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Icis easjj to scotch * the snake Credulity , bnt dif&cnfcite kill-it . Like the Cfif » mon puff-ball , a . breatk will scatter it , but " , itn seed * are borne owrthetdadto , be degosited wlieceyer they , can find a nidur r whieh is certain to liefoltad uxan ^ taasa . of menu . Sp £ ritJ 2 apping £ has . beenr exposed , Table Turning < has beea explained ; but , wha& ay ails ? Credul % - can always find TOGtiins ; . Tjbefdiseft&& : breaks ? out £ a . fresh . peaces .. Ijfc ~ Mas 16 ftr London , or naurLyjSO ;; . bu&tmtth « : provinces it ia ^ vigpcousu . Cf 4 ar-siglite < l clergymen d £ t « KdcSata 2 i ! 8 spreseaco £ tini-it .. Itt 3 £ rem <^ -Ab& % and Archbishops vouch . ^ Ktbe ^ satftmo ^ pceseiicew
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Ta ^ easuyhaTO effected byvtell ^ fifttiQii % by talking sense . * o ^ griuii * nii ^ i ^ aao&lxul&outtjJSBj ^ h * . TJ ^ commnrnGa-* iflSS # : - i $£ answers ; JR&r- al £ of ? tho » e answer -vrer ^ an ^ l y * falsehoods 4 * hd absurdities ; ' they ; were distinct replied , aa ^ rtwriirQ and : negative ^ ^ tp questions which were pure fictions . We asK « dL a wiie Trios * husband &p ^ 0- ^^^ i f : ^ mih Ms W 4 : wK ^ fo ^^ titlOT ^ bto ^ w ^ o ^ ^ Jiira . ^ ftcatt Indiai-whether itwouia be oS&cstt ^ T ^ i Htrarjcarr—wfeethrtr-C ^ o ^ cthami ^ alSFatloaa , &c ,,. to afforwnl ^ ii staict Teplie&r We tHeu ^ aUedi Up the s ^ wit of Wjjjliam Soakjspjbabe , ^ ao informed tis—tjyice—£ hqt ; he > , 40 * vnfa&i flast ^ celebrat ed review o £ at certain , treatise in ttie ^ ar ^ M-:- . ¦ - ... '
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jSa ^ fr ^ # 6 i ^ - ^* reffiiTeEdiiJr > a written byGaoaiG * SAjHxto . a M , job ftKoEcJouBrri , wHb' Kasgubnshed ^ a . biography nMida ; upcoefitli ^ random , asseitMwus amd" rapid ikferences wbicfr are usuall y cnrrenti about eelebnvted persons . He neVer omce troubled himself to seekl ii » ibrmatton from , her or tier Mencls ! In a letter of exquisite courtesy she roplwsa-to ^ tlrat biograph y ^ ^ cl aring that it does not contain , ona accurate'& c ^ , not' even my mme , not . even my age . I . am : not . named . Marie , and £ was-notfbora iir 180 S \ bhit UL 1804 . ft % , grandmother -waa never at : FAbbdye awe Beds . Wy father was txot , a coloneL , My-grandmother was . far , fronit placing Xe Contrat Social ahflnsre thec Gospel .. At ^ fifteen , I neither handled > a gun . nor mounted a horse . $ > TC « 8-nxa < x > Avent ^
My ^ husbaikdiwas ^ iidither' nor bald . Hjaiwas twenty- seven , and had ^^ fine ^ heant ^ ofTKaar . I never ? inspired' the moBt ) insignificant , of Bordeaux iihipbrokear * witb > - ^ passion . ' The ' twentieth chapter q ! a celebrated , jo - mance' 'is- a chaptCr-of ' romance and nothing elie : Itiisi truly &n easy thing 40 construct the lifd of a writer out of chapters of hi * novels { but yonnxuflt suppose , him to be very simple or very clumsy to imagine that ; if he alludes ill his books to his o wii emotions and experience , he' is unable to surround 4 jhem witE characters , and , circumstances , so fictitious as to throw the reader off the true scent . "
Therefore I content myself with , saying that as . Lnever confided to any one what you , belieye > you : know ^ respecting bis conduct towards . me , you have beenled into error by some orte who inv ited those facts * You say that after- , the ^ jouaey « to Italy I never saw M ; dgb MtrssBTT again . You are mistaken ^ I * hteve- see ** him very often , and never seen him without f-iendly greeting . I am proud to say that I have never nourished a feeling of hitterness against any one , nor have I ever left anp such feeling— durabfe and well founded—not even in M . Dodevant , my husband . " _
