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matter of subscription struck me . At the age of twelve , youth , when matriculated are required to subscribe , 'Articuli fidei duntaxat , ' but at sixteen they are to subscribe the oaths of allegiance anjri supremacy : now , Sir , whether it be supposed that their
political creed is of more importance than their religious one , I will not take upon me tQ determine , but it should seem that the institution supposes them not capable of understanding the sublime mysteries of politics until sixteen , though at twelve it is apprehended that they can both understand , relish , and swallow down
the sublimer mysteries of religiqn ! As to the ' distinction which has been laid down by a right honourable gentleman who spoke some time since , that " it is only subscribing to what they are to be hereafter instructed in , and means no more than the
repetition of a creed , " Sir , this subscription as well as repetition is a solemn thing : it is a serious attestation of the truth of propositions , not a syllable of which , according to the right honourable gentleman ' s own confession ,
the youth wfio subscribes can understand . Why , therefore , attest the tnth of what he is ignorant ? Is not this to teach our youth to prevaricate ? And will not a fyabit of prevarication lead to the destruction of
all that prompt , ingenuous frankness , which ought to be the glory and the pride of youth ?—This house , Sir , is accustomed to accept of the simple affirmation of witnesses ; and is it not a dangerous doctrine to teach , that because an oath is not administered ,
a person may solemnly bear attestation to the truth of what jnay , for aught he can t ^ ll , be entirely f 4 ^ e ? ' » Sir , can relish no such ^ octrine ; I Hnk it has a highly injurious tendency ; and I should therefore Vfish wat the speaker should leave tfie c , in order that we may discuss
jjt e ^ dvanta ^ es , whicji can , redpund to ™ s state , as well as to individuals , from our youth being trained solemn-Jy to attest and subscribe to the truth ° * * string of propositions , all of * toch they are as entirely ignorant <> 'as they are of the face of the county said to be in the moon .
[ On a division the numbers were , w motion 67 , against it 159- ] «• PredilectioTis of Kings . ( Oct . 3 \ t * . . 1776 . ) ^ > it has been very well said , that
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the speech is an hypocriticaj one ; and in truth , there is not a little hypocrjsjr in supposing , that a King—I except his present Majesty < who really love . s
liberty—hut that a common king should be solicitous to establish any thing that depended on a popular assembly . Kings , Sir , govern by means of popular assemblies , only because
they cannot do without them j to suppose a king fond of that mocU of foverning , is to suppose a chimera , t cannot exist . It is contrary ty > tb « nature of things \ and it is hjpocri&y to advance it . '3 . The virtue of Necessity . ( Pec . 15 , 1779 . )
The virtue of necessity , sure \ i \ its principle and irresistible in its operation , is an effectual reform ^ It awakens , late > but it calls up roapy other virtues to its aid ; and t ^ ^ ir joint exertions w ^ ll infallibly tear down the greatest force , and dissipate the strongest combination that
corrupt men have ever forined or c ^ n ever form against them . 4 . Whose Child " Corruption i $ £ ( F $ t >» 8 , 1780 . ) I will put the controversy bet \ ve £ Xi ministry sihd the gentlemen op tais side of the House , on the same issue
on which the wisest of men , Solomon , rested the determination of the dispute between the two women , ea ^ h of whom claimed the living cJnild and disavowed the dead one . We say to ministry , ' You misapply . the public
money ; nay , you do worse 5 , yoij ^ pply it to bad purposes' : ministry § ay to us , * You want our places J -gnq thus the charge of corruption is . given and retorted . Come now , let u ^ § ee
whose child corruption is \ O ppo ^ it ^ n are wi ^ lmg , are desirous , that it ^ ou | 4 be sacrificed 3 Ministry have of&ep made similar professions ; the time is come to prove the sincerity of b . Qtfc see who will now acknowledge , see who will father this dear but denied
child , Corruption ! 5- Repeal of the Bill for the Reli ef of Raqtari Catholics . ( June % 09 1 ^ 80 . ) Mr . Fo > f said that l ^ is , objection to the house of Stuart , had he livecf at tfie period of the Revolution , \ voul 4 Jiave been not because that house haxji embraced popery , but because popery
had embraced the house of Stuart ; tljat the latter was supported in its attempts on the liberties of the nation , by popery in general . But now
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Chftrle . s Juries Foxr , 411
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/11/
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