on rather Tory principles, in the troubles of 1787. Others of them
we shall see storming forward on occasion, valiantly meeting death
in the field of fight, all conspicuously brave of character;
but this shall be enough of them at present.

It is of these that Ludwig Rudolf's youngest daughter, the serene
Ferdinand Albert's wife, is Mother in Germany; highly conspicuous
in their day. If the question is put, it must be owned they are
all rather of the insipid type. Nothing but a kind of albuminous
simplicity noticeable in them; no wit, originality, brightness in
the way of uttered intellect. If it is asked, How came they to the
least distinction in this world?--the answer is not immediately
apparent. But indeed they are Welf of the Welfs, in this respect
as in others. One asks, with increased wonder, noticing in the
Welfs generally nothiug but the same albuminous simplicity, and
poverty rather than opulence of uttered intellect, or of qualities
that shine, How the Welfs came to play such a part, for the last
thousand years, and still to be at it, in conspicuous places?
Reader, I have observed that uttered intellect is not what
permanently makes way, but unuttered. Wit, logical brilliancy,
spiritual effulgency, true or FALSE,--how precious to idle
mankind, and to the Newspapers and History-Books, even when it is
false: while, again, Nature and Practical Fact care next to
nothing for it in comparison, even when it is true! Two silent
qualities you will notice in these Welfs, modern and ancient;
which Nature much values: FIRST, consummate human Courage;
a noble, perfect, and as it were unconscious superiority to fear.
And then SECONDLY, much weight of mind, a noble not too conscious
Sense of what is Right and Not-Right, I have found in some of
them;--which means mostly WEIGHT, or good gravitation, good