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^ sked tfae . senator whether he had glasses worth a man ' s life . Who replied , he had glasses valued at a province . * Let me see them , * says the emperor . Accordingly
he was brought into a room well furnished . The emperor allowed them to be beautiful to the eye ; but , considering they might be the cause of much mischief , broke
them all , saying , * better all these perish than one man . * 4 I leave , * says Mr . Burgess , * to your Majesty to apply- ' The bishops for this , and some other the like heinous
crimes , got him silenced ; but he was restored again to his minis try , and died in a good old age at Swfton ColeJUld in Warwickshire . " Calami / in his Account ( p . 739 ) mentions Mr . Anthony Burgess ,
as ejected from the living of Sutton Colefield , in which he had succeeded Dr * Join Burgess * This must have been the preacher before lCing James . The anecdote
of Augustus I cannot find in Suetonius ., nor am I aware from whence it was quoted . Your readers will recoliect , that the Romans were accustomed to
nourish their fish for the table with the carcases of their slaves . Nor was the practice confined to those convicted of crimes . It is recorded of Cato the Censor , that he thus disposed of his slaves wh ^ n too old and infirm for labour . Such
was heathen morality in one of its fairest forms . SELECTOR .
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Answer to ic the Dissenting ML nister s Complaint / 9 July 15 , 1813 . Mr , Editor , The age in which we live is a complaining one ; and whilst inen * of various descriptions are
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giving vent to their discontents , it is nothing surprising that the dissenting minister should do so too . At the same time , what was
held out to the public on this subject in your last Number , ( p . 366 , ) ought to have been strictly conformable to truth : " nothing extenuated * nor au ^ ht set down
in malice . " Querulous and un-Candid representations have a bad effect , not only upon the minds of such youth as have turned their thoughts towards the ministry , but also on the whole body of
dissenting laity . Angr } 7 sneers at ifc rolling carriages , * ' 66 quilted pews , " and " daughters fashionably educated , " are not the best means for bettering the worldly condition of a class of men for
which it is easier to wish a bet . ter provision , than to procure it . I am one of those Sir , who have , during a tolerably long life endeavoured both by example and exhortation to promote so desirable a . state of things ; and I must
say , for the honour of the Society of which I am a member , that , when properly called upon , it has never on any occasion , shrunk back from the duty of affording pecuniary assistance to its ministers or to their families : of this
I could bring many striking instances . Your complaining correspondent , is well descended ; his venerable ancestor , he says , " evinced the power of truth , and the low value at which worldly honours and profits are held by those who seek a kingdom which
cannot be moved . "—His views were glorious , and rhe sacrifice wfjj noble ; worthy of £ w ? ing * mita ed by his descendant | who , if he be ntit imbued \ V * t 1 i'Motile # orticn of tfita spirft ; has mitttaken
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Answer to tht Dissenting Minister ' s Complaint . B 93
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vol . vjii # 4 h
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 593, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/33/
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