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be nothing in his noble park but nasty bulls and cows . Cook says hi « haunches are the finest she ever laid hand upon . Twelve hundred a-year indeed ! Why , ma ' am , what with poor , and gamekeeper , and school , and hot-house , I should not wondeT it we spend ail that here at the HalL
And my lord bishop has four houses to keep up . There is palace , there is London-house , there is Parliament-house , there is Opera-house for the ladies . No , it can ' t be done , ma ' , nohow ; and those who say it can , must be wild , little better than quakers and radicals . Lord help ' em ? they don ' t know how money goes . Ma ' am , they begin with the bishops ; when they have plucked them , they will pluck us . I should like to know where is the end on ' t . ' * € < ( We can stop ' em , Midford , we can stop ' em , take my word for it , be they ever so wilful / € ( * I don ' know , ma ' am . My lord bishop told ' squire Eaglethorpe he wished he , being a country gentleman , a county member , would make a motive about it . 'Squire said , " ' My lord bishop , they arc a kennel of wiry-haired hardbitten curs : I have no mind to meddle or make with ' cm . ft ( Then , said his lordship , you will see your organ sent to the ale house ; and your servants will have to sing hymns for it , like the Westphalia 91 S . fC We are next parish , ma ' am . Cook , housekeeper , Bess Cockermouth ! sing in church ! and hymns too ! Well , as I hope to be saved , that is funny ! Why , they have not a couple of teeth , dogs or double , between all three ! Lord J . . . s 1 I ask pardon ! " '
The author s antique studies have made him a ready hand at Apologues . He makes the beasts speak as well as iEsop * And he combines this faculty with the modern acquirements of a police-office reporter . The narrative concerning the Rev . Barnard Bray is worth much above a penny a line .
In a more serious tone lie accuses our very , very Protestant Church of symbolizing" with Popery in its most exceptionable dogma .
LETTER XXXVII
ct When I attempt to bring buck to my memory all I believe I may recollect of human institutions ., I stand in doubt , I turn round , I ask any one who seems to know better than I do , whether there is one , among * them all , which has required no improvement , no reformation , no revision , in three whole centuries .
" Nations are £ rown conciliating , perhaps indifferent , in regurd to tenets which formerly divided the Christian world , and left scarcely any Christianity in it . There is , however , one against which the protest ;! nts are setting their faces .
" To take advantage not merely <> f God ' s bounty in his earth ' s fertility , but to be a tracker and a pricker to every quiet nook , every snug form in the whole country ; to profit by every invention , every scheme for agricultural improvement , every expenditure that frugality and prudence shall have hazarded ; to seize a tenth of herbs and fruits , uncultivated and unknown by the nation , in those ages when a more patriarchal priesthood watche 4 over the labours of the farmer , and
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Letters of a Conferwikve . SSS
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 383, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/55/
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