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GLEANINGS J OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
No . CCXXIL War-Horse . The reign of George II . was , in a word , in an eminent degree , the age of hobby-horses . But since that period things hare taken a different turn . His present Majesty , during almost
the "whole of his reign , has been constantly mounted on a great war-horse ; and has fairly driven all competitors out of the field . Instead of minding our own affairs , or laughing at each other , the eyes of all his faithful subjects have been fixed on the career of
the . sovereign , and all hearts anxious for the safety of his person and government . Our pens and our swords have been drawn alike in their defence ; and the returns of killed and wounded , the manufacture of newspapers and parliamentary speeches , have
exceeded all former example . If we have had little of the blessings of peace , we have had enough of the . glories and calamities of war . His Majesty has , indeed , contrived to keep alive the
greatest public interest ever known , by his determined manner of riding his hobby for half a century together , with the aristocracy—the democracy —the clergy—the landed and monied interest—and the rabble , in full cry after him i and at the end of his
career , most happily and unexpectedly succeeded—amidst empires lost and won- kindoms overturned and created —an > o . destruction of an incredible nui * .,: Jive ^—in restoring the divinr , Ajpht of kings , —and thus preventing any future abuse of the example which seated his family on the throne I JEdinb . Review *
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308 Gleaninds .
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tribution of the living waters ; and forgetting that a well-constituted establishment , though it necessarily partakes of human imperfection , affords the best security , which can be devised by the wisdom of man , against the vicissitudes of events , the alternations of zeal , and the fluctuations of opinion .
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No . CCXXIV . Dancing Immoral .
Murena , the Roman general and consul-elect , was impeached by Cato , amongst other things , for the scandal of his life , and , particularly his dancing . Cicero defended him , and this was his way of meeting this particular charge :
" He admpnishes Cato not to . throw out such a calumny so inconsideratel y , or to call the consul of Rome a dancer y but to consider how many other crimes a man mnst needs he guilty oj f before that of dancing could be truly
objected to htm ; since noooay <^; danced ' , even fat solitude or a f 71 " vate meeting of friends , who was twt either drunk or mad ; for dancing tvas always the last act qfriototur banquet * * 1
gay p ' laces and much jollity : in *^ charged him , therefore , with w »» was the effect of many vices , yet w * none of those , without which tw vice could not possibly subsist ; nw no scandalous feasts , no a " * V nightly revels , lewdness , no extra * gant expense , &c . " ^ ¦*_ pro Mure * - * ^^ M ^^ tffl ^ flMMBMv * »» i *
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No . CCXXIIL " Extraordinary Resolution . " Dr . Rippon , iu his Funeral Sermon on the Rev . John Ryland , 1791 , has the following curious passage >— .
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concerning the immensity or omnipresence of God , have grieved me exceedingly / This made him cry out and complain , as he often did , < 0 the infidelity and atheism of my heart / But in this distress , he was
" In the beginning of the year 1744 he thus writes : ' Now in the depths of darkness , uncertain about the ex istence of a God , and the irnmor . tality of my own soul : ' and in the close and review of another , thus * On my part .... perplexing doubts
determined to use the means of information ; and while he walked in darkness , and 9 as to his own apprehension , had no light , he came to the extraordinary resolution , of which the following is a copy :
" « June 25 , evening 10 , 1744 , set 20 years , 8 months , 2 days . " ' If there is ever a God in heaven or earthy I vow and protest in his strength ? or that God permitting me , Til find him out ; and I'll know whther he loves or hates me ; or III die and perish , soul and body , in the pursuit and search . " * Witnessy John Collet Rylani : "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/44/
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