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when this tnetnorable event took place , or at least that he has in gome period or other sustained this relation : but no ; the application of these epithets to an independent member of the House of Commons is no more than the pomp of oratory ; it is an imitation of the Eastern style , —not unnatural , we allow , in a sermon better suited to the political meridian of Hindostan than of Great Britain * There was , however , a minister of tbeking ' s ^ whose great
services in the cause of the abolition ^ might , one should think , have occurred to the memory of a Protestant dissenting teacher ^ a statesman who was too seldom , and far too short a period , alas ! the king ' s adviser , who devoted his matchless talents to " civil and religious liberty , and to philanthropy and peace , who was not less earnest , certainly not less eloquent , scarcely less laborious in behalf of the Africans than Mr . Wilberforce himself , who made
it the first and last object of his administration , the condition of his corn ing into power and the test of his ministry , to wipe the foul stain of negro-slaving from the annals of his country , e ^ , hd who encountered in this generous labour the opposition of parlia-
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mentary , and even co # r £ influence ; but the name of Fox . would have been discordant in a jubilee sermon ; it would have * grated harsh' * music upon ears attuned to royal praises ; or it might have revived recollections and anticipations which would have obscured the lustre of the preacher ' s eloquence , and mingled national regret with " National Gratitude , ^ and changed a day of re * juicing into a day of mourning .
We have adverted to the pr ^ acher s eloquence , not so much because he has attained this distinction of a writer , as because he is obviously ambitious of it * . Let him consider that there caa * ^ be no real eloquence without sim-jj plicity and truth * The conrunonplaces of courtly panegyric are fairly worn out ; they pall upon , the hearer I they have been repeated till they have lost their
meaning . 'It is remarked by a French writer , * that the most eloquent address , ever delivered to ^ Lewis xiv . was that of a reli « gious missionary , who , on his first appearance before the king , thus b £ gan his discourse : — " Sire , X mean not to pay a compliment to your majesty ; / hate found none in the GosptL "
Art . II . The Substance of a Sermon , preached at the Blessing of the Catholic Chapel cf St . Chad , in the Town of Birmingham ? on Sunday , December 17 , 180 £ . By the Right Rev . Dr . MiU wer Bishop of Castabala , in Cilicia , V . A . I \ S . A ^ fyc . Birmingham , printed and sold . Sold also by Wilkie and Co . London , ; 8 vo . pp , 49 ,
i Dr . Milncr , in the beginning Wish three points , viz . " the obof his discouse ( from . 2 Chron . ligation of paying a distinct * n . 12 , J 5 , ) endeavours tp esta- worship to our Creator , the duty Dr , VoJ
* JD'Aleniiert . Select Eulogies . Transl ^ t ^ d by Aikin . # i . p . xj .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/37/
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