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      as an appendix to the books of Antiquities , and at last his two books against Appion , and yet dedicated all those writings to Epaphrodjtus , he can hardly be that E pa ph rod it us who was formerly secretary to Nero , and was

      slain in the 14 th ( or 15 th ) of Doniitian , after he had been for a good while in banishment : but another Epaphroditus , a freed-man and procurator of Trajan , as says Grotius on Luke i . 3 . "

      If any of your readers can establish the identity , or clearly confute it , they will oblige , A . X .

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      GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .

      No . CCCXVL Undefined Prejudices , Yet I confess , that on occasions of this nature , I am the most afraid of the weakest reasonings , because they discover the strongest passions . These thiugs will never be brought out in definite propositions , they would not

      prevent pity towards any persons ; they would only cause it for those that were cabable of talking in such a strain . But I know , 1 arn sure , that such ideas as no man will distinctly produce to another , or Jiardly venture to bring in any plain shape to his own mind—he will utter in obscure ,

      illexplained doubts , jealousies , surmises , fears and apprehensions , and that ia such a fog , they will appear to have a good deal of size , and will make an impression j when , if they were clearly brought forth and defined , they would meet with nothing but scorn and derision .

      Burke ' s Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe , Bart . * 1792 .

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      No . CCCXV 1 I . Cti / Nfilics becoming Protestants will be Protestant Dissenters . Let us form a supposition , ( no foolish or ungrounded supposition , ) that in

      an age , when men are infinitely more disposed to heat themselves with political than religious controversies , the former should entirely prevail , as we see that in some places they have prevailed , over the latter : and that the Catholics of Ireland , from the court-* hip paid them on the one hand , and the high tone of refusal on the other ,

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      should , in order to enter info all the rights of subjects , all become Protestant Dissenters , and , as the others do , take all your oaths . They would all obtain their civil objects , and the change , for any thing I know to the contrary , ( in the dark as I am about the I rotestant Dissenting tenets , ^ might be of use to the health of their souls . Hut , what

      security our constitution , in church or state , could derive from that event , I cannot possibly discern . Depend vpon it , it is true as nature is true , that if you force them out of the religion of habit , education or opinion , it is not to yours they will ever go . Shaken in

      their minds , they will go to that where the dogmas are fewest ; where they are the most uncertain ; where they lead them the least to a consideration of what they have abandoned . They will go to that uniformly democratic system , to whose first movements they owed their emancipation .

      1 recommend you seriously to turn this in your mind . Believe that it requires your best and mat u rest thoughts . Take what course you please—union or no union ; whether the people remain Catholics or become Protestant Dissenters , sure it is , that the present state of monopoly cannot continue . The Same .

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      No . CCCXVIII . Fame a Cheat . A man is not known ever the more to posterity , because his name is transmitted to them ; he doth not live because his name does . When it is said , Julius Caesar subdued Gaul , beat

      Pompey , changed the Roman commonwealth into a monarchy , < 5 tc , it is the same thing as to say , the conqueror of Pompey was Caesar : that is , Caesar and the conqueror of Pompey are the same thing ; and Caesar is as much known by the one distinction as the other . The amount then

      is only this : that the conqueror of Pompey conquered Pompey ; or somebody conquered Pompey ; or rather since Pompey is as little known now as Caeaar , somebody conquered

      somebody . Such a poor business is this boasted immortality j and such , as has been here described , is the thing called glory among usl Wollastoris Religion of Nat . rDeL p . 117- \ 7

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      Gleanings . 675

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 675, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/35/