Note 65 — THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE (continued 5)

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‘There was a little man, and he had a little soul,

And he said, Little soul, let us try,’ &c.

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‘There was a little man, and he had a little gun.—

One should think this exquisite ridicule of a pedantic effusion might have silenced for ever the automaton that delivered it: but the official personage in question at the close of the Session addressed an extra-official congratulation to the Prince Regent on a bill that had not passed—as if to repeat and insist upon our errors were to justify them.