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posed to be at work on this Planet Earth, in this citY.!6'9s r
at this hour! Secondly, that a -literary Contrihotes'i; creca
heart and urged by hunger, will many times }ti weciistll°isb
informed) accomplish his two Magazine sheets a"' eao'eisi
end twenty hours ; such Contributors being 11°,,`,sg : I'4o
not by the thousand, but by the million. Nay, ta7i
in its narrower, vulgar sense, as the mere chroni€-Ad4
rences" (of things that can be, as we say, ,131rsarOsst'sol
ealenlation is stiß hut a little altered. Siirec attic 'S
will be observed, is the grand 'staple of Speech
man" ss Jean Paul, "is copious its Narrative, tirerscv
iteflexion ; only with the cultivated man is it (:;',01!",},
Yersetvise." Allow even the thousandth part of l'(the el"is
ing for the emission of Thought, though perhaps nine
Were enough, we have still the nine hundred ""`„es, :„
employed in History proper, in relating ocentreiiter I",e
lecturing probabilities of such : that is to sq,.',l„s'),•,,e't
tory or Prophecy, which is a new form of
the reader can judge with what abundance this, Itscri'te
the human intellect is furnished in our world; 'o3°, der. s.
has been stingy to hint or munificent. Courage, re.; setel)
can the historical inquirer want pabulum, belter,l),,srint'
there are not forty-eight longitudinal feet of sin a" e
tory in thy Daily Newspaper ?
The truth is, if Universal History is such a
tive "shred" as we have named it, the fault lic"" ssY:ll
historic organs, but wholly in our misuse of diesel; the s
in so many wants and obstructions, varying sc!t ts 00;
age, that pervert our right use of them; espec'a
that press heavily in all ages; want ,of • Houest:c, :s
derstanding. If the thing published is not true, is
position, or even a Vilful invention, what can be,. say'
except abolish and annihilate it? But again, Trtlit%iieve!:
Tooke, means simply the thing treiced,tibe thin)-. "tat &di
now, from this to the thing extant, what a new ta.pf
have we to suffer ! Without Understanding, isl
profit little : and how can your publishing avii -whets
sr
was no vision in it, but mere blindness ? tse I,
litical appointments, the man you appoint is 'lo°
ae"s,
ablest to discharge the duty, but only lie wh I se)
be appointed : so too, in alt historic elections aut's be,
the maddest work goes on. The event _worthiest 00"
is perhaps of all others the least spoken of;
lies in the very nature of such events to be so. ;es ell
same ,forty-eight longitudinal feet of history, or Yis.:
have stretched out into forty-eight longitudioal tinCo'S 3
quality, there may not be the forty-eighth Parse tilt
breadth that will turn to anything. Truly,
Ni‘l'att'ebe
quantity of printed Publication that will need- t° 04,es;
with fire before the smallest permanent- adv3iniee,t"
drawn from it, might.fill us with astonishment, a, Dt,
prehension. Where, alas, is the intrepid Herctnetao
tail, that will reduce all these paper-mountains i"
extract therefroth the three drops of Tinder
indeed, looking at the activity of the historic lienf 111
through - this last half-century, and what bulk. ofort!,‘,
yields for that period -alone, and how it is lici'ssess'
increase in decimal or vigesimal geometric Pres'rseivi
might feel as if a day-were not distant, wheu
the whole Earth would not now contain those see
was done in the Earth, the human memory must'i e
confounded,-and-cease remembering!—'Lo sou:,:- c„ 0,
ma"
ay be new end consolatory, that this state 016"
;ti,-
unexampled as it seems ; that with memory
able the
sease was always intrinsically ;
Nero oceuptes some diamond pages of our Taci3Osoral
parchment and .papyreus archives of New's t4t-ts
many ilia it:fill! The author of the I'is.de
tance, picking a feiv 'residuary slips; has Wis sell
two octavos of it. On the other hand, were the Lt(i'llA
then extant Roman memories, or, going to -the alai
were the contents of the then extant Roman s
were all that was then spoken on it, put in tvlrt;tlA
"longitudinal feet" of small-pica had we—in fico
go round the Globe ! * 31,1
Remark nevertheless how, by natural tendencY,
it were witheut man's forethought a certain fitt!ca'els
and this even to a high -degree, becomes inevit Vt,
worthless the selection could not he, were thetei,.'"A:
then this to guide it : that men permanently sPc3do t)t`
is extant and actively, alive beside them. I bus
o'it
that have produced fruit, nay whose fruit still 011,
to be the things chosen for record, and writing,o4asaf):
alone were great, and worth recording. Tin= Pat )lii!,
Where. Humana met RoMe, and the -Earth was itse,si
sword-defence, by two earth-bestriding
whose swords cut kingdoms in pieces; hovers r`
*aid . remembrance of a few; while the P°°
Treachery of a wretched Iscariot, transacted
tin i,it
land of Palestine, centuries earlier, for " tbirtse
yer," lives clear iu the heads, in the hearts of 3sstvij
moreover, as only that which bore fruit was g', Oa'pp
things, that whose fruit is still here and gro,".4?'sitho;fd
greatest, the. best worth remembering; while
by the very nature of the case, is mandy the &!.;
Observe too how this "Mainly" tends alwaYsn o i
oschep,Sl
`°solely," and the apProximate continually apPrilia")
for triviality after triviality, as it perishes
tivity efmeesdreps away frote their speech all,
the great and vital more and more exclusivel)
Thus does Accident correct Accident, and
boundless jostle of things (an aimful Power r thatY
say rather, dwelling in it), a result comes out
up with. ca',/
ea •
Curious, at all events, and worth looking at .c 55,,,
is this same compressure of History, be the Pi ot'' YfAi;f.
