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tjons . " He remarks under the second head , I . u That the present situation of Great BritaitFdemands of us unfeigned gratitude to God , for the blessings which as a nation we enjoyv 2 . The present situation of our country ought to fill us with contrition , on account of our sins , and lead us to repentance
and amendment . 3 , The blessings We enjoy as a nation , call upon us for a vigorous and effectual defence of them against the common-enemy . 4 . It becomes us to shew our gratitude to God , for the mercies with which he hath recently signalized our country , by charity towards them who mourn the death , and feel the loss of our warriors who have fallen /* This last
observation introduces an appeal , —not the most eloquent , but tmexeeptionabiy the most modest we have seen—in behalf of the Lloyd ' s Fund . The preacher justly observes that the times call for " contrition , repentance , and amendment / 1 We think , however , there are " vices /* nay , ( if the preacher will pardon us ) crimes chargeable on Britain , more foul and more alarming than 4 € the
excessive love of fashionable amusements / ' On the subject of criminal amusements he might have condescended to point out , and it would have been not unworthy of his profession to have
reprobated " a game , ( using the epithet of the evangelical poet ) which has been played long and deeply enough , during
the present reign , " agame * which has squandered away our blood and our treasure , and put our very existence ^ as an
independent people , to imminent hazard , m « -a game , which , were their subjects wise , * ' Kings would not play at , "
This desperate game , thank God ! is nearly up ; and if ( which we should . be the last to deny , ) his Majesty grows dearer to us with his age , may it not be because we feel an assurance that experience has rendered him indisposed to its renewal % and that the circumstances of the times win not permit its being of equal continuance ?
I > r . Y / s admiration of the British Lion , yields in strength to no sentiment but that of abhorrence of the Gallic Tyger ; his description of whom is so appaling that it must have caused a
sinking at heart and fainting among the tender-hearted laches who usually wait upon a London orator , had they not happily been in a great measure excluded , on this occasion , by the rough-featured , stout-hearted , martial sons of the north .
cs TTie Tyger has again started from his den $ Austria lies bleeding a * & struggling beneath his grasp . With barbarous delight is he enjoying her distress , and anticipating her utter ruin . But while his horrid jaw * $ re red with , human gore ^ and tie sports with the lives of his victim *
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Dr . Young ' s Thanksgiving Sermon . 159
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1806, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1722/page/47/
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