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358 Gleanings .
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
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No . CCCVI . An Apostle to the Pope . Rome , Jan . 3 , 1743 . —We have had a strange mad fellow amongst us , one George Hutchinson 9 a weaver or t ay lor , by trade , who lately came from Ireland , by God ' s command , as he says , to convert the Pope . Though a Presbyterian by profession , he went <
onstantJy to the Protestant chapel here : but all the arguments that were used could not convince him of the vanity of his undertakings and persuade him to return to his family , which he has left starving at home . He asserted , that the Pope was the Whore of Babylon , and that her worshippers , if they did not repent , would be
destroyed within a year . He preached mightily against statues , pictures , umbrellas , bag-wigs , and hoop petticoats ; so that I came under his censure ; and he advised me , very earnestly , not to follow a business that promoted idolatry . —This prophet having made a great disturbance at St . Peters , when his holiness came to give the benediction , has been seized , by his orders and sent out of sight .
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No . CCCV . Pope ' s Epigram on Dr . JFreind . Dr . Freind , the head master of Westminster School , was a celebrated writer of Latin epitaphs ; which yet Mr . Pope , who was as great a composer of epitaphs in English verse , and could not well bear a rival in any way , thought too prolix and too flattering , if Dr . Freind be really intended , as he was generally supposed to be intended in the following epigram : Friend , for your epitaphs I'm griev'd . Where still so much is said , One half will never be believ'd , The other never read . —
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No . CCCIV . Employments of nohle and mean Men . Heylyn relates the story , in his Examen Historicum , of a nobleman , in Henry the Eighth ' s time , who told Mr . Pace , one of the king ' s secretaries , in contempt of learning , That it was enough for noblemerts sons to wind their horn and carry
their hawk fair and leave learning to the study of ? nea ? i men . To whom Mr . Pace replied , Then you and other noblemen must be content that your children may wind their horns and keep their hawks 9 whilst the children of mean men do manage matters of state .
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No . CCCVII . St . Winifred , Called also Boniface , Archbishop of Mentz and Cologne , was born at Crediton , in Devon , A . D . 670 . After becoming a monk , acquiring great reputation as a learned man , and making great exertions in disseminating the Christianity of the times , he was advanced , by Pope Gregory III ., to the
archbishoprick of Mentz in 732 . He took" great pains to convert the inhabitants of Freezland , and though he had no inconsiderable success , yet , in that country , he was at length killed in a tumultuous attack , A . Y > . 754 , in the eighty-fourth year of his age . Fifty-four of his companions and attendants are said to have perished with their bishop . While he was thus employed upon the continent ,
he appears not to have been unconcerned for the spiritual welfare of his own country . For the better promoting the faith at home , he wrote a letter to Ethalbald , King of Mercia , which had such an effect , that fhe Scriptures were read in the Monasteries , and the Lord ' s Prayer und the Creed , in the English tongue . m
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I I S ——^—^ which averages , for that period , 89 / . per annum , which is very different from the statement in the Memoir , a difference which , have not the least suspicion , arose from wilful misrepresentation in the compiler of the Memoir , but from his not knowing where to apply for better information on that subject . am particularly solicitous that this correction should be noticed for two reasons ; first , for the sake of truth ; and , second , that it may take away some of the disgrace that attaches to our congregation from the former statement . BENJ . BAKER . Note * The money paid to Mr . Vidler , as stated above , arose from the produce of the eat Tickets , Quarterly Collections , and Donations .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1817, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2465/page/38/
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