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lies ; he 15 a drunken , lecherous justice of peace for Westminster . " ( P . 271 . ) Not having seen the life of Archbishop Sancroft , very lately published , I am ignorant whether his
biographer has quoted the following passage . It forms a curious comment on the proceedings of a Dean and Chapter , to supply the vacancy of a See , after a solemn prayer for divine direction :
" 1677 , Dec . 29 . Conge des Lire went to Canterbury to elect Sandcroft , Archbishop of Canterbury , set up by the Duke of York against London , [ Bishop Henchman , ] and York put on by the Papists . York doth not care for London , because he shewed himself an enemy to the Papists at the Council Board . " ( P . 271 . ) Good Churchmen have been
accustomed to make a comparison , unfavourable to the times when Dr . Owen was Vice-Chancellor , between Oxford , as an Alma Mater , under the Commonwealth and under the Restored Stuart . Such may read , if they please , the following representation by a daily observer :
" 1677 . Why doth solid and serious learning decline , and few or none follow It now in the University ? Answer , Because of Coffea Houses , where they spend all their time : and in entertainments at their chambers , where their studies and Coffea Houses are become places for victuallers , also great drinking at taverns and alehouses , spending their time in common chambers , whole afternoons , and
thence to the Coffea House . " ( P . 273 . ) Wood had remarked , under 1650 , ( p . 65 , ) that " this year Jacob , a Jew
opened a coiTey-house , at the Angel , in the parish of St . Peter , in the East , Oxon . and there it was by some who delighted in noveltie , drank . N . L . T .
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flliEANINfiS ; OR , HKLECTIONH AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF ( JENERAL READING . No . CCCLXXXV . Saying- of Fletcher of Saltoune . I join with your family , ( says Pope in a letter to his friend Hloimt , Works ,
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Warburton ' s edition , VIII . 32 , ) j giving God thanks for lending us worthy man somewhat longer . The comforts you receive from their atteru dance put me in mind of what old Fletcher of Saltoune said one . day to me . " Alas , I have nothing to ( J 0
but to die ; I am a poor individual ; no creature to wish , or to fear , for my life or death : * Tis the onl y reason I have to repent being a single man now I grow old , I am like a tree without a prop , and without young trees to grow round me , for company and defence . "
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No . CCCLXXXVI . Facts illustrating the operation of Prejudice . We are told , in the Life of Galileo , ( says Dugald Stewart , Dissert , prefixed to Vol . I . of Supp . to Cyclop . Britan . p . 29 , note , ) that when the
telescope was invented , some individuals carried to so great a length their devotion to Aristotle , that they positively refused to look through that instrument : so averse were they to open their eyes to any truths nconsistent with their favourite creed .
( Vita del Galileo , Venezia , I 744 . ) It is amusing to find some other followers of the Stagirite , a very few years afterwards , when they found it impossible any longer to call in question the evidence of sense , asserting that it was from a passage in
Aristotle ( where he attempts to explain why stars become visible in the day-time , when viewed from the bottom of a deep well ) that the invention of the telescope was borrowed . The two facts , when combined together , exhibit a truly characteristical portrait of one of the most fatal
weaknesses incident to humanity , and form a moral apologue , daily exemp lified on subjects of still nearer and hig her interest than the phenomena of the heavens .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/44/
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