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HENRY VIII. said truly to his Parlia

THE Saxons could have brought no trades ment," that no king or kingdom was safe

with them-these must then have been practised by slaves till the liberti arose.

THE thirst of gain has occasioned more crimes and more misery than the thirst of glory.

MACHINERY tends to create enormous wealth for a few individuals.

CAUSES of the moral and intellectual degradation of the Roman world.

but where the king had ability to live of his own, and able to defend his kingdom upon any sudden invasion or insurrection, and to reward his well deserving servants."

EVILS which arose from ignorance and withholding of the scriptures-contrasted with those which arose from ignorance and the use of them.

WHEN the feudal system of education in great houses became obsolete, nothing suc

ceeded it in Portugal, and boys of course became little men.

men only should have been discharged at first who wished their discharge, others kept on for one year at least, till they could find

STEAM engine. Mail coach. Arkwright. employment for themselves. Watt.

THE only means by which such countries as Naples and Spain can be regenerated without a long and dreadful age of suffering, is by an enlightened king or minister possessing his entire confidence and support.

Free passage given to as many as chose to go out and colonize; officers tempted to colonize by grants of land, passage, and their half pay, either by drawing for it, or in stores, &c. upon the spot, at English prices, for a certain number of years, till the land could well support them; and till that term, the half pay to be continued to

PRINCIPLES of order and association turned their widows and children in case of death. against society.

THE present race are what Johnson emcock-phatically called bottomless Whigs. Their attachment to the most sacred institutions of the country is so lax, that no person knows how far the loose tether of their

We have rats from Norway and roaches from the West Indies, bugs and blasphemy from London.

A LAW nicety kept the lawyers cold.- principles extends. R. NORTH, Vol. 1, p. 185.

"Ir had been a prime jest," says ROGER NORTH (vol. 1, p. 284), " if, under the pretence of a defence, the criminal should be allowed to vent seditious libels, full of mutiny and reflection, to amuse the people, and so to come forth and be published in print." And so "he took unto the treason trade." | -Ibid. p. 285.

IN Utopia, "extra senatum aut comitia publicè, de rebus communibus inire consilium, capitale habetur." - P. 129. This was a precaution against tyranny.

BROUGHAM.

"While these terrified petitioners were brooding over the dangers of Catholic admission to Parliament, it might afford some comfort, as diversion to their fears, to know how slight a phrase it was which prevented Roman Catholic Bishops from sitting in the Upper House, but which precluded Jewish Rabbis, or even the great Mufti himself, from coming into Parliament, either by crefellation from the Crown, or election by the

By Lord Keeper Guildford's advice, counter-pamphleteers, Sir Roger, &c. were set up, as a better way than prosecutors, "they soon wrote the libellers out of the pit, and during that king's life, the trade of libels, which before had been in great request, to nothing."-Ibid. p. 301.

A TIME of long continued deterioration every where, except in arts; the light being only preserved among the Jews. Note this lapse from the patriarchal and golden age, in the second Dialogue.

THREE cries occasioned the acts after the war cheap bread, retrenchment, and a metallic currency.

people. (Hear! and laughter.)

It was

barely the accidental insertion of the word Christian, in one of the tests, which prevented that consummation, dreadful as it would be to the good men of Kent. Neither the Mahometan nor the Rabbi had any objection to the oaths; they could digest the supremacy, the allegiance, and the abjuration of Catholic doctrines; nothing kept them out but the fortunate insertion of all this I promise upon the faith of a Christian."-Courier, Saturday, May

IN reducing an army after a war, those 11, 1822.

Such trash as this is uttered in Parliament and passes current!!

"THE reason," says SWIFT, "why the Whigs have taken the atheists, or freethinkers into their body is, because they wholly agree in their political schemes, and differ very little in church power and discipline."

AT Westminster, the College ought in this to resemble a college, that each scholar should have his separate apartment, and that to all others it should be his castle.

THE fault in Europe seems to be too much government and too little police.

HOBBES says, in his Dialogues concerning the Common Law, “ perhaps the greatest cause of multitude of suits is this, that for want of registering of conveyances of land (which might easily be done in the townships where the lands lie) a purchase cannot easily be had which will not be litigious."

MANUFACTURERS seditious when provisions are at a high price: the agriculturists when they are cheap, and both classes showing their total want of reverence or attachment towards the institutions of their country.

WRITS-" de inquirendo de prodigo" proposed in that very sensible tract called England's Wants.-SOMERS' Tracts, vol. 9, p. 223.

MR. HUME" the great toe of the assembly."

fore the revolution.-See MRS. CAREY'S Tour, p. 347.

HAYLEY says, "I remember to have heard it said by a late anatomist, in a professional discourse on the female frame, that it almost appeared an act of cruelty in nature to produce such a being as woman."

IN a Monarchy there certainly is something more like a moral responsibility, more like a conscience than in a Republic, as Dryden says,

"Well Monarchies may own Religious

name,

But States are Atheists in their very frame, They share a sin: and such proportions fall That like a stink, 'tis nothing to them all."

SEE a horrid passage concerning original sin in SOUTH, vol. 7, p. 131.

AN opinion that departed spirits do not see what passes on earth.-Ibid. p. 346.

Books composed without a grain of research or a pennyweight of reason, a scruple of conscience: a dram of impudence or of slander suffices.

SOCIETY with books.-ERAS. Epist. p. 297.

OPPOSITION like the image in Nebuchadnezzar's dream, from the proudest Whigs down to the most desperate levellers.

"IN Cretâ Iouis simulacrum confingi certum est sine auribus, quoniam principem uirum, et omnibus late dominantem audire addecet neminem, sed id demum persequi quod dictat rationis examen, et iustitiæ nusquam præflorata integritas. Hæc

"LAWS and church discipline."-LORD Cœlius, li. 6." BROOKE, p. 40.

"In quibus, neque tibi neque mihi satis

OWENITE Communities in Auvergne be- feci, propterea quod rei quæ non ratione

The Flemings put the estates of prodigals, as they did those of lunatics, under guardians. See suprà, p. 616.-J. W. W.

nititur, ratio nulla reddi potest."-SCALIGER. Ep. 85, p. 220.

"LITTERÆ quid aliud sunt hodiè, quam

latrocinium publico assensu concessum." Ibid. Ep. 273, p. 527.

MOTTO for the B. of the State. Joel i. 3.

THERE is a law which says "affectus enim tanquam effectus inspicitur."-Bouvet, p. 297.

DIFFERENT effect of Popery on different ranks, as of Methodism; worsening as it ascends.

"THE knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom," saith the wise son of Sirach.Eccl. xix. 22.

"I am the mother of fair love and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope.” Ibid. xxiv. 18.

"The first man knew her not perfectly, no more shall the last find her out."—Ibid. xxiv. 28.

"They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty. He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss."-Ibid. xxi. 2.

stand; for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it."- Ecclesiasticus xxxvii. 13.

"For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing."-Ibid. 28.

"FOR out of the old fields as men saith
Cometh all this new corn fro year to year
And out of old books in good faith,
Cometh all this new science than men lere."
CHAUCER. Assembly of Fowls.

"WHOM shall he teach knowledge, and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breast."-ISAIAH XXVIII.

9.

"In rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength." Ibid. xxx. 15.

M. SEVIGNE'S Opinion of the peasantry in Bretagne—their natural uprightness.

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"BUT the only good that grows of passed fear,

"I will yet pour out doctrine as prophecy, Is to be wise, and ware of like again." and leave it to all ages for ever."—Ibid. 33.

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Faëry Queen.

"WHY then should witless man so much misween,

That nothing is, but that which he hath seen."-Ibid.

No persons are made miserable by the reformed religion; they are not compelled by fear of death to continue in professing what they disbelieve. Nunneries, &c.

"To triumph in a lie, and a lie them"Pour celui-ci, il n'y a qu'a laisser aller selves have forged, is frontless. Folly often sa plume."—Ibid. p. 352.

"THE pit wherein Democritus imagined Truth to be buried, was questionless the heart of man."-JACKSON, vol. 1, p. 887.

goes beyond her bounds, but Impudence knows none."-B. JONSON.

MILNER, &c. and our martyrs. "Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak

"AND let the counsel of thine own heart against the righteous."—Ps. xxxi. 20.

"Er sicut aqua extinguet ignem, ita eleemosyna extinguit peccatum," says Ralph Coggeshall, speaking of Cœur de Lion's death.-M. DURAND, Col. An. vol. 5, p.

858.

"DESINANT

Maledicere, malefacta ne noscant sua."
TER. Prol. ad Andriem.

"JE sai que les grands out pour maxime de laisser passer et de continuër d'agir; mais je sai aussi qu'il leur arrive en plusieurs rencontres que laisser dire les empêche de faire."-LA BRUYERE, tom. 2, p.

15.

"Les fautes des sots sont quelquefois si lourdis et si difficiles à prévoir, qu'elles mettent les en défaut, et ne sont utiles sages

"How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim ?—JEREMIAH qu'à ceux qui les font.”—Ibid. p. 84.

ii. 23.

Where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble."—Ibid. v. 28.

said, "I see
"How are
Wise men

JEWEL replied to Cole who ye write much and read little." ye so privy to my reading? avouch no more than they know. Ye lacked shift when ye were driven to write thus."WORDSWORTH's Ecc. Biog. vol. 4, p. 69.

VESTED interests.

Ps. xxxvi. 7. "THOU, Lord, shalt save both man and beast." I wonder nothing has been deduced from this text in favour of the immortality of brutes.1

"THE doctrine of the Church's Infallibility," says the excellent JACKSON, " undermines the very foundation of the Church's faith, those of merit and justification, and the propitiation of the mass unroof the edifice and deface the walls, leaving nothing thereof but altar stones for their idolatrous

Resource of spinning taken from old sacrifices."-To the Christian Reader.

women.

Small traders eaten up by the great. Settled shopkeepers injured by interlopers, and by too much competition. Like cattle who are starved by overstocking the pasture.

BONNER and Gardiner, or the Guy Foxites. “And yet, Sir, you complain that these men are, as they deserve to be, in the words of the prophet, 'an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.'"

"L'ART de ne rien faire en faisant quelque chose, est de toutes les espèces d'orsiveté la plus dangereuse, parce qu'elle paroit la plus excusable."-Entretien sur les Romans, p. 106.

This is said of idle reading.

"FREE men by fortune, slaves by free will."-Euphues.

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