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principles as the only true foundations of a free government , which tend to raise discontents in the minds of the people , to harden some in actual rebellion , and to dispose others to follow their example ?" " To these words , " adds Dr . Price , " a note is annexed , containing two quotations from iny observations on Civil Liberty . " In the remainder of the Postscript he again states the position which the prelate had reprobated , defends it by manly and cogent reasoning , and points out his opponent ' s inconsistencies by short extracts from " Bishop Lowth ' s excellent Sermon preached at the Assizes at Durham in 1764 . "
The writer of the concise and not inelegant Memoir of the Life of the Bishop , which I have alread mentioned , is of opinion that the " satire of the ingenious poet [ Hayley ] was misapplied , " inasmuch as Dr . Lowth had arrived at what he esteemed to be his highest elevation in the church . This would have been a relevant observation , had the author of the Elegy accused the Prelate of personal servility and ambition . The biographer further says , that on the subject of the American war * ' the minds of great numbers of persons , equally friends to civil and religious liberty , were , at that period ,
much agitated , and much divided : " and this remark he makes , in extenuation of the Prelate ' s attack on Dr . Price . But , surely , any such difference of opinion among the votaries of freedom should have dictated language altogether the reverse of that which called forth Mr . Hayley ' s Elegy ; it should nave rendered them just to each other ' s motives , nor permitted the use of opprobrious epithets and railing accusations ! If the fact be what the biographer represents , Dr . Price ' s complaint was particularly well-founded .
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TO A DAUGHTER , ON HER BIRTH-DAY . - fugaces Labuntur anni , —Hon . The years , Eliza , that no art can stay , How swift their progress , o ' er the tide of time , Since , first , I bade awake the votive rhyme ,
To hail the advent of thy natal day ! And now , or ere my fleeting life decay , The wish revives , as erst in manly prime , That Virtue ' s steep thy willing feet may climb , Sweet Hope allure , and Heav'n direct thy way .
From Virtue ' s fount what varied blessings flow Be thine ; whate ' er her favour ed votaries prove , Bliss to endear , or sooth the pang of woe , The mutual bliss congenial bosoms know , Enduring friendship , fond and faithful love : And Heav ' n the crown of hoary age * bestow . J . T # R .
* Pror . xvi . 31 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 628, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/28/
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