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Show A PO?UUnMISCCHCEPTION. Wall.r ll,.,, . Tb, w No ,,M l Ilia I lalilaaalh l.Ufj. It l dnientlonal In npiew t the I igliteeiilli century at n time of leUuro "'! nulct lnppmcj i ,, writes about th Umo ho trl to breathe Into hi. verw nn aluiosphcro of ieaei he does his bt to throw mtotliopofmncamiofthoeoiil 1,i liil J np liu I the twet for catching an u-Mtl'irf"" "10 ,er' P,rit ' ,l, tl" 1 II I cannot for my own jwrt find nyln.ro In llngland during tho last eintory anything at all to Juitlfy this Wlif In tin linhonil lel.urn Tlio I ightomth century wat n de.p-rnti ly lurlitVnt dungerout, lurdworhlng, Ijoorlypnll tlmoi it v,ni torn by con-llnual con-llnual eonleiti and atnigglc a, by party faction mi ly ch, vfarii It l,ran with a long war, nnd It ended with n long war l.nglnnd had tl ree civil wars ttvoat homo and mo hi her colonic Tho press gang was buy In ciery rtt tht fi-crultlng lorgoant a vinJ country tuwui tho Hoggings, by which dlrel (illno was maintained, ntin almot In. credible, tho lnli)ultln f thotnnem-ment thotnnem-ment not on Hilt or that tide, but on both tldes-tho Jobbing, buying of tlarca, t.necunt, plurditlot, nepotism, ilmony, as wo tenil tlia.ni now, appear Umply liitolerible. If Uicru was no ntir peaco without, thero was litllo within. Itellglous men who wero affected I y a wcaUioat of faith tlmply toiture.1 their Hies, Johnion, always proylng and modilallng, dreudcl ileatli with n constant fear which polsoncil at Inut tweMy)earsorhlaluo. Cowper, after a llfo ipent In religious eiercUet, dial In "despair unutterable." Jopcaeor milet onywIfTc, mvc, irhaps, In urns quiet cathwlral el jao, whero tho canons, kw ping aloof from ooutroieray, doe.1 away tlulr hirmlesa lliesasttlll they dot orouttldo tho litllo country towns, where, to quiet women and rcllml men, tho icaaomi iiwwil then, at Ihev miy still nun, unveinl byqu-atlons, doubt or thought of dauir or of change, 11 it as regards tho llfo of action, tho life among ono s fc Hows, tho only llo ' worth liailng, tht lift of .onion, It niuit have lain HIIo.1 and artetually troubled by tlio pnln of witncMlng continual con-tinual hijustlco nnd ncolleaa tuftcrlng, tho stupid engagements Iu wir after war, with no cud an I no settlement, anl tho noiiy struirslo of opening oplulon-s In which oicry man mu.t play Ids part. Hut leisure peiK-onnd quiet thro things I cannot Und. Woltir llevint hi Harper's. |
