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      ambition beyond . The serene and steady lustre of his character slione

      with greater brightness , because its rays were con fined to one narrow spot , and enlightened only a privileged few . His mode of life was temperate , even to habitual privation : his dress plain and simple , almost to

      peculiarity . An ever-abiding conviction of the wisdom and goodness of God tempered all his hopes and fears , his recollections and anticipations , to calm

      and constant complacency . For himself he never uttered a prayer that was unanswered , for he had no vvill but the will of heaven . Always prepared for the vicissitudes of life , he neither dreaded nor invited its awful

      close : yet I have heard him say , that if he deemed any privilege worthy of envy , it would be to witness the glorious second coming of our Lordto be made immortal without paying the tribute of mortality .

      As old age and its infirmities came on with slow and steady step , the link which bound him to earthly objects was gently loosened ; and long before his removal he had ceased to interest himself even in those great changes which seem to have crowded the events of centuries into the

      narrow limits of years . a The world was nought to him , nor the world ' s cares : " his converse was with those who had left it : the great and the good who are sleeping where he was about

      to sleep , and who had departed , as he should ere long depart , " in sure and certain hope of a resurrection to life everlasting . " J . B .

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      NO . CCCLII . Anti-trinitarian French King . Father Daniel attributes to Chilperic , one of the more eminent kings of the Merovingian race , who died A . D . 583 , amongst other bad qualities the inexpiable one of heresy . Chilperic undertook ( says the Father ,

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      JHistoire de France , 4 to . Tom . I . pp , 192 , 195 ) , to judge of matters of religion , and one day , in consequence of the disputes concerning A nanism , he drew up an edict , in which he ordained that henceforward in speaking of God people should no longer use the term Trinity or that of Persoris ,

      but only that of God , saying that the names of Persons which are made use of in speaking of men are unworthy of God ; and this edict would have been published if the bishop of Tours ( Gregory ) and Salvius , bishop of Albi , had not made strong remonstrances upon the subject . There needs after this no recital of

      Chilpei icV misdeeds to explain the epithets , which his contemporary Gregory of Tours applies to him , " Nero nostri temporis et Herodes . "

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      No . CCCLW . Soldiers and Butchers . u Boccaline has this passage of soldiers : They came to Apollo to have their profession made the eighth liberal science , which he granted . As soon as it was noised up and down ,

      it came to the butchers , and they desired their profession might be made the ninth , for said they , the soldiers have this honour for the killing of men ; now we kill as . we . lt as they , but we kill beasts for the preserving of

      men , and why should not we have honour likewise done to us ? Apollo could not answer their reasons , so he reversed his sentence , and made the soldiers * trade a mystery , as the but * chers is . 7 > Old Hubert .

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      560 Gleanings .

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      No . CCCLIII . Little Minds . Frivolous curiosity about trifles , and a laborious attention to little objects , which neither require nor deserve a moment ' s thought , ( says Lord Chesterfield , ) lower a man ; who

      from thence is thought , and not unjustly , incapable of greater matters * Cardinal de Retz very sagaciously marked out Cardinal Chigi for a little mind , from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen , and that it was an excellent one still .

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      cleanings ; or selections an *> reflections made in a course of g eneral reading .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1819, page 560, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1776/page/36/