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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLV. MAY, 1845. VOL. LVII.

CONTENTS.

SISMONDI, 529

MY FIRST SPEC IN THE BIGGLESWADES, 549

GERMAN-AMERICAN ROMANCES. PART THE THIRD, 561

THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER, 580

A GLANCE AT THE PENINSULA, 595

AESTHETICS OF DRESS. NO. III., 608

NORTH'S SPECIMENS OF THE BRITISH CRITICS. NO. IV.--DRYDEN
ON CHAUCER, 617

MAYNOOTH, 647

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

NO. CCCLV. MAY, 1845. VOL. LVII.

SISMONDI.[1]

Never was there a juster observation, than that, in ordinary times, in the
same state, genius moves in a circle; originality is lost amidst
imitation; we breathe thought not less than vital air. This is more
especially the case in all those branches of opinion or philosophy which
relate to internal economy, or the social concerns of men. There, it is
not merely abstract principle, or disinterested reasoning, which have
struck their roots into the human mind; interest, prejudice, passion, have
moved it yet mo