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(Continued from p. 3$4.) IS. Sir. Roscoe. LITERATURE also flourishes as I &irly as commerce {at Liverpool]. A History of Lorenzo de Medici appeared here about eight years ago, which £<reti the Italians have thought worthy of translation. The libraries
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hauce its blasphemous quality , being as a square cumber is to its root * . I have supposed a few cases , concerning which I should be glad to learn from some of your Correspondents whether they think them of a blasphemous character or not .
If upon the death of the most wicked person in a parish , the most reverent person in it should think proper upon a most solemn occasion to say , in the most public manner , that he believed him now a sainted spirit in heaven ,
-would the lie itself , the solemnity of the occasion , the injury to morality by totally confounding the merits of the good and wicked , &c . render him justly liable to the charge of blasphemy ?
if a person should be induced on " particular occasions to risk the salvation of his soul on the bare ground of his telling the truth , what would be the character of the act ? What means , " So help me God" }
If a dissipated , vicious , or irreligious young fellow should avow in the most solemn manner , that he chose a profession in consequence of a solemn mandate communicated immediately
from the Deity , while no sensible man can doubt but his choice originated in very different motives , would he be guilty of blasphemy ? And if guilty , which of the persons of the Trinity would be blasphemed }
At present I shall say no more on this important subject ; but I issue a warning voice , that if any further progress should be made by tiie furious eruptions vomited forth from the volcano ., of intolerance , it will behoove thousands to provide for their safety .
To be at die mercy of perjurious informers , deposing their vile lies before officers of tried bigotry , and whetted to mischief by the mad rant © f renegade versifiers ! Good heavens , what a situation !! HOMELY . •¦ aM ^ HHMm-
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40 & TJie Spaniards ' Letters from England .
(Continued From P. 3$4.) Is. Sir. Roscoe. Literature Also Flourishes As I &Irly As Commerce {At Liverpool]. A History Of Lorenzo De Medici Appeared Here About Eight Years Ago, Which £≪Reti The Italians Have Thought Worthy Of Translation. The Libraries
( Continued from p . 3 $ 4 . ) IS . Sir . Roscoe . LITERATURE also flourishes as I &irly as commerce { at Liverpool ] . A History of Lorenzo de Medici appeared here about eight years ago , which £ < reti the Italians have thought worthy of translation . The libraries
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of Florence were searched for materials for this work , and many writings of Lorenzo himself first given to the world in Liverpool . This work of Mr . Roscoe ' s has diffused a genera ] taste for the literature of Italy , It has been said of men of letters , that , like
prophets , they have no honour in their own country 5 - but to this saying to which there are so few exceptions , owe honourable or * e is to be found here . The people of Liverpool are proud of
their townsman : whether they read his book or not , they 4 * re sensible it has reflected honour upon their town in the eyes of England and of Europe , and they have a love and jealousy of its honour , which has seldom been found
any where except in those cities where that love was nationality , because the city and the state were the same . This high and just estimation of Mr . Jtoscoe is the more praiseworthy , because he is known to be an enemy to the Slave Trade , the peculiar disgrace of Liverpool .
14 . Umrersitff ef Cambridge . € < What a happy life , " said I to our Cambridge friend , * must you lead in your English universities ! You have the advantages of a monastery without its restrictions , the enjoyments of-the world without its cares , — the true
otium cum dignitatem He shook his head and answered , " It is a joyous place for the young , and a convenient place for all of us , —but for none is it a happy one : ' *—and he soon convinced me that I was mistaken in the favourable judgment whicti I had fbrmed . I will endeavour to retrace the substance
cf a long and interesting evening ' s conversation . It is a joyous place for the young , — joy and happiness however are not synonymous . They come hither from school , no longer to be treated us children ; their studies and their amusement are almost at their own
discretion , and they have money at command . But as at college they first assume the character of man , it is there also that they are first made to feel their relative situation in society . Schools in England , especially those
public ones from which the universities are trhiefly supplied , are truly republican . The master perhaps will pay as much deference to rank as he possibl y can , and more than he honestly ought ;—Jit is however but little that
The Spaniard's Lietters From England.
The Spaniard ' s lietters from England .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/30/
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