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their affections in behalf of those time-honoured representatives of
their ancient blood, in whose success they feel a personal interest?
Hence the delight when we recognize an act of nobility or justice in
our hereditary princes
"'Tuque prior, tu parce genus qui ducis Olympo,
Projice tela manu sanguis meus'
"So strong is this feeling, that it regains an engrafted influence
even when history witnesses that vast convulsions have rent and
weakened it and the Celtic feeling towards the Stuarts has been
rekindled in our own days towards the grand daughter of George the
Third of Hanover.
"Somewhat similar may be seen in the disposition to idolize those
great lawgivers of man's race, who have given expression, in the
immortal language of song, to the deeper inspirations of our nature.
The thoughts of Homer or of Shakespere are the universal inheritance
of the human race. In this mutual ground every man meets his
brother, they have been bet forth by the providence of God to
vindicate for all of us what nature could effect, and that, in these
representatives of our race, we might recognize our common
benefactors.'--Doctrine of the Incarnation, pp. 9, 10.
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Eikos de min aen kai mnaemoruna panton grapherthai. Vit. Hom. in
Schweigh Herodot t. iv. p. 299, sq. Section 6. I may observe that
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