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ment , from the bottom to the top of the sea , which afterwards driven to the shore , together with its foam , there covers pearls and precious stones . "
In an advertisement , at the close of his Preface , the author observes , referring to his first edition , " that this Discourse was made public , long before any change of government was undertaken here , and therefore could
not by any obliquity point at that which it could not then by any means see . " The author indeed , in his preface , professes to have had in view not " the story" of his own age a 3 " in no degree proportionable to these discourses , " but rather that calamitous
one of our forefathers under the disputes of the Red and White Roses /' Though Ascham lost his life in the service of a republic he discovers no preference for such a form of government . He observes , ( p . 74 ) that " democracy reduces all to equality , and
favours the liberty of the people in every thing : but withal it obliges every man to hold his neighbour ' s hands . It is very short-sighted , permits every one in the ship to pretend to the helm , yea , in a tempest . " But Ascham had never witnessed such
an experiment in government as that so happily tried by the United States of America , or'he would have known ? hat liberty might well consist with uvil subordination without recurrinsr to
the expedients of privileged orders and an hereditary rule . * / Of unrestrained monarchy , however , this author has no good opinion , " because »> ere is no prince who is enabled Nith prudence arid goodness any way * ° great and sovereign as is his
pow-Lord Grenvillo is reported to Iiave Wely complimented tjie government of the '"ted States with an assimilation , as near j ! possible , to the British form , as if a leQuentl y appointed President and Senate
•» u a House of Representatives . chosen by ^ ueral suffrage were worthy to be com-^ j to ar * hereditary crow a and peerage . a House of Commons nominated by \ Z V e . Iectors - IIis lordship , caught « me circumstance of trile fo
a p rm ' ido * - ? t (> eacll ? a PP ears to ll * hastily 'fa / Ule V f ry Io ? ic of Shakespeare a n a'u | ' - " * lcie ™ a river in Macedon ; inomi C is also nrl ° reover a river at Monjl n " . —^« t ' tis all one , ' tis so like ns my iJL « ^ V my ^ 'ifffirs , « ml there ik sal-^ ta botl ,.- Hen . Vth .
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er , therefore he cannot but commit great errors ; and standing on the peopled shoulders , he makes them at last complain of his weight . " The people he elsewhere describes as " the Acfrivi , the anvil on which all sorts of
"hammers discharge themselves , ' who " seldom or never begin a war / * or cx know the secret causes ' of it but " must come into it afterwards , though they would not have an y at alP ( p . 2 ) . Ascham who abounds in classical allusions , no doubt referred to the
wellknown line , Deli-rant reges , plecluntur Achivij which a writer whom I have read proposes as a suitable motto for all histories . I must reserve to another occasion some further account of tins
work , and especially of the important inquiry in the 3 rd Part , respecting War as the duty of a Christian , in which my author is disposed to agree with Grotius and Meisuer against Erasmus and the Spcinian Slichtingius . VEB . MICULUS .
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Natural Theology . No . VII . Of the Mechanical Arrangement of the Human Body . OF the different systems in the human body the use and , necessity are not more apparent than the wisdom and indications of contrivance
which have been exerted in pnttinp * them all into the most compact and convenient form : —in so disposing them that they shall mutually receive and give helps one to an other 3 and
that all or many of the parts shall answer not only their chief and main end , but operate successfully and usefully in a variety of secondary ways . If the animal structure be
contemplated in this light , and compared with any other machine in which human art has exerted its utmost skill , it will be evident that intelligence and power have been exerted in its
formation far surpassing miy thing to which hum a n ^ wisdom can pretend * In one tiling the superiority of the auim : il frame is very striking ? In machines of human contrivance there
is 110 internal power , no principle jii the machine itself , by which it can alter and accommodate itself to any injury which it may suffer , or remedy any mischief which admits of repair . But in the animal frame or machine this is completely provided for , by
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Natural Theology . No . VII . —Mechanical Arrangement of the Body . 433
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 433, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/33/
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