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expatiates at some length . Having finished " Mr . Fox-Ss character , he adds , " We fed , and cannot but feei—we iatneiit , and must deeply lament , his loss ; but we do not fee ! or lament alone : all Europe sympathises with us ! for there is not a clvi-t lized nation that did not confide in his . integrity and rey ^ re hi * wisdom *"
The mortality of man is painted in . lively colours , and a lesson deduced from it of the v ^ anity of human nature , and the nothingness of sublunary greatness . The following are M& A / s practical reflections * < r Inthefost place j Let the consideration of the brief and' . fugitive pature of man , eVea when most powerful and most honoured / extiagnish all X ) ur little animosities and contentions , springing from party
spirit . Some political opinions and characters we must necessarily prefer to others ; but why should our attachments stiaiten our benevolence , and expel from our bosomsi the charities of nature ? The leaders under whom we arrange out-selves , are , as we are , children of th ^ ( hist , and will perish with us . —How still , now , are the two great rival statesmen , who so lately usurped our hearts , agitated our passions , and divided us from each other ! ' They lie still ancj are quiet , they sleep and are at rest !!'
" In the second place ; Let the death of men of eminent talents and usefulness warn us , how easily and speedily a proud nation may be ^ humbled , and reduced from the highest p itch of prosperity and powe £ to the lowest degree of weakness and distress . The state of a
comjnqnity depends upon the character of its advisers and governors , and fluctuates as that changes . A few men , perhaps , a single man , ipi power / shall decide the fate of a country and of the world ; whence it is , that power . is so solemn a trust , and that it is of such momentous importance that it should be-commit ted to the hands only of men of
tried virtue and eminent talents . When governors are — what that great man was , whose loss ^ irreparable loss ) we this day mourn , ' , -when they are able and patriotic , they are , a . s the
the judge and the prophet , and th ^ prudent and the an tient , the captain of ijfty- 'and the honourable inan and the counsellor , and the canjiing artificer and the eloquent orator . ' All their men of wisdom unc ] courage would , by one means or other , be removed $ in the pjace of vhom ^ as it follows immediately aft-er , ' children wouJd be theii ? princes , and babes wauld rule over them . * €
jprophet forcibly describes them , their country ' s ' stay and staif , ' and when they fall , the nation -which they supported declines and tends to ruin . Isaiah had predicted , with respect to Israel , that c the lofty Jooksofrrjan should be ' humbled , and the haughtiness of man should b <^ bowed down / and he delineates in the text the manner of this unhappy peopled abasement ; c the Lord , the Lord of Hosts , doth take aw ay irom Jeru $ aJem and'from Judah , the stay and the stai ^ , the whole stay of bread arid the whole stay of water , the mighty man and the man of war .
< In the third place > The death of erpinently wse . and phijanthrojj'i ' c . statesmen shews tfs the vanity of all those hopes of the melioration of niankitld , which are built solely upon the capacities of human nafiire . Such lvehnre prodigies . One of them scarcely rises up in 3 bourse of ' ages ; and wheo such an one disappears , he leaves a chasm , yhicl ) w& Q& \ H ? ix , ' and justly ^ of seeing iiJted wp .- A second Alfred fca $ |
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if spIancT $ Sermoi mi the Death of Mr . Fox . £€ S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 663, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/47/
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