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always shine among the brightest in our annals . Never- never , was
Britain so glorious / ' These glories are thus enumerated . You will judge how much they partake of the glory that excelleth . " Our counsels have been wise , our
measures vigorous and our enterpnzes successful . Our navy and our army have gained the highest honour by their unanimity and bravery . Our enemies have been taught to fear and to feel our superiority . They have fled before us every where . They have been
conquered by sea and by land > and in all the quarters of the world . Their towns , their ships and their fortresses have been delivered up into our hands , and we How appear among the nations great , rich , prosperous and formidable , whilst they appear mean , and wretched , and
are impoverished , distracted and confounded . With the utmost propriety , therefore , may we on this joyful day adopt the words of my text , and say , Surely God hath not dealt so with any
nation . ' Pp . 12 , 13 . The preacher adds , Ci seem to be as the Jews were , Qod ' s peculiar and favourite people . *' P . 16 .
Pope remarks , that he never knew a man who could not bear , with composure , another man ' s troubles . Such has been too much the case with our war-ministers , if I may adopt the term . The rival nation is described , without
regret , as < mean , wretched , impoverished , distracted and confounded , '* if the favourite people thus become " great , rich , prosperous , and formidable . " The preacher afterwards employs the common . places of Antigallican and Protestant associators to an
extent which , till I saw the sermon before me , I should have thought impossible at any period in the life of Dr . Price , especially * fter he had thought so closely as to have published , as advertised at the end of this sermon , his * Review of the principal Ques-
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"tions and Difficulties in Morals . The following passage will shew that I have not misrepresented the preacher . 6 C We are engaged in a most important and decisive war . Upon the issue
of it depends , in a great measure , all th ? t is valuable to us , and the state of Europe , perhaps , for many ages to come . Let us , joyfully , give every aid possible towards making it successful , and towards humbling that cruel and faithless nation , which has so long been the plague of Europe , and in whose weakness our only security lies : remembering that we have every thing to fight for , they nothing except their brcadea God and their chains , and thrt the consequence of our being conquered by
them would be our sinking into the lowest infamy , our becoming , what they are , ignoble and miserable slaves , and the prevalency once more among us of that religion which would crush all our liberties and privileges , which would teach us to cut on « another ' s throats in
order to do God service , and which la the shame and the scourge of mankind . —Oh ! frightful prospect I Can any British heart bear to view it with patience J" Pp . 21 , 22 . Though the preacher would utter , on this thanksgiving day , no lamentations on ruined or fallen
enemies , yet he could not help regretting that the 4 C late successes and victories" had -cost , to Britain , * some of the best blood that was . ever shed * " A tribute of affectionate gratitude to the memory of those brave men who had thus fallen , introduces the
following martial excitements : tC But , my brethren and conn try men , amidst the concern we must feel on this account , let us remember how gloriously they have fallen , and that they are more the objects of envy than lamentation . Their example , we may expect , will
kindle courage in others , and their spirit be transfused into- thousands who will emulate their virtues and aspire to their glory . There ought not indeed to be one person in this nation , whose heart docs not glovr with this emulation , and who does not earnestly wish , that he could die the sani » death , an d * that W
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6 l 6 Loyal piety .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 616, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/28/
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