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Thoughts in the 'Cloister and the Crowd, is a collection

of independent remarks upon different subjects, at times compreased into a single sen- tence and positively conveying the result of the author's thinking, at other times extended into a page or two, when the spirit of reasoning mingles with oracular dogmatism. Some of the Thoughts are para- doxical, many too commonplace for it to be necessary to examine what they are, and some true and pithy, although the best have more of keenness than weight.