On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
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
are fawned upon ; on the contrary , their hand , even when it is picked by sycophancy , is ever ready to smite those that make the least reserve of obedience and submission . However the Dissenters may regard themselves , these politicians know that they properly belong to that class of public men who contemplate in all their measures the amelioration of our laws and institutions ; and they hate them from dread of this natural , which is also a moral , connexion . The Whig party in return bear the odium amongst
High-Churchmen of being Dissenters in their hearts ; and it is really a public scandal that so enlightened and virtuous a body of men as the Dissenters , should seem for a moment not to distinguish between their enemies and friends , and even to requite long services with ingratitude and neglect , and to seek to strengthen the hands of a faction who may use their power in the first instance to put and keep down their political antagonists , but who will never cease , so long as their power lasts , to watch and curb those religionists in whose Nonconformity they discern the elements of political freedom . * Z .
Untitled Article
To the Editor . Sir , This paper in your last Number in recommendation of the London University , is one in the general sentiments of which most of your readers will doubtless concur , and which is manifestly the work of a man of talent and reflection ; but it is equally evident to me that , whoever he may be , he is not
* The writer is reminded that he has been partly anticipated in the above reflections by the Edinburgh Review , from a late No . [ LXXXVI 1 I . ] of which the following excellent passage is extracted : " Every measure of government , every act of legislation , every vote of an individual , which , upon the whole , and in the end , tends to lessen the influence of the opinion of those classes who must be orderly and provident , over the conduct of the
rich and great , is an aggression against public morals , which , as far as its power reaches , impairs their best human security . The neutrality of the zealously religious party among us , in all late contests between authority and liberty , and the partiality shewn by a large body to the side of power , seem to indicate that they no longer perceive that important relation of civil institutions to domestic morality , which contributed to make the ancient Calvinists the most zealous friends of human
freedom . From "whatever causes this remarkable deviation from the example of their predecessors may have arisen , it will be strange if they should persevere in supporting principles favourable to a state of society the most fruitful in vice , and the most incompatible with every disposition towards religion . Other considerations , perhaps , of a still higher order , present themselves , which , from their importance aud their peculiar nature , would require ( if presented at all ) to be more fully unfolded than they can be at this time and in this place . It will be sufficient , for those who have much considered such matters , to observe , that all ardent and elevated feelings have
a strong , though frequently a secret , connexion . They often combine for a time with other principles . They are disturbed by accidental circumstances . r lliey may be made to counteract each other . But their natural affinity is always discoverable , and most generally in the end prevails . They prepare for each other—they succeed each other—they combine together . There are no principles which have so often and so clearly exemplified these observations , as the zeal for religion and the love of
liberty . But if the . friends of religion should be blind to this affinity , they may be well assured tliat it never escapes the watchful jealousy of the possessors of power ; who , however they may be pleased with an obedient clergy and a religion which teaches quiet , vet , as politicians , ( whatever may be the exceptions of individual character , ) regard zeal as an ungovernable quality , tremble at the approach of every apeciee of enthusiasm , atid have a natural dread of whatever breaka upon them from that higher region of humau feeling wiiere piety and patriotism are kindled /'
Untitled Article
DISSENTING COLLEGES .
Untitled Article
254 Dissenting Colleges .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/22/
-