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For what calculator that knows worship ' s profit , Would take but owe slice , when he might have more of it ? But as for myself , Friend ! no Duellist I , Such bold savage fighting we Eclectics ne ' er try , In the mists of our mystery-loving Review , Unseen , we hurl fire-brands at ******* and you , The mob we provoke all to orthodox passion ,
That * forbearance' to doubters may cease to be fashion . It can ' t be denied that Nat . Lardner was learn'd .
But it ' s high time to know he'd more praise than he earn'd , The public he cheated with base c moderation , V And the Eclectic Review shall soon lower his station ; We ' ll neither be moderate , like him , nor unsound , For fury and faith none like us shall be found . If Priestley had c science , ' and thereupon * fame , * His heresy foul will still stick to his name . €
But in Aim , pray , what now have Socinians' to boast ? Of what use are books , when the author is lost ?
And here it quite grieves me , to think of the crime Of some orthodox men , too grave for light rhime , Who alas ! by the glare of false * science' betray ed , To the heretic leader such compliments paid . Repentant , atonement Oh ! swift let them make , And curse all Priestleians' for Priestley ' s own sake .
The ' Socinians' are dead— altho' they don ' t know it , Guillotin'd by A . Fuller ^ and I think I can show it ; For is not their creed the life ' s-blood of * Socinians ?'
Which blood streams abroad , in the British dominions : And if it be true , as some country dames say , That a chicken beheaded will run a great way , Nay , faster will travel , unburdened of head , And with 4 frightful convulsions' will plunge ' mong the dead ; So sure the strong efforts of * Socinians' vije , Which move all our churchesand e ' en shake our isle mm * ¦ WI f
, , w * m m ^^ * . * . ^ - » « ^*» mv »» ^^ ^» ^^ »» v » ^* *• ^ - * w ™> ^ "• ^* ^^ ^ " —^ — Denote nothing less thar ^ the death of their ismy Of soul-killi / ig candour , carnal reason and schism . The poets , ' O shame ! ' were once painted like dogs / At trough of old Homer , all swilling as hogs ;—But the simile further the Muse wo ' n't pursue ,
( The obstinate jade , she ' s turn'd quite a shrew !) And scolding she says , with her fingers on nose , If I mean to be nasty , I must be bo in prose . My meaning then , plainly and shortly , is this , In words which the squeamish wp ' n ' t sure take amiss , That Priestley ' s opinions , like some matters gaseous , 6
Ha , ve by agitation become much more nauseous . * Why should the * Sociniaos * hate name of the JPole f
Eclectics so shrink not from Calvin , meek soul ! Do tAey truly differ from that noted Frater f Yes , yes , they say backwards the old Noster Pater ^
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Poetry . 203
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/67/
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