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Of pomp, and proud precipitance of soul.’ His conduct on the most important occasions of his life, at the time of the impeachment of Hastings for example, and at the time of the French Revolution, seems to have been prompted by those feelings and motives which Mr. Hence he generally chose his side like a fanatic, and defended it like a philosopher. Burke assuredly possessed an understanding admirably fitted for the investigation of truth, an understanding stronger than that of any statesman, active or speculative, of the eighteenth century, stronger than everything, except his own fierce and ungovernable sensibility. Part of this description might perhaps apply to a much greater man, Mr.
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A chain of associations is to him what a chain of reasoning is to other men and what he calls his opinions are in fact merely his tastes. He judges of a theory, of a public measure, of a religious or a political party, of a peace or a war, as men judge of a picture or a statue, by the effect produced on his imagination. Southey’s, a mind richly endowed in many respects by nature, and highly cultivated by study, a mind which has exercised considerable influence on the most enlightened generation of the most enlightened people that ever existed, should be utterly destitute of the power of discerning truth from falsehood. It is, indeed, most extraordinary, that a mind like Mr. Southey brings to the task two faculties which were never, we believe, vouchsafed in measure so copious to any human being, the faculty of believing without a reason, and the faculty of hating without a provocation. The subject which he has at last undertaken to treat is one which demands all the highest intellectual and moral qualities of a philosophical statesman, an understanding at once comprehensive and acute, a heart at once upright and charitable. We have, for some time past, observed with great regret the strange infatuation which leads the Poet Laureate to abandon those departments of literature in which he might excel, and to lecture the public on sciences which he has still the very alphabet to learn.
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Yet we do not remember to have read with so little satisfaction any equal quantity of matter, written by any man of real abilities. Southey’s talents and acquirements to write two volumes so large as those before us, which should be wholly destitute of information and amusement. It would be scarcely possible for a man of Mr. By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq., LL.D., Poet Laureate. Sir Thomas More or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society.