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sdiiii ^ Mibri ^ oUr * fe te td human tiattfr& / aMl 'tiat ^ h&t is too dften 63 chi - B ! terf ^ f& r& ihkto ^ the widfcUvasfittjpr 11 k ^ iSb ^ xifcd ^ fioi-iiiiti ^ s of maniacs atM k
dtte&ris !** " ; : The pacific made of its accomplishirtent sfiottM erid £ ar the Rsvolution of 1688 to every professor of Christianity . How differ cut fttmi simitar changed bf government in other countries , where the victor has through seas of blood ¦* * " waded to a throne , atid
shut t ! ie * g * ates of mercy on mankind !" It wa ^ , indeeii , cheaply purchased * whilst it proved pregnant with the dioicest blessings to Churchmen , Dissenters , and to all the gradations of the religious world . —But let us procoed to further particulars respecting
the Hanoverian or Brunswick Family . Queen Anne , daughter of James tbe Second , succeeded William , and b y her husband , George , Prince of Denomfk , h&d seventeen children , not hen
one of ^ hbm survived Hei ^ son the Duke of Gloucester , ( a pupil of Bishop Burnet's , ) lired to be eleven years old ^ but , like the late Priuceis Charlotte , was suddenly cut off , to the deep regret of the nation .
To this event Mrs . Hannah More alludes , in her Hints towards forming the Character of a Young' Princess , accompanied with the following - remarks on the succession of the Hano * verian or Brunswick Family : ' " It would almost seem th&t the
issue of this Prih ^ ess was deemed by Providence too central a branch of the Stuart family , to be entrusted with the newly-renovated constitution . A more distant connexion had already been specially trained for this most important trust , though with little
apparent probability of being called to exercise it , the Princess Atfne having beteti tier less than seventeen timea pregnant . The death of the Dtike of Gloucester , the last of her family , at length turned the eyes of the English public toward the Princess Sophia ; and from henceforth sh ^ and her issue
wc ^ re recognized as presumptive heirs to th < j fcrovvn ; Many of tile feveritfc Mnd \ occurred during the last years 6 & * & *?* Afitie ' s i-eigrt ; served not a mtle td toli ^^ e M Ml ^ h ' Wtirecor-
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dialfy attached Udxh « ifin ^ liMi ©^ & ^ tution ; i < ihe ^ rc ^ d ^ mi ^ l W eB » in ^ i ^ f « a suitable g « ucctssio 6 if , * ufi nf boeeoiq - -Mf . I ' A'tf'itHAte ! rerniH&tebletiev ' eUP 4 $ stai ^ cely ^ tfch be found Ha Ae irnu ^ k of the vwt ? kh ?' t N ^ Mn ^ toid ^ beirflif ^ to the int ts of
^ sentiai eres Btiltik liberty , t \\ dft that they who were COI ^ ^ cefned for its tiikinteh ^ ec % 4 h ^ tU < t Ue possessed of the immipXe ^^ Aa ^ u ) to& % uneic ^ ptkrfiaWe ^ A ^ afts t > f ti lling tlm vaekot' throne . r No < l ^ ritfb 0 ^ aft * 4 l |^ d to their pUfpoae \ vhia vr&& vto $ " 7 m % & *
otisly attached to the ^ PrMesUqti rfetigion ; and it was desirable that lie should i at the same titne , possess such a title , on the ground of cdnsad ^ uinity , a ^ that the principle bf hereditary mdnarehy might be as litfle departed from as the exigencies bf the cfo $ e
would admit . For thfe securing of both theae radical objects , what an adequate provision wds made , in ttte Princess Sophia and her illustrious offspring 1 The connexion thus neat * , was made interesting by every
circuitstance which could engage the hearts of English Protestants . The ^ Priwceas Sophia was the only retraining ch £ Kl of that only remaining daughter Of James the First , who being , m&rrfed to one of the most zealous Protestant
princes of the empire , became V ^ partner in a series < if perabft ^ band domestic distresses , in ^ vhieHihi ^ teo } mitting himself , oa the c < ttt $# of <* li Protestants of Bohemia ^ inyob ^ e ^ Wijt > and hits fam % for riearli&lf ^ cpf ^ f ^ In her , - all the ritfhM of teniBOfe )?
as well as of her fatiiei ^ Wiefe YtfaS&RS % and while by the 'dectopfl , di gni ^{ j # which her father had Seen ( t £ pnte 4 ) being restored to her hu ^ 3 l > € ^ iKthe Duk £ of Hanover ^ ^ he seeiii e ^ 4 iafpaM ^ , compensated for the ^ afflictions » ojf / b ^ t t
earlier life , ^ -her peraoSai - liar ^^ r , in which distin ^ msheKti ! vii ( B ^ a « 4 talents w ^ re united wftih wisdom aad piek ^ beth these latter probaUy taught J ^ r in the dcheol of adversit ^ , ivtr ^ red for het the adiwir ^ tloA of itll ivho'kjnp ^
her , as well sis the rafteratooft of tl | 0 ^ whose religious sentiments Vr ^ re < Qj * r genial with hei- own ^ l . / - , 4 * Sufch ivas the mother ^ of CJcorge ¦
^ V . , ^ .- _ ¦ u » ¦ - ' - * i .- ' . -i ' r - . r- ¦ M ' m >| r ., ! t i » , |> T ^ T * l" 1 "p ^ * Se * e W : Chevreau ' 3 € har ^ cfef Wlhe > wdce 8 S - Sophia , < jiitit £ d- 1 ) Addl ^ ob , F ^ eeholdfer , I ^ Pd . 30 . [ p&A alfioher iwl ) letted tb Bbhirtp '» tiitifei , iivhis Life ^ 4 tini > ked ' 4 o hfa&imiWMtoewi i O \ -,: ' r ' - \'
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1826, page 263, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2548/page/11/
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