11g. .1 xsox itt devoted his leisioe to the perusal
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(locum., tits a ti 1 co%telnpaory c,1111eutLA with the Civil Wars : ftein which he lies derived o'oNte opiuions, and an admiration of Feavaeo Geiser:1;ES: 1.91:1S l'AN LEV, Whiell Ile avows by his dedicatien. t. canessil his opinions or to lose his labour, Le determined to write a issds ill the subject i flit studies; and he elooe the life of dolts: t. I. tois; as the fitteet for his put rest.: the learned and leual entiquai hal havieg been con- reeted with most it the leading mea of his time. and, havite, shruali hum " echo; the whole leot with the steroer Parliamen- tariaes, a:the:len optosieg the Court at the outset. The volume Mr. Jon Xt ON has preilueed is readable,anil even interesting, for it freshly describes great events: it is useful, for it reminds one of the corruption, the tyranny, the bad faith, and all the other bad qualities of the STUARTS. lutt IILTO its praises should eed: Mr. JOHNSON seems not to know, that the effect of every work, no matter what its kind, must depen1 upon its wholeness or unity; and this he has designedly broken. 'Ile Menioir- S,141en is n t so much a biography, as a peg itt whivh to hang notices of the lives of the leading actors in the Great Rebellion, with a view of the causes whieh led to it. Hence the lie:o of the work is almost lost in a crowd : and the greatness of the events v. it it which he was connected, t at did neither orientate nor coatrol, overwhelm that individual interest which ought to be the mast conspieueus thing in an individual /fe.
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