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    " The most venal and sordid of all the superstitions that have swept and darkened our globe , may , indeed , like African locusts , have consumed the green corn in very extensive regions , and may return periodically to consume it ; but the strong unwearied labourer who sowed it hath alway sown it in other places less exposed to such devouring pestilences . Those cunning men who formed to themselves the gorgeous plan of universal dominion , were aware that they had a better chance of establishing it than brute ignorance or brute force could

    supply , and that soldiers and their paymasters were subject to other and powerfuller fears than the transitory ones of war and invasion . What they found in heaven they seized ; what they wanted they forged . 4 cc ' And so long as there is vice and ignorance in the world , so long as fear is a passion , their dominion will prevail ; but their dominion is

    not , and never shall be , universal . Can we wonder that it is so general ? can we wonder that any thing is wanting to give it authority and effect , when every learned , every prudent , every powerful , every ambitious man in Europe , for above a thousand years , united in the league to consolidate it ?

    '" * The old dealers in the shambles , where Christ ' s body is exposed for sale , in convenient marketable slices , * have not covered with blood and filth the whole pavement . Beautiful usages are remaining stillkinder affections , radiant hopes , and ardent aspirations !'"'—p . 134 — 136 . Dr . Glaston thus admonishes his pupils :

    • < Young * gentlemen ! let not the highest of you who hear me this evening be led into the delusion , for such it is , that the founder of his family was originally a greater or a better man than the lowest here . He willed it , and befeame it . He must have stood low ; he must have worked hard ; and with tools , moreover , of his own invention and fashioning . He waved and whistled off ten thousand strong- and

    importunate temptations ; he dashed the dice-box , from the jewelled hand of Chance , the cup from Pleasure ' s , and trod under foot the sorceries of each ; he ascended steadily the precipices of danger , and looked down with intrepidity from the summit ; he overawed Arrogance with sedateness ; he seized by the horn and overleaped low Violence ; and he fairly swung Fortune round . 4

    " The very high cannot rise much higher ; the very low may : the truly great must have done it . 4 This is not the doctrine , my friends , of the silkenly and lawnly religious ; it wears the coarse texture of the fisherman , and walks uprightly and straightforward under it . " '—pp . 154 , 155 .

    Much of Dr . Glaston ' s divinity is not exactly to Sir Thomas ' s satisfaction . ' Reasonable enough ! nay , almost too reasonable but where are the apostles ? where are the disciples ? where , are the saints ? where is hell-fire ? Well ! patience ! we may come * It is a pity that the old divines should have indulged , as they often did , in such images as this . Some readers in search of argumentative subtilty , some in search of sound Christianity , some in search of pure English undefileri , have gone through with them ; aud their labjurs ( however heavy ) have been well repaid . '

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    52 Examination " of ShaJcspeare .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/52/