Continental travel : with an appendix on the influence of climate, the remedial advantages of travelling, &c / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Continental travel : with an appendix on the influence of climate, the remedial advantages of travelling, &c / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    • RECENT CHANGES. the expenses came under the consideration of the Chambers. These were so great as to occasion considerable dissatisfaction, which gave rise to tliejeu de mots—Le mur murant Paris rend Paris murmurant. Had the King died, or fallen by the hand of an assassin, France would, in all proba- bility, long ago have been at war, or in a state of internal revolution, which the vent afforded by the occupation of Algeria in some measure tended to prevent, and to avert wliich, it is not imlikely that, when no longer able to contain the disaf- fected within bounds, their rulers may adopt the alternative of war, acting upon the principle recommended by Shakspeare's Henry the Fourth to his son, to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels, and in this way relieve themselves from some of the turbulent spirits by wliich their political existence is constantly endangered. The above remarks, having abeady been pub- lished in the work referred to, appear to be borne out by the course which events have taken within the last three months. The paucity of religious and moral feeling in the bulk of the popidation— the pernicious influence of the style of literatui-e and of the drama, for some years past, upon the higher as well as upon other classes (as exem- plified in the Praslin tragedy)—the universal and often dishonourable competition for wealth, as the means of pandering to artificial excitement— the consequent corruption and peculations in the government—the additional taxation, in order to