more than the
reluctance of an ill-disciplined spirit, under the offence and constraint
of institutions which set superiors over his head, and gall him by
bridling an unruly will;--whilst the clamorous zeal for the general good
is purely the choice of the staking gamester between red and black, and
the preference of the million-headed patron to the cheapener with a few
heads or with one. The two known traits, which largely comprehend the
private life of Churchill, do not prepossess one in his favour. He left
his profession, the church; and he exchanged his wife, after many years'
cohabitation, for a mistress; two paramount desecrations unhappily met.
And the trumpet-call to the war-field of patriotism sings but
uncheeringly, when the blast is winded by the breath of Wilkes.

When the shame of England burns in the heart of Cowper, you must believe
him; for through that heart rolled the best of England's blood. But
Churchill! Faugh!

_Edinburgh: Printed Ballantyne and Hughes, Paul's Work._

Footnotes:

[1] _Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R.A._ Composed chiefly
of his Letters. By C. R. LESLIE, R.A. Second Edition. Longmans.

[2] Even there we see that he viewed the matter as a task, and piqued
himself only on having succeeded in a _tour-de-force_. Writing to
Archdeacon Fisher, he says--"It was the most difficult subject in
landscape I ever had on my easel. I have not flinched at the windows,
buttresses, &c.; but I have still kept to my grand organ, colour, and have
as usual made my escape in the evanescence of chiaroscuro."--(P. 109.)

[3] "I cannot but recall here a passage in a letter to Mr Fisher, written
by Constable nearly ten years before his death, in which, after speaking
of having removed his family to Hampstead, he says, 'I could gladly
exclaim, here let me take my everlasting rest!'"

[4] One of the greatest and most memorable of the Turkish princes was
Mahmood the Ghaznavide, who reigned in the eastern provinces of Persia,
A.D. 997-1028. His father, Sebactagi, arose from the condition of a slave
to the command of the city and province of Ghazna. In the fall of the
dynasty of the Sammanides, the fortune of Mahmood was confirmed. For him
the title of _sultan_ (signifying _lord_ and _master_) was first invented,
and his kingdom was enlarged from Transoxiana to the neighbourhood of
Ispahan, from the shores of the Caspian to the mouth of the Indus. The
prowess and magnificence of Mahmood