Solomon;--but when I proceeded to the first verse of the fourth
chapter of the Ecclesiastes, 'and considered all the oppressions that
are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were
oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their
oppressors there was power,' I concluded this was _not_ the 'time to
keep silence;' for truth should be spoken at all times, but more
especially at those times when to speak truth is dangerous."

In these addresses he showed that the example of France was a warning to
Great Britain; but, because he did not hold opinions equally violent
with the Jacobin party of that day, he was put down as an anti-Jacobin;
for, he says, "the annals of the French revolution have been recorded in
letters of blood, that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the
ignorance of the many; that the light of philosophy, when it is confined
to a small minority, points out its possessors as the victims, rather
than the illuminators of the multitude. The patriots of France either
hastened into the dangerous and gigantic error of making certain evils
the means of contingent good, or were sacrificed by the mob, with whose
prejudices and ferocity their unbending virtue forbade them to
assimilate. Like Samson, the people were strong, like Samson, they were
also blind:" and he admonishes them at the end of the third lecture to
do all things in the spirit of love.

"It is worthy of remark," says he, in a MS. note, "that we may possess
a thing in such fulness as to prevent its possession from being an
object of distinct consciousness. Only as it lessens or dims, we
reflect on it, and learn to value it. This is one main cause why young
men of high and ardent minds find nothing repulsive in the doctrines
of necessity, which, in after years, they (as I have) recoil from.
Thus, too, the faces of friends dearly beloved become distinct in