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thinks the state rests on his shoulders , ^ and the dignified divine imagines the church and the Christian Tefigion—the firmament and starry sphere , to dance round his person and property . It is a matter of curiosity to knowi what , on the
present occasion , has endangered the Christian religion ; : an anonymous panv phlet against tithe , and a motion to inquire into the sufferings of the poor—for this is the Godhead brought out of his shrine , and exposed as an outwork in defence of church property /'
In Mr . GjRATTA ^ i ^ celebrated Ad dress to his fellow-citizens , in 1 797 * the following beautiful passages occur : Democracy . —* - We saw the minister retreating : from : the enemy with as rapid a step as he advanced upon the people , going back and back and . bark ; while the democratic . principle in Europe was
getting on and oa , like a mist at the heels of the countryman , small at first , and lowly , but soon ascending to the hills and overcasting the hemisphere . " i Outrage—•« ' Sensible acts of violence have an epidemic force ; they operate by sympathy ; thep possess the air , as it were , by certain tender iafiueuces , and spread the kindred / passion through the whole community . *
Toleration * - * - * ' Kings have ; no right to enter into the tabernacle of the human mind , and hang up there images of their own orthodoxy . We know of no royal rule either for religion or mathematics . " Weakness of Human Natme .- ? - * '
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had conquered Kmm ^ , pojutesaed . 'Ame * ^ hen s he was the ^ eat wefttern ^^^ ^ ^^^ towhich the nations of the earth i ^ paired ^ from whence to dtaw eternal oracles W
policy and freedom ; whett her root extended from comment . tO } continent ^ and the dew of the two hemLspheres watered h < er branches—then , indeed , we allowed with less danger , but never with justice , that she might have made sacrifices of the claims of the Irish . " ^ k-
> Jtordi ^ hmnrtgersi ^ *! It is vsTell * ks& the price df boroughs Is from fourteen to sixteen thousand pounds , and haa , in the course of not many years , increased onethird ; a proof at once of the extravagance and audacity of this abuse , which thus looks to immortality , and * proceeds , un-^ wed by the times and uninstructed by
example , and in momeats which are held alarming , entertains no fear , conceives no panic , and feels no remorse which prevents the chapman and dealer from going on at any risque with his villainous little barter , in the very rockings and frownuigs of the elements , and makes hint tremble , indeed , at liberty , but not at crimes . **
Corruption . — " Make your people honest , says the court—make your court honest , say the people ; it ia the higher iclasses that introduce corruption : ' . thieving jnay be learned from poye ' rty ,. bttt corruption is learned from riche s * It' is sl venal court that makes a venal . country ^ -that vice descends from above . The
peasant does not go to the castle for the bribe , but the castle candidate goes to the peasant , and the castle candidate offers the bribe to the peasant because he expects , in a much greater bribe , to bp repaid by the minister ; thus things go on ; 'tis impossible they can last . " . i
Bribery and Terror . — " The laws did , 4 n niy judgment , afford the crown sufficient power- to administer the couutry , and i preserve the connexion with Great Britain ; but our ministers have despised the ordinary tract , and plain , obvious ^ legitimate and vulgar bonds between the
king and the subject ; they , have resorted to the guinea and the gallows , as to the only true and faithful friends of government , and try to hang when they can't compel ;; they have extended the ^ venjal stipendiary principle to all ; constituted authorities ; they have given the taintj to
the grave corporator as well : as the ;« etiato * , and have gone intQ . the hWls . and ist ^ ets ttp commuuica t ^ e e tbe ^ vU ^ to niiddling ^^ j dtmffff- ' ^ f& ^^ f ^ ff ^' ^ waPN ^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1820, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2493/page/35/
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