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ship , and joyfully meet at last in those bright regions where pride and prejudice can never enter ? ' ' Dr . J . u Meet her ! I never desire to meet fools any where . "—{ This sarcastic turn of wit was . __ ——
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Sketch of English Protestant Persecution . —Letter / . Sir , May 27 , 1811 . I congratulate the friends of religious liberty of every persuasion , Jew or Gentile . Christian or
Infidel , on the sudden defeat of the late attempt by Lord Sidmouth . Yet I rejoice that the attempt has been made , though at the expense of that noble Lord ' s reputation
for judgment a * d foresight , such as may be fairly demanded from o * ne who conies forward , uncalled , to agitate a large portion of the public , on a question of the hig h , est interest .
Approving the maxim , de mortnis nil msi verum , I scruple not to add that , the late Bill , in connection with the circumstances of its in-troduction , looks more like the work of a monk than a
statesman , and as if the author of it had paid his early devoirs in any chapel rather than that of St . Stephen . That a quondam premier should project such a measure , without securing the support of
the treasury and episcopal benches is passing strange / ' This Peer , however , in violation of sagaciou ^ Walpole ' s maxim , not to disturb what is at resty has thus adventured . The result , though ^ per-
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haps , with some individual suffer ing much to be regretted , will f doubt not , be favourable to an eventual legal acknowledgment of the civil right to religious liber . ty . Concerning this right , jet unknown to our Statute Book , we
have as much reason to say , coiu tempiating the letter of the law , as Locke had 120 years ago , that tc absolute Jiberty , just and true liberty , equal and impartial liberty " , is the thing that we stand in need of . ' * Much of this liberty
has , however , teen , practically enjoyed , during the past century ^ through the gradual illumination of the public mind , as to the rights of conscience , while theToleration Act has been falsely , though conveniontly supposed to secure such religious freedom , and thus has
ygrihfd the proverb tgnotum pro magnifico . Statesmen , in our times , have occasionally discovered their illiberality , or perhaps weakness , by opposing the repeal of penal statutes- concerning relig ion , * 9
absurd and oppressive that they had been ashamed to enforce them . Lord Sidmouth is * h first , during nearly a hundre d years , who ha * attempted to restrain , by statute , that liberal spirit which had gone forth so . lax
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524 Skttcli of English Protestant Persecution
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" ' ' ' " K ' ' J ' i so pleasantly received , that tie Doctor Joined in the laugh ; ki $ spleen was dissipated ; he took his coffee , and became , for the re , mninder of the evenings very cheer , ful and entertaining . \ y * c < ^ ¦ * * \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/12/
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