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him, esteem him—sometimes love him."
 * ingly, as he finds, and speaks, and feels the truth best, we regard

Trollope agrees as to the lay-clerical office:

"I have always thought of myself as a preacher of sermons, and my pulpit as one which I could make both salutary and agreeable to my audience."

Dickens also claims the intent of speaking the truth in love:

"Cervantes laughed Spain's chivalry away, by showing Spain its impossible and wild absurdity. It was my attempt, in my humble and far-distant sphere, to dim the false glitter surrounding something which really did exist, by showing it in its unattractive and repulsive truth."

The greatest unamimity is as to objects. Peacock *