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the light of , ^ n oilJ ^ jnip Uluioines the page , from which li $ ' ! rea < $ s to his , family- the lessons ^ of Jkngwledge , religion and virtues—The books in the possession of 'the lower Classes are chiefly of a
religious nature ,, a great number of these works having been printed in Iceland during the last two or three centuries , and very generally 'Circulated through the country . In . jnany parishes there is a small collection < jf books belonging to the church , from which , under the
sup ^ . nntendance of the priest , each family in the district may derive sorne little addition to its means of instruction and improvement . " By . giving these * extracts a place in your valuable miscellany , I persuade myself , you will
gratify your ^ numerous readers ; you will at least oblige your friend and constant reader , V . F . P . S . I have just seen the Extracts on the Present State of
Religion in Iceland which you have inserted in your No . Just published , p ; 73 . —But tj ^ ose , ypti xVjil read ^ - lyjperceive , though highlyInterest ing , will not interfere with that which is now transmitted : but will rather be confirmed and illustrated by it .
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An Epitaph , Sir , Feb . 9 , 181 £ Among some old MSS . I have found , On a scrap of very dingy paperf ^ and in . an aritique h'knd , the following stanzas , -which appear to have been designed '' a ' s an
epitaph , in no panegyrical straiti . Here liv'd and died a useless thing , V ' The'dry remains of stupid life , ° ' ; A drone to country , church and "king , * Without all judgment , wit , or wife * , r A glaVe to forms from mom to bed , Gxsown tfeh > mpd > proud * ' with college pelf .
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A ' monk , scarce worth his beer and bread ? -And good for nothing , but himself . With parts extinct presumVI to read < Improv ed his head-piece not a jot , Quite Orthodox in famous Creed > Pdring to knew , lie knew not what . "
Soured by age , by sloth made dull , Rusty in temper , ^ as ib gown , With pride , and narrow notions full , A peevish , stiff , pedantic clown . If these lines have been in print , perhaps one of your readers can oblige me with the name of their author or a reference ta the pub . lication . QU ^ RENS .
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A Collection of Facts relating to Criminal Law *
[ Continued from p . 87 J ] < c It is : a kind of qtiackery in government , and argues a want of solid skill , to apply- the same uniyersal remedy , the ultimum supplicium , to every case of
difficulty . It is , it must be owned , much easier to extirpate than to amend mankind : yet that magistrate must -be esteemed both a weak and a cruel surgeon , who cuts off every limb , which tjirougb ignorance or indolence he will * not
attempt to cure . " Black stone * Comm . B . iy . . ch . i » < l The ruling principle of government in this kingdom is allowed to be liberty 5 but our criminal law a scenx rather caicu ^ latedto keep slaves in awe than to govern free men . They seem to contradict all notions of justice , and confound all dis «»
tinctions of morality . By the ignominy they impose in many cases they bericl the miod to the lowest state of servitude : by the rigour they indiscriminately inflict they adopt the principles of despotism and rnafce fear the motive of obedience . ** ¦ " * ¦ ¦ Dagge r s Gonsi ^ . Crim . Law , I . ch . vii .
. aif a reflecting and benevolent foreigner "were to examine our Statute Book ? where death is commissioned * to keep tne fatal kfey * of s * many ccll ^ a ^ d 4 to shake a dreadful dirt' * in so Jtiipj directions , his 9 ottl would be wrung with anguish : anjl > u ^ iies * he we re'tald ^ that common seasjp wagjes . a- vpjesrpejtuai war with positive institutiops , and that the
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A Collection of Facts relating to GHminal Law * 161
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/25/
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