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young gentleman, from whose elegant talents and uncommon eloquence we
should augur no ordinary career in whatever profession may be
honoured with his attention, enlarged upon the barbarous manners of
the wild untutored hordes among whom the proud pageantry of pretended
faith, false honour, and affected punctilio, had its rise. He traced
it through its gilded course of blood and carnage, stripped of the
fantastic and delusive mantle which romance delights to fling over
its native deformity, to the present time, when the general
civilization and protection enjoyed in this enlightened age, has left
nought but the grim shadow of the destructive form which harassed and
menaced our trembling ancestors. We are happy to observe that
increasing attendance at the Mechanics' Institute of Abbeychurch,
seems to prove that the benefits of education are becoming more fully
appreciated by all classes. We observed last Friday, at the able
lecture of Mr. Mills, among a numerous assemblage of the
distinguished inhabitants and visitors of Abbeychurch, Miss Merton,
daughter of Sir Edward Merton, of Merton Hall, Baronet, together with
the fair and accomplished daughters of the Rev.
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