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course of fliy inquiries on these stiT&jfc ^ ti , intmikhig m $ &n U « i . Vers ^ TWt . I sepd you ttis ' article because I should like to heaj * wh ^ tf your
urorthjr ^ orresponqen ^ s , who contend that tfe vvick ^ d will fe etern&Hy lost , ckn say in r ply to the above questions , wtiich mil be asked by many a plain * unlearned person , besides tb # one inemioued above . I ao ) y Sir , Yours ^ &c , R . WRIGHT .
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Book-Worm . No . XIV . Sr $ , March IJ > 1814 . The subject which concluded i £ y" l&bt Number may have re * mmd > d you of a favorite General © f Charles V * who resigned bis military appointments , d'ecleiing U > : the emperor , that there should be Sofne interval between a soldier ' s
life and his ( hath . The General w £$ John t ^ ajd ^ sso , a scholar and a theologian , as well as n soldier . Us is claimed for the Unitarians by Sandius in his Bibliotlueva An * tUH ^ iterio ' runu where is a short
article uf Johannes Valdcsius , Ttiis interview hag been supposed , i \ Ot improbably , to have assisted m giving ; that inclination to the mind of Charles which produced tke exchange of the imperial tbi-onte for a monastic retirement .
The wisdom of the children of peace has indeed been justified by the latest thoughts and the closing exjpevi ^ nce af some fortunate wa rriors . The poetj with whose verses ^ concluded the las t Number , in One of his . OrienU-1 Eclpgues , th 0 . ^ - mak es an injured Indian
** as » ad © ft Gtifig c ^ " shore He sat , Tiiscoutatry ' s mkenes to dejpior-e ^ apos ' trojpbitffc bit BHiii » h cuuq&e .. rorsm
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" Yet vou , ye oppressors ! umnrokM op 7 » Yoar steps , the steps of justice will
pursue 1 Go , spread y $ ur white sails on the azure main ; Fraught with our spoils , your native land regain ; Go , plant the gro * e and bid the lake expand ,
rich perfume . There night ' s kind calm in vain shall sleep invite , "While fancied omens warn , and spectre * bright : Sad sounds shall issue fVortt yowrguilty walls , The widowM wifes % the se&less mo * ther m s calls ; And infant Rajah ' s bleeding forms sb&U * rise ,
And on green hills tlie |> Ofnpo « s palace stand : Let luxury ' s hand adorn the gaudy room , Smooth the soft couch and shed the
And lift to you their supplicating eyes i Remorse intolerable your hearts will feel , And your own hands plunge deep the avenging steel . The subject of this eclogue is
taken from a " Short History of English Transactions in tf * e East Iixdies . " It can scarcely he doubted that the poet had in his rvcolkctioh I he victor at the battle of
Plassey , who was raised tfc the peerage by that title . The melaftcholy which darkened , and at length concluded the last scenes of Lont Clivti * 8 life has , I am aware , been attributed to mere
constitutional debility > by the late Mr . H * Beaufcy , in Bk > g . Britt . Yet that g ^ ntleraaa made , I be * liev « , btit few converts to tbfc opinion , iror did the respectable editor , Dr . Kippis , escape cet ] $ ure
fwr admitting a laboured pan ^ gyrit ; ifi ^ lead of the honebt biogra phy which 4 * nothing ottenuatcs ^ nor sets down aught ia malice . *' Happily for t \\ v woihl and fot theiiiSflveis * all warriois have not been rapacious or desolating con * querors . To maintain some point
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/29/
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