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ing to raise Britons to the highest pitch of grandeur and prosperity , and to make them the pride and wonder of the earth * 9 f The same nationality betrays itself in the t , ! j 5
conclusion of the following passage , worthy of being quoted for its benevolent anticipations * though , the man of sin appears just now to be reviving into importance , instead of expecting his destruc-
tion " . The scriptures , I think , give us abundant reason to expect a time -when Popish darkness and oppression shall be succeeded by universal
peace and liberty , and nation no more lift up a sword against nation / when the everlasting gospel in its native purity shall prevail through the whole earth , and the kingdoms of this world It&tome the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ .
" The invention of printing followed by the reformatiou and the revival of literature ; the free communication which has been opened between the dif . ferent parts of the world , and the late amazing improvements in knowledge of every kind , have remarkably prepared the way for this joyful period .
The world is now advanced far beyond its infancy . There are many indications of an approaching general amendment in human affairs . The season fixed by prophecy for the destruction of the man of sin cannot be far distant , and the glorious light of the latter days seems to be now dawning upon mankind from this happy island . " Pp . $ 2 , 33 ,
I cannot recollect the principal subjects of this and my farmeT letter without reflecting what a martial spirit must have possessed Christian professors , in general * when such men as PearsaU
Tbwgood and Price , could appear to forget the guilt and misery of war in the contemplation of its glory and success * With great pleasure I listened to Dr . Price twenty years after the * date of this sermon , when ^ on a public occasion , he was more worthily employed , in
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contrasttfiglthe disorders incident to thfc test ^ formed societies on earth with the promised condition of virtue and happiness , in the new heavens and thtntw earthy xeAere . in tiivelleth righteousness .
Most of the passages here quoted will be unexpected by your readers , from such a source- To in . sure correctness I have sent the sermon that they may be copied verbatim * ^ N . L . T .
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The Algerines . [ From the M * rn . Chron . Oct . h . ] There are in Algiers above sixteen hundred slaves , and every year more than one hundred die of anger- and sorrow , or from
fatigue and repeated blows . Shut up every night in the Bagno , the naked earth is their bed in places open to the wind and rain . They are called up again at the dawn of
day , and hurried with heavy blows to their daily hard labours , which last till evening . Some amongst them are employed in the arsenal , and for the sm&Hest transgression
they are xmmercifully beaten , even to the infliction of five hundred strokes of the bastinado . Othersare condemned like beasts to drag or carry huge stonts from the mountains : and often fall and are bu * ried under those anrple ruins . 1 have seen some of ttem return to
the town mutilated and reeking with blood ; I have seen them fall on the road and be obliged , like the vilest brute , to rise under the infliction of heavy and repeated blows , whilst others would suffer
the treatment and remain prostrate and insensible , waiting and wishing for death . The notfrisl * ment of these wretches coiftiat * oi
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W $ The Algerines .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 618, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/30/
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