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had done * We have many instances of characters being too lightly taken up on report , and mistakenly represented through a too easy credulity , especially against a man who may happen to differ from us , in some speculative points , wherein each party , however , may think himself orthodox . The good Dr . Clarke himself has been as ill spoken of as Wood speaks of Marloe , " These Lives of the Poets , of which the-M . S . was in Dr . Johnson ' s possession , he testifies , in his Life of Hammond , to have been vyritten , not by Cibbery but by cc Robert Shiels , a native of Scotland , a man of very acute understanding , though with little scholastic education , \ vho not long after the . publication of his
work , [ 1753 ] died in London of a consumption . " Dr . Johnson adds , i bis life was virtuous , and his end was pious . " VERMICULUS .
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< 3 I / fcANlNGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL HEADING ,
No . CL . A Nation . For a while ( says the judicious Rapin , ) five or six hundred persons , who compose a parliament , and as many magistrates of towns
and counties , may seem to an imprudent prince the body of a nation ; but a time will come , when 3 very single person must be taken into the account .
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No . CLI . ; f ^§ Empire a ) r Christ .
The poets have dope so much to disfigure and corrupt Christianity y that we are pleased ^ be ** they make some amends by correct and striking pictures of Chris-
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tian truth . One of this fraternity > who has contributed more than enough towards paganizing our religion , ( see Gleanings , No . CXLII , VIII . 658 *) , has thus not unaptly described the true , spiritual reign of the Messiah : He'll only o ' er the mind his powr assert , His grace his scepter , and his throne the heart . Kings undisturbed may bear imperial sway , And peaceful nations may their lorcls obey , While the blest Saviour keeps his coiirt unseen , ¦ > ¦ •¦ And rules in light and heav e nly love within . m Prince Arthur * * ! $ , It .
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No . CLII . Burning Tobacco-Pipes .
Mr , Dyer relates in his life of Robert Robinson ( p . 287 ) that when Winchester , the teacher of the restoration doctrine , was in *
troduced to that playful divine ^ he thus accosted him , " What are you the man , who think that God Almighty will burn the oM tobacco-pipes , till they become white again ?"
There is the same burlesque figure in a Latin poem of Dean Aldrich ' s , published by Mrsj , Toilet . ( Journ . Britan . xvii . 53 , 54 . ) The poem is ihu ^ headed , —Aldricius de Poeto , ? n e * moriter , —and the following is the concluding stanza : Ut t a m en sordes renovata flam mis
Bxuit nigras , annnus vel olim , lgne puvgatis vitiis , nitebit . Aelheiis hospes . . Dean Aldrich was eminept %$ a divine , a scholar ^ a musical composer ^ and a smdker . H ^ composed a smoking catch to be sung by fqur men smoking their pipes .
* By an error , which runs on sus « to the next page , 66 s .
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Gleanings * 11 Q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 119, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/47/
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