_Dr.Bell_.
'Binding herself by Statute.' ['Excursion,' Book ix.l.

300.] The discovery of Dr.Bell affords marvellous facilities for carrying this into effect; and it is impossible to over-rate the benefit which might accrue to humanity from the universal application of this simple engine under an enlightened and conscientious government.
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LETTERS AND EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.
NOTE.
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_Autobiographical Memoranda dictated by William Wordsworth, P.L., at Rydal Mount, November_ 1847.
I was born at Cockermouth, in Cumberland, on April 7th, 1770, the second son of John Wordsworth, attorney-at-law, as lawyers of this class were then called, and law-agent to Sir James Lowther, afterwards Earl of Lonsdale.