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    I did not find in myself a love and desire of all profitable truth ; if I did not put away idleness , pre-; . i /};™» and worldly affections , and « —

    | V | VSV . j ~ ^ # so examine to the bottom all my opinions of divine matters , being prepared in mind to follow God > and God only , which way soever he shall lead me : if I did not

    hope , that I either do , or endeavour to do these things , certainly I should have little hope of obtaining salvation . [ Conclusion of the Extracts Jrofft Chit * lingworth . Jl

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    Book-Worm . No . XVf , Dec . 4 , 1814 . Sir , I bftve delayed too long to send you an account of the Project for

    settling an everlasting Peace in Europe , by the Abbot St . Pierre , which was designed soon to follow some particulars of his Life , at p . 298 of your present Volume .

    Prefixed to the translation which appeared in 1714 , is an i € Advertisement by the English Bookseller , " who mentions a sketch of the workas printed in Holland /'

    two years before , as ** incredibly benight up and read in all the foreign Courts in Europe / ' He describes his author as an

    eminent French Abbot , brother to the Muquis de St . Pierre , first cousin to the late Marshal de Belle * fonde > and to the present Marshal & VillarSy about twenty years a Member of the French Academy , * Qd-about fifty years old ; said to

    uee xtremely studious , though of a very tender constitution of body /' . St » Pierre , in his Preface * describes himself as led to the conae ration of hfe subject , by . " being "Oth an eye-witness of the extreme m K « ry to which the people were

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    reduced , by the heavy taxes ., and also informed , by divers particular relations , of the excessive contributions , the foragings , the destructions , the violences , the cruelties , and the murders , which the un .

    happy inhabitants of the frontiers of Christian States daily suffer . " This subject had occupied his attention during at least " fouryears , in places" where he was ** too

    much taken off by duties or am use - mentSj" till " in the country , assisted by the strength which the mind receives from the calmness

    and leisure of solitude , " he applied to it" an obstinate and con * tinued meditation , " not forgetting c * the happiness it would be , as well to the sovereigns of Europe ,

    as to private men , to livein peace . *' At the date of this Project , " the equilibrium of power , " as described by St . Pierre , Was main * fcained ¦ * ' between the House of

    France and the House of Austria , " an equilibrium which procured ho € i sufficient security against foreign or civil wars . " To effec * this security , he proposed a general diet of Europe , " consisting

    of " twenty . four deputies" from the following * united sovereigns , ** whom it may be amusing to com * pare with the modern European povvers , " France , Spain , England , Holland , Savoy , Portugal ,

    liavaria ana associates , Venice , Genoa and associates , Florencfe iand associates , Switzerland and associates , Lorrain and iassociates , Sweden , Denmark , Poland , the Pope , Mu&covy , Austria , Courland and associates , Prussia ,,

    Saxony , Palatine and associates , Hanover and associates , Ecclesiastical Electors and associates , " Our projector hoped to have , as c < associ - ates of the union / 1 Turkey ^ Mo-

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    Boo Jc Worm . No . XVI . 751

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/23/