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number or adequately to represent the benefits . There is hardly any form or any measure of distress for which they do not make provision : they abound in the metropolis and in provincial towns and districts ; and the era of our late Monarch ' s reign is especially the era of Sunday-schools , and of that
class of popular schools which , m consequence of his patronage of their founder , are honoured with the title of royal . Nor has it been the least advantage of these various charities that they have in no inconsiderable degree united together the hearts and the hands of Christians of all
denominations , softened meir respective prejudices , and enkindled or fanned the flame of mutual affection . * It is with the liveliest pleasure I add , that these blessings have not been confined to our own country : they have spread every where around us , and to
a wide extent $ they have visited not only several nations of the continent of Europe , but tropical and even polar regions . However , I may without inaccuracy affirm , that , within the term to whfch my remarks are limited , they have been no where so visible as on
our own shores . Surely then this state of things must be ascribed , under the providence of the Divine Ruler of mankind , to our free constitution , so propitious to the declaration and efficacy of public opinion , so fruitful in great and generous undertakings : it must further be attributed , and this , in no
trifling measure , to the personal character of the departed monarch , and to the influence of his bounty and example . They , indeed , must have been powerful causes of improvement which could operate so conspicuously and successfully , notwithstanding the political evils that impeded and counteracted them .
Whether the sun of Britain tends to declination from his lofty height , is an inquiry foreign to the object of the present Essay . That we have never made a sufficiently wise and faithful
use of our unrivalled prosperity , is , I ftar , much too certain . , Our exigencies , from whatever causes they arise , will demand united reflection , iudgnaent , Exertion , fortitude and self-deyjlfflfh Thus , and thus alone , may we hope , that , by the blessing of heaven , tlie awfiil clouds which gather in our horizon will be scattered , and , "the
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star of Brunswick ' shine with undiminished splendour . ' It is a false and pernicious doctrine that we are uninterested in the private manners of our princes . Whatever be the effect of our mixed Constitution
upon their public acts and characters , yet , as Britons , we can in no respect be indifferent to those who are at the head of the great family of the nation . Not only do we sympathize with them amidst their trials : we also know that
their examples , in every walk of life , have a vast influence on their subjects ; and , while we think and speak of them without adulation , let our judgments be formed , however , with the candour which is due to every human being , nor least to those who hear more rarely than other men the voice of sincere and enlightened love . N .
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Sir , f ~ B ~^ HE attempt of your two Corre-JL spondents , Messrs . Antigame and Twonever , [ pp 515 and 530 , ] to fix upon the congregation in whose behalf I wrote , and myself , the stigma of absurdity , and a desire to demoralize the Unitarian Fund and the contributors
to it , is exceedingly ill-grounded , and quite unworthy of them as gentlemen or scholars , if they really are such . Were the ghost of the amiable and venerable Dr . Thomson to appear , metamorphosed in that terrific manner in which Mr . Twonever saw him in his
dream , and accost me in that doleful , piteous language , which he has expressed with such exquisite pathos , I should calmly reply , " Was it not one of your objects , learned Sir , to recommend a plan for aggrandizing the finances of the Unitarian Fund , and to
enable it to be more diffusively useful than it had been before ? My object was precisely of the same kind , but where your scheme was calculated to raise a hundred pounds , mine promised a thousand , and whilst you set your friends to ask , I advised them to work .
There is no difficulty m receiving money bestowed either with or without solicitation from your rich neig hbours , but I recommend exertion ; I # dvtee
the procuring of supplies as well-earned wages . The exercise of skill ; and ingenuity , the prudent availing ourselves of occasions and opportunities , and even the turning to advantage what
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650 Mr . Browne on his Proposals for the Unitarian Fund ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/22/
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