18 Sep. 1809 +

Parl y Reform

B. I. Necessity

Ch.18. Mischief of Idol-worship

Ch. Elogiums mischievous

King worship

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The pastry-cook business (Ireland)

In the annals of the Roman Commonwealth we see the chief man in it /one of the

chiefs /heads/ of it/ /one of its headmen/, Quintus Curtius by a self-sacrifice,

suited indeed in its mode suited to the physics /natural philosophy/ of the times,

working the salvation of the /a/ whole people: and the story, if not altogether

criticism /observation/ -proof in the character of a history is most excellent in the

history of a moral apologia or instructive fable.

In England, in these our times, public spirit or that spirit at least which calls

itself public, has taken a /turn/ somewhat different turn. A whole people are called

upon – called upon at every turn – to take a leap together into this and that and

t’other gulp – and for what /to what end/ always for the sake of one man who in how

few other respects /points/ he may resemble Curtius, resembles him at any rate in

this – viz. that