plutarch's character of it in eastern times. - WADDING. vol. 1, p. 17. ESSENES. Basnage, vol. 1, p. 536.

"IN colonizing new countries provision should be made for towns, and those limited in size. See Henry the Fowler's regulation in Germany.-TURNER, vol. 2, p. 350.

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