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tation of woe in the theatre , yet happily possess such strength of nerves as to be able to read or he&r , without weeping or fainting * the account of 20 , 000 killed and as many wounded ,
and tfaen with inimitable softness lisp , " Oh it is tsarming koos Y * Let then V . F . endeavour to conquer his prejudices , and to huzza with his neighbours and other excellent Christians . And why should he puzzle himself about " framing devotions , " since the only forms he ought to use are prepared ready for him , and may be bought in the streets for a penny * # After making some judicious remarks upon an unlucky blunder of the Swedes and Russians , V . F * informs us that the selfconstituted head of church and state in France has so far
imitated the practice of regular governments as to appoint Te l ) eum to be sung or Said " through the whole of his dominions /* And what then , is this the only point in which he has imitated his neighbours ? Besides , he is not the King of Sweden , nor are we inhabitants of Russia I Plutarch himself
therefore , if he were alive again , could draw no parallel here ; nor is the uncivil , * though just epithet " chosen" by our newswriters , in any danger of retaliation ! Why was not V * F * aware of this ? V , F-appears to be a dissenting minister ; he therefore
undoubtedly Avails himself of every Lord ' s-day , to pray for the security of his country ; its protection from the designs of an Enraged opponent ; and the long continuance of its happy constitution . As a servant of the Prince of Peace , he also prays for peace . Holy church also does the same in her daily service ; and the reason she assigns for it in her response is now peculiarly true and pertinent . Fast-days therefore are not
indispensably requisite , in order to afford either the heretics or the orthodox an opportunity of presenting their supplications for so desirable a blessing . Neither indeed do supplications to this purpose appear to constitute the prominent feature of some of our late formularies . Be this however as it may , if state fasts and festivals are thought expedient , perhaps they are best confined to the acquiescent all-approving multitude , for whose
* Some more decorous mode should be invented for supplying John Bull with the devotion for these days ; at present he is often compelled to apply to the common hawkers and pedlars , and to rummage for what he wants among lewd songs , li $ ts of horse races , accounts of sporting ladies , brimstone matches , and other common s ^ rtides of trade- A sailor los t his leg at the battle of the Nile , and was sent home discharged . By way of getting an honest penny for himself and his Poll , he turned
pedlar ; hearing of an approaching fast-day , he went to a stationer to purchase a few quires of prayers , and the crafty rogue finding Jack could not read , sold him a lot oi old ones , which had been thrown aside among other waste paper , into a drawer in the counter . Jack by dint of industry sold his prayers , but the purchasers were miserably out ^ and indeed when the day arrived , could neither $ ay &QF sing I
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£ 2 ' Thoughts on Fasts .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/22/
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