it may. How the "forty-eight longitudinal fee/into 7'
together after a century, after ten centuries ! 00.00
end to beginning, over any HiStory, over otisis
how, in rapidest law of perspective it dwindles ".east?, Of,
An unhapi,y Sibarite, if we stand within two csel'so'S
and name -him Charles. Seeond shall have toil
bn
space of a Heroic Alfred, two or three thoniseptay
name Isins:Georp'Fotirth. The whole Saxon flesP
events to which Maena Charta and the w°rict'srf
~t 1
Reading are as dust in the balance, took placcci
England, to mention nothing else, get itself,
,'?) OA,
in Parliament, yet converted to ChristianitYitses°,6,
practically that one sentence of Miami's 'orit'oe9.
ceeding writers have copied. or readers I.,e,i';,:e'oics:
" lighting and flocking of kites and crows.
'‘o.o Mist
an - unimportant wassail-night when the ,oilLt Ji
Brothers strongheaded,. headstroug Hengistt jot
lion and 'Horse), determined on man-tint
boar-hunt at home having got ovet-crowded;a ryi
hungry Angles, made an-English nation, gull,' °,,,
and—produced thee 0 reader ! Of
Tugs scarcely half a page of good narrative c'slo'o`f
the Lord Mayor's Visit to Oxfbrd standing, liot viedt
to mankind in a respectable volume. N itY,.,,ee 3 I.l'
not the destruction of a Brunswick theatre 'sco'
times as much telling as the Creation of a
Magazine.
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THEATRICALS EXTRAOI-1
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As we h,,„ shave not the advantage' of a abet, it
readers will pardon-our, being sometime-
formation. ;_meet our last number Ivan "-sot
play-hii was pint into our bands; we havev,,,--
other 'raper, and therefore we insert it n'-',%sesi's,'. fer,
THEATRV,ROYAL, ST. s'rcL ".01
On Tuesday next, April 30th, his )I."„he far
have the honour to perform an' entirelY m!`"osest.'ti
aISLA'TION MADE EASY; OR THE "SAY s!. jiort'sst
The LA.RDLORD OF THE CHEQUERS,
t
Which character he will introduce the vve o,
malt. forlet Os' '
The part of the PATRIOT will "be 1:,-1.-Lirt, .;
this night-Only, by young ROscitis, 'citias
The MASTER IN CHANCERY, by ir'
kindly consented to sing'the favourite s"l'''thes,l
The Judge of the Court of CollSiStefiCAOtit,
manity, and the able advocate of Jugg'eLstisee3
the audience with the sacrifice of his 0,1.0'15'0P
pularity on the•funerel pile of his dyinls
.tisg 3
The-whole will conclude with an atte`aisoens t
ginal appeal to the -cOnipassion of the an ~ r
It-
Alter,em will repeat his universal I sravcr'
lint
• ,s
a poor old man: to Ce
YOUNG Roscius begs to announce pey
'public -in general, that his benefit will tosv'e -h
ot-stisi!
the 7th May, at the .Theatre-royal,
will perform,
ofovr the third time 0 e
, this 6°,7-01
SYCOPHANT. No mon takeniaiitttlitli i
e
had at the sign of the Jolly Grazier ev.°s
t' `'hl
ar
The origin of this performance
,aris isst, tc
the State Managers went., on Sad:urea), ssset,e,
of the Theatre and said, that, in e"il-ie)? the ts,
unsopularitv of the 'House, but alS° 400,
acknotiledged inability of tlie s;eat's'
they could no long el. retain the reana: it''
most anxious to Sian d by their emploVere se,f,Sl
they were Wel! aware, -that, EllOtZid ever.,!
Cepchi
engagements, they could not hop- !),„,pf
were reciinimended to take further teastit,aso,:i
the result was, that the above reap de. too
on Havish what,SueCess the" public knoNs'
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