On this page
-
Text (2)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
you do not well to trample upon a dying man , and you are greatly mistakeu , for 1 had nothing to do in the death of the king . " When the Solicitor-General was cut down and his body was laid upon the stage to bev quartered , a person
whom they called Colonel Turner , ordered the Sheriff ' s men to bring Peters near , that he might see what was going to be done to the remains of hitf friend , and , by-and-by , the executioner came up to him , all
besmeared with blood , and rubbing his bloody hands together , he tauntingly asked , " how ilo you like this Mr . Peters , how do you like this work ?" The venerable martyr only returned , " 1 am not , I thank God , terrified at it—you may do your worst . "
As he stood upon the ladder , he addressed the Sheriff in the following impressive words : * ¦ ' Sir , you have slain one of the servants of God before mine eyes , and have made me to behold it , on purpose to terrify and discourage me ; but God hath made it an ordinance unto me for ray
strengthening and encouragement , " His last words were , " Oh , this is a good day I He is come that I have long looked for , and I shall be with him in glory . " The historian adds , " and he smiled when he went away . " When the bodies had been
dismembered , and were divided into quarters , the quarters were sent through the streets back to Newgate , upon the same hurdles that brought them when alive . The head of Mr . Justice Cook was set upon a pole , on the north-east end of
Westminster-Hall , on the left of Mr . Harrison ' s , with both their faces towards London ; and the head of Peters on London-Bridge . The quarters of these sufferers were exposed , like those of Major-Geweral Harrison , upon the tops of some of the city gates .
Such was the return that this good man received for all his benevolent exertions , and for the labours of a whole life devoted to the service of his fellow-creatures . "Surely there is a Gad that judgeth in the earth ; surely there is a reward for the righteous . " S . P . ^^^^^^^^^ BUHB ^^^^^^^^
Untitled Article
Botanical JElucidatiotis of Seriptu re * ^
Untitled Article
Botanical Elucidations of Scripture . [ From Sir J . E * Smith ' * Considerations respecting Cambridge , 8 $ c . See Mon . Repos . pp . 37—39 . IF mathematical science be more peculiarly the associate of natural knowledge , classical studies often derive illustration from an acquaintance with the different branches of natural
history . The Botanical Commentary on Virgil , by the elder Professor Martyn , is , or ought to be , in the hands of every student , who wishes to know what he is reading about . Nor is the subject exhausted even by that able bonatist . The Acanthi's of
Virgil is still undetermined . That it is not the Axav 0 # of Diqscorides , the supposed origin of the Corinthian capital , any attentive reader of the Roman poet must perceive . He speaks
of it as an . evergreen with flexible twigs , forming thickets , clipped by the gardener in winter , and bearing berries . All this is very unsuitable to the real Acanthus ; and I am persuaded of what no commentator has
hitherto conjectured , that Virgil ' s plant is our common Holly , a shrub not indicated in any other part of his writings , though frequent in Italian gardens and thickets , as well as elsewhere throughout Europe * Commentators not versed in natural
history , are apt to suppose the same name must always mean the same thing . Thus in Scripture botany , the Hebrew CD ^ ni * i , dudaini , or love plants , mentioned twice in the Bible , and described in Solomon ' Song as having a sweet srnelJ , may be any
herb or flower to which the qualities of a charm or philter , had been attributed , without applying precisely to any one in particular - y nor does it by any means follow that the dudaim of Genesis and of Solomon ' s Song are the same . Here botanists have lost
their labour , in searching for this famous plant amongst all the fragrant : flowers , fruits , or even fungi 9 upon record . In another instance botany has very happily elucidated a most obscure text . The second book of
Kings , chap . vi . ver . Q , b records , that during the siege of Samaria , * dove ' s dung ' sold for an enormous price . In vain have critics laboured to explain this : some imagining the dung
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/19/
-