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flood of tears , the guilt or weakness jof those magistrates who Ami perverted thai wisest and \ most salutary metitptivMs" . * Vol . VI . Ch . xxxiv . pp . 5 ^ 60 . " But the fall , of the Western empire was announced by i a clearer omen than
the flight of vultuires : the Roman government appeared ewery day lgss' formidable to its enemies , more odious and oppressive to its subjects . The taxes vrere multiplied with the public distress ; economy was neglected in proportion as it became necessary ; and the injustice of the rich shifted the unequal burden from
themselves to the people , whom they defrauded of the indulgence * that might sometimes have alleviated their misery * The severe inquisition , which confiscated their goods and tortured their nersons , compelled the subjects of Valentinian to prefer the more simple tyranny of the Barbarians , to fly to the woods and mountains , or to embrace the vile and
abject condition of mercenary servants . They abjured and abhorred the name of Roman citizens , which had formerly excited the ambition of mankind , ****** If all the Barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour , their total destruction would not have restored the
empire of the West : and if Rome still survived , she survived the loss of freedom , of virtue , and of honour , " Vol . VI . Ch . xxxv « pp . 143 , 144 . Mr . G . ha& stated very concisely his opinion of war at p . 20 , Chap , xxxiii . , " War , in its fairest form , implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice . ' * omMIMhm
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Vices that overthrew I 2 M $ nre # . ' + ~ Dr . Evanss Organ Address . 149
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^ > y Febh , J 820 . IN " , going a sei ^ ond tincie through Mr . Gibbon ' s celebrated work , " The Decline and Fall of tlie Roman Empire / ' I have been struck with several passages where he emphatically points out the " vices of a declining empire . "
I have placed in italics the parts to which I particularly allude in the first quotation , which relates to the Eastern empire : the word indulgences in the second , which applies to thp Western , is so marked in the work . If you should think them worthy of insertion in the Repository , they are quite at vour service .
HISTORICUS . " The historian Priscus , whose embassy is a source of curious instruction , was accosted , in the camp of AttUa , by a stranger , who saluted him in the Greek language , but whose dress and figure displayed the appearance of a wealthy Scythian . In the siege of Viminiacum he had lost , according to his own
account , his fortune and liberty : he became thg < jjbpe of Onegesius [ one of the £ avou 0 e ^* k £ Attila ] ; but his faithful servicl § ^ ga ^ 3 £ the Bomans and the Acat-^ 8 k ' " ^^ P ^^ y raised him to the liffln ^ f ^ riiatxve Huns , to whom he
w ¥ fl ^^* hy the domestic pledges of a iiew Jw and several children . The spoils or "War had restored and improved his private property ; fre was admitted to the table of his former lord ; and the apostate Greek blessed the hour of his
captivity , since it had been the Introduction to an happy and independent state * Tliis reflection naturaHy produced a dispute on the advantages and defects of the Roman government , which was
severely arraigned by the apostate ? ,. and defended by Priscus in a prplix and feeble declamation . The freedman of Onegesius exposed , in true ^ nd lively colours , the vices of a declining empire , of which he had so long been the victim ; the cruel absurdity of tfce Rpmarf princes , unable to protect their subjects against the public enemy , unwilling to trust them with arms for their own defence ; the intolerable weight of taMr , rendered still wore oppressive by the intricate or arbiwry moths of collection ; the obscurity V numerous and contradictory laws '; the ™ L * ^< w * fa « fi > m * ¥ Ju ^ dai ^ J ^ ng s : the partial Qdmmistraeion of 2 J * i wre «*< & tU inf im ^ e of thfrW lunate * mf >* fit he lamented , with a
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Islington ** Feb . 7 , 1820 , jdddress on Opening an Organ at Worship Street , Finsbtiry Square , Sunday Morning , Feb . 6 , 1820 . Christian Brethren ,
THE existence of God and . the divine mission of Jesus , are the foundation of every thing important in the Christian revelation . These truths , interwoven' in our devotional exercises , must produce « powerful effect . Unilfcd in the celebration of the goodi ^^ e of the Supreme Being , pride and pi ^ Judice , hatred and strife , bigotry m& uncharitabkness , ought to be , no more , the singing of our different assemblies shpuld be the chorus of the famHy of CJhrfet ~ oflBferii % ujb pralW ^ td the
* « S ) Mi . t ^ i * Mte co tor « 8 « tio 4 U » PH » - cu » , ptt ; jSd ^ ff . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1820, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2486/page/21/
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