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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs In Westminster Abbey,
by incorporating them into one people , which he wisely effected . The last peaceable five hundred years has proved the utility of the . measure . The animosity between England and Scotland , and their dreadful devastations , which had continued a much longer space , excited the same wish , but the means to accomplish it were not quite so prudent ..
Even the . man without knowledge , and without reading , will discover this animosity , by seeing Severus ' s or Adrian ' s wall , or by only hearing the old song of Chevy Chace . Ail wise politicians , who mean to reduce a country , begin with sowing dissensions . A'nation firmly united is not easily reduced ; but , we have long been told , when divided against itself , it cannot
stand . . Edward , under the idea of assisting one of the parties , carried his victorious arms twice through Scotland , and reduced it to the utmost distress . In one of these excursions he seized the whole regalia , of great value , and brought it with him to London . As Edward the
Confessor ' s tomb was in high repute , and as it was the practice of that day to make costly offerings at his shrine , Edward offered at this altar the whole regalia of Scotland . Every thing of value has been long since carried away , as would the stone , had it been silver . Its base materials protect it . Henry the Seventh , who , perhaps , was the only prince of the
Norman line wiser than Edward , laid the foundation of that desirable unioni which subsists between England and Scotland ; and Oiieen Anne completed it without blood . No argument is required to prove that the inhabitants of Britain should be one people ; nature has produced one , ' unanswerable , by forming us an island . This consolidates their interests in one . Scotland has been much a . gainer by the union , England has been no loser . To call them brethren is too distant a phrase ; they are ourselves .
When the unfortunate Stuarts attempted to regain the lost dominions in 1715 , and in 174 $ , one of the fallacious promises held up to the unthinking was ,-to dissolve the union . Had I been a friend to that family , which I pity , I should have opposed every measure , in this . As Ireland , who knows not what she has , nor what she wants , is nearly in the same situation , I have wondered why she did not send sixteen of her members into one house , and forty-five into the other .
RICHARD THE SECOND . The next monument which presents itself is that of Richard the Second , and his Queen . Being too short by four feet , for a full view ofthe figures , I climbed to the top , which proved a dirty climb . One would think the dust without as sacred as the dust within , for neither are disturbed . The figure of Richard is much like what I have often seen . Pei > -
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Observations Made In A Visit To The Tombs In Westminster Abbey,
by incorporating them into one people , which he wisely effected . The last peaceable five hundred years has proved the utility of the . measure . The animosity between England and Scotland , and their dreadful devastations , which had continued a much longer space , excited the same wish , but the means to accomplish it were not quite so prudent ..
Even the . man without knowledge , and without reading , will discover this animosity , by seeing Severus ' s or Adrian ' s wall , or by only hearing the old song of Chevy Chace . Ail wise politicians , who mean to reduce a country , begin with sowing dissensions . A'nation firmly united is not easily reduced ; but , we have long been told , when divided against itself , it cannot
stand . . Edward , under the idea of assisting one of the parties , carried his victorious arms twice through Scotland , and reduced it to the utmost distress . In one of these excursions he seized the whole regalia , of great value , and brought it with him to London . As Edward the
Confessor ' s tomb was in high repute , and as it was the practice of that day to make costly offerings at his shrine , Edward offered at this altar the whole regalia of Scotland . Every thing of value has been long since carried away , as would the stone , had it been silver . Its base materials protect it . Henry the Seventh , who , perhaps , was the only prince of the
Norman line wiser than Edward , laid the foundation of that desirable unioni which subsists between England and Scotland ; and Oiieen Anne completed it without blood . No argument is required to prove that the inhabitants of Britain should be one people ; nature has produced one , ' unanswerable , by forming us an island . This consolidates their interests in one . Scotland has been much a . gainer by the union , England has been no loser . To call them brethren is too distant a phrase ; they are ourselves .
When the unfortunate Stuarts attempted to regain the lost dominions in 1715 , and in 174 $ , one of the fallacious promises held up to the unthinking was ,-to dissolve the union . Had I been a friend to that family , which I pity , I should have opposed every measure , in this . As Ireland , who knows not what she has , nor what she wants , is nearly in the same situation , I have wondered why she did not send sixteen of her members into one house , and forty-five into the other .
RICHARD THE SECOND . The next monument which presents itself is that of Richard the Second , and his Queen . Being too short by four feet , for a full view ofthe figures , I climbed to the top , which proved a dirty climb . One would think the dust without as sacred as the dust within , for neither are disturbed . The figure of Richard is much like what I have often seen . Pei > -