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I advantage of instilling candour into their minds , and of inspire itig them with a taste for the works of some of the best writers o £ the English language ., and ,- what is of more value , of some 6 f the ablest defenders of the Christian religion *
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article ir . The Fall of Eminent Men in critical Periods a National Calamity . A Sermon preached at the Oravel-Pit Meetivg , Hackney , on Sunday , Sept . 21 * 1806 , on Occasio ' n of the recent Death of the Right Hon . C \ J . Fox . By Robert ¦ Jkspland . Longman and Co . is .
The death of Mr * Fox made so deep an impression upoh the minds of the better part of our countrymen ^ that we wonder not at its serving as a topic of discourse for the pulpit * Mr . Asplund has-. justly considered it as a national calamity ,, and , connecting it with the death of so many great men within & short period , has ; interpreted it to be an event full of melancholy instruction .
Isaiah ii . 22- paid iii . 1 , 2 , 3 . — Cease ye from man whose breath ts in his nostrils , for wherein is he to be accounted 6 f ? For behold , the Lord , the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah , the stay and the staff , the whole stay of bread and the whole stay of wafeer ^ the mighty man and the man of wary the judge and the prophet and the prudent and the antient * the captain of fifty and the honourable man
and the counsellor ^ and the cunning artificer and ^ the eloquent orator . " These words are applied , pertinently 5 wp think , to our present national condition , of which Uncertainly * 5 deepens the g loorn , and augments the distress , that whilst , dangers multiply around us , death has , time after thne extinguished those talents to which we looked for deliverance . " The discourse sketches the characters of Cornwallis Nelson ^ and Pitt ; and then proceeds to delineate that of Fox who is introduced to the
reader ' s notice as a wise , patriotic , liberal ,, and upright , as well as eloquent statesman . ' * The leading features only of this great man ' s character are drawn , arid su ^ h as , being in fact so many virtues , " arc fit objects of contemplation to a Christian minister /'
cC He was , " says Mr . A . a zealous and steady friend to the Ii ocrtics and happiness of the people : his ardour in the sacred cause of freedom never carried him , at the same time , beyond the limit ; of moderation . He was at all times the advocate , irx the senate , of justice and humanity . He was on all occasions ili 2 steady promoter of peace . " On these topics the preacher
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© £ 2 Aspland ' s Sermon on the Death of Mr . Fox .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/46/
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