Essays: Second Series

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an…

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a…

I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than any thing which he said. It has…

Half the world, it is said, knows not how the other half live. Our Exploring Expedition saw the Feejee islanders getting their dinner off…

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into…

There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year, wherein the world reaches its perfection, when the air, the…

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born: that…

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being…

A Lecture read before the Society in Amory Hall, on Sunday, 3 March, 1844.