96/791 It was characteristic of that righteousness which distinguished him as an author; and it has this interest (as I conjecture) that it was probably the last sentence he composed for the press. It is chiefly on this account that I mention it to you.'[7] [7] _Memoirs_, ii.p. *_Feel for the Wrongs, &c._ [XIV.] This Sonnet is recommended to the perusal of the Anti-Corn-Law-Leaguers, the Political Economists, and of all those who consider that the evils under which we groan are to be removed or palliated by measures ungoverned by moral and religious principles. _Sonnets upon the Punishment of Death_,[XX.] Of these Sonnets the author thus wrote to John Peace, Esq., Bristol: Rydal Mount, Feb.23. |