"Lords and Commons of England! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof
ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing
spirit; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any
point the highest that human capacity can soar to."-MILTON. THE AREOPAGITICA.

Reprinted, with additions, from The Irish Quarterly Review,
No. 15, September, 1854.

LONDON:

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1854.

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