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Theological Essays and Other Papers (Volume 17)

Theological Essays and Other Papers (Volume 17)

Quincey, Thomas de

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Religion General General World History

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ISBN10: 1151299375
ISBN13: 9781151299376
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1854. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... LORD CARLISLE ON POPE. [1851.] Loud Carlisle's recent lecture upon Pope, addressed to an audience of artisans, drew the public attention first of all upon himself--that was inevitable. No man can depart conspicuously from the usages or the apparent sympathies of his own class, under whatsoever motive, but that of necessity he will awaken for the immediate and the first result of his act an emotion of curiosity. But all curiosity is allied to the comic, and is not an ennobling emotion, either for him who feels it or for him who is its object. A second, however, and more thoughtful consideration of such an act may redeem it from this vulgarizing taint of oddity. Reflection may satisfy us, as in the present case it did satisfy those persons who were best acquainted with Lord Carlisle's public character, that this eccentric step had been adopted, not in ostentation, with any view to its eccentricity, but in spite of its eccentricity, and from impulses of large prospective benignity that would not suffer itself to be defeated by the chances of immediate misconstruction. Whether advantageous, therefore, to Lord Carlisle, or disadvantageous (and in that case, I believe, most VOL. II. 14 unjust), the first impressions derived from this remarkable lecture pointed themselves exclusively to the person of. the lecturer-- to his general qualifications for such a task, and to his possible motives for undertaking it. Nobody inquired what it was that the noble lord had been discussing, so great was every man's astonishment that before such an audience any noble lord should have condescended to discuss anything at all. But gradually all wonder subsides -- de jure, in nine days; and, after this collapse of the primary interest, there was leisure for a secondary interest to gather...

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