ABSTRACT
This little composition is the production of a young man who possesses a poetical imagination. It is spirited, and often brilliant; and the sentiments manly and generous. Though, with one or two exceptions, we admire the style of this little work, we think it rather defective in point of precision; and, instead of saying we have shown the necessity of forming some fixed and determinate principles of action, he should have said, we have represented certain characters. We also think our young political lecturer leaves his auditors abruptly, and that he has not stated, in a form sufficiently scientific and determinate, those principles to which, as he expresses it, he now proceeds as the most important point. We confess we were looking for something further, and little thought that we were actually come to the Finis. One or two more lectures might give a fulness to the whole, and be very useful. There is, however, much more than sixpenny-worth of good sense in this Lecture….
