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Article SPECIMEN OF AN. INTENDED HISTORY OF ENGLAND. ← Page 5 of 5 Article THE FREEMASON. Page 1 of 3 →
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Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
Justice . But his oratory was turned against itself ; and he forgot , in his hour of affliction , that he was provoking still further the clamours of an indignant public , by evincing the possession of those powers , a more politic direction of which might have transplanted him from the bar of the culprit to the bench of the bishop . . The Recorder of England ' s Capitalwhose sombrous lips were
, the vehicle of his sentence , omitted not to impress on the mind of the offender this deep aggravation of his criminality ; and a rumour went forth , that the tears of the penitent pickpocket of Kildare were wiped with a cambrick trophy of former achievements . At this hour I . mentally descry him in the . Bay of Botany , either-realising-the professions of contrition which he held forth in his defence , and a saint
among his fallen associates , or employing the interval of his septennial exile in devising new forms of fraud , new artifices of concealment , or new immunities from justice . Thus in one dark day was crumbled into dust the grandeur of the Hero of Hibernia ; and as he moved along , melancholy and slow , the hall of justice , there ran along the dome a collective si gh , that
stole from the bosoms of maids , and wives , and widows—a desponding host—while it was the common consent of all who assisted at the spectacle , that the sorrowing Son of Waldron had more the appearance of an emissary sent forth on the pious errand of propagating the gospel , or a new bishop on his way to the sacerdotal throne , with the prelatical nolo in his mouth , than the culprit of Kildare , transported by the . Recorder of the Capital of Albion to the realm of rogues in the Southern Main *
The Freemason.
THE FREEMASON .
No . V . Scribendi recte sapcrc est et principium et fons . Hon . Ans BOLT . IN answer to my poor correspondent in the preceding number , I must acknowledge that literature indeed is shamefully oppressed .
I would with all my heart ( and in so doing feel inexpressible deli ght ) give mj' patronage to any man of abilities ; but , alas ! mine would be of little avail ; and , to confess the truth , the name of patron seems now totally extinct . My correspondent must , from his own vision , be convinced of the severe trials of merit ; for , if I interpret rightly , his dream portends that arrogant bombast and nonsense are now
preferred to modest ' merit : nor are poets the only sufferers—how many unhappy men of the cfiurch may we daily behold unprovided for , who are possessed of greater erudition , and who in fact are more capable of giving instruction , than several of those who are promoted . From the depression of merit , I am certain that many valuable productions are lost . Had not Paradise Lost been introduced to the
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Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
Justice . But his oratory was turned against itself ; and he forgot , in his hour of affliction , that he was provoking still further the clamours of an indignant public , by evincing the possession of those powers , a more politic direction of which might have transplanted him from the bar of the culprit to the bench of the bishop . . The Recorder of England ' s Capitalwhose sombrous lips were
, the vehicle of his sentence , omitted not to impress on the mind of the offender this deep aggravation of his criminality ; and a rumour went forth , that the tears of the penitent pickpocket of Kildare were wiped with a cambrick trophy of former achievements . At this hour I . mentally descry him in the . Bay of Botany , either-realising-the professions of contrition which he held forth in his defence , and a saint
among his fallen associates , or employing the interval of his septennial exile in devising new forms of fraud , new artifices of concealment , or new immunities from justice . Thus in one dark day was crumbled into dust the grandeur of the Hero of Hibernia ; and as he moved along , melancholy and slow , the hall of justice , there ran along the dome a collective si gh , that
stole from the bosoms of maids , and wives , and widows—a desponding host—while it was the common consent of all who assisted at the spectacle , that the sorrowing Son of Waldron had more the appearance of an emissary sent forth on the pious errand of propagating the gospel , or a new bishop on his way to the sacerdotal throne , with the prelatical nolo in his mouth , than the culprit of Kildare , transported by the . Recorder of the Capital of Albion to the realm of rogues in the Southern Main *
The Freemason.
THE FREEMASON .
No . V . Scribendi recte sapcrc est et principium et fons . Hon . Ans BOLT . IN answer to my poor correspondent in the preceding number , I must acknowledge that literature indeed is shamefully oppressed .
I would with all my heart ( and in so doing feel inexpressible deli ght ) give mj' patronage to any man of abilities ; but , alas ! mine would be of little avail ; and , to confess the truth , the name of patron seems now totally extinct . My correspondent must , from his own vision , be convinced of the severe trials of merit ; for , if I interpret rightly , his dream portends that arrogant bombast and nonsense are now
preferred to modest ' merit : nor are poets the only sufferers—how many unhappy men of the cfiurch may we daily behold unprovided for , who are possessed of greater erudition , and who in fact are more capable of giving instruction , than several of those who are promoted . From the depression of merit , I am certain that many valuable productions are lost . Had not Paradise Lost been introduced to the