This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ...to religion and government, I trust I have discharged the humbler duties of a good citizen. I am not obstinately bent on having the last word, but was determined to bring forward a few plain facts, and on -' glorious and ever memorable reformer of his country," triumphed over the cathedral of St, Andrews; he is with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ...to religion and government, I trust I have discharged the humbler duties of a good citizen. I am not obstinately bent on having the last word, but was determined to bring forward a few plain facts, and on -' glorious and ever memorable reformer of his country," triumphed over the cathedral of St, Andrews; he is with great propriety introduced into the present debate, but good Mr. L. L. why do you call him their popijb Dagon? I never heard that St. Dagon has a place in the Romilh calendar among the vast multitude of saints with which it is thronged, nor did you probably ever hear that the bilhops who consecrated Dr. Seabury are papists. The writer of this sentence had surely at the time forgotten the relation between the house of Hanover and the house of Stuart. F 2 them them rest my cause. If either the episcopalian clergyman, or my two commentators, without having any new thing to alledge, persist in maintaining the field against me, with armour as ill calculated for their defence as the "bis sex thoraca petitum, perfos"sumque locis" in which Virgil has arrayed his Mezentius, I beg leave to anticipate them, by entering this protest against my silence being construed into a defeat. LETTER VII-Mr. Urban, X OUR correspondent L. L. has returned to his charge against the Scotch nonjurors with a degree of fury which would scarcely be pardonable were they indeed that " pesti' lent race" which he is pleased to call them. It is happy for that suffering society, that his reasoning powers seem not to be in proportion to the keenness of his enmity, for in such hands sophistry is a more formidable weapon than invective for their clergy, it is still happier that he is not armed with the authority of government; for in that case they wo...
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