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Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS .
It fortunately happens , that the general events have not been very striking , and we have , therefore , been enabled to enter more fully into the peculiar objects of this Journal , by devoting all possible space thereto . The death of so powerful a writer as Cobbett must not , however , be passed over , and we give the subjoined extracts , which , on a careful examination , we believe , condense the opinions of nearly all our contemporaries . It is singular , now the " lion" is dead , that nearly all agree in doing him fair justice .
AVILLIAM COBBETT . - Abridgedfrom the Morning Chronicle , June IS . This powerful ancl original writer died yesterday at ten minutes past one , P . M ., at his farm in Surrey , aged 73 . He retained his faculties till the last moment , and died with perfect composure . It ivould be in vain to deny that AVilliam Cobbett was one of the most powerful writers that England has ever produced . He felt keenl
y and observed accurately , and he never failed to make a strong impression on his readers . His last Register , published on the 13 th inst ., is as animated as his first American pamphlet , published in the full tide of youthful vigour . The wonder is , how a man writing every tlay for upwards of forty years , shoulcl never exhibit any symptoms of coldness or indifference , but communicate to his pages a constant interest .
There is not , perhaps , a question which he has not by turns advocated and opposed—there is not a man whom he has not by turns praised and abused . Hazlitt supposed tills change of opinion was the result of a fickleness of disposition , and that without this fickleness ive should also have been without his freshness . No man could have occupied the public so constantly with himself as Cobbett has done , without possessing great talents . Take him with all his faults as a writer , and he will still be an extraordinary man .
Abridged from the Public Ledger . AVilliam Cobbett , to whom the heated atmosphere of the House of Commons , and the excitement consequent upoij the performance of legislative duties , had already occasioned more physical suffering than had all the previous alternations he had undergone—prostrated by elements that have proved alike fatal to the vigorous and the feeble . He is no longer among the living master-spirits of the age , whatever their
vocation , for evil or for good . He , who of late was heard , or heard of , far and near , whose voice commanded silence , and ivhose pen enforced attentive observance , whether from veneration , or fear , or even vindictive feeling , is now fixed in the motionless torpor of death ; ancl lies silent amid living anel active millions , from among whom his parallel cannot be selected . To posterity he has left a twofold task ; one of gratitude for his meritorious deeds—they were not a few ; ancl one of forgiveness for his misdeeds—ivould they were less .
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Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS .
It fortunately happens , that the general events have not been very striking , and we have , therefore , been enabled to enter more fully into the peculiar objects of this Journal , by devoting all possible space thereto . The death of so powerful a writer as Cobbett must not , however , be passed over , and we give the subjoined extracts , which , on a careful examination , we believe , condense the opinions of nearly all our contemporaries . It is singular , now the " lion" is dead , that nearly all agree in doing him fair justice .
AVILLIAM COBBETT . - Abridgedfrom the Morning Chronicle , June IS . This powerful ancl original writer died yesterday at ten minutes past one , P . M ., at his farm in Surrey , aged 73 . He retained his faculties till the last moment , and died with perfect composure . It ivould be in vain to deny that AVilliam Cobbett was one of the most powerful writers that England has ever produced . He felt keenl
y and observed accurately , and he never failed to make a strong impression on his readers . His last Register , published on the 13 th inst ., is as animated as his first American pamphlet , published in the full tide of youthful vigour . The wonder is , how a man writing every tlay for upwards of forty years , shoulcl never exhibit any symptoms of coldness or indifference , but communicate to his pages a constant interest .
There is not , perhaps , a question which he has not by turns advocated and opposed—there is not a man whom he has not by turns praised and abused . Hazlitt supposed tills change of opinion was the result of a fickleness of disposition , and that without this fickleness ive should also have been without his freshness . No man could have occupied the public so constantly with himself as Cobbett has done , without possessing great talents . Take him with all his faults as a writer , and he will still be an extraordinary man .
Abridged from the Public Ledger . AVilliam Cobbett , to whom the heated atmosphere of the House of Commons , and the excitement consequent upoij the performance of legislative duties , had already occasioned more physical suffering than had all the previous alternations he had undergone—prostrated by elements that have proved alike fatal to the vigorous and the feeble . He is no longer among the living master-spirits of the age , whatever their
vocation , for evil or for good . He , who of late was heard , or heard of , far and near , whose voice commanded silence , and ivhose pen enforced attentive observance , whether from veneration , or fear , or even vindictive feeling , is now fixed in the motionless torpor of death ; ancl lies silent amid living anel active millions , from among whom his parallel cannot be selected . To posterity he has left a twofold task ; one of gratitude for his meritorious deeds—they were not a few ; ancl one of forgiveness for his misdeeds—ivould they were less .