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pamphlet * on important iubjects . If the public good were his aole object , he could not do better . Long may he occupy what we may call his Missionary Station , and well be supported in it . One specimen of his tracts has alreadybeen given in our present number . Here is another . Is uot the following description graphic ?
" The ^ Bishops . C 6 These are the only specimens remaining in England of the ancient Padres , which long held so conspicuous a place in novels , romances , legends , ballads , pictures , and tombstones . They are now the only men who dress in imitation of the female sex , or take pains to disguise them selves under uncouth and ridiculous
habiliments . Among the queer hats and bonnets which female vanity , prompted by absnrd taste , has displayed , we wonder that no modiste has tried her hand upon the episcopal hat . How well our ladies would look chapelierdes a V Evique ! If this surtout were of any definite geometrical figure , it might be possible to describe it . It has been called a shovel * but it is more like a distorted coal ~ sku % -
tie . It is the remains of the old hat worn by Roman Catholic priests , in their days of spleudour , and still to be encountered on the continent . Under this apology for a parasol there is a bush of false hair , plaistered and twisted into a most unnatural size and ridiculous shape .
resembling any thing but what we suppose to have been the fashion among the apostles ; being , however , an approach to the unsightly scheme devised by one of the French kings , to hide a natural deformity .
" But , this not being sufficient distinction , my Lord wears a purple coat and breeches , with a tall pair of gaiters , and lady's-maid ' s apron , from the hips to the knees only , so rhat the gaiters may not be concealed . These gaiters are of vast importance , for they shew that the wearers are meek and lowly , constantly walking about , doing good .
" Nevertheless , they often ride , like heroes , through the streets , attended by grooms in purple liveries ; and the elegant motion of the frizzle-wig and skuttle-hat , as well as the cavalier aspect of the lank gaiters , excite the smiles of all
the young folk about St . James a—for my Lords are fond of being ' seen of men . ' The Padres , however , are better cavaliers than one might suppose , and many of them are great Nimrods in the country . , .
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V « My kingdom , ' laid the Founder of Christianity , ' is not of this world : ' but the hierarchy of England is composed , almost exclusively , of those who are said to be rarely admitted to the Kingdom of Heaven—the near connexions , to wit , of the aristocracy : men , who , if they fish ,
dolt for sport , and uot for livelihood , as some of the disciples of their Lord and Master did ; and who , if they seek the foxes and the birds , 66 so for a very different purpose from that of ejecting them from their holes and their nests , in order to make room for themselves . "—
Pp . 11 , 12 . We give another specimen from the conclusion : " Gentlemen of the Clerical Profession ! " We hardly expect you to believe that these animadversions have been formed
in the spirit of Christian charity , and special regard towards you . The writer has a high esteem for a minister of the gospel , but he thinks that priests should elevate their views above the support of professional craft . He is not a Dissenter , in the usual acceptation of the word , having attended the church , and its ordinances , until wearied and disgusted with
their monotony and repetitions , as well as with seeing that fine clothes and bold pretensions obtain the beat places and the greatest respect , where ^ U are equal . We beseech you to abstain from that display of worldly-minded ness which has roused universal indignation , and must teriniuate in your ruin . Why should you , for instance , be so eager after other situations ? Are not your sacred duties
sufficient for you ? Leave magistracy * and agency , and authority of all kinds , to those who have not the charge of souls : leave hunting , shooting , cockfighting , horse-racing , aud commerce , to those who soil no cloth by such pursuits * Sit down and revise the Liturgy s make it , if possible , intelligible ; put a few new prayers into it , adapted to passing times and existing people ; and let there be no more talk about an artificial
sanctity , in which you will vainly endeavour to clothe yourselves in the nineteenth century . Things have already gone too far for you , or any aelf-inflated order , to stop their progress ; you may yet save yourselves , if you will , but it cannot be doue by prostration at a shrine , the lustre of which begins already to be darkened . A war is declared against you , in which you may be victorious , or remaia at least uuvanquiahed , if you choose—it
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Critical Notices . —Theologicul . -537
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VOL . v . 2 Q
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 537, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/33/
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