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Funeral Oration
ever oppressed indigence called for his assistance , he appealed at the bar without even the hope of any other reward , than the consciousness of having so far promoted the happiness ofa fellow man . Such is , worshipful Sirs and worthy Brethren , the character of one whose lessons shall no longer iiisttuctus , but the remembrance of whose virtues will long continue to edify us . Such is , fellow-citizens , the character of one who bore so great a
share in the revolution by which you became a nation ; who , during his life , was ever honoured with some marks of your approbation , and whose memory will , I doubt not , be embalmed in your affections . Shades of WARREN - , MONTGOMERY and MERCER 1 and ye Shades of those other Columbian Chiefs who bore away the palm of political martyrdom ! attend , receive , and welcome , into the happy mansions of the just , a soul congenial with those of your departed heroes , and meriting alike our esteem , our gratitude , and our tears * .
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SERVING TO SHEW THE STH ICT DISCIPLINE EXACTED FROM THE KNIGHTS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM , AFTERWARDS THE KNIGHTS OF RHODES , AND NOW THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA .
AMONG the many venomous creatures that infested Rhodes , there was a monstrous large one of an amphibious nature , which harboured in a subterraneous cavern , at the end of a large morass , and had made dreadful havock among the small and large cattle , and even among the neighbouring . inhabitants . They gave it the name of dragonbut it was more probably a crocodileor a sea-horse ofthe
, , first magnitude ; and several Rhodian Kni g hts had lost their Jives , at different times , in endeavouring to destroy it , fire-arms not beingthen in use , and its skin being proof against any other weapon : upon which account the Grand Master had expressly forbidden making any further attempts against it , under severe penalties . They all readily obeyedexcept a Provencal Knightnamed Dieu-donne de Gozon
, , , who , less regardful ofthe prohibition than ofthe horrid depredations ofthe monster , resolved , at all hazards , to rid the island of it . That he mi g ht atchieve it the more safel y , he went out several times to take a distant view of it , rill the want of scales , which he observed under his bell } , furnished him with an effectual plan for destroying it .
He first retired to his native castle of Gozon , in Languedoc , that hemig ht pursue his project with greater secrecy ; and there got an effigy ofthe monstrous creature made as exact , as to colour , shape , and size ,
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Funeral Oration
ever oppressed indigence called for his assistance , he appealed at the bar without even the hope of any other reward , than the consciousness of having so far promoted the happiness ofa fellow man . Such is , worshipful Sirs and worthy Brethren , the character of one whose lessons shall no longer iiisttuctus , but the remembrance of whose virtues will long continue to edify us . Such is , fellow-citizens , the character of one who bore so great a
share in the revolution by which you became a nation ; who , during his life , was ever honoured with some marks of your approbation , and whose memory will , I doubt not , be embalmed in your affections . Shades of WARREN - , MONTGOMERY and MERCER 1 and ye Shades of those other Columbian Chiefs who bore away the palm of political martyrdom ! attend , receive , and welcome , into the happy mansions of the just , a soul congenial with those of your departed heroes , and meriting alike our esteem , our gratitude , and our tears * .
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SERVING TO SHEW THE STH ICT DISCIPLINE EXACTED FROM THE KNIGHTS OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM , AFTERWARDS THE KNIGHTS OF RHODES , AND NOW THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA .
AMONG the many venomous creatures that infested Rhodes , there was a monstrous large one of an amphibious nature , which harboured in a subterraneous cavern , at the end of a large morass , and had made dreadful havock among the small and large cattle , and even among the neighbouring . inhabitants . They gave it the name of dragonbut it was more probably a crocodileor a sea-horse ofthe
, , first magnitude ; and several Rhodian Kni g hts had lost their Jives , at different times , in endeavouring to destroy it , fire-arms not beingthen in use , and its skin being proof against any other weapon : upon which account the Grand Master had expressly forbidden making any further attempts against it , under severe penalties . They all readily obeyedexcept a Provencal Knightnamed Dieu-donne de Gozon
, , , who , less regardful ofthe prohibition than ofthe horrid depredations ofthe monster , resolved , at all hazards , to rid the island of it . That he mi g ht atchieve it the more safel y , he went out several times to take a distant view of it , rill the want of scales , which he observed under his bell } , furnished him with an effectual plan for destroying it .
He first retired to his native castle of Gozon , in Languedoc , that hemig ht pursue his project with greater secrecy ; and there got an effigy ofthe monstrous creature made as exact , as to colour , shape , and size ,