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the world pver » except under pur happy constitution , by which the king can dp ng wrong , and where , therefore , the wretchedness of the population must be charged pn those who , till lately , have monopolized the nominally responsible management of the resources of the community . How they have provided , or rather allowed the sister monopoly , the ecclesiastical one , to provide for
the morq . 1 and spiritual instruction of the people , we shall call on our Curate to describee . He sketches , ad vivum , the blessings which at Oxford and Cambridge are stored up for the especial benefit of parishes which , are college gifts , and worth taking ; for it is not anything which can tempt a Senior Fellow to the cure of souls . There must be some compensation for his coming forth out of the classic seclusion of academic groves :
' A thousand pounds is surely slim Preferment tor a man like him / Let us see how they * in patience wait for it . ' Six massive men in sable suit , Of mighty bulk , and hanging brows , Are darkly sitting , foot to foot , Enjoying a carouse , —
All learned men , and fill'd with knowledge , Six Senior Fellows of a College How gr ^ ve they sit ! how wise th ey look ! Each portly face is as a book , Where ye may read triangle and line , Cube root , parallelogram , circle , and sign , And a very particular judgment in wine ! Wise Senior Fellows are they all ,
Steady as clock-work in chapel and hall ; Six mighty parsons devoted to heaven , All looking out for a college living . Twenty years they have wasted their breath , In praying for murder and sudden death , — IJut the jolly incumbents , whose death would delight them , Lave on , as if merely on purpose to spite them : —
Twenty years they have all been engaged , And their mistresses now have grown ** certainly aged . " Oh ! how they wade through the Morning ; Post , In hopes the old Rector has yielded the ghost , fhat he ' s brqken his neqk by a fall from his horse , Or gone off in a fit in the second cour . se , Providentially choked by the bone of a cod , f
Or some morning 1 found M Dead , —by the finger of God ; — Ah ! Senior Fellowships always give birth To «• Glory to God and good will upon earth . " —p . 29—31 . Very fit , indeed , must such men be to live amongst the un * twght peasantry , and the scarcely better instructed squirearchy pf our agricultural districts I Very fit to minister instruction to the ignorant , to restore the erring , ami comfort the afflicted )
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N ? f TA e ? Village Poor-HQUse .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 538, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/34/
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