Of Lamesnais she says M . MutBcotrBT ' s account is altogether false in spirit and in details , Her veneration for that great man is and always has been unlimited . "X pass ? by , a . aumber of errors without importance , with a smile , and arrive at this phrase— ' She shut her ears when . he ( alluding to Piebbe Xbsoux ) talked of too direct an application of the system . ' This is not meant to be a Cahunny , L am sure ; . bait , it is a gratuitous absurdity , which ypoAttribute to a , man . noteless eminent and respectable liian M . de Laheknais . Cojold yon not find two victims less sacred thaa an-old man on the , brink of the ggaye , and a noble philosopher in exile ? It anx certain ( that on x&fiection , yon , will regret' havnrg yielded to thaf iromeal' tendency which is ; the qpalityi ,. th © : faulty aawi the misfortune of Xoung-Franoe ^
u In conclusion my * modesty forces me to say that I do not improvise quite sor welLaa Liiazt ^ my . friendy but not my master . Hfe never gave me lessons ^ and ' I ^ canBoli ^ i mprovise at all : " We hBav « tbns extracted from a long letter every detail which could interesfand ^ e intelligible to our readers . " Comment , " as writers say , when ata loss , * ' -would be superfluous . "
After some other rectifications ^ which we . omit , because they would scarcely lid intelligible , to , , English readers , she adds -. " After the success of Thdicna Hihtad : na salon , and ; parties ; for five or six y&ars I ' lived in the same attic <( pnafi 8 ar < ie ) i . audu saw thera thei same intimate iriends . But X come to the first ofth » fftot 8 v' which / 1 desire to rectify , oaring very little about the -others * . Ton say-- * Td the intoxication of success she coimnaitted the fault -of forgetting the faithiiil companion of . her obscurity , Sajstokau , wounded to the hear ^ . went away , to Italy alone , on foot , penniless . ' M . Jujues
Sandeau nevexrwent-tcx > Italy on foot and penniless . Although you seem to insinuate that if- lie"was witKouir money it was aay fault , wibigh is supposing that he h&ving quarrelled ' with me would have accepted money from me ( a supposition too ; injurious for y « u . to have made willingly ); allow mo to assure you ., what he will confirm , that he had resources of his own . Moreover , he did not go away wounded to the heart . I have from him letters , as honourable to him na to me , which prove the contrary ; letters I have no need to publish , knowing that he speaks of me with the esteem and affection which he owes me . 411 will not here defend M . dk Mussbt from your offensive accusations . He is capable of defending himself , and at present I am alone in question .
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v ' AR , oiBBiOJ »»; diswve ^ has receatly ^ been brought before the- wo * iar iR < the ishapeiofr an unpubHehefbtreatise by IiEiBNirzia refutation of 8 S ^ roozA ; The discovere > r ^ -Mi . FoTJcaB » jm Gabbix , during htis researefeerinithe Hanoverian Library , alighted ^ upon-a Xiatiiz manuscript entirely-written in the hand of BhdwTO' ; and from this Latin version he has published" one : in ~ Fi ench under 4 tee title ifi ^ wteft ' on inedite -de Spinoza gar Xieitinilz . We have not seen the Volume , but'hopre / ditat tbie . original text , accompanies the translation , as a ^ guarantee . Our readers shall , be duly informeji of . the nature of , this wor > , as , sooxl as we have , ihsnected . ife ,.
