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on horseback * over a lake , to save himself ; and as the story goes , his horse not only carried him but haled his page , who , resolving to follow his master ' s fortune , leaped in after , and got hold of
the tail , which the Duke requited when he arrived on the other side , by pistolling hiHi for doing that ( out of whatever consideration ) that might have endangered his master ' s life * Sir John Reresby ' s Travels . 8 vo . 1813- p . 45 .
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No . CLXXXIX . The Poor Man ' s Inheritance . The consideration of this future excellent state and glorious royal condition , ( says the learned and
eloquent Henry More , in a passage on Heaven , ) may afford much comfort to men of low degree and meaner fortune . What though our means be small , our calling base and dishonourable before men
this time will certainly over and that quickly . Though I be poor here , a servant and bond-slave , a beggar ; yet hereafter I shall be rich , free noble , a prince , a king , an emperour : Then shall I beJord , not of a larger spot of
ground , consisting of dirt and gravel , and withering grass and perishing trees , the sight of which every night ' s sleep takes from me ; but of the boundless heavens , the everlasting beauty of God , where with never-waking eyes I shall alwayes behold his excellent glory .
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No . CXC . Heroes . Homer ( says Dryden ) can move ra ge better than he can pity : He stirs up the irascible appetite , as
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our philosophers call it , he provokes to murtker and the destruction of God ' s images , he forms and equips those ungodly Man-Killers , whom we poets , when we flatter them , call Heroes ; a race of met * who can never enjoy quiet in themselves , ^ till they have taken it from all the world . Miscellany Poems . Vol . III . Ded .
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No . cxei . Quaker . Letter . The following letter is published iu the Harleian Miscellany ( 8 vo . ) Vol . XII . p . 49 , under the title
of " A Private Letter sent from One Quaker to Another , " and is said in a prefatory advertisement to have been . " really sent from a country Quaker to his friend in London . "
" Friend John , Ci I desire thee to be so kind as to go to one of those sinful men in the fleshy called an Attorney , and let him take out an instru *
rnent with a sealfixed thereunto ^ by means whereof we may seize the outward tabernacle of George Green , and bring him before the
lamb-skin men at Westminster , and teach him to do , as he would be done by . And sol rest thy friend in the light . » R « G .
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No . CXCIL Controversies . As bonds , deeds , covenants , obligations , indentures ( says
Erasmus ) expressed in a multitude of words , afford matter for law-suits ; so , in religion , a profusion of determinations , decrees and decisions , begets endless controversies .
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Gleanings ' . 691
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 691, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/31/
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