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eileable to it ; then shall we accelerate its progress , until we finally become one fold under the one great Shepherd . In concluding , I will further endeavour , if I can , to convince Cephas that I am not a disguised Unbeliever , by a sincere and ardent wish—but , having
no words of my own adequate to the subject , I will again borrow the eloquent language of our revered and highly-valued friend Mr . Belsham—€ S That the era may" ( speedily ) € * arrive , marked in resplendent characters in the decrees of Heaven , and to which
the golden tndew of prophecy continually points , when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth , as the waters cover the sea , and the reign of Truth , Freedom , Virtue and Happiness , shall be universal and everlasting /*
Taking leave of this short controversy , I have now , Sir , only to thank you for the indulgence you have afforded me . J . S . MiA * VA VI Wt AAAvt XjF m K _ x #
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING . No . CCCLXXVI . Lord Mansfield and Lord Camden . I remember ( says Mr . Jeremy Bentham , in a work , printed but not published , on the " Elements of Packing , as applied to Juries , " Note , p . 56 ) hearing partialities and even the habit of partiality imputed by many to Lord
Mansfield : I cannot take upon rne to say with what truth . Partly by situation , partly by disposition , exposed to party enmity , so he accordingly was to calumny . < c Lord Mansfield , " ( said his everlasting rival and adversary Lord Camden once , ) " Lord Mansfield has a way of saying—It is a rule with me —an inviolable rule— -never to hear a
syllable said out of court about any cause that either is , or is in the smallest degree likely to come , before me . " " Now , I—for my part" —( observed I ~ r \ . Wf \ m 4 \ iVk rf"f 4 "vw \ C f 1 -- * . - -v *»•« I J + l _ - % . ^ v •__ -- » ^ . —sw « ^ v w * - - Lord Cad ) " I could he
men , ar as many people as choose it talk to me . about their causes—it would never make any the slightest impression upon me . " - . . . . Such was the anecdote
whispered to me ( Lord Camden himself at no great distance ) by a noble friend of his , by whom I was bid to receive it as conclusive evidence of heroic purity .
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In the days of chivalry , when it happened to the Knight and his Princess to find themselves tete-&-t £ te upon their travels , and the place of repose , as would sometimes happen , offered but one bed , a drawn sword , placed in
a proper direction , sufficed to preserve whatever was proper to be preserved . This was in days of yore , when pigs were swine , and so forth . In these degenerate days , the security afforded by a brick-wall would , in the minds of the censorious multitude , be apt to command more confidence .
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No . CCCLXXVII . Epitaph on Dr . Edmund Law , Bishop of Carlisle . One of the newspapers lately inserted the following classical epitaph , inscribed on a slab of marble
immediately behind the pulpit in the Cathedral Church of Carlisle : Hujusce columns sepultus est ad pedem , Edmundus Law , S . T . P ., per xix . fere annos hujusce ecclesias episcopus ; in Evangelica veritate ecvquU renda et vindicanda , ad extremam
usque senectutem , operam navavit indefessam ; quo studio et affectu veritatem , eodem et libertatem Chrxstianam coluit , religionem simplicem et incorrupt am , nisi salva libertatey stare non posse , arbitratus . Obiit Aug . xiv . MDCCLXXXVII . JEtatis LXXXIV .
The epitaph is thus translated m the journal referred to . If instead of " sacred , " the translator had written Evangelical " truth , " the version would have been more literal and more faithful to the evident meaning of the composer . ( Qu . Archdeacon Blackburne ?)
At the foot of this pillar lies buried Edmund Law , S . 1 \ P ., Bishop of this diocese for nearly 19 years ; he used unwearied industry both in the search and in the defence of sacred truth , even to the last year of his long life ; nor was he Jess distinguished for zeal and affection in the cause of civil liberty , well assured that pure and undefiled religion never flourish ed where liberty is not secure . He died on the \ Ath of August , 1787 , in the
84 t / i year of his age * The reader need not be informed that Bishop Law was the father of the late Lord Ellenborough and of the present Bishop of Chester .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/38/
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