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cleanings ; or , selections and reflections made in a course OF GENERAL READING .
No . ccxvm . A Prince ' s Epitaph , The late Duke of Wirtemberg , whose change of life was as remarkable as his former dissipations were reproachful , had the following epitaph for himself placed , during his life-time , near the grave intended for him , in his hermitage of Hohenheim .
" Friend , 441 have enjoyed life and have known all its enjoyments . Their charms had seduced me . I suffered myself to be carried away like a torrent . O God , what an opening , when the bandage at length fell from my eyes ! Days and years had gone by , and what was
right and good had never onee been thoughtTof . Falsehood and hypocrisy deified the basest actions , and the veil which hid truth from mg Was a black mist , -which the stjuffl ^ est rays of the blessing-dispensing sun cannot dispel . What remains of mef now ? Alas , Friend I this stonje covers my
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grave : it also covers what is p ^ Great God , watch upon what is to come . '
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$ SS Gleanings *
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——""^—No . CCXIX . Benedictines . The Benedictines boast that their order has given 40 Popes , 50 Patriarchs , 200 Cardinals ,
1600 Archbishops 4600 Bishops , 4 Emperors , 46 Kings , and 3600 Canonized Saints !
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No . CCXXL Pressure of Taxes .
Of the people of the Low Countries , after their noble struggle against the Spaniards , Sir William Temp le says ( Observ . p . 55 ) , " Though they retained the name of a free people * J ® thev soon lost the ease of the liberties
they contended for , by the absoluteness of their magistrates in the several cities and provinces , and by wrc tream pressure of their taxes , whicn long a war , with so mighty an ^ made necessary for the support o \ state . '
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No . CCXX . Civil War . Among the many evils that attend on civil war , ( says Lord Lyttelton ) one of the worst is the universal corruption of manners , the hardness d heart , and familiarity with the most
horrid crimes , which it seldom fails to produce . The power of government being lost , all the bonds of society are quickly dissolved ; the passions of men become the rules of ttyeir actions ; and fear itself makes them flagitious and cruel . Some virtues , indeed , which would otherwise be concealed ,
may be called out into action by such commotions : but even these are often forced to accommodate themselves to the spirit of the times , further than the strict rules of integrity would allow in any other circumstances : so that nothing can be more pernicious to the morals of a nation than civil
war , except that despotism which turns even the power of government to the destruction of virtue .
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sense , the Creator , who hath placed us in the world , hath provided for our comfortable residence in it , enabled us to see and choose wholesome food , to provide for ourselves usefful cloathing and convenient places for habitation and retreat . We can ,
by means of the sense of sight superadded to other faculties , hereafter to be considered , dispatch our affairs with alacrity and pleasure , go here and there as our occasions call us . We can traverse the whole globe ,
penetrate into the bowels of the earth , travel to distant regions to acquire wealth and to augment the stores of bur knowledge , and we are thus enabled to discern and shun dangers to which we are frequently exposed . Those glorious objects winch fill the
heavens and the earth , those admirable works of God which every where surround us , and which would be as nothing to us if we had not eyes to discern them , do , by means
of these noble organs , present their glories , and fill us with admiration and pleasure . In our next we shall proceed to the sense of Hearing . Y .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/38/
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