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~i.. * r - " ¦'•¦'¦ ., , .. .. , .-<—, NEW OBLIGATIONSIN TMMQZ&&X AND GENERAL LITERATURE. I
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ingg which flawed from that source , may well reconcile tis ttt the humbler , but more sheltered station , ta v ^ hich ProvU deiice has kindly placed us . That misfortune , as ; it were , included all the rest , or , at any rate , was closely connected ¦
with them ; for had not& a uch been her lineage , she might not have become a wife without being the object of affection ; she would not have been almost immediately cast off without the breath of imputation ; she would not hare been
monarchy may be the best form of government , the most adapted to provide for the security , the prosperity , the freedom , the morals of a people , and if so , it ought to be established and cherished . But there is a sacrifice to this good , a sort of moral niartyrdom of the elevated
family : the early sense of solitary superiority , kept alive by a thousand flatterers ; the early perversion of the mind by those to whom ascendancy over it is the great prize of life ; the base readiness of many to minister to any passion however base ; the difficulty of making the voice of truth
heard in palaces ; all are dreadful obstacles in the moral path of the highborn , which it must require extraordinary strength of mind , or extraordinary grace from heaven , to enable them to overleap . Alfred ( every way the greatest name in our annals ) was trained in the school of
adversity ; withoujt such training the vices of monarchs may almost be considered as their misfortunes , attributable to their stations , rathei ; than to themselves ; hence their virtues claim eminent praise , and their faults unusual allowance . Let this allowance be made , where it is needed , and as far as it is just . The object of our present attention requires it not .
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Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions , and on other Subjects . Crown 8 vo . 8 $ . Prayers for the Use of Families . By James Hews Rransby . 3 * . The Country Minister , a Poem , in Four Cantos , with other Poems . By the Rev . J . Brettell . 12 mo . 7 s .
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deserted by those wiio hacl paid court to fcer * and shauhj jia ^ ye been her a ^ sc ^^ s ; she would not hare bee # s ^ ibje ^^ ea ^ tp grounc&ess accusations by ^ eltefe&&ccusera , nor have found acguittal * n $ fiecn tive as to many of the results that $ bo « & have followed ; she would not have been
interdicted the society of hey 9 ? 4 ych ^ ld ^ s ^ e would not have been cajoled out of the country , where it was safest for her to remain ; she . would not have been \ a slighted wanderer , by eveiy petty goyer ^^ ment that thpught to pay its court i < xa greater power by insult ; she would , not have heard at a distance of the sad death of the child who bore a motherless inl
scription on her coffin ; she would not have had her assumption of the rank which had , fallen to her-menaced with ; the scaffold ; she would not have had her house haunted by spies and her actions chronicled by calumniators ; she would not have returned to her kingdom to be sheltered by the hospitality of a private
individual ; she would not have been a mark for unchecked malice ; she would not have sustained the severest trial that ever guilt or innocence stood , and to which nothing but conscious innocence or downright insanity could have made her expose herself , only to find acquittal suc ceeded by nearly all the degradation that could have followed conviction : she would
not have been turned back from even tq § sight of the ceremony in which , according to custom , she should have been a principal figure ; she would not have expired withont one relative near her dying bed ; she would not ( though of this happily unconscious ) have been \ but of this last disgusting scene I dare not \ rn& % myselfto speak . "—Pp . 19—24 *
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dence , with Greek Authorities for tn Authenticity of the Verse , not hitherto adduced in its Defence . By the ko §§ . Bishop of St . David ' s . 8 vo . 3 * . 6 d , & , Scripture Antiquities , or a Summaw of the Institutions , Customs and Manned of the Hebrew Nation . By John J ^>» # ^ Curate of Waterbeach , near Cambrid ^ 12 mo . 5 * . " ¦• ' }
Deism compared with Christianity , being an Epistolary Correspondence , ' containing the Principal Objections against Revealed Religion , with the Answers . 1 % Edward Chiehester , M . A . 3 Vdls . m ¦ m ? r * - ¦ ••• ¦ & ^ MMUm * ' ^ $ te ¦? Tr ^ sja ^ edl „ r ^ Jfti ^ F
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VOL . XVI . 4 C
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/49/
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