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On Religion, Morality, And Government.
mon with the rest of my fellow subjefts ; though I hope I shall make a better use of it than many of them do . Reli gion , Morality , and Government are the most important subjects that can employ the pen of any writer , and they are now the common subjects " of books , pamphlets , and newspapers . Every nrn , in his own opinion , seems to be a very great divine , and a very able politician . No one stands in need of instructionand yet every one thinks it necessary that he
, should instruft the public . All set up for teachers , while it is an avowed maxim that there is no occasion for any . Authors are multiplying upon us every day ; and every author , for fear he should lose his right of private judgment , has a set of nolioi . s peculiar to himself . They are like tyrants grown frantic with power , who think their authority in danger , unless they are abusing it upon every
occasion . J . hey agree in nothing but their opposition to the general and established faith ; nay , such is the pleasure of indul ging a spirit : of opposition , that they are often at variance with themselves , contradicting at one time what they advance at another . I own myself , Sir , to be one of those unfashionable people who have a regard for the old doctrines which have been so long received and established among us ; and have not yet seen any sufficient reason for
exchanging them for new opinions , much Jess for ineligion arid infidelity . However , the gentlemen , who are for introducing innovations in our religion and establishment , must allow it reasonable , that their notions and schemes should be examined with as much freedom as they treat those from which they are pleased to dissent . NowSir , if 1 may not seem to be intrusiveand occupy that room
, , which any other of your correspondents would fill to much better advantage , 1 shall occasionally trouble } -ou with a few thoughts upon such subject as will , no doubt , interest the attention of your readers . Westminster , October , 179 S . ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL .
Criticism On A Passage In Virgil's Georgics.
CRITICISM ON A PASSAGE IN VIRGIL's GEORGICS .
TO THE EDITOR OK THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . JF the following dispute , between Father Plardouin , and M . Hirer , Bishop of Avranches , in relation ' to a passage in the 4 th book of Virgil ' s Georgics , will prove acceptable to your readers , you will oblige me by giving it an insertion in your next magazine . - D .
FATHER Plardouin , in preparing a new edition of his Pliny , took occasion to explain the following passage of Virgil ' s 4 th Georgic , -in a manner different from most interpreters , and among them M . Huet . ' Nam qua Pellxi gens fcrtunata Canopi Accolit effuso stagnantem flumine Nilum ,
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On Religion, Morality, And Government.
mon with the rest of my fellow subjefts ; though I hope I shall make a better use of it than many of them do . Reli gion , Morality , and Government are the most important subjects that can employ the pen of any writer , and they are now the common subjects " of books , pamphlets , and newspapers . Every nrn , in his own opinion , seems to be a very great divine , and a very able politician . No one stands in need of instructionand yet every one thinks it necessary that he
, should instruft the public . All set up for teachers , while it is an avowed maxim that there is no occasion for any . Authors are multiplying upon us every day ; and every author , for fear he should lose his right of private judgment , has a set of nolioi . s peculiar to himself . They are like tyrants grown frantic with power , who think their authority in danger , unless they are abusing it upon every
occasion . J . hey agree in nothing but their opposition to the general and established faith ; nay , such is the pleasure of indul ging a spirit : of opposition , that they are often at variance with themselves , contradicting at one time what they advance at another . I own myself , Sir , to be one of those unfashionable people who have a regard for the old doctrines which have been so long received and established among us ; and have not yet seen any sufficient reason for
exchanging them for new opinions , much Jess for ineligion arid infidelity . However , the gentlemen , who are for introducing innovations in our religion and establishment , must allow it reasonable , that their notions and schemes should be examined with as much freedom as they treat those from which they are pleased to dissent . NowSir , if 1 may not seem to be intrusiveand occupy that room
, , which any other of your correspondents would fill to much better advantage , 1 shall occasionally trouble } -ou with a few thoughts upon such subject as will , no doubt , interest the attention of your readers . Westminster , October , 179 S . ONE OF THE OLD SCHOOL .
Criticism On A Passage In Virgil's Georgics.
CRITICISM ON A PASSAGE IN VIRGIL's GEORGICS .
TO THE EDITOR OK THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE . JF the following dispute , between Father Plardouin , and M . Hirer , Bishop of Avranches , in relation ' to a passage in the 4 th book of Virgil ' s Georgics , will prove acceptable to your readers , you will oblige me by giving it an insertion in your next magazine . - D .
FATHER Plardouin , in preparing a new edition of his Pliny , took occasion to explain the following passage of Virgil ' s 4 th Georgic , -in a manner different from most interpreters , and among them M . Huet . ' Nam qua Pellxi gens fcrtunata Canopi Accolit effuso stagnantem flumine Nilum ,