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      were very wise and good men ; and that a stranger shewed very little understanding or decency ^ who interfered in the established customs of a country \

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      No . CXIV . Fame . At the close of his account of Thomas-a . Becket , our great historian , Hume , warmed above his ordinary temperature , speaks in a feeling strain of the frequent blind .

      ness and inequity of Fame . " It is indeed , " says he , a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame , the last infirmity of noble minds , that the wisest legislator and most exalted genius that ever reformed

      or enlightened the world , can never expect such tributes of praise as are lavished on the memory of pretended saints , whose whole conduct was probably to the last degree odious or contemptible , and

      whose industry was entirely directed to the pursuit of objects pernicious to mankind . It is only a conqueror , a personage no less entitled to our hatred ^ who can pretend to the attainment ^ equal renown and glory , *

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      No . CXV . Calvinistic HelL Alleine ' s it Alarme to Unconverted Sinners * ' was once the most popular book of the Calvinists : it is a book from which a serious

      mind may still learn much ; the preacher may draw from it resources of oratory ; though it can only ; be recommended to such as know how to purge the alloy from the pure ore .

      Thfe following is not one of A Heine ' s best passages , but it shews with what implements the popular

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      preachers have worked upon th « public mind . ** Hear , O man , thy predecessors in impenitence preach to thee from the infernal gibbets , from the

      names , from the rack , that thou shouldst repent . O look dowrf into the bottomless pit . Seesi thou how the sraoak of their tor « i ment ascendeth for ever and ever t \

      How black are those fiends ! How furious are their tormentors ! * Tis their only musick to hear how their miserable patients roar , to hear their bones crack . * Tis their meat and drink to see how their ftesh frieth , and their fat droppeth , to drench them with burning metal

      and to rip open their bodies , and pour in the fierce and fiery brass into their bowels , and the recesses and ventricles of their hearts . ' * Pp , 188 , 9 . Ed . 1672 .

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      No . CXVI . Z ? X Barrow ' s Description of an honest Man . As he doth not affect any poor base ends , so be will not defile his fair intentions by sordid means of compassing them ; such as are illusive simulations and subdolous

      artifices , treacherous collusions , slie insinuations and sycophantic detractions , versatile whiffling * and dodgings , flattering colloguing * and glozings , servile crouch ings and fawnings , and the like * Works . FoU i . 65 .

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      No . CXVII . Advocat du diable . I consider a revieWfer , says a distinguished one , H . Maty , as a kind of advocat du iiabU , who should speak all the evil he knows of a

      good book , for the instruction of the Writer : &A ' 1 k * " ^ $ d&on of the bystanders * f « . ,:,,. /¦ ¦ '¦ " : ¦ : f ' ¦ ' .. • i * . » ' '¦ . i .. ¦ # ?¦ ¦ ; i » t ' ' •

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      250 # Gleanings .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/42/