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Tom Hood.
decaying at the core , and by the following natural process : men take a huge stride at first from Catholicism into Infidelity , like the French , and then by a short step backwards in a reaction , attain the juste milieu . In October , 1836 , the 19 th Polish
Infantry , Mr . de Franch ' s regiment , weie ordered to march to Bromberg and Berlin , and Hood was induced by the officers , with whom , he was very popular , to march with them . This trip he seems to have enjoyed very muchparticularlthe visit to Berlin
, y , when he was specially invited to dine with Prince Radziwill , and was introduced to a most august circle of German grandees . Radical as he was , he ajipearecl not to be above accepting with pleasure the favours of great peopleespeciallRoyalt—like
, y y another very distinguished Radical I could mention—and from a letter to his wife at this time , he says— " The Duke of Cumberland asked Franch who that gentleman was who marched with his regiment , and
was surprised to hear it was me . Prince George spoke in such very handsome terms of me , that I left my card for him . As he regretted not having had the last J . Comic , ' Franch presented one of his . It is a sad pity that the Prince is quite blind :
a fine young man and very amiable . I do not know whether I shall ever see any of the Princes again , but I expect I must call to take leave . They had even read 'Tylneytlall . '" Poor fellow , from a letter to his friend
Dilke , we learn that the tri p did him no good in the end . " My marching , in fact , ended like Le FSvres ( it ought to be "Le fever' ) in a sick bed—my regiment in a ' regimen . '" Fancy punning on such a subject .
He feared his lungs were touched , for he suffered , poor man , from spitting of blood a good deal ; and he got to fancy Coblentz and the Rhine did not suit him , so after two years there , he settled down at Ostend .
His epitaph on his friend Dilke , who was an invalid like himself at this time , and who it ajipears suffered very much from imprudently going out to get his bailout when he was too unwell to run any risks , is rather good .
He advises Mrs . Dilke to read her husband a morning lesson out of the Bible showing how Samson lost all his strength
Tom Hood.
by going and having his hair cut . "What an epitajib must I have written if he had died through that little outbreak of personal vanity , " says he : — " Here lies Dilke , the victim to a whim , Who went to have his liair cut , but the air
cut Mm . " ( To be continued . )
The Vista Of Life.
THE VISTA OF LIFE .
BY JOHN M . '' We are born ; we laugh , we weep , We love , we droop , we die ! Ah wherefore do we laugh , or weep ? Why do wc live , or die ? Who knows that sacred deep ? Alas ! not I !" PEOOTOB .
LIFE 1—what a volume is expressed in that single word ; a word in itself so brief , yet nevertheless it is true the term which designates our existence , and is equally apropos in its length to the space of time which is given us for its enjoyment . What
can be more brief and transitory than our fleeting lives , and yet at the same time so rejilete with subjects of such great and vital importance to every one of us . It has been observed that the proper study of mankind is " man" but how few
, there be that give the subject a thought . And it is only too true , that the more we study and the deeper we search for that hidden knowledge , which must exist somewhere , in regard to so vast a creation as
that of the great human family , the more firmly we find closing around us those quicksands which have so deeply imbedded the unwritten history of our race . Gazing back o ' er the " vista of our lives , " what a different appearance must be presented to each particular one ; to
the young , as it appears , with his joyous background and visions of joy and happiness looming up before them in the glittering future , while to the many whose locks have been silvered by the frost of advancing years , the retrospect has , mayhap , many a darkened spot , and the
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Tom Hood.
decaying at the core , and by the following natural process : men take a huge stride at first from Catholicism into Infidelity , like the French , and then by a short step backwards in a reaction , attain the juste milieu . In October , 1836 , the 19 th Polish
Infantry , Mr . de Franch ' s regiment , weie ordered to march to Bromberg and Berlin , and Hood was induced by the officers , with whom , he was very popular , to march with them . This trip he seems to have enjoyed very muchparticularlthe visit to Berlin
, y , when he was specially invited to dine with Prince Radziwill , and was introduced to a most august circle of German grandees . Radical as he was , he ajipearecl not to be above accepting with pleasure the favours of great peopleespeciallRoyalt—like
, y y another very distinguished Radical I could mention—and from a letter to his wife at this time , he says— " The Duke of Cumberland asked Franch who that gentleman was who marched with his regiment , and
was surprised to hear it was me . Prince George spoke in such very handsome terms of me , that I left my card for him . As he regretted not having had the last J . Comic , ' Franch presented one of his . It is a sad pity that the Prince is quite blind :
a fine young man and very amiable . I do not know whether I shall ever see any of the Princes again , but I expect I must call to take leave . They had even read 'Tylneytlall . '" Poor fellow , from a letter to his friend
Dilke , we learn that the tri p did him no good in the end . " My marching , in fact , ended like Le FSvres ( it ought to be "Le fever' ) in a sick bed—my regiment in a ' regimen . '" Fancy punning on such a subject .
He feared his lungs were touched , for he suffered , poor man , from spitting of blood a good deal ; and he got to fancy Coblentz and the Rhine did not suit him , so after two years there , he settled down at Ostend .
His epitaph on his friend Dilke , who was an invalid like himself at this time , and who it ajipears suffered very much from imprudently going out to get his bailout when he was too unwell to run any risks , is rather good .
He advises Mrs . Dilke to read her husband a morning lesson out of the Bible showing how Samson lost all his strength
Tom Hood.
by going and having his hair cut . "What an epitajib must I have written if he had died through that little outbreak of personal vanity , " says he : — " Here lies Dilke , the victim to a whim , Who went to have his liair cut , but the air
cut Mm . " ( To be continued . )
The Vista Of Life.
THE VISTA OF LIFE .
BY JOHN M . '' We are born ; we laugh , we weep , We love , we droop , we die ! Ah wherefore do we laugh , or weep ? Why do wc live , or die ? Who knows that sacred deep ? Alas ! not I !" PEOOTOB .
LIFE 1—what a volume is expressed in that single word ; a word in itself so brief , yet nevertheless it is true the term which designates our existence , and is equally apropos in its length to the space of time which is given us for its enjoyment . What
can be more brief and transitory than our fleeting lives , and yet at the same time so rejilete with subjects of such great and vital importance to every one of us . It has been observed that the proper study of mankind is " man" but how few
, there be that give the subject a thought . And it is only too true , that the more we study and the deeper we search for that hidden knowledge , which must exist somewhere , in regard to so vast a creation as
that of the great human family , the more firmly we find closing around us those quicksands which have so deeply imbedded the unwritten history of our race . Gazing back o ' er the " vista of our lives , " what a different appearance must be presented to each particular one ; to
the young , as it appears , with his joyous background and visions of joy and happiness looming up before them in the glittering future , while to the many whose locks have been silvered by the frost of advancing years , the retrospect has , mayhap , many a darkened spot , and the