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tftergasedy because I coufcd ^ have sttb-3 * mfct&aktf&st to thje whote of it except iti its REMOTER ? APPIVIC ATI Cm . ^ H& > set < ou t -by truly and perhaps Reasonably observing , * that men were snot * he insects of a summer , but beings -of a superior ordery theJieirs of immortal ity- * -th at they should therefore look xi f * Avith pious reverence , and down * wards with anxious care to their
postewty—that when they had accomplished a structure sufficient to maintain social order , much more to govern a great and enlightened people , it was more convenient to repair it when time had defaoed it , and to improve it if originally defective , than to tumble it down in a moment to its foundations—that
society was not a gang of miscreants , plundering and murdering one another , reviling all the institutions ordained to lead us in the paths of happiness and virtue , but a pyramid of human beings , rifting in majestic order and harmonious in all its parts—4 . hat it was fit religion should consecrate such a structure - ** that , her ministers should therefore
be held i n high respect , and should not be supported on the alms of those wham it ; was their duty to correct ^ rthafc goveciunent should also preserve are attitude of dignity and wisdom ,
composed of high magistrates , invested with corresponding authorities andsupporfced hy < revenues to secure obedience and independence—that a people , above all , for whose happiness this system was fashioned and supported , should m their morals and manners be
assimilated ; thai they should not be buried like dogs , as if they were to sleep for *? rer , but Jt > e remembered by monumental inscriptions , recording the achievements of those who had lived Y > efbre them and reminding the living that their histories would be read by those who were to follow them—rthat
societies ,, however wisely constructed , were subject nevertheless to be shaken by the follies and wickedness of nian-Jk-ind , and that in those awful conjunctures the utmost fortitude became ne-¦ cessary to those who were to ride in such storms ^ yet tempered with a spirit -of geiDtlenassaiid mercy , shrinking back wheaa called upon to stride , though
jwfetice and even necessity might demand tine , bbiv . ' -rrHe summed up ail by a roost eloquent reprobation ef an unprincipled regicidbe , declaring in language kwhich > I haye will always be renfeianberedb thai the immolation of
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th <* unhappy prin < 3 e * w 4 id * tt ^ ate fea # Set tit \ K ) n this volcanic pkiftg&ld ] and wrm without any c * ifne& of « h $ 3 [< 6 Vtfi , * rnv&f > i ^^ heharsnest-C 6 n * t rc tioh , hare been th 4 victim of the , crimes of © tHets , was ba # e and in hum an ; and in it ^ wanton
aggravation byindignity- and insult-, etnbittered by ^^ he foul murtfe r ^' of his ^ uee-n and their helpless infants , cast a dismal shade over the tt \ othl -world , suffering , as it wer < j , an eclipse by ^ the mterposition of sdfne inferrial spirit l > etweefi the l > ivine Creator and th <*
beings who must-perish but in nis light . -- ^ Believe me , I feel for the' hall ^ awod shade of departed geuitfs , -and have endeavoured not to degFade ^ though it it is beyond my pemer to da justice t « such a distingitished composition ; but
you have no doubt been looking m vaiti all this while , and through all this ek >* quence , * for any possible incitement to war , though intended by himself and others to justify and provoke it . —If the work had been undertaken to i 41 ustrate
the principles and duties of civil society m u \ & pure abstracty it w ^ ouldJiave beeri as jt 3 © t as it was beautiful ; bat as a p icture of Capetia , & £ / ore her revolution , it was unfounded almost throughout ,
and in all that followed it was only an exquisite and in many parts a sublime exposure of the unhappy state to which she had been reduced by the desertion of Arenata from her post : and how" the roshkia into battle with this delirious
people was either to reform them or w secure ourselves , it is \ * t my comprehension even to imagine .
Buonapartt . No victory in human annals ever produced results so sudden and extraordinary . —The adversary , who&e ambition and whose boast had been out : destruction—who had built a thousand vessels to convey his armies to our shores—and who was then
erecting a column , even within tur view , to be crowned with bis colossal statue pointing at us with his finger for his own , now fled when no oAe was pursuing , and gave himself up as a prisoner ta the commander of a single ship . Such a fate of so wouMiberfgi a
being affords a convincing proof that our apparent destinies may generally he * referred to ourselves . —» In the earliest ; and most flourishing periods of his * astonishing career , he was ( iwrnyopinion ) more sinned agaifcfit than
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1817, page 142, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2462/page/14/
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