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B ^ BfTEJ AND HIS TR ^ SLATOHS . TfieDi ^ vGfai&yofDaMe * Rendered into English . By Frederick Pollock . With i Fifiy * IUu 3 tMtiott $ drawn , by G&ovgfuSehatfijun , Price , 20 * . Cfaapmaaaad HalL iHBBfiis no better ; vehicle" for satire , invective , and episodic interest than an J maginacy voyage .. AIL . the . incidents of life may- be brought : together-with probability , and . yefe each subject may be selected according to the whims or needs of the writer . We cannot wonder that in all times men , have availed themselves of this form , and availed themselves of it with success . A goodly list might be made of the Imaginary Travellers . There is Lucian , for example , with his True History a \ t ) 6 r / $ laropia so called'from its fecundity of lies . Noting the credulity of men and their appetitft-fdirmarveHous narratives , he gravely furnishes them with food . He tells us that he set forth , impelled by a desire to experience new things and learriNffhat kind of- men ( inhabited the distant shores beyond the ocean .
For my purpose holds - To satii beyond the sunset asd the baths Of all the western stars . A storm arises . He ia thrown upon a strange coast : -the domain of Wonder is . entered ,, and he revelsr there . He sees : rivers of wine ; . animals half horse , half vulture ; trees , from the -waist upwards ^ women- , fleas like elephaats ; a whale , within whose stomach forests and cities flourished ; a . sea of milk , and in it a cheese island ! Then there iff the veridical voyage of Mr . Lemuel Gulliver , of Kotherhithe ; once the delight of ail Britain , now the imperishable marvel book for boys , who read it innocent of its savage misanthropy , the hideous grin of a demon looking on humanity with alternate envy and alternate scorn . One
remark we are tempteddigressively to place- here on this extraordinary book . Its-finest invention is confessedly the voyage to Lilliput . The satire is not so bitter . The humour is more genial and genuine . The voyage to Brobdintm&g is in conception only-the same idea reversed : in Brobdiiignag , Mr . Gulliver is a Lilliputian . Now , although the treatment of this-conception belongs to Swift , we must in all justice point out that he has probably no claim to the merit of conception , which is due to an Italian—Martelli—a writer of whom we can find no account in Gingue ' ne ( Hisloirt Litliraire a'ltalie ) nor in Salfi ( Saggio della commedia Italiana ) , but who is mentioned by Goldoni , as the author of six volumes of dramatio compositions from tragedy to marionette farces . One of these latter—the JBantboeiata , or sneezing of Hercules^—is analysed by Goldoni , from whom we borrow the following description : —
Hercules is iu the laud of the Pigmies . These little creatures , alarmed at the sight of-what appears a living mountain , hide themselves in caves . One day , as Hercules is sleeping in the open field , tlve Pigmies venture from their hiding-places , and armed with bouguy and thorns , mount this sleeping monster , and covot him from head to foot , like flies covering a piece of raw meat . Hercules awakes , and feeling something tickling his nose , sneezes . His enemies are routed , and fall precipitously from his sides ; and thus the piece ends . In this piece the style and the sentiments are all proportioned to tho size of the actors , the very verses are short : the verses ot Pi ^ miea ! Here we have obviously . the leading idea of Lilliput , and tho effect Mr . Gulliver created there ; the incident also of both giants sleeping iu the open air and being then approached by their enemies , ia the same . The subsequent incidents differ ; but the original idea—tbo kernel of tLe whole—ia certainly the some . It becomes therefore a question as to whether Swift
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OjifciCB ajte ^ nfl& . tfaeslegialafcocs ^ but the j-u 4 gea and police of literature . They do not makfr . laaya . >~ tliey infcergxet and try to enforce tkern . — J&dinbitryJi Review .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 25, 1854, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2027/page/18/
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