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Your conduct now will give the complexion - to you * future life : on the improvements you make will your figure and usefulness in the world turn . It now lies with you , whether you will answer or disappoint the fond and laudable ambition of parents and friends , who with kind solicitude wish you to appear . wise and good * It now lies with you , whether your mind shall be enriched with knowledge ,
your health be preserved by pure and virtuous manners , and your name be adorned with every amiable disposition ; or whether you become a prey to folly , vice , disease and infamy . It now lies with you , whether you shall become a
blessing to the world or a nui * a nee to society . It is a most valuable period of time , which involves in it such consequences . Leaving these thoughts with you , I would at present drop my pen . I am . &c »
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A Prayer of the lute Lord Start hope ' s . Amongst the papers of the late Dowager Countess Stanhope , a remarkable manuscript , written in her own hand * was found , which con .
tains the following prayer to the Almighty , composed by her has * band , the late Philip Earl Stan , hope . ^ * 'Copy . ofmy dear Lard ' s prayer , from the Original in his own hand * writing *
" C * Almighty and Everlasting God , the All-wise and All-righteous Itul « r of mankind , vouchsafe to grant the prayer of thine un « MWlfcy fcesvaoat , that * if , in the couifte of thine inacrutable and
adorable Jprovidence , I can cfcru txibftte ^ wfcn -bjjr > fcfae sacii fide of my life , or fortune * or character to the
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preservation of my native country from those heavy calamities and distresses which to us short-sighted creatures have appeared impending over it , ( and wherewith at this time our enemies threaten us ) as also to the reformation of manners *
and the advancement of genuine undissetnbled virtue , by means whereof thy gracious favour may be regained and public peace and happiness procured , I may always in that case be willing , and . when
strengthened by thy divine assistance , able to surrender , for those desirable ends , every blessing ami comfort of life ^ and life itself , into thy most bountiful hands , from whom I have received them alL * M . Chron . Sat * March 28 ,
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Conversation an Catholic Eman - cipation . Sm , March 9 , 181 2 * Every real friend to religious liberty , and especially every Protes - tant Dissenter , who is such upon principle , must ardently wish the * Catholics success , in their firm and
persevering ^ but peaceable efforts , to obtain exemption from the civil restrictions and disqualifications , under which they are placed for being Roman Catholics * * Yet there are some men , who while they reprobate in the strongest
terms every attempt to epcroach on the liberty of their own party , zealously contend that the Catholics ought not to be allowed to enjoy the same rights and liberties as their Protestant neighbours . An instance of this kind I met with
last summer , soon after Lord Sid ^ mouth ' s unsuccessful attempt a * gainst the Dissenters . Travelling in : a ^ tage coach with two gentlemen , who , from their conversation I iound to ba Calvinistic DmvwU
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Praytr of tketatt TaOtd Stanhope ' s . 22 f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 229, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/21